Minimal image editing apps for Windows that exist between mspaint and photoshop, with low overhead and fast startup.
- https://www.wnsoft.com/en/pixbuilder/
- the best, good ui, photoshop-like, written in delphi
- "PixBuilder Studio 2.2.0 (June 4, 2012)"
- actually thought it was c++ before i checked the binary
- https://lazpaint.github.io/
- open source, object pascal, with python scripting
- https://graphicsgale.com/us/download.html
- pixel-oriented, popular
Good apps which do not fill the same niche:
- https://www.systemax.jp/en/sai/
- painting-oriented, cannot draw lines
- https://www.gimp.org/downloads/
- photoshop-level of overhead and complexity
- https://www.irfanview.com/
- best viewer, below mspaint in editing functionality
Apps which do not qualify due to overhead and startup:
- paint.net, https://www.getpaint.net/
- probably every .net/java app
Apps which do not qualify for other reasons:
- FireAlpaca64_setup_2_9_1.exe
- mtpaint-3.50-w64-setup.exe
- Texeled_x64.exe
- DrawPadGraphicEditor.exe
- Artweaver.exe
- Photoflare_CE_1.6.12_amd64_win_portable.zip
- tuxpaint-0.9.28-3-windows-sdl2.0-x86_64-installer.exe
- pf7-fr-7.2.1.zip
- PhotoDemon-9.0.zip
- pinta-1.6.exe
- pinta-2.1.zip
- zzPaint3.zip
- zzPaint2.zip
- bbobp.zip
- ActivePaintApp.zip