Loved by creative professionals and aspiring artists alike, Procreate is the leading creative application made for iPad.
Procreate has everything you need to create expressive sketches, rich paintings, gorgeous illustrations, and beautiful animations. Offering 100s of handmade brushes, a suite of industry-leading artistic tools, an advanced layer system, and the powerful Valkyrie graphics engine.
It’s a complete art studio you can take anywhere.
Highlights:
- High resolution canvases — up to 16k by 8k on compatible iPad Pros
- Beautifully intuitive interface made for iPad and Apple Pencil
- Revolutionary QuickShape feature for perfect shapes
- Smooth and responsive smudge sampling
- 3D Painting with Lighting Studio, exportable as models, images, or animations
- Powered by Valkyrie, the lightning-fast 64-bit painting engine
- Speed up your workflow with keyboard shortcuts
- Create art in stunning 64-bit colour
- Continuous auto-save — never lose work again
Breakthrough brushes:
- Packed with hundreds of beautifully crafted brushes
- Organise your brushes into sets and libraries
- Add Metallic and Roughness for painting in 3D
- Brush Studio — with over 100 customisable settings
- Import and export custom Procreate brushes
- Import Adobe® Photoshop® brushes, and run them faster than Photoshop®
Full-featured layering system:
- Layer your art for precise control over details and composition
- Create Layer Masks and Clipping Masks for non-destructive editing
- Stay organised by combining layers into Groups
- Select multiple layers to move or Transform objects simultaneously
- Access over 25 layer blend modes for industry-grade compositing
Colour without compromise:
- Fill your line work with ColorDrop and SwatchDrop
- Disc, Classic, Harmony, Value, and Palette colour panels
- Import colour profiles for colour matching
- Assign Colour Dynamics to any brush
Precision design tools:
- Add vector text to your illustrations
- Easily import all your favourite fonts
- Crop and resize your canvas for perfect composition
- Perspective, Isometric, 2D, and Symmetry visual guides
- Drawing Assist perfects your strokes in real time
- StreamLine and stabilisation smooths strokes for beautiful calligraphy and expert inking
- Use Scribble to name layers, change settings, and create text
Accessibility features:
- Advanced stroke stabilisation
- Dynamic Type, VoiceOver, and Feedback Sounds
- Assignable single-touch gestures
- Color naming
Animation and Page Assist
- Easy frame-by-frame animation with customisable onion skinning
- Create storyboards, GIFs, animatics, and simple animations
- Sketch page-by-page concepts or begin a comic with Page Assist
- Import, edit, and share PDFs
Dramatic finishing effects:
- Brush in image adjustments and effects with Apple Pencil
- Glitch, Chromatic Aberration, Bloom, Noise, and Halftone add new dimensions to your work
- Gaussian, Motion, and Perspective Blur filters create depth and movement
- Powerful image adjustments including Colour Balance, Curves, HSB, and Gradient Map
- Bring your art to life with the fun, intuitive, and creative Warp, Symmetry, and Liquify Dynamics
Time-lapse replay
- Relive your creative journey with Procreate’s Time-lapse Replay
- Export your Time-lapse recording in 4K for high-quality video production
- Share a shorter 30-second Time-lapse on your socials
Import assets and share your creations:
- Import or export your art as Adobe® Photoshop® PSD files
- Import Adobe® ASE and ACO Color Palettes
- Import image files such as JPG, PNG, and TIFF
- Export your working files in layered .procreate or PSD file formats
- Share your art as TIFF, transparent PNG, multi-page PDF, web-ready JPEG, OBJ, USDZ, and animated GIFs, PNGs, and MP4s
With stunning filters and thousands of importable brushes, this app lets you generate high-calibre artwork at a blistering pace. It supports pressure sensitivity and Apple Pencil – as well as iCloud Drive – so sharing your work is incredibly simple.
Excelent
DlMrLong
Most intuitive app on the market , i use it in everything i do , starting with architecture concepts , customizing sneakers , graphic desing , drawings , you name it .. would really like to see some updates on the perspective grid assist , can't make it to snap a perfect horizontal line on 2 point perspectives or three , and in ortho grid would like to have more freedom when i scale it to a specific dimmension (now i have to allign the drawing seperatly from the grid ,example : fit a door in an architectural plan view to get a sense of the room dimensions when there are none, using this grid ) oh and some degrees on straight lines when i snap it , 90' 60' 45' etc to make it perfect for drawing .oh and Procreate please try and copy apples copic marker properties , to make te brush strokes relative to its real life orientation and position , when i use the pencill , it would be a huge update on the brushes , they are too random now , seem to have no controll on grain and flat brush orientation
Um I like it ig
TheBestGodlenFish100_
I like this app. There are so many brushes! And the effects you can put on a layer 😍 you can do anything with this app 😍😍😍😍 also I don't really like the procreate brushes, that you use the first time you download the app. The airbrushes are better. I like it. Also..... some problem...... when the drawing is too thin or I have a small little gap in between the lines, the colour-fill doesn't work and colours the whole page. And when I take a sticker from photos and put it here, in procreate, it takes some part of the background... that's fine but... sometimes it mistakes part of the sticker as part of the background... and that's why I also made a grey page to be able to use the stickers properly, and now I think I don't like white backgrounds and backgrounds with many items, since the sticker will look... weird..
Developer Response
Hi there! Thank you so much for leaving us a wonderful 5-star review. Regarding the issue you are having, have you tried adjusting your ColorDrop Threshold? When dragging your colour onto the canvas, simply keep holding down until a blue line appears on top of your screen. Now swipe left or right to adjust the ColorDrop Threshold and see if that helps! If you are still having issues - please reach out to us via procre.at/support and we will assist you however possible. 🌟
A good app that tries to do too much and excels at little
Kdoggdracul
I’ve written this review once and it magically disappeared, it seems. No worries, here we we go again. Let me start with the obvious. Procreate is a good app, it’s good for rough sketching, it’s generally smooth, there are a ton of custom brushes made by the community. But that’s about it. Painting in Procreate is another story, it feels clunky as Hell, there is no way to customize the keyboard shortcuts, the lasso tool is a lazy joke, there is no marching ants visual guide for selections, the palm rejection kinda works, but not always, and quite a few other small things which make this a clunky experience compared to other products on the market. The scarcity of updates and lackluster improvements once those small updates drop do not add to the overall experience. It’s been over one year since my original review, but absolutely nothing has changed. Just go with ArtStudio Pro and never look back. The only extraordinary thing about Procreate is the huge amounts of money they have invested in marketing to arrive at such amounts of hype. Probably they’ve been the only option at some point, but that’s no longer the case. I am copy pasting this review into my inbox, so i don’t have to write it again in case it suddenly disappears again. And please don’t bother with one of those politically correct corporate replies inviting me to your forums to find more about your app. I know your app inside out, as I know all the other apps out there. Thank you.
Developer Response
Edited 29/05/2023 - Hey there, we do not request removal of reviews unless they contravene App Store policy. We are open to and actively encourage feedback like this, as it's important to know how we can improve the software. We are thankful to know where we are falling short so that we can aim higher and make Procreate better for a wider variety of users. We regularly update Procreate to provide new features, functionality and address bugs. We understand where you're coming from, and we won't patronise you by directing you anywhere. Know that we are grateful, and we encourage you to continue providing us information on how we can improve. 🙏Hey Kdoggdracul - while we can appreciate the feedback here, the idea that we're not working on Procreate is incorrect. It's a living product that we regularly maintain, and indeed it's our sole focus to develop further for this software, and that of Procreate Pocket on the iPhone. If you use the Selection tool on Freehand, by default this is a lasso that offers marching ants and the ability to add to and remove from the Selection itself. The QuickMenu can also offer more than six items due to the features we added in more recent versions - you can have multiple QuickMenu sections dedicated to different features, allowing for much more customisability.We're happy to take your feedback on board, but rest assured we are still always working hard on Procreate. If you need help uncovering the depths of what you can do in the software, never hesitate to reach out to us via https://support.procreate.art and we'll happily assist you however we can.
OK. We went too far. This update sharpens the corners of your Gallery thumbnails. It also calms down the height of Animation and Page Assist and fixes an issue in 3D painting where you couldn't import meshes without normals.
Remember that all your custom brushes are available in the Classic Library by pinching the brush panel, or tapping the Procreate Library title.
Version 5.4.8
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