Overview
The manual for Ruwa, a free and open-source painting app for Windows.
This is the manual for Ruwa. It covers installing the app, finding your way around the workspace, and getting a painting from an empty canvas to a finished file.
Getting started
Check the requirements, install Ruwa, and learn the Home screen.
Your first painting
Create a project, make your first marks, and save the result.
Workspace
Move around the canvas, arrange panels, and save your layouts.
Troubleshooting
Track down a problem and write a bug report worth reading.
What's missing
Ruwa is ahead of its documentation. Brushes, layers, color, and file handling all work in the app but have no pages here yet. If you need one of them, ask in the Ruwa Discord server.
Where to start
New to Ruwa? Read Getting started, then paint something with Your first painting. Once you've saved a project, Workspace shows you how to set the editor up the way you like it.
Already using Ruwa? Use the search. It covers every page, and there's a
llms.txt at the site root if you'd rather feed the docs to a model.