Image tools / GIMP
GIMP
GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program: The Free and Open Source Image Editor
Where it stands
3.8 / 5
Signals score
Not a hands-on test
Based on 2 of 3 signals
- Website health4.2 / 5 · weight 50%
Measured from the tool's public website
- Community3.9 / 5 · weight 20%
What people said in public discussions
Built only from what we can measure or quote without using the tool. How ranking works
Rank by signals
We have not run our own hands-on test on GIMP yet. Facts checked 2026-11-08. How tests work
Disclosure: agathox makes some of the tools listed here. They are labelled and scored by the same method as every other tool.
Should you use GIMP?
A quick read built only from what the tool's own pages state and from our tests, not from opinion. Facts checked 2026-11-08.
A good fit if…
- You want a free option. It states: “GIMP is free software, and you can change its source code and distribute your changes. The page says: “GIMP is a cross-platform…”
Check first
- Its pages do not state: pricing, signup, watermark, where your files go. Check on the tool's site before you rely on it.
Does: Photo editor
Measured signals
4.2 / 5 · measured 2026-11-08Read automatically from GIMP's public website: how reliable, secure, private and open the site is. This is not a test of how well the tool does its job. How this is measured
- Reliability5 / 5The page answered and finished downloading in 20 ms.
- Security5 / 55 of 5 protective headers set (strict-transport-security, content-security-policy, x-content-type-options, referrer-policy, x-frame-options).
- Privacy5 / 5No third-party tracking services found on the page.
- Transparency1 / 5No privacy policy linked; no pricing page linked.
Community feedback
3.9 / 5 · 65 commenters77% of the 65 people whose comments we could classify were positive. Read automatically from public Hacker News threads about GIMP; the classifier is simple and can misread sarcasm, so check the threads. How this works
- Positive
“If they had something similar that was a different workflow but was as powerful, flexible, and involved a few steps to do what you can do in PS in three or four steps but in the current GIMP in fifteen or more, then…”
Read in the thread - Positive
“I use GIMP as a software engineer in game development for modifying assets created by artists. My workflow is typically cropping / resizing, merging images, repositioning, running batch scripts, etc. GIMP is perfect for…”
Read in the thread - Critical
“When x is standard workflow for many of the other such programs (and things like word processors) and it isn't such in Gimp, that very thing drives people away. Most artists aren't going to care what the software…”
Read in the thread - Critical
“As someone who uses Photoshop and Krita for painting and animation, I can tell you GIMP is unusable as a painter. The way they allocated this donation does nothing to help me use GIMP. And you don't have to take my word…”
Read in the thread
Threads: GIMP 3.0 (2025, 508 comments) · GIMP receives a $100K donation (2018, 301 comments) · GIMP Turns 27 (2022, 291 comments) · Gimp is 25 years old today (2020, 260 comments)
These facts may be out of date. One of the official pages they came from changed on 2026-11-10, after we last read it. Check the tool's own pages before you rely on a price or a limit.
- Free tier
- GIMP is free software, and you can change its source code and distribute your changes. The page says: “GIMP is a cross-platform image editor available for GNU/Linux, macOS, Windows and more operating systems. It is free software , you can change its source code and distribute your changes.”
- Paid plan
- Not stated.
- Signup
- Not stated.
- Watermark
- Not stated.
- Where files go
- Not stated.
From the tool's own pages, checked 2026-11-08. Sources: Home. Prices and limits change; check the tool before you rely on them.
Read automatically by a program, not by a person. Each fact quotes the sentence it came from, and a fact is shown only if that sentence is on the page. Where a page did not say, it reads “Not stated.”
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