miniPaint
by viliusle
miniPaint is a free image editor that runs entirely in your web browser, with layers, filters and drawing tools. It is for creating and editing pictures without installing software, and images stay on your own device.
- Stars
- 3.5k
- Licence
- MIT
- Runs on
- A browser
- Setup
- Easy
- Language
- JavaScript
- Age
- 4837 days
What you can do with it
- Edit photos with layers, cropping, resizing and colour corrections
- Apply filters and effects such as blur, sepia, sharpen and Instagram-style looks
- Export images as PNG, JPG, WEBP, animated GIF or TIFF
Could replace
- Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop (single app) starts at £21.98 a month (billed annually, Price includes VAT. New subscribers get an introductory £9.98/mo for the first 3 months, then £21.98/mo. It is an annual commitment billed monthly. The dedicated /uk/products/photoshop/pricing.html URL returned 404, so the figures come from the Photoshop product page. A separate Creative Cloud Photography plan, which includes Photoshop, was listed at £14.99/mo on an Adobe help page. I did not verify that on a live pricing page.; source, checked 27 Oct 2026)
Our suggestion based on what it does, not a feature-by-feature comparison.
Make money with it
Offer a low-cost photo clean-up or social media graphics service using it as a free editing tool.
An idea, not financial advice. Check the licence before charging for anything built on it.
Ways a business could use it
- Resize, crop and tidy product photos and social media graphics without paying for editing software
- Embed the editor in your own website so customers can make simple image edits
Can you use it commercially?
Free to use, change and sell (MIT-style terms in the licence file). Some folders may carry other terms.
Not legal advice. Read the project's licence file before building a product on it.
Getting it running
Open the hosted web page in a browser with nothing to install, or follow the wiki build instructions to host your own copy.
Follow the official instructions in the project README.
Things to check
- Licence is listed as unclear in the repository data, although the README says MIT
- Far fewer features than full professional editors
Checked 27 Oct 2026. Summary drafted by AI from the project's README.
