# KolourPaint

5 Hacker News commenters recommended KolourPaint and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 3 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend it as a simple, quick paint program for basic image edits, without the layer complexity of heavier editors.

## Why people recommend it

- Simple, familiar paint-program interface (2 comments): "KolourPaint does the simple operations I need, with fundamentally the same UI as Win 3.1 pbrush.exe had." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48361050)) "a simple image editor even I can use" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48358603))
- Easy for simple tasks (2 comments): "That's the first "pain" program that is usable to do simple things." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48360607)) "a simple image editor even I can use" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48358603))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Paint.NET](https://hackerapproved.com/p/paint-net.md): 30 recommend
- [MS Paint](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ms-paint.md): 22 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "KolourPaint", https://hackerapproved.com/p/kolourpaint/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).