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Please Note

This is the download page for the development version of GIMP.

That means these builds are a work-in-progress. Proceed with caution because they may be unstable. If a crash does occur, please report it!

If you're looking for the stable GIMP 2.10.36 release instead, you can find it on our downloads page.

Current Development Version

The current development release of GIMP is 2.99.16 (2023-07-05).

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GIMP (development version) for Unix-like systems

We provide 2 Flatpak unstable builds: on Flathub for point development release and on the GNOME nightly repository. The development releases are manually selected and tested snapshots of the code, hence deemed presentable to the public whereas nightlies are untested by definition. Nightlies are automated builds at random point in development process.
If there are no development releases, the latest stable version will be provided instead in the development repository whereas the nightly repository will always contain moving work-in-progress code.

Install GIMP development flatpak (unstable) Install GIMP nightly flatpak (very unstable)

Flatpak builds available in: x86-64 (both development and nightly builds) and AArch64 (development releases only).

Flatpak additional instructions

If the link above doesn't open your software installer, install with following command:

flatpak install --user https://flathub.org/beta-repo/appstream/org.gimp.GIMP.flatpakref

Run with following command line:

flatpak run org.gimp.GIMP//beta

To update:

flatpak update

Note: If you installed both the stable and beta repositories, the desktop (menus, etc.) will see only one version at a time. To make sure your desktop sees the development version, run this command:

flatpak make-current --user org.gimp.GIMP beta

Or respectively to restore the stable version as the visible GIMP application:

flatpak make-current --user org.gimp.GIMP stable

You may also create shortcuts running specifically one of the other version.

Systems without flatpak support

GIMP can also run on Solaris and is available for the BSD family of systems such as FreeBSD and OpenBSD. Third party development packages may be available for these systems. Please refer to the documentation for your Unix-like system on the installation of software.

Most Unix-like systems make it very easy to install a development environment for building software from source. If you can't find a GIMP package in your distribution's package repository or want to build a more recent GIMP version that what is available there, then see the source code section.

GIMP (development version) for macOS

Updated on 2023-08-14: GIMP 2.99.16 DMG revision 2
Fix security issues in GExiv2 (#8816) and a crash in macOS 10.13

Download GIMP 2.99.16
for Intel
via BitTorrent
Download GIMP 2.99.16
for Intel
directly

Show downloads for ARM64 (Apple Silicon)

Download GIMP 2.99.16
for Apple Silicon
via BitTorrent
Download GIMP 2.99.16
for Apple Silicon
directly

Show downloads for x86_64

The download links above will attempt to download GIMP from one of our trusted mirror servers. If the mirrors do not work or you would rather download directly from our server, you can get the direct download here.

Warnings and information

  • Supported OS: macOS 10.13 High Sierra or over

  • !IMPORTANT! ⚠️ App Store: GIMP team does not provide any downloads using Apple's App Store at the moment. Any downloads on the store are created by third party and is not in anyway connected to the GIMP team.
  • Since version 2.8.2, GIMP runs on macOS/OSX natively. No X11 environment is required.

Native build

The official GIMP 2.99.16 DMG installers (linked above) are stock GIMP builds without third-party add-ons. Just open the downloaded DMG and drag and drop GIMP into your "Applications" folder.

  • SHA256 hash sum for gimp-2.99.16-2-arm64.dmg: 1e58a7a31b8fe5e5e18775ab82569664aca3355421606cc62343ec746e376e29
  • SHA256 hash sum for gimp-2.99.16-2-x86_64.dmg: c50f875de3fe84f8b370517b461fd2ee3fc70a68c690ca132a7eaaaabe75f43d

Check on VirusTotal: gimp-2.99.16-2-arm64.dmg and gimp-2.99.16-2-x86_64.dmg

Automatic development builds

Automatic builds (sometimes called "nightlies") are generated at regular intervals by our Continuous Integration process. This allows to run the last version of our code, though it also means you will get possibly very unstable work-in-progress, just as it is made. Therefore ⚠️ be aware that you would be running very experimental code! ⚠️ These builds are meant to test future GIMP versions and help us debug, we do not advise to use these for production.

  1. Go to GIMP's scheduled pipelines listing and click the latest "Success" button listed at the top of the list.
  2. Click the job
    build-gimp-2-99-and-package
    in the right end
  3. Click the "Artifacts" tab
  4. Finally click the
    builds/gimp-2.99.17-*-master.dmg
    file to download and install the GIMP nightly.
Note
Additionally to the code being experimental, these automated installers themselves are an experimental convenience and may still have various issues. In particular, they are not humanly tested, unlike released versions.

Older Downloads

Previous installers for macOS/OSX can be found here: download.gimp.org.

GIMP (development version) for Windows

Download GIMP 2.99.16
via BitTorrent
Download GIMP 2.99.16
directly

The download links above will attempt to download GIMP from one of our trusted mirror servers. If the mirrors do not work or you would rather download directly from our server, you can get the direct download here.

Warnings and information

  • Supported OS: Windows 7 or over

  • These links download an experimental GIMP installer for Windows (~200 MB). The installer contains both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of GIMP, and will automatically use the appropriate one.
  • BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file sharing system. It works by downloading GIMP from a distributed network of BitTorrent users, and may improve download speed dramatically. Choosing this option will download the torrent file for the GIMP installer. You may need to install a torrent client to make use of this file. Learn more...
  • !IMPORTANT! ⚠️ Microsoft Store: GIMP team does not provide any downloads using Microsoft Store at the moment. Any downloads on the store are created by third party and is not in anyway connected to the GIMP team.

Hash Sum

The SHA256 hash sum for gimp-2.99.16-setup.exe is: b7d33e32e66d6cc21dd1742c3e37ce8b3150272782feb314665f726386a5bcb7

Check it on VirusTotal: gimp-2.99.16-setup.exe

Automatic development builds

Automatic builds (sometimes called "nightlies") are generated at regular intervals by our Continuous Integration process. This allows to run the last version of our code, though it also means you will get possibly very unstable work-in-progress, just as it is made. Therefore ⚠️ be aware that you would be running very experimental code! ⚠️ These builds are meant to test future GIMP versions and help us debug, we do not advise to use these for production.

  1. Go to GIMP's scheduled pipelines listing and click the "Last Pipeline" ID listed next to the Windows installer item.
  2. Select the job named "win-installer-nightly"
  3. Click the "Browse" button
  4. Navigate to the
    build/windows/installer/_Output/
    directory
  5. Finally click the
    gimp-2.99.17-setup.exe
    file to download and install the GIMP nightly.
Note
Additionally to the code being experimental, these automated installers themselves are an experimental convenience and may still have various issues. In particular, they are not humanly tested and are unsigned, unlike released versions.

Older Downloads

Previous installers for Windows can be found here: download.gimp.org.

Source for version 2.99 (Development)

GIMP releases available from gimp.org and its mirrors contain the source code and have to be compiled in order to be installed on your system.

For instructions, how to build GIMP from source code, please see this page.

GIMP 2.99.16 is now available at https://download.gimp.org/gimp/v2.99/.

To allow you to check the integrity of the tarballs, here are the sums of the latest releases:

gimp-2.99.16.tar.xz (sha256):
6b4496edee447339f923276755247eadb64ec40d8aec241d06b62d1a6eb6508d
gimp-2.99.14.tar.xz (sha256):
313a205475d1ff03c5c4d9602f09f5c975ba6c1c79d8843e2396f9fe2abdf7a8
gimp-2.99.12.tar.xz (sha256):
7ba1b032ea520d540e4acad3da16d8637fe693743fdb36e0121775eea569f6a3
gimp-2.99.10.tar.bz2 (sha256):
9e08f1c4a455e8dd4dd0579fe289419e38c835db38e3c0d40cd1137fb0112f29
gimp-2.99.8.tar.bz2 (sha256):
dd916bd3474ef2efc652a0510280977ab8ea95e3d95d918394b0662261c32aae
gimp-2.99.6.tar.bz2 (sha256):
8d264b28445a3df2b940f30ee0b89b469255e975e8563b889fd57fb2f58f66a0
gimp-2.99.4.tar.bz2 (sha256):
df25c149c78f265181809d7685a9470a62c3c2f08c05e8498a4d5c86a048a5b2
gimp-2.99.2.tar.bz2 (sha256):
39dc99a1581bbaafa9d6686bf246f7be12b0788ebfc37d185dea5bdae9c3ae73

GIMP help files are available at https://download.gimp.org/gimp/help/.