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GIMP for Mac

Powerful, free image editing application; now a native Mac app.

Free
In English
3.9
Based on 113 user rates

GIMP overview

GIMP is a multi-platform photo manipulation tool. GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. The GIMP is suitable for a variety of image manipulation tasks, including photo retouching, image composition, and image construction.

GIMP has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.

GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted.

What’s new in version 2.10.38

New features and improvements
  • Improved support for tablets on Windows — Before this release, GIMP only supported connecting tablets on Windows through WinTab drivers rather than the newer Windows Ink drivers. Because of this, we received a number of reports about tablets having issues with unresponsive buttons, incorrect pressure sensitivity, lagging brush movement, and mid-stroke position changes. These problems were due to a limitation of GTK2, as support for Windows Ink was implemented in GTK3 by long-time contributor Luca Bacci. For this release, Luca was gracious enough to backport this support to GTK2. You can now switch between WinTab and Windows Ink drivers (if supported by your computer) in the Preferences dialog under the Input Device settings.
  • Backports of other GTK3 features — Luca also contributed a number of other features from GTK3 to GTK2. Some of the backported improvements include updating the size of the Print Dialog so buttons are not cut off, fixing issues with pop-up dialogs appearing behind the previous ones, and several fixes to keyboard input. These improvements are primarily for Windows and are already included in the 2.99 development release. However, we are very happy that these quality of life improvements are now available in this stable release of GIMP 2.10!
Bugfixes
  • Recent crashes — Two commonly reported crashes have now been corrected. A change in GLib 2.80 exposed a bug in our closing process and caused a crash on exit. Luca Bacci once again devised a fix for both 2.10.38 and the upcoming 3.0 release candidate. Another crash that some users encountered when making very small selections was also fixed.
Other smaller fixes, including
  • Indexed PNGs with transparency are now exported with the correct colors
  • Anders Jonsson fixed the input ranges for several filters such as Waves and Distort
  • The titlebar customization field now supports UTF-8 characters
  • Existing image comments no longer “leak” into newly created images
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GIMP for Mac

Free
In English
Version 2.10.38
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3.9

(219 Reviews of GIMP)

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HalNewnan6376
HalNewnan6376
Mar 22 2024
2.10.36
0.0
Mar 22 2024
0.0
Version: 2.10.36
3-22-24, I downloaded it and opened it up, and the interface has very little that is intelligible, so weird. I am deleting it right away.
tangyan250
tangyan250
Mar 31 2022
2.10.30
0.0
Mar 31 2022
0.0
Version: 2.10.30
I like that GIMP has all of the features of Photoshop but without the need to subscribe to Adobe's Creative Suite. It's not as good as photoshop but it gets the job done. Gimp and a XP-Pen Deco Fun drawing tablet is great on Mac OS!
Johninsapporo
Johninsapporo
Dec 11 2021
2.10.28
1.0
Dec 11 2021
1.0
Version: 2.10.28
Quite simply, this is horrible. Way too complex. Software designed by a committee.
samuel_h
samuel_h
May 7 2021
2.10.22
0.0
May 7 2021
0.0
Version: 2.10.22
This app brings me back to 2013 when I did my first steps in photo editing. Glad I found it again, will definitely give it a try years later although it may be a brought ride, judging from comments
anonymous-bee-5423
anonymous-bee-5423
Sep 2 2020
2.10.14
1.0
Sep 2 2020
1.0
Version: 2.10.14
This is the worst programm i've ever used in my life. Never will I recommend this idiotic piece of shit to anyone in this universe. Please remove this pile of garbage from the internet!
zlazkow
zlazkow
Nov 12 2023
2.10.34-3
4.0
Nov 12 2023
4.0
Version: 2.10.34-3
Plotzenhots
Plotzenhots
Sep 23 2023
2.10.34-2
5.0
Sep 23 2023
5.0
Version: 2.10.34-2
Saneman1
Saneman1
Sep 2 2023
2.10.34-2
5.0
Sep 2 2023
5.0
Version: 2.10.34-2
kom
kom
Jul 26 2023
2.10.34-1
3.0
Jul 26 2023
3.0
Version: 2.10.34-1
firewall00110-1
firewall00110-1
Feb 28 2023
2.10.34
4.0
Feb 28 2023
4.0
Version: 2.10.34
Johninsapporo
Johninsapporo
Dec 11 2021
2.10.28
1.0
Dec 11 2021
1.0
Version: 2.10.28
Bill-601
Bill-601
Jul 31 2021
2.10.24
4.0
Jul 31 2021
4.0
Version: 2.10.24
mugsuk
mugsuk
Jun 12 2021
2.10.22
4.0
Jun 12 2021
4.0
Version: 2.10.22
hanifah
hanifah
Jun 9 2021
2.10.22
1.0
Jun 9 2021
1.0
Version: 2.10.22
holhollensworth052204
holhollensworth052204
Feb 11 2021
5.0
Feb 11 2021
5.0
Version: null
anonymous-bee-5423
anonymous-bee-5423
Sep 2 2020
1.0
Sep 2 2020
1.0
Version: null
helloweekendvice
helloweekendvice
Aug 21 2020
1.0
Aug 21 2020
1.0
Version: null
PedantMac
PedantMac
Jul 27 2020
5.0
Jul 27 2020
5.0
Version: null
arprevatte65
arprevatte65
Apr 27 2020
2.0
Apr 27 2020
2.0
Version: null
fcarenza560
fcarenza560
Mar 27 2020
2.0
Mar 27 2020
2.0
Version: null
judgebath2000
judgebath2000
Jan 22 2020
5.0
Jan 22 2020
5.0
Version: null
ric5456857
ric5456857
Jan 2 2020
5.0
Jan 2 2020
5.0
Version: null
dklaphaak
dklaphaak
Dec 3 2019
4.0
Dec 3 2019
4.0
Version: null
DragonMaster
DragonMaster
Nov 3 2019
5.0
Nov 3 2019
5.0
Version: null
jlee5201
jlee5201
Jul 19 2019
5.0
Jul 19 2019
5.0
Version: null
JohnB7119
JohnB7119
Jun 17 2019
2.5
Jun 17 2019
2.5
Version: null
Slurp
Slurp
Jun 17 2019
3.0
Jun 17 2019
3.0
Version: null
roymillersinn
roymillersinn
Jun 11 2019
3.5
Jun 11 2019
3.5
Version: null
richlun25
richlun25
Apr 10 2019
1.0
Apr 10 2019
1.0
Version: null
Fotodivr
Fotodivr
Apr 9 2019
5.0
Apr 9 2019
5.0
Version: null
viniskate
viniskate
Jan 30 2019
5.0
Jan 30 2019
5.0
Version: null
L.Qasuq
L.Qasuq
Jan 17 2019
5.0
Jan 17 2019
5.0
Version: null
ewkapaw1
ewkapaw1
Jan 8 2019
1.5
Jan 8 2019
1.5
Version: null
anthonyjones7513
anthonyjones7513
Nov 27 2018
5.0
Nov 27 2018
5.0
Version: null
Mcr
Mcr
Nov 12 2018
5.0
Nov 12 2018
5.0
Version: null
forkskane
forkskane
Jun 23 2018
1.0
Jun 23 2018
1.0
Version: null
tower3120
tower3120
Feb 3 2018
3.5
Feb 3 2018
3.5
Version: null
DonkeyKong
DonkeyKong
Dec 16 2017
2.0
Dec 16 2017
2.0
Version: null
imedentsii
imedentsii
Aug 7 2017
5.0
Aug 7 2017
5.0
Version: null
Pete B.
Pete B.
Aug 7 2017
5.0
Aug 7 2017
5.0
Version: null
Ali-Egypt
Ali-Egypt
May 18 2017
3.0
May 18 2017
3.0
Version: null
WisdomL0RD
WisdomL0RD
Mar 26 2017
3.5
Mar 26 2017
3.5
Version: null
jan_de_smet
jan_de_smet
Feb 11 2017
5.0
Feb 11 2017
5.0
Version: null
Tommy-Gun
Tommy-Gun
Nov 6 2016
5.0
Nov 6 2016
5.0
Version: null
jimixdnb
jimixdnb
May 27 2016
5.0
May 27 2016
5.0
Version: null