When comparing Gimpshop vs Photopea, the Slant community recommends Photopea for most people. In the question“What are the best free Photoshop alternatives?” Photopea is ranked 3rd while Gimpshop is ranked 16th. The most important reason people chose Photopea is:
Photopea allows dragging & dropping images in to the browser window to upload them and add to the scene.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Drag and drop support
Photopea allows dragging & dropping images in to the browser window to upload them and add to the scene.
Pro Fast to load
Pro Very reactive on feedbacks
Pro Can save as PSD
This means you can open these files in Photoshop, so if you don't have Photoshop on one device, you can still export your Photopea project and continue editing on Photoshop on another device
Pro Photoshop Like Interface
It has a Photoshop-like interface with most of its features for basic editing.
Pro Has many features
Pro Uses Photoshop standard shortcuts
Pro Requires no browser plugin
As it is an HTML5 application, running it requires no additional plugins on modern browsers.
Cons
Con Development is on hold
The developer has anounced that this program is on hold due to someone stealing his work.
Con Spamware that stole another person's work
Gimpshop was a project by a developer Scott Moschella . An anonymous user bought gimpshop.com and took his work and added bloatware and spam into the installer. The situation is not well known to most people who continue giving this random spammer money.
Con Hard to get used to it at first
However, you'll get used to it later!