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.
Excellent
Aunty Socialite
I bought Procreate Pocket to help distract myself at hospital appointments as it’s difficult to hump around art supplies aged 69-1/2. It’s a very different beastie to its big sis Procreate but I love it as much already; so much fun to just play with colours and textures. Also it’s great to have a new learning curve. It’s mind-blowing that such a small app can create such awesomeness! And that you can buy it outright is a bonus. Thank you!
Love it, but there’s something I need to say
BloxieStuff
I always love coming back to do artwork on this app. I think this software is the best option to do artwork. And I’m very glad to use the Pocket version here as well!One thing I need to say. Can we please have the new brushes on the Pocket version soon? I’d love to use them. Thank you very much and keep up with making Procreate amazing ✨
Developer Response
Hey BloxieStuff - thanks for leaving us a review and taking the time to share your feedback! It is great to hear your support for Procreate Pocket, and we have added your vote of support towards this. We have a long-term goal to show Pocket some love and bring these types of improvements to the mobile app. There is no firm timeline for this just yet. 🫶
Great but needs some love
GlynWilliamsArtist
I have made some really interesting paintings in this app. I am very pleased it exists. It’s a great companion to its big brother app on the iPad. Which remains the biggest bargain in App Store history. Cramming all this functionality onto a phone screen is hard. But I wish there were some different choices. For example, I often need to compare one thing with another by toggling a layer on and off. But in Pocket, the layer visibility button is on a full screen menu which entirely hides the image. It’d be great if there was a way to see the change happen. Please 🙏🏻
Developer Response
Hi there! Thanks for leaving us a wonderful review. We appreciate your understanding of the challenges related to implementing more options on a smaller screen. We will be happy to note down your suggestion and add your vote of support to it.
This update has compatibility for the newest devices and 25 new fonts for customising your text, including brand new choices for Arabic, Hindi, Thai, and Japanese.
The fonts Eina and Jack Armstrong BB are no longer available, but you can continue to edit your image layers, or rasterise your text layer to keep your exact design. You can also choose to replace these fonts with a similar option.
Did you know you can import your own fonts into Procreate Pocket? Tap the + button on the text Edit Style keyboard, drag and drop, or place them into your On My iPhone → Pocket → Fonts folder.
Version 4.0.16
The developer, Savage Interactive Pty Ltd, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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