Pocket Paint
Pocket Paint is a free, open-source photo and gallery app for Android. The standard image manipulation app for Catroid. It has 502 GitHub stars and is released under the AGPL-3.0-or-later license, and you can install it from F-Droid and Google Play.
About Pocket Paint
Paintroid is a graphical paint editor App, that, among others, allows setting parts of pictures to transparent, insert Text / Images, add Layers, use Color filling and picking tools, rotate, resize and position elements... It is also known as Pocket Paint, it is associated to Catroid (which is like Scratch but for Android).
Privacy and F-Droid
F-Droid builds Pocket Paint from its published source code and flags anti-features such as ads, tracking or reliance on non-free services.
No anti-features flagged on the latest F-Droid build.
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What is Pocket Paint?
Pocket Paint is a free, open-source photo and gallery app for Android. The standard image manipulation app for Catroid. It has 502 GitHub stars and is released under the AGPL-3.0-or-later license, and you can install it from F-Droid and Google Play.
Is Pocket Paint free and open source?
Yes. Pocket Paint's source code is public on GitHub under the AGPL-3.0-or-later license, which is OSI-approved or FSF-free. F-Droid, which builds it from source, flags no anti-features such as ads or tracking on its latest build.
How do I install Pocket Paint?
You can install Pocket Paint from F-Droid (package org.catrobat.paintroid) and from Google Play; the links are on this page. Its GitHub repository also publishes releases (latest: v2.14.1).
Is Pocket Paint still maintained?
The repository's most recent commit was on Jul 27, 2026. Its F-Droid listing was last updated on Aug 1, 2026. appsgit only lists apps whose repository had a commit in the last six months.