The team behind Krita has started a donation fund with the hopes of having more sustainable income for development, but it's in need of your help.
Help Support Krita's Core Development
Free digital painting software Krita has launched a new development fund (based on that of Blender), which operates on a donation system that allows you to manage your subscription(s).
If you're a fan of Krita, you can now contribute via recurring subscription to help support the program's open development in the long term.
We've just launched the new Krita development fund! It's based on @Blender's development fund code -- so awesome that that is open, too! See https://t.co/vXFC1VdmjZ
— Krita Painting App (@Krita_Painting) May 6, 2021
The Krita Development Fund aims to fully support the developers that work on Krita’s core codebase, especially since the company hopes to release Krita 5 in August 2021.
It will be a big release, with a new smudge brush engine, rewritten resource management, vastly expanded animation support and much, much more. We plan to release Krita 5 in August. During this campaign we’ll give you regular updates about the cool stuff you can see is happening for Krita 5.
Krita says that it's started two other funds like this in the past: one through PayPal, and the other through Mollie. Between their combined total of 200 subscribers, Krita earns enough to support only one developer and one part-time documentation writer.
"With €25,000 [approximately $30,000] a month, we could support all current core developers without depending on the income from the app stores," Krita writes.
Where to Download Krita
You can download Krita for free from its official website, or purchase it from a digital storefront to enjoy automatic updates. Krita was added to the Epic Store in late April, and has been on Steam since June 2014.
