Pinta

Raised as a usability problem by 12 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2016–2026), in 14 threads.

People raised many different problems with Pinta, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 14 complaints

So buggy it is practically unusable for basic image editing2026-09-03
Menu bar items crammed into submenus under a hamburger menu, hard to find2025-09-18
Flat single-color icons make complicated apps very hard to navigate2025-05-27
Monochrome tool icons are hard to tell apart, slowing the user down2025-04-02
Checkboxes on layers swallow second clicks, making interaction unreliable2025-03-18
Color picker became worse after recent UI changes2024-03-30
Described as basically unusable, with no specific problem given2021-09-25
Pinta is unstable and pulls in many libraries, unlike a simple built-in paint app2021-09-23
Selection outline and resize handles render at canvas resolution, hard to use on low-res images2021-06-14
Selection handles render on canvas and look broken when zoomed or working on pixel art2020-07-10
Font selector sometimes disappears and can't be brought back2019-12-28
Pinta feels buggy and less polished than Paint.NET, so it is harder to use2018-12-25
Selection and resize freeze the program for seconds on large images2017-07-24
Crashed when resizing images larger than the screen, and selection markers got drawn into the image2016-07-14