Krita 5.2.16 freeware

Krita, developed by The Krita Team, is a powerful open-source painting program tailored for artists and illustrators. With its intuitive interface and robust feature set, Krita excels in digital painting, offering a wide array of brushes, textures, and advanced layering options. Its support for high-resolution canvases and animation tools makes it a versatile choice for both beginners and professionals. Regular updates and a vibrant community further enhance its appeal, making Krita a go-to solu ...

Author The Krita team
Released 2026-02-26
Filesize 48.00 MB
Downloads 1719
OS Windows 11, Windows 10 64 bit, Windows 8 64 bit
Installation Instal And Uninstall
Keywords Krita, Digital Painting, Paint, Designer, Sketch, Illustration
Users' rating
(94 rating)
KritaEditorsWindows 11, Windows 10 64 bit, Windows 8 64 bit
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Krita freeware - The Latest Versions History
5.2.16 Feb 25, 2026 New Release Krita 6 is our Qt6 port of Krita, that is, when you build Krita 5.3 with Qt5, you get Krita 5.3, but when it is build with Qt6, you get Krita 6. We are doing this because several Linux distributions are already dropping support for Qt5. By switching to Qt6 we will have future proofed Krita for years to come.
But support for Qt6 isn't the only thing Krita 6 brings. It also comes with Linux Wayland support, in particular a full featured implementation of the Wayland Color Management protocol. This finally brings HDR support to the Linux version of Krita!
The Wayland Color Management Protocol is still very young. It was the key feature we have been waiting for all these years: where on the older X11 display servers we could always figure out on which monitor we were on and which color profile to associate with that monitor, Wayland's architecture is designed around not giving away that information so easily.
This is a problem for a painting application which core feature is fully integrated color management. Now, the Wayland Color Management Protocol will provide us with all the information we need to provide color managed views of images, including everything we need to know for HDR display. Because this part of Wayland is still very young, using it means you will need an up-to-date window manager that supports it. We ourselves recommend the manager the code has been written against: KWin 6.4.4 and above.
In addition to Color Management, Wayland support also means support for fractional scaling and 10 bit display.
Beyond the Wayland support, Krita 6 and 5.3 share all the same features.
Note that Krita 6 is not available for Android yet, and that Krita 6 on all platforms is considered early access.
There are also so many changes between Qt5 to Qt6 that it is inevitable that there will be bugs in Krita 6 that are not present in Krita 5. Our focus will from now on be on making Krita 6 as stable as possible.
Text Tool
The text tool has been fully overhauled for 5.3! The m
5.2.15 Feb 6, 2026 New Release Krita 6 is our Qt6 port of Krita, that is, when you build Krita 5.3 with Qt5, you get Krita 5.3, but when it is build with Qt6, you get Krita 6. We are doing this because several Linux distributions are already dropping support for Qt5. By switching to Qt6 we will have future proofed Krita for years to come.
But support for Qt6 isn't the only thing Krita 6 brings. It also comes with Linux Wayland support, in particular a full featured implementation of the Wayland Color Management protocol. This finally brings HDR support to the Linux version of Krita!
The Wayland Color Management Protocol is still very young. It was the key feature we have been waiting for all these years: where on the older X11 display servers we could always figure out on which monitor we were on and which color profile to associate with that monitor, Wayland's architecture is designed around not giving away that information so easily.
This is a problem for a painting application which core feature is fully integrated color management. Now, the Wayland Color Management Protocol will provide us with all the information we need to provide color managed views of images, including everything we need to know for HDR display. Because this part of Wayland is still very young, using it means you will need an up-to-date window manager that supports it. We ourselves recommend the manager the code has been written against: KWin 6.4.4 and above.
In addition to Color Management, Wayland support also means support for fractional scaling and 10 bit display.
Beyond the Wayland support, Krita 6 and 5.3 share all the same features.
Note that Krita 6 is not available for Android yet, and that Krita 6 on all platforms is considered early access.
There are also so many changes between Qt5 to Qt6 that it is inevitable that there will be bugs in Krita 6 that are not present in Krita 5. Our focus will from now on be on making Krita 6 as stable as possible.
Text Tool
The text tool has been fully overhauled for 5.3! The m
5.2.14 Dec 10, 2025 New Release Touch Input: Improve the behavior of long-presses. Sliders now enter edit mode when double-clicking, not long-pressing (bug 471473). Long-press now summons context menus instead of making a right-click (bug 506042, bug 510229), which can be toggled in settings under General->Miscellaneous. (Change, by Carsten Hartenfels)
Touch Input: Make the Bezier Curve Tool's autosmoothing and double-clicking work with touch drawing. (bug report) (Change, by Carsten Hartenfels)

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