Digital painting software Howler 2023 is now free to download

Get the 2023 version of the digital painting and animation app for free, then donate to help get the latest version released as freeware.

Sunday, April 13th, 2025

Project Dogwaffle team releases Howler 2025.5

Check out the new features in the digital painting and image-editing app, including a watercolor painting toolset and animated text crawls.

Saturday, October 5th, 2024

Project Dogwaffle team releases Howler 2024.3

Check out the new features in the digital painting and CG art tool, like the updated CPU/GPU renderer.

Tuesday, January 2nd, 2024

Project Dogwaffle team releases Howler 2022 for free

Download a full recent version of the versatile digital painting and image editing software for free.

Sunday, July 23rd, 2023

Project Dogwaffle team ships Howler 2023.5

Low-cost digital painting app gets interesting option to render out 3D models to use as custom brushes.

Saturday, February 11th, 2023

Project Dogwaffle team ships Howler 2022.2

Low-cost digital painting and video processing app gets new Warp Mesh filter and tonemapping tool.

Tuesday, February 15th, 2022

Download Howler 2020 free

Get the last-but-one version of the digital painting, video processing and animation app for free, and donate to fund future development.

Sunday, August 8th, 2021

Project Dogwaffle team releases Howler 2021.4

Digital painting and image editing app gets revamped convolve tools, like this interesting CLAHE filter.

Saturday, March 27th, 2021

Project Dogwaffle team releases Howler 2020.2

Check out the new features in the versatile digital painting, animation and video processing software.

Tuesday, May 26th, 2020

Project Dogwaffle team releases Howler 2019 Build 66

Release extends digital painting app's animation tools, updating the Exposure Sheet and Frame Painter.

Tuesday, June 25th, 2019

Project Dogwaffle team releases Howler 11.4

Low-cost digital painting tool gets real-time preview for clone sources, new reverse image search feature.

Friday, July 27th, 2018

Project Dogwaffle team releases Howler 11.1

VFX-friendly paint package gets new watercolour media, improved render engine and foliage painting.

Friday, July 21st, 2017

Project Dogwaffle team releases Howler 11

VFX-friendly paint app gets new roto tools, updates to the Puppy Ray renderer. Price now under $50.

Friday, March 17th, 2017