Procreate Ratings and Reviews

I think procreate works well for me and I don’t think there’s anything majorly wrong with it. The new colour drop feature definitely speeds things up. Animating in Procreate is easier than animating in some actual animation apps (Or maybe just the one I used don’t get animation desk it’s so bad) but the only thing I have with Procreate is I’ve used sketches school and there’s this tool (The cutter) that when you draw a circle or any other shape that joins together you can move anything within that shape around your drawing. It’s the exact same thing as the mouse in that bar at the top of your screen but it works for the area you choose and not being stuck with just moving the whole frame. I don’t know if implementing that would be considered plagiarism or not but if it would be then could you add the same thing but instead of moving it around you just get the option of adding it to another frame or making a new frame out of the drawings within the shape (Exact same size it would be bad if it expanded the whole screen). It would make drawing on the wrong layer (One of the worst things about digital drawing) SO much more manageable.

Hi PineapplePen33 – Thanks very much for taking the time to share your feedback! If this is something you'd like to see in Procreate in the future, be sure to add your support to the relevant posts on our Ideas & Suggestions board. 💖(https://folio.procreate.art/discussions/3)

I have only been using this app for less than a year, but it's been amazing the whole time!
Starting off, I was terrified that the price was like a subscription at first, but then I found out it was only a one time pay, which is great for my convenience! I heard about it, and when I heard it included art AND animation, I just had to get it! It has heaps of features, and all the brushes are great to use. Even though everything is great and awesome quality, there's a little bit of critical feedback I'd like to give as well (all though I don't think it should take down a single star!). With the animation, I feel as if it would be nice to add an audio feature. I understand why you wouldn't add it in or anything, the app already has a lot of options. But I'd say a lot more people would buy it if it had audio in the animations! That's the only reason I switch to FlipaClip in animation. One more thing is the fill bucket. I enjoy how fancy it is, and how much easier it is the fill a specific spot. But in some ways I believe the traditional
"tap to fill" bucket works better. But I don't think that really matters, since the whole app is amazing anyway. I used to use ibisPaint, a free drawing app, and I can say that ever since I got Procreate I only made my digital art there. So many things I love about this app, and I'm overall so happy that I bought it!

Hey there - thank you for the lovely review of Procreate! Thank you very much for the kind words, and for the feedback regarding how we could potentially improve animation. ✌️

•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• As a young student attending a film school to become one of the next generation animators and and graphic designers. This app is like a dream come true! I use it in my spare time to create cartoon characters, (like the characters in Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego) that I will eventually turn into movie-style characters with detail, like Katie in the Mitchells VS the Machines. It’s great value for the money. At first, as a student, I worried that it would be a subscription. But when it turned out to be a one-time payment, I was delighted! This app has also been really useful for some of the work I’ve been assigned. ‘Make a short advertisement for an original movie, ending with a cliffhanger.’ I’ll use this app to create most of the characters, and I can green screen character’s backgrounds, putting them into an awesome place. I also LOVE making short animations. For instance, a character jumping from cloud to cloud a few times on floating islands in the sky. I have not one negative thing to say about this app! But I do have a suggestion, it would be great if you could add an audio feature. I am currently using a completely different app to put audio in, and it always sounds clunky and muffled. I absolutely LOVE this app and I have gotten all of my friends to purchase it. 💜

Hey there - it's so cool to hear that you're able to use Procreate for your animation and graphic design! 🖌🧡

We wish you the very best in your studies, and thank you very much for the support and the suggestion! ⭐️⭐️⭐️

I have only been using this app for less than a year, but it’s been amazing the whole time! Starting off, I was terrified that the price was like a subscription at first, but then I found out it was only a one time pay, which is great for my convenience! I heard about it, and when I heard it included art AND animation, I just had to get it! It has heaps of features, and all the brushes are great to use. Even though everything is great and awesome quality, there’s a little bit of critical feedback I’d like to give as well (all though I don’t think it should take down a single star!). With the animation, I feel as if it would be nice to add an audio feature. I understand why you wouldn’t add it in or anything, the app already has a lot of options. But I’d say a lot more people would buy it if it had audio in the animations! That’s the only reason I switch to FlipaClip in animation. One more thing is the fill bucket. I enjoy how fancy it is, and how much easier it is the fill a specific spot. But in some ways I believe the traditional “tap to fill” bucket works better. But I don’t think that really matters, since the whole app is amazing anyway. I used to use ibisPaint, a free drawing app, and I can say that ever since I got Procreate I only made my digital art there. So many things I love about this app, and I’m overall so happy that I bought it! 😊💖✨👍

Hey Kitten Lover! We would love to add audio into Procreate in the future. Animation is only in early stages for us, so we are always welcoming feedback and suggestions on how it can improve. Another thing is that you can actually use Recolour in the Adjustments menu for a traditional tap to fill type option. 🥰 We're so glad that you are enjoying Procreate and are able to make it part of your workflow for art and animation.

If you’re on the fence about downloading Procreate, my suggestion would be to just go for it! You’re not likely going to find the same quality or value for money experience in other apps on the App Store. Procreate is a one time purchase, full feature drawing app with included animation features. It comes with a huge selection of pre-made brushes and the ability to create and import your own alongside a broad range of brush customisation settings. To try to even include every feature that comes included in Procreate would be a challenge so, my friend, I’d recommend just jumping straight in and finding them all out for yourself.

Though, as a single critique, there is only one feature missing which would truly round out the entire creative capabilities of the app. The one thing I’d like to see the developers add is audio import and basic audio mastering support for animations. I understand this is no small task as it would require an overhaul to the current animation features, which are only quite recent themselves. I also understand that the current animation features are only a means to an end to appease any users who want to use the app to animate, as Procreate is marketed as a digital art app. Again, this being said, I as a user would like to see the app develop to accommodate as many creative individuals as possible.

Hi Dee - thank you so much for this glowing review of Procreate. It's awesome for us to hear that you find Procreate to be good value for money!

We're always happy to take on users' feedback regarding how we can improve the app, too! While animation is a feature that is new, we're always looking at making things better for our users!

Thanks again for the awesome review!

I’ve been using this app for almost a year now (could’ve probably wrote a review earlier) and oh can I tell you, Procreate is definitely worth buying! After buying it I got really scared thinking that it could only be a subscription, but then I figured out the magnificent truth. Fifteen dollars is so worth it. This app is great for every kind of art, whether it be cartoonish or realistic, it’s easy to do it on Procreate. Me, being a guy more into realism, really appreciates all the brushes.

Also love the animation feature that was added. I’m an animator and love doing both drawing the frames for an animation and taking photos for the frames. They’re both fun ways to animate, great ways to take up time and now I don’t have to annoy everyone else by trying to animate physical objects. “You’re messing up the lighting.” “You’re in the frame.” I’d say, but now I don’t have to. And I would like it if you added an audio feature. Taking the frames and putting them in my stop motion animation software then adding the audio can be frustrating sometimes.

Anyway I’m really appreciative to the developers of this app, glad I found it and bought it.

Hi CruzCooper - Cheers for this stunner of a review! 😍 We love hearing that you've learned to love Procreate so much and are especially taken by Animation Assist. It's still a fairly new feature and it's likely going to get some additions made to it. If that is going to be Audio is something we can't make any promises on at this time though. :)

Edited: any plans to allow for compiling brush folders?

Thanks for creating something so versatile and portable. Ive loved creating digitally when we had to move into a small place temporarily and that ended up being longer than we expected. My paper art had no room to be done so i found this with good timing. Especially when COVID hit. It’s kept me busy. I love all the new upgrades. One id like to see one day is a search on projects. If ive taken time to name them and put things into collections, id love a search option to find them again. Another is to be able to create brush folders so that the same types of brushes can be collected into the same folder. When i buy new collections, id like to be able to put either all the creators brushes in one collection as they add new ones. Or be able to put all my watercolor collections, or alcohol ink collections, or body stamp collections into major folders so that im not scrolling through 200 brush collections trying to find what Im looking for. Right now i just put similar collections next to eachother but that makes a huge listing. Is that the best that can be done? Or am i missing something?

Edited 28/2: Hey there - we do want to work more on organisation in Procreate to make things as efficient as possible for the users, so a system for placing and recalling brushes that operates per user need is on our minds. 😇

Edited 24/02: Thanks so much for the great rating! We really appreciate you reaching out and sharing this positive feedback. Helping people through these difficult times is one of the things we're most grateful for. A search feature is something we would like to implement at some stage, but this takes some development time to find a way to make it feel natural to Procreate. Hopefully this can be possible in the near future. ❤️ Edited: Hi Ebsweets - It is strange that you are experiencing this issue and we would like to help. Please get in touch via our Support Form with more information and a video of what's happening. We'll do everything we can to help. 😄 (https://support.procreate.art/)
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Hi Ebsweets - Installing new fonts and using them in Procreate shouldn't cause the program to be crashing on you, so this is quite worrying to hear. Could you please reach out to us at support.procreate.art? We would like to investigate this one further for you.

As an artist the portability of being able to draw and create on the go is very appealing. Procreate is so close to being perfect as a substitute for desktop apps such as Photoshop, it’s just missing integral features that make the desktop setup much more efficient, and make me go back to using my desktop setup even if it’s less enjoyable than Procreate.

The small yet time saving features I desperately want added are an ability to customise the colour tab, I want to be able to change the colour circle to a colour triangle, and to add h/s/b to the colour square tab. As well as the ability to quickly view my artwork in black and white, Photoshop has the ‘proof setup’ feature where you just press a hot key to view the image in b&w, this seems minor but is such a time saver. Also being able to use Procreate on my Mac, either through my iPad as a drawing tablet, or using a separate drawing tablet such as a Wacom, the relatively small screen real estate of an iPad compared to a desktop is significant.

I want to love Procreate, and I want to be able to use it for everything, but without these features I am unable to.

Hey there - thank you for using Procreate, and for the great feedback that we can consider when making future changes to the software. We can definitely see the value in having a proofing option, among the other things you've mentioned. We'll do our best to improve Procreate even further in the future. 😇

Again, I adore this app!! I think I’ve had it for a couple of years now and it’s been the pinnacle of my art. I’ve never had a better program to do my art works onto until I found this app from a friend! (Even convinced me to get a new iPad with an Apple pen 👀)

But with the newer update there was one thing added I was super excited for! And that was the reference option, where you can add an image on the sidelines without actual placing it onto a layer and wasting it. But when I got to use it, I wanted to scale it down slightly since when I zoom in, it takes almost the full page, but was disappointed to find out I couldn’t do such a thing, and I just went back to placing them back onto a seperate layer. I haven’t a clue if there is an option to Scale it down since I didn’t spend as much time with it unfortunately.

But with that complaint aside, everything else is perfect!! I have high hopes for this app and it’s exceeding even my amateur expectations! Glad I’m apart of this gorgeous community and team! Thank you so much for all the things you’ve given to us.

Hi SheDemonVincent – thanks so much for your 5 star review, it's fantastic to hear that you enjoy using Procreate!

Once an image has been added to your Reference Companion, you can adjust the size of the window as well as zoom in and out of the image. ☺️

So me being a student and needing to get posters done and art lessons too, I needed an app that would be fun to use and would get me good grades so I was patrolling the AppStore for an app that would tick both box’s but I couldn’t find one. Then all of my friends had this app called procreate so I checked it out but then I saw that is was $15 and I was like no way, but one of my friend said I will pay for it and if you don’t like it in two days then you don’t have to pay me back but if I liked in 2 days then I would pay her the $15. So I got procreate and did an assignment that was worth 25% and I got a high distinction! So I quickly drove to my friends house and gave her $30.

Anyway so the point is that procreate is the best and the brushes and the pallets and everything is the best and to those of you who are reading this comment and are unsure whether to buy it do it because it is soooooooo worth it!

P.s - developer if you are reading this could you please add audio but if you can’t that is totally ok I just want to make a proper animation.

Hey there - thank you for sharing this cool story about how you got Procreate! We appreciate the feedback regarding animation and audio, too. 🤩