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Vara

Minimalist digital painting

Nandakumar Edamana ✓ Verified

in.co.nandakumar.vara
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Drawing and digital painting application with pressure-sensitive brushes. It belongs to the group of applications like Krita and MyPaint, but with a limited number of features. The main focus is on simplicity.

  • Smooth and pressure-sensitive brushes
  • Any number of layers
  • 32-bit high dynamic range workflow
  • Linear RGB colorspace with gamma correction
  • Beginner-friendly, but advanced options available

Screenshots

Vara running on Debian 11, Adwaita theme
Vara running on Debian 11, Adwaita theme
Vara with advanced tool options expanded
Vara with advanced tool options expanded

Observed history

App ChangeVersionWhen ↑
updated0.1.26092626 Sept 2026

Upstream releases

Release notes supplied by the developer. These dates are not Flathub package publication times.

0.1.26092626 Sept 2026

Fix for FG/BG layer switch buttons doing nothing when expected to.

  • fix: FG/BG buttons do nothing when layer count = 2
  • write-xcf-from-image-document: check fclose for error
  • start test-nongui-write-read-xcf
  • test-nongui: use tmpfile() instead of /tmp/...
  • refactor write-xcf-from-image-document
0.1.25101818 Oct 2025

Introducing pan tool for grabbing and moving the canvas.

0.1.25041414 Apr 2025

Fix for the scratchpad being slow and support for zoom-to-fit.

  • fix: scratchpad is slow to respond
  • ui: zoom-to-fit
  • fix: reading xcf: crash when no layers are read
0.1.2412088 Dec 2024

Fixes for some portability issues (Snap and BSD).

  • fix: questionable frame-skipping makes drawing non-interactive in Snap environment
  • fix some issues reported by clang, making it BSD-friendly