Once PlayOnMac starts, click on the plus icon with the label “Install a program” and in the popup window click on Graphics icon. Allow PlayOnMac in System Preferences (System Settings on macOS Ventura and above) Open System Preferences (System Settings on macOS Ventura and above), go to System and Privacy and under General tab click on “Open Anyway” button. Now drag and drop the PlayOnMac icon to the Applications folder.ĭepending on your settings your Mac may warn that developer is not approved, so you need to do additional things to allow it. If you are curious about DMG files, what they are and how safe to install them check my article on this topic. To install PlayOnMac download the image from the link.Īfter download double click on DMG file to unpack the app. In the case of Paint such tool is PlayOnMac. That’s why users instead of copying programs directly from Windows to Wine need some kind of packaging tool where other people did all this work for you. This means that only a small subset of Windows calls was translated and it requires quite a bit of work in order to run Windows applications on Wine. This is not an emulator, in fact, the name Wine is an acronym that stands for “Wine Is Not Emulator”. If you curious the way Wine works is by translating API calls from Windows programs to the operating system from Windows to macOS.

Still determined to find a way to run native Windows app on Mac I found another Wine based platform: PlayOnMac. The Winebottler also has an option for MSPaint 2010 install, but no matter what I did the installation was failing on multiple MacBooks I used. In my article about Notepad on Mac, I described how to install Notepad++ on Mac with the help of Winebottler. Use Paint alternatives such as Paintbrush or Pixelmator.Install Paint app on Mac on top of Wine based platform.

In short, there are following options available for Paint on Mac: Since I decided to do everything on my MacBook for this blog I needed to find an equivalent of Paint on Mac. One thing I use constantly when writing posts is MS Paint to edit screenshots and sometimes featured images. If you buy through affiliate links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you.

Mspaint equivalent in mac