Tux Paint

Tux Paint is a free, award-winning drawing program for children ages 3 to 12 (for example, preschool and K-6). It combines an easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who guides children as they use the program.

Kids are presented with a blank canvas and a variety of drawing tools to help them be creative. (See the full list of features.)

April 20, 2009 — Proposals for Google Summer of Code 2009 projects have been chosen. Congratulations to Francisco Tufro, who will be working on audio-related improvements to Tux Paint, and to all of the other students who will be working on the other Tux4Kids projects (TuxMath and Tux Typing). For more, see the announcement on the Google Code blog.

The chalk and blur magic tools.

View More Screenshots or the Gallery of Children's Artwork.

For Mac OS X, Windows, Linux and more!

Download now for: Mac OS X Windows XP/2000/Vista Windows 95/98/ME Linux More download options. View system requirements.

Tux Paint runs on a variety of platforms, including all versions of Windows (including Tablet PC), Mac OS X 10.3 and up, Linux, BeOS and Haiku, FreeBSD and NetBSD. It works well on older, slower systems, as well as thin-clients such as LTSP, Citrix® and Windows Terminal Services. It even runs on some handheld computers!

How Much Does It Cost?

Tux Paint is free, Open Source software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. It is developed by volunteers around the world. We work on it as a labor of love, with the hopes that people will find it useful, and in turn share it with their own friends and family.

Download Tux Paint today, and enjoy!

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