

Most Mac OS applications downloaded from outside the App Store come inside a DMG file. Resolved issue with updating to newer builds.Now features native Apple Silicon support for M1 Macs.Fixed a crash when using text tool on Big Sur.We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience. Note: Due to a bug in certain older version of Paintbrush, you will need to manually reinstall Paintbrush in order to reenable automatic updates. It provides users with a means to make simple images quickly, something which has been noticeably absent from the Mac for years. You can easily create speech bubbles, by the way, by adding a little pointy bit to your sketched ellipses, and Preview will give it a different coloured interior where you can easily add text.Paintbrush is a simple paint program for OS X, reminiscent of Microsoft Paint and Apple’s own now-defunct MacPaint. They seem the same at first – both are directly controlled pen tools that let you draw freely on the image in whatever colour has been selected in the dropdown three from the right – but the results are very different.ĭraw simply accepts your mark and renders it as a movable layer Sketch interprets the shape you’ve made and sort of smartens it up, so a rough circle will turn into a proper circle, a rough rectangle will get perfectly straight sides and so on. The third and fourth tools along are Sketch and Draw respectively. We’ve found it a bit unreliable – give it a try for yourself.) Sketch and Draw


(There’s also a ‘Smart Lasso’ that is like the Polygon Selection tool but will try its adjust its selection to shapes and colour blocks in the image.

On the far left you’ll find a shape selection tool, which can be used to grab a rectangle, ellipse or manually selected shape from the image and then delete it, copy and paste it, and so on.
