Painting and drawing for your Mac

Paint with chrome and candy.

SWSO Paint · Made by Streetwise Software Online (SWSO)

A painting and drawing studio for the Mac with polished chrome controls and candy-paint accents. Pick from 33 original brushes, paint in layers with 19 blend modes, use your tablet's pen pressure, and export a Photoshop file with every layer kept.

$29.99 one-time · 15-day free trial

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SWSO Paint with the Mesa Peak coffee badge sample open, showing the color wheel and layers panel

SWSO Paint — digital painting and drawing studio

33original brush presets

19layer blend modes

PSDexport with layers kept

What you get

Brushes you can tune

Pens, pencils, inks, markers, airbrush, spray can, charcoal, chalk, smudge, blur and erasers
Size, opacity, flow, hardness, spacing, stabilizer, texture, jitter and scatter for every brush
Save your own presets, and import or export brush files

Tablets and canvas

Real pen pressure from Wacom and other tablets, with a soft, normal or firm pressure curve
The pen's eraser end switches to the Eraser by itself
Zoom, pan, rotate and flip the view; ready-made sizes for screens, social posts and 300 DPI print

Layers and tools

Opacity, 19 blend modes, lock, alpha lock, clipping, merge and onion skin
Bucket fill, gradients, shapes, text with any Mac font, selections and Move & Transform
Color wheel, palettes, and GIMP .gpl and Photoshop .aco palette import

Safe files

Its own .swsopaint file keeps every layer exactly
Export PNG, JPEG, TIFF and Photoshop PSD with layers, or flattened
Autosave every minute and crash recovery; 100 undo steps by default

See it in action

Real screenshots of SWSO Paint 1.0 with sample pictures made only with the app's own tools.

SWSO Paint brush panel with pen, pencil and ink presets next to chrome lettering

SWSO Paint with the Mountain Sunset sample, painted in layers with blend modes

Try it free for 15 days

Every feature works for 15 days from the first launch, no key and no sign-up needed
After day 15 the app opens read-only: you can still open, view and export your own work, and nothing is ever deleted
A license key unlocks editing again; it is checked on your Mac and works offline

System requirements

System

macOS 13 Ventura or later, Intel and Apple silicon (universal)

Free trial

15 days with every feature, no sign-up

Opens

PNG, JPEG, TIFF, HEIC, GIF, BMP, WebP and PSD (normal 8-bit RGB layers)

Exports

PNG, JPEG, TIFF and Photoshop PSD with layers

Help

Searchable built-in Help with 39 pages and 3 start-to-finish tutorials

Made by

Streetwise Software Online (SWSO)

Price

SWSO Paint by Streetwise Software Online

One-time purchase, no subscription. Try it free for 15 days first.

$29.99 one-time · 15-day free trial

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Bundle: SWSO Paint + SWSO Animation

Both drawing apps together. They share the same brushes, layers and blend modes. Bought separately: $29.99 + $24.99. See SWSO Animation.

$44.99 both apps · one-time

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