Paintbrush
Paintbrush is a simple macOS image editor for creating, cropping, annotating, and saving basic bitmap graphics in common formats.
What is Paintbrush?
Paintbrush is a lightweight graphics app for macOS that helps users make and edit simple bitmap images. It is designed for quick tasks such as drawing basic shapes, adding text, cropping pictures, filling areas with color, and making small image edits without the complexity of a full professional editor. The app supports common image formats including PNG, JPEG, GIF, TIFF, and BMP, which makes it useful for everyday screenshots, diagrams, icons, and casual image work. Paintbrush is best suited to users who want a straightforward desktop paint program similar in spirit to classic simple image editors. It focuses on an easy, Mac-native workflow for fast edits rather than advanced photo manipulation or design production. Paintbrush is published by Michael Schreiber.
Key features
- Create simple bitmap drawings with brush, shape, line, and fill tools
- Crop, resize, and rotate images for quick edits
- Add text annotations to images
- Open and save common image formats including PNG, JPEG, GIF, TIFF, and BMP
- Work with transparent images where the format supports alpha channels
- Paste images from other Mac apps into a new or existing canvas
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Safety overview
Status: Safe
Paintbrush is a straightforward local image editor, so its normal activity is limited to opening, editing, and saving the pictures you choose. It does not need unusual system privileges for its core purpose. As with any graphics app, be mindful of overwriting original image files when saving changes, and keep backups of important work if you plan to edit existing images.
Recommendation: Keep Paintbrush if you use it for quick image edits, simple drawings, or annotations on your Mac. If you no longer use it, removing the app is usually low impact apart from losing access to its editing tools and any app-specific settings.
Common paths
/Applications/Paintbrush.app
Preference paths
~/Library/Preferences/com.soggywaffles.paintbrush.plist
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