--- title: Painter Reviews meta\_title: 'Painter Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 60 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Painter works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.1 review\_count: 60 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: Graphic Design url: https://www.g2.com/categories/graphic-design --- # Painter Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by Painter but has limited features. Are you part of the Painter team? [Upgrade your plan](https://sell.g2.com) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! Corel Painter is a premier digital art application designed to emulate the look and feel of traditional painting and drawing mediums. It offers artists a vast array of tools and features that replicate real-world materials, enabling the creation of authentic and expressive digital artwork. Key Features and Functionality: - Extensive Brush Library: Painter provides hundreds of realistic, artist-created brushes that mimic traditional media such as oils, watercolors, pencils, and acrylics. - Natural-Media Emulation: The software offers the largest selection of Natural-Media brushes and canvas textures on the market, with wet, thick, and dry media that looks and feels just like the real thing. - Artificial Intelligence Integration: Stylize any image using artificial intelligence and easily transform photos into paintings with powerful auto-painting and cloning tools. - Customizable Workspace: Users can tailor the interface to their preferences, create custom brushes and palettes, or import content from other artists to exponentially speed up artistic workflow. Primary Value and User Solutions: Corel Painter stands out by providing artists with a digital platform that closely mirrors traditional art techniques, allowing for a seamless transition from physical to digital mediums. Its comprehensive toolset and realistic brush behavior enable artists to produce high-quality, expressive artwork without the limitations of physical materials. By integrating advanced features like AI-driven photo transformation and extensive customization options, Painter addresses the diverse needs of digital artists, illustrators, and designers, enhancing their creative workflow and expanding their artistic possibilities. * * * Seller [Corel Corporation](https://www.g2.com/sellers/corel-corporation-10b41cd4-0594-4f58-8f0a-212c911385c6) Discussions [Painter Community](https://www.g2.com/products/painter/discuss) Solution Type Best-of-Breed Overview by Sharda Veeramally Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Perceived Cost $$$$$ [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/painter/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Sketchbook](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Sketchbook") Sketchbook 4.4/5(177) ](https://www.g2.com/products/sketchbook/reviews) [ ![Rebelle](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Rebelle") Rebelle 4.8/5(81) ](https://www.g2.com/products/rebelle/reviews) [ ![ArtRage](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "ArtRage") ArtRage 4.4/5(73) ](https://www.g2.com/products/artrage/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/painter/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 60 real user reviews. Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Verified User in Education Management](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Education Management") UE Verified User in Education Management Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 8/7/2025 "Nothing sparks my creativity like working in Painter." 4.5/5 What do you like best about Painter? Painter beautifully emulates traditional media—watercolor, oils, ink, charcoal—bringing expressive depth to my leadership visuals. The brush library is well-organized, it loads quickly, runs smoothly on high-performance devices, and lets me import/export layered .psd files seamlessly, preserving full quality across platforms. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Painter? It runs smoothly on high-end machines, but on basic setups I need smaller canvases, fewer layers, and lighter brushes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Painter solving and how is that benefiting you? Painter helps me communicate complex ideas more clearly by creating custom visual identities through illustration. It gives me a creative space to explore visual metaphors and craft impactful messages that blend educational meaning with aesthetic value. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite SS Saurabh S. Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/14/2023 "Amazing experience with Painter" 5/5 What do you like best about Painter? The user interface of Painter is very easy to understand. And the features provided by this software are very nice. I like the software very much. What I like the most is the poster effect you can do layer-wise and you can lock it so that if by mistake no change can happen at that layer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Painter? The trial version of Corel Painter is too short. The duration is not enough to explore the features that the platform provides to the user. Also, the pricing is quite expensive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Painter solving and how is that benefiting you? This helped in our project to illustrate the situation through images. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 7/17/2023 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Saurav P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Saurav P.") SP Saurav P. SR Recruiter Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 9/20/2023 "Good platform for Professional Designers." 5/5 What do you like best about Painter? The best thing is its easy to use for our professional use . Have diffrent types of brushes that we can choose . Customization can be done according to our uses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Painter? One and only thing I dislike is that its overpriced as per the market softwares. That should be reduced to a lesser price rest I personally found it Good for designers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Painter solving and how is that benefiting you? This application makes images with the help of tools provided . And few of the brushes are quiet impressive . And even it helps to fulfill the requirements of clients as per their demands. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerSource: Organic VC Vinay C. Founder Information Technology and Services Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/15/2023 "Best Painting Tool" 5/5 What do you like best about Painter? This software has multiple tools for drawing and designing. The interface is easy to understand and has no complexities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Painter? trial period is short and after trial, we can't use Corel draw. I think pricing is a little overpriced Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Painter solving and how is that benefiting you? it helps us to customize and edit images and we can also draw the images in any style which is very awesome. it has amazing set of tools Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Mansi J.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Mansi J.") MJ Mansi J. Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 6/26/2023 "Painter" 5/5 What do you like best about Painter? A painter is a nice tool for making a painter. With the help of this, we can create the drawing easily. Their tool is good for making the best paint in this application. Also, we can customise the image according to our requirements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Painter? I don't know more about the dislike part of this application, but sometimes I see the brush is not working well. Otherwise, all is good in this application; it works smoothly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Painter solving and how is that benefiting you? This application benefits because we can customise the image with their tools and make the diagram with the help of this application, and also, their feature is superb. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Aditya J.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Aditya J.") AJ Aditya J. UI Developer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 6/21/2023 "Painter: Provide Best Painting tools for drawing" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Painter? Painter is the best and most easy-to-use painting tool or software which provide multiple tools for drawing and designing purpose. On that platform, we have so many brushes for making our design more beautiful and attractive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Painter? In my opinion, there is nothing to dislike; but sometimes, some brushes are not working as I expectation, and I suggest to the painter to improve some support service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Painter solving and how is that benefiting you? Painter is the best drawing and designing tools providing a platform which are too good, as per my personal experience. I used that tools so many times for my drawing, and it gives the best results. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Brooklyn S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Brooklyn S.") BS Brooklyn S. Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 5/26/2023 "This program helped us design and create content for our marketing efforts!" 5/5 What do you like best about Painter? We really like the ease and different design aspects that Painter has to offer. We are loving how it has helped us create content that is engaging for our marketing efforts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Painter? The customer service is a bit slow, but once we got in contact they were able to help us with our issue, and it was great! We have loved this platform, and it has been super helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Painter solving and how is that benefiting you? We really like the ease and different design aspects that Painter has to offer. We love how it has helped us create content that is engaging for our marketing efforts. It has helped us create personalized content that is special to us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Lokesh P.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Lokesh P.") LP Lokesh P. Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 6/6/2023 "About Painter" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Painter? Painter is a software used for the UI design and it's very popular to use this in the painting purpose and it gives different different brushes to use in the this software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Painter? I am not say anything dislike in this software because everything is working fine as expected but one thing i would like to say some bruses not working expected because of the thickeness. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Painter solving and how is that benefiting you? I am using this software for the painting purpose and this is very helpfull to design to our own design and some bruses are very good to use and it's more benefit to time management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite SD Sarthak D. Account Executive, HR Manager Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 5/10/2023 "Best for designing" 5/5 What do you like best about Painter? There is a lot of things that i like about painter. It is water color compatible. It has multiple variety of brushes and shapes which makes it easy for designing and painting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Painter? Well there is nothing as such that i dislike about painter. But some things can be improved. Like it has multiple bugs in terms of iverlaying. And frequent updates to shapes, design, and colors could be done. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Painter solving and how is that benefiting you? It has helped us a lot in many terms. Like ỉn designing and drawings.the brush setting, color options helps a lot in designing. Integration with multiple layers also helps while designing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite JA Juveria A. Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 4/25/2023 "Awesome application and easy to use.Works wonders." 5/5 What do you like best about Painter? It's simplicity makes me want to use it again and again. The painter makes the picture look so real world that we cannot differentiate it with natural one. This app also makes me feel positive and stay happy throughout my day. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Painter? There is nothing to be disliked about painter. It has everything that an artist would look for. It is very easy to use and of course my children love using it too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Painter solving and how is that benefiting you? Painter makes it fast to draw and minimizes the errors. It's having a variety of color selections and sometimes you can create your own. It is very time efficient and quick tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Questions about Painter? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. [ Ask about Painter ](https://www.g2.com/products/painter/discussions/new) ![Ram S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Ram S.") 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