JPEGView The best free image viewer for Windows: lightweight, fast, unintrusive, and highly customizable.
Synfig Free digital art application for creating 2D animations available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Tahoma2D Free digital art application for creating animations available for Windows and Linux, featuring a timeline and palette support.
BeeRef Free digital art utility application for Windows and Linux that lets you create a collage or board of reference images for drawing by dragging and dropping them in an infinite canvas.
GrafX2 What is GrafX2? GrafX2 (grafx2.chez.com) is a free application for creating pixel art available for both Windows and Linux. Compared to most applications, GrafX2 is ancient, its first version released in the 90's.
Aseprite A paid desktop application for creating pixel art available for both Windows and Linux. It has an unusual license that allows you to use it for free if you can compile its source code yourself..
MyPaint Free desktop application for making digital art, specially for drawing, sketching, and painting, that is available for both Windows and Linux.
Paint Tool SAI Paid desktop application for creating digital art, specially drawing manga digitally, available for Windows.
Clip Studio Paint A paid software for creating digital art, specifically it's a desktop application used for drawing manga and anime available for Windows and MacOS.
FireAlpaca Free desktop application for making digital art, specially used for drawing digital manga and webtoons.
Microsoft Photos Image viewer and photo manager application developed by Microsoft that is installed by default in Windows 11.