Pocket Paint: draw and edit!

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Rated for 3+
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About this app

Pocket Paint is a drawing app that allows you to edit graphics, images, and photos, make parts transparent, zoom in up to single pixel level, and much more! Together with Catrobat’s app Pocket Code it also allows you to easily create animations, apps, and games directly on your smartphone!

Images are saved under Photos and Gallery.

Features:
-- Save images as .jpg (compressed), .png (lossless, with transparency), or .ora (keeping layer information)
-- Layers (including moving up and down or merging them)
-- Stickers from the Catrobat family images and more (only for this it accesses the internet)
-- Tools: brush, pipette, stamp, circle/ellipse, cropping, flipping, zooming, line tool, cursor, fill tool, rectangle, eraser, moving, rotation and much more!
-- Easy import of images and graphics
-- Full screen drawing
-- Color palette or RGBa values

Feedback:
If you find a bug or have a good idea to improve Pocket Paint, write us an email or go to the Discord server https://catrob.at/dpc and give us feedback in the "🛑app" channel.

Community:
Get in touch with our community and check out our Discord server https://catrob.at/dpc

Help:
Visit our wiki at https://wiki.catrobat.org/

Contribute:
a) Translation: Want to help us translate Pocket Paint into your language? Please contact us via [email protected] telling us for which language you would be able to help.
b) Other contributions: If you can help us in other ways, please check out https://catrob.at/contributing --- We are all pro-bono unpaid volunteers working in our free time on this not-for-profit free open source project aiming at increasing computational thinking skills in particular among teenagers all around the world.

About us:
Catrobat is an independent non-profit project creating free open source software (FOSS) under AGPL and CC-BY-SA licenses. The growing international Catrobat team is entirely composed of volunteers. The results of many of our subprojects will be made available in the months and years to come, e.g., the ability to control more robots, or to create music in an easy and fun way.
Allows to use transparency on pictures, images and photos, & zoom up to pixels
Updated on
May 16, 2026

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
  • No data shared with third parties
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  • No data collected
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  • Committed to follow the Play Families Policy

Ratings and reviews

27.6K reviews
RevDr Q
August 3, 2026
27Sep2022:Saved in .ora format and when I opened the file a couple hours later, three of the layers were blank. Lost hours of work. Since an upgrade to Android 12, the app has become extremely buggy. When switching between apps, work is lost as it starts a new file or it hangs with a rotating icon on the screen. 04Aug2026:Refuses to save in 1500×2000,saved file defaults to 750×1000, regardless of workaround attempted, even a blank image. Updating app didn't help.
14 people found this review helpful
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Anna Waytray
March 4, 2026
I like that this app doesn't share your data with third parties, a lot of similar apps do. I'm used to Microsoft Paint and I was looking for an alternative for android. I like using the Pipette and Brush combo to replace an area with a colour nearby. However, I found that while using the Smudge tool (for a similar outcome) I found it to be unintuitive that a blot of smudge would be left on the page when I tried to zoom in/out and move around the page as I worked.
5 people found this review helpful
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A Google user
February 22, 2020
The only app I've actually sought actively to positively review. I forgot to forever because it never bugged me for one. So I use a lot of art software on my phone, a ridiculous amount, but this is still my standby and tbh fave. It's dead fast, it works, no ads or pestering, it's a lovely little app. It barely leaves a footprint too, it's bloody tiny. Can't hype it enough. Just a wonderful little utility.
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What’s new

* Fixed multiple crash reasons