Development Downloads

GIMP (development version) for Unix-like systems

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

Download GIMP 3.0.0-RC3 AppImage
for x86_64
via BitTorrent Download GIMP 3.0.0-RC3 AppImage
for x86_64
directly
Show downloads for AArch64

Download GIMP 3.0.0-RC3 AppImage
for ARM64
via BitTorrent Download GIMP 3.0.0-RC3 AppImage
for ARM64
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

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

• (AppImage) Supported OS: Debian 12 or newer distro

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.

Hash Sum

• SHA256 hash sum for GIMP-3.0.0-RC3-aarch64.AppImage: 30cd785eb7f5edd0441e64221fdb91e9c413b67cdfaf086d80c5edd5f41abc89
• SHA256 hash sum for GIMP-3.0.0-RC3-x86_64.AppImage: 383f625ed37a2d6d2e5c22baad2f3e3b6c50d3cd519eb6e09069903783bcac7a

Check these on VirusTotal: GIMP-3.0.0-RC3-aarch64.AppImage and GIMP-3.0.0-RC3-x86_64.AppImage

Automatic AppImage 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 be aware that it also means ⚠️ 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" Passed button listed next to the AppImage item.
2. Select the job named dist-appimage-weekly
3. Click the Browse button
4. Navigate to the build/linux/appimage/_Output/ directory
5. Finally click the GIMP-3.0.0-RC3+git-x86_64.AppImage or GIMP-3.0.0-RC3+git-aarch64.AppImage file to download and install the AppImage.

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.

Systems without flatpak or AppImage 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.