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Krita
Krita is a powerful, open source and community-driven digital art tool for illustrators, concept designers, animators, comic book artists, game developers, and anyone who wants to express themselves through the creation of visual art.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“I'M DOING MY PART. I used to pirate Photoshop or CSP but this software is so good and its free. The organization and its goals are amicable so I don't mind dropping a couple dollars on this software. But I will never let Adobe see a single cent from me.”
— a player, Steam review · 70 hrs played“If you pay money for this Free-and-Open-Source-Software, you get hour tracking for your Steam Profile Worth it.”
— a player, Steam review · 43 hrs played“I bought it because it's the only way to support developers from my country. I'm not sure if anyone will read this, but I have a couple of ideas and suggestions: 1) Add a Steam Workshop and allow people to contribute brush bundles, for example (I've also read that they could be…”
— a player, Steam review · 15 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-23 23:53 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Krita 5.3.2.1 Hotfix
Hey all, we've just released a hotfix for Krita 5.3.2 that solves a critical bug with the layers docker. You can find more information here: https://krita.org/en/posts/2026/krita-5.3.2.1-released/ Tha
Krita 5.3 Released & SteamCloud for Krita Documents
Hello to all the Krita community artists here on Steam. Today I'm happy to bring a double-whammy of great news to you all! Krita 5.3 is here, and it's a big one... This week marks the release of Krita
Krita 5.2.15 Released.
Hi Krita artists! This is just a quick announcement that we've released yet another minor bugfix release, Krita 5.2.15. As always you can find the full details of what has changed in the release notes
Krita 5.2.14 bugfix release!
Hey all, happy winter! Today we're releasing Krita 5.2.14. This is going to be the last bug fix release for 5.2. This update is mostly focused on bug fixes and improvements, but there are some small f
Krita 5.2.13 bugfix release!
"Today we are releasing Krita 5.2.13! This is a bugfix release containing a number of important Android fixes, courtesy of Carsten Hartenfels, our new Android Maintainer. The release also includes a s
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Indie, Animation & Modeling, Design & Illustration, Photo Editing |
| Player tags | Design & Illustration · Software · Animation & Modeling · Photo Editing · Hand-drawn · Indie · Psychological Horror · Utilities · Anime · Comic Book · Game Development · Moddable (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Cloud |
| Languages | English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil, Romanian, Russian, Simplified C… |
| Estimated owners | 200,000 – 500,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://www.krita.org |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 8.1 Processor: 1.6 Ghz Dual-core CPU Memory: 4 GB RAM Storage: 1 GB available space