Tux Paint

Softpedia Editor's Review: Excellent

Tux Paint is a free, award-winning drawing program for children ages 3 to 12 (for example, preschool and K-6 in the US, key stages 1 & 2 in the UK). 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.)

May 2 — Developer interview: "An open palette: Tux Paint's Bill Kendrick" at Computerworld.

April 21 — Google has announced the accepted proposals in this year's Google Summer of Code program. Tux4Kids had to choose 10 applications (out of 133 proposals made by 90 students) — five of which were allocated to work advancing Tux Paint. Congratulations to those few we could accept, and thanks to the countless students who sent in great proposals!

Tinted Rubber Stamp images.

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Tux Paint runs on a variety of platforms, including all versions of Windows (including Tablet PC), Mac OS X 10.3 and up, Linux, 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!

Open Source Drawing Software for Children

For Mac OS X, Windows, Linux and more!

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