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But is there circle tool?
To be fair... that is more of a MS Paint kind of tool. I've been using Photoshop professionally for over 3 decades and I don't think I have ever used it. It took me a bit just to find it just now. Don't think I've ever used the rectangle tool either. A vector editing program like inkscape/illustrator or scribus/indesign are better tools for that kind of thing.
With that said. GIMP does have an ellipse selection tool, and that is something that I use often enough. And if you really wanted to draw a circle in a pixel pusher program you could just use that tool, invert it and delete on a separate layer.