App of the Year winner Procreate Pocket is the most feature-packed and versatile art app ever designed for iPhone.
Procreate Pocket has everything you need to create expressive sketches, rich paintings, gorgeous illustrations, and beautiful animations. Offering hundreds of handmade brushes, a suite of intuitive artistic tools, an advanced layer system, and the powerful Valkyrie graphics engine. Work on the couch, on the train, at the beach, or while waiting in line for coffee.
It’s a complete art studio in the palm of your hand.
Highlights:
• High resolution canvases — up to 16k by 4k on compatible devices
• Intuitive Dark Mode interface made for iPhone
• Revolutionary QuickShape feature for perfect shapes
• Smooth and responsive smudge sampling
• Powered by Valkyrie, the lightning-fast 64-bit painting engine
• Create art in stunning 64-bit colour
• 250 levels of undo and redo
• Continuous auto-save — never lose work again
Breakthrough brushes:
• Packed with 100s of beautifully crafted brushes
• Brush sets keep your painting, sketching, and drawing brushes organised
• Over 100 customisable settings for every brush
• Brush Studio — design custom brushes
• 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 and Clipping Masks for non-destructive editing
• Stay organised by combining layers into groups
• Transform objects simultaneously across multiple layers
• Access over 25 layer blend modes for industry-grade compositing
Colour without compromise:
• Fill your line work with ColorDrop
• 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 smooths your strokes for beautiful lettering and expert inking
Animation Assist:
• Easy frame-by-frame animation with customisable onion skinning
• Create storyboards, GIFs, animatics, and simple animations
• Export your animations in the full resolution of your canvas
Dramatic finishing effects:
• Gradient Map — remap your image’s colours with a customisable gradient
• Glitch, Chromatic Aberration, Glow, and Halftone to add new dimensions to your work
• Gaussian and Motion Blur filters for depth and movement, or use Sharpen for perfect clarity
• Advanced Noise filter gives you more control for a classic, retro look
• Adjust Hue, Saturation, or Brightness in real time
• Powerful image adjustments including Colour Balance, Curves, and HSB
• 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 celebrated Time-lapse Replay
• Export your Time-lapse recording in 4K for high-end video production
• Share a short, 30-second version of your Time-lapse on your socials
Reference Companion:
• Keep a full canvas or reference image with you at all times
• Paint on your face with AR
• Colour-pick right from the reference window
Import assets and share your creations:
• Import or export your art as Adobe® Photoshop® PSD files
• Import Adobe® ASE and ACO Colour Palettes
• Import images files such as JPG, PNG, and TIFF
• Drag and drop artworks, brushes, palettes, and fonts between applications
• Export to AirDrop, iCloud Drive, Photos, iTunes, Dropbox, Google Drive, Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), Instagram, TikTok, Weibo, Mail, and more
• Share your art as PDF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, GIF, HEVC, or MP4 files
Behind this app’s slick drawing and painting tools are robust features that you’d normally expect from a fully fledged illustration package–it can even use your Apple Watch as a colour picker.
Undo button?
torontoskinnyman
Can anybody find the undo button on the new version?
Developer Response
Hi torontoskinnyman - to Undo in Procreate Pocket, just tap the canvas with two fingers, or tap with three fingers to Redo. You can download the free Procreate Pocket Handbook from our Support page: https://procreate.art/support
Loving it so far
sewandsewca
I just downloaded pocket and I am amazed at all the features it has. I have been using Procreate on my iPad for quite awhile so the transition has been effortless. My cheapo stylus even works. I am hoping Symmetry will show up soon :)
So far very impressed.
MissEElizabeth
I read some negative reviews but decided to try the app anyway. I got the sense that some of the users may not be as familiar with drawing apps or design software as some of us are, and I’ve seen them complain before due to lack of understanding. When I first opened the app, it seemed the negative reviews were right in that it is very simple. Simple as in basic. After a little (very little) exploring and testing, I’ve discovered a fully functional illustration app! I am blown away by the concise design. I found most of what I would look for in desktop design apps just by doing some intuitive digging. I haven’t found masks yet, however, so that might be a point lost. I’ll keep playing around and update if I decide the review requires it. 😊
Developer Response
Hey MissEElizabeth - thanks for sticking with Procreate Pocket and giving it a chance! To access Layer and Clipping Masks, open up your Layers Menu and tap twice on a layer that's above another (for Clipping). We hope this helps! Thanks again for the awesome review!
This is a compatibility update to get you ready for everything new coming your way.
Version 4.0.15
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