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.
Absolutely amazing!
Funkyliani
Amazing app with many features allowing you to become the artist you are meant to be! Just please let us place a photo outside of the canvas on the grid. I use photos as reference but they are always in the way and I need to keep moving them around. Also, let us see the name of the layer we are currently using please, the amount of time I've drawn on a wrong layer is sad.. and lastly, exported mp4 files are not compatible with Instagram somehow and trying to upload them results in an error. Saving a gif also saves a gif with missing frames, no matter how many times you try to export it, there are always frames missing.. Still love the app though!
Developer Response
Hi Funkyliani - It's amazing to hear that you enjoy using Procreate! 😀 If you are experiencing an issue exporting your canvases, 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/)
Love the new version, but-
ShrompityShromp
Ok so i love basically everything about the new version! The new design, brushes everything. I also animate so the animation update was really REALLY convenient. There is one issue that is very small, but very annoying and makes me want to create less.The new sliders under the square color “wheel” are supper finicky.Lets say i want to change the hue, well there is a huge chance that instead of the hue i’ll accidentally tap on the saturation. I feel they are too close to each other and it really slows my work flow when designing. I have to stop, align my pen perfectly, cuz a millimeter off and i tap on the wrong thing. It is reeeally annoying. (Also i have to note that i have the 11 inch iPad pro, people with bigger screens might not experience this issue, i am unsure)Other then that i love the changes. Everything else is actually a-lot smoother as far as work flow goes and i really like the new brush customization
Good, fine, mediocre
Avylonia
Procreate si ten leading app for artists on iOS, yet it's no wonder.Pros:+ The base si quite user friendly, no long names for 100 functions under 100 buttons. Although, in the end, ti looks hollow.+ Tens od brushes and textures help creating art easily and personalised. Perfect for complex artstyles.+ Great functionality with Apple Pencil - after all, it was created for it.+ Easy use of the selection tool that won’t close just because the pen stopped pen no longer touch the screen.Cons:- Lack of functions. Starting with more advanced drawing assistants, fast mirroring, color modification tools, reference place and so on.- Low layer amount - for digital artists, over 100 layers is common standard. But even one of the most “normal” canvas, not even large, has limit of 60.- Closing off on random occasions - no automatic saving, loss of progress.- It’s terribly hard to personalise the setup, find any settings and get what you want. No button indicates you can find it easily there.- Missing transformation options. Only basics are there.- My worst enemy: NO SETTINGS FOR LAYER GROUPS. Forget changing anything except the lacking transformation for the whole groups, no color changes, no lowering of opacity for them and no additional object borders, effects and so on.- No normal gradient tool found.To sum up, it’ll give you good response and nice animations but if you actually want to work with it fully... it doesn’t work, more like, it’s not enough compared to the other softwares.
Developer Response
Hi Avylonia - Thank you for your feedback and for reaching out with your suggestions on how we could improve Procreate. You'll be happy to hear that Reference and Gradient Map are both included with Procreate 5X, which is available as a free update from tomorrow on. :) How many layers you'll be able to work on depends on the size of your canvas, as well as your iPad's capabilities. If you reduce your canvas dimensions you'll get more layers to work on. We chose to introduce a layer limit to ensure the fastest and most stable user performance in Procreate. That being said, we're always working hard on making Procreate even better, so allowing more layers in the future is something we are very interested in. If you have suggestions about what features are still missing in Procreate, let us know at our Ideas & Suggestions Boards (https://procreate.art/discussions/3). Concerning your crashing issues, please don't hesitate to contact us at support.procreate.art with more information about when this seems to happen. We'll be more than happy to help you out 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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