What is vibepaint?

VibePaint is a desktop paint program, similar in spirit to classic tools like MS Paint, that runs on macOS, Windows, and Linux. The README describes it as vibe coded, meaning it was built largely with AI assistance rather than written by hand line by line. It covers the core toolset you would expect from a paint app: a brush, pencil, straight line tool, rectangle and ellipse shapes, an eraser, a paint bucket for flood filling color, a text tool for placing and styling text, a magic wand for selecting areas by color, and a color picker eyedropper for sampling colors already on the canvas. Shapes can be outlined, filled, or both, and holding modifier keys can constrain lines to straight angles or shapes to perfect squares and circles. Beyond basic drawing, it supports layers, meaning you can stack separate transparent images on top of each other, hide or reorder them, adjust their opacity and blend modes, and merge them together, along with full undo and redo history. Selection tools include rectangle, ellipse, and lasso shapes, with the ability to move, resize, or invert a selection. An image menu handles cropping, resizing, flipping, and rotating, and there is a full color picker with hue, saturation, RGB, and hex input. One notable extra feature is an AI Enhance button that sends the active layer or selection to Grok, a cloud AI service from xAI, to enhance the artwork, showing a preview before you decide to apply it. This requires entering your own xAI API key in settings. The app is built with Flutter, a cross platform app framework, and can be installed from prebuilt releases for each operating system, including a macOS DMG, a Windows installer, and several Linux package formats such as AppImage, deb, rpm, Flatpak, and Snap. It can also be run directly from source code if Flutter is installed.