Orange Codec Paint

Paint is known to be one of the simplest applications out there, but even this particular tool has way more to offer when it comes to features than we know and serves a good deal of purposes. If for any reason you are looking for a program similar to Paint but way more rudimentary, you've found it. Orange Codec Paint advertises itself as a painting tool, but it is more like a sketcher than anything else.

This app is old. You can tell that by the interface, which cannot be resized, or it can, but not the work area. Compared to Paint, this app is almost a blank screen with a couple of buttons.

A painting app is a bit of a stretch as a description. How so? Well, the first clue is color availability. You can only use blue or red for your sketches, no other choices in between.

The main and only tool seems to be the pen, even though that's not mentioned anywhere. The buttons that should control the pen's thickness are in place, but not functional. The + button changes nothing, even if pressed multiple times. And things can get worse. The - button crashes the application if pressed, so you better avoid that area altogether.

The skinny toolbar seems to be having only two points of interest. The Clear button, which works fine, removing any sketch when deployed, and the Options menu. Sadly, the Options menu isn't responding in the current version, so we have no idea if it can be customized.

Orange Codec Paint is definitely far from a painting tool. With its current limitations and issues, it can only serve as a digital canvas for toddlers to sketch things on. Other than that, it requires critical work to be considered a helpful program.