Any equivalent to MS Paint in Mac?

Hello Ian,

I have been trying out this app which is called SketchBook Express. It is also a free download from the Apple store. It seems to be lacking text input. Let me show my showpiece, my first piece of art with this app. I guess it looks very awful, but will have this noble quality: it will make every other artwork made by any person on earth a better one! Care to view it?

BTW, I had saved this work as TIFF format and it failed to upload. Subsequently I saved it as PNG and lo and behold, it uploaded! Don't know what these formats mean but I am enjoying this every bit!

Hello trouble me, sketchbook express is troubling me! I opened the app and found that the going was slow and the app quit unexpectedly. I sent a report to apple. When I restarted the app, I got this message:

What should I do now?

Thanks for this good news. Pleased to share this 2nd work of mine in SBE:

So far so good. I would like to know whether there is any way in which 'X' and 'Y' positions can be determined in SBE...as we have it in paint. Also is there anyway in which we can view our work in gridline view?

Hello to you Matt and also Michel,

About to download Gimp, but want to know whether this will work for me. My Mac's OS is Lion, 10.7.4 version. The screen shot shows the Gimp to have:

Will this 2.8.2 version of gimp be useful for me? why I ask is because Michel has written:

'Gimp is a free, open source equivalent of Photoshop.

You need to install Apple's X11 app to be able to use Gimp.'

What is this Apple's X 11?

Thanks a lot to all of you who have given so much of new information. I had downloaded another app called Seashore. This seems to be the closest and slightly superior cousin of MS Paint. It seems to be having all the features I have been looking for but I am afraid I am able to do this:

Draw a straight line by holding the shift key and dragging the pencil tool.

I am yet to get from you Matt the link to the latest version, but I am afraid that I have downloaded the exact version you are speaking of:

If this is not the app for me then please send me the one which would work for me.

Have a great weekend Matt!

Yes Ian! This gentleman had given me the answer:

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db24401 mid-eastern-USA

Paintbrush will work in colors, for me.

At the Paintbrush menu bar select Font, then Show Colors, then select the color that you wish to use.'

I had followed his instructions and learned how to add color.

Thanks for your response. Actually I was looking for free downloads. I did look into the app store and found some low cost apps. Perhaps I would consider them later. Thanks anyway.

Once again, thanks Ian!

Am in the process of downloading 'Seashore' which seems to include color, something which Paintbrush does not seem to have. This has layers in them [something which Photoshop also has and I am afraid of!] but they also seem to have given instructions and I hope I will be able to learn and work with this app.

Thanks for your reply. You have given the correct instruction as to how one can add color in paintbrush. However, I feel [I have not experimented fully yet with this] that it does not allow one to draw straight lines [shift>drag]. I have used Microsoft's Paint to draw diagrams to scale. If there are ways to get this feature of drawing straight lines in this app, please let me know.

Thanks a lot for your suggestion. I looked up the site you had referred. The features are to my need 'high-end'. I need something which allows very basic tools which a low end version of Microsoft's paint offers.