# Pocket Paint (open-source photo and gallery app)

> 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.

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).

## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Repository | https://github.com/Catrobat/Paintroid |
| Platforms | Android |
| Built with | Kotlin |
| GitHub stars | 502 |
| License | AGPL-3.0-or-later (open source) |
| F-Droid | https://f-droid.org/packages/org.catrobat.paintroid/ (package org.catrobat.paintroid) |
| F-Droid anti-features | none flagged |
| Google Play | https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.catrobat.paintroid |
| App Store | not linked |
| Website | none listed |
| Official | no |
| Category | Photos, gallery & camera |
| Latest release | v2.14.1 (Jul 30, 2026) |
| Last commit | Jul 27, 2026 |

F-Droid builds its apps from source and flags anti-features: https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Anti-Features/

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