Paint.NET

Paint.NET
Original author(s)Rick Brewster
Developer(s)dotPDN, LLC
Initial releaseMay 6, 2004 (2004-05-06)
Stable release
5.1.8 / May 19, 2025 (2025-05-19)
Written inC#, C++, C++/CLI
Operating systemWindows 10 or later
Platform.NET Framework and .NET
Size79.5 MB
Available in34 languages
List of languages
English, Belarusian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Corsican, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian
TypeRaster graphics editor
LicenseFreeware
Websitegetpaint.net

Paint.NET (sometimes stylized as paint.net) is a freeware general-purpose raster graphics editor program for Microsoft Windows, developed with the .NET platform. Paint.NET was originally created by Rick Brewster as a Washington State University student project, and has evolved from a simple replacement for the Microsoft Paint program into a program for editing mainly graphics, with support for plugins.