In this respect, only Pixelmator Pro in our reviews comes close as a replacement for the latest version of Microsoft Paint although most users probably aren’t looking for something as advanced as 3D and 2D drawings. Microsoft Paint is no longer just the simple doodling app of old.Īfter the introduction of the Microsoft Surface tablet, MS Paint evolved into the sophisticated drawing application Paint 3D that even allows you to draw in 3D with the Microsoft Surface Pen. The only way to use Microsoft Paint or Paint 3D on a Mac is to install Windows on your Mac although this is a complicated and expensive workaround just to do a bit of doodling! How To Run Paint On A Mac However, Apple quietly dropped MacPaint from later versions of OS X and macOS, leaving Mac users with no equivalent version of Paint on Mac anymore.
When Macs were first released in 1984, they did include an app called MacPaint which was actually released just before Microsoft launched MS Paint in 1985. There is no version of Microsoft Paint for Mac.
