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.
After months of use i have figured that this is an really great app for artists but with flaws ofc!
chichi0x0
I love this app now! I was a little skeptical at first but now I’ve quickly grown to like it a lot and im not switching anytime soon! But there are still flaws that I want to be brought into the light, the same problem with the color lasso like tool, it’s not really usable barely does the job but since i don’t use it much this isn’t a big issue for me. But i really want to bring this one problem to light that has been bothering me. The brushes here almost fully rely on an Apple Pencil, a person who doesn’t own one has an uncomfortable experience with customizing brushes as most things rely on the apple pencil, the previews of the brushes don’t look the same when you’re actually using the brush if you aren’t using an Apple Pencil, this was a huge issue for me when i first started using the app because i didn’t have an Apple Pencil back then. But now that i bought an whole new setup it isn’t an issue for me now but i believe this is an still big issue for people who do not own one😓 i want people to be able to fully appreciate procreate brushes because they are truly awesome!
Developer Response
Hey chichi0x0 - Cheers for getting back in touch and for sharing your thoughts with us. Procreate no longer supports any third-party styluses except the Logitech Crayon on select devices. This is mainly due to the fact that many alternative stylus providers have in recent years scaled back their production and maintenance. As we’re unable to provide a quality experience for these devices, we removed support for them with Procreate version 5.3.At this moment, all pressure-related settings will require a compatible Apple Pencil, as Procreate's pressure sensitivity entirely comes from Apple Pencil. That said, there are still many other features that you can explore without the need for an Apple Pencil. To preview how your brush behaviours on the canvas while in Brush Studio, tap the Drawing Pad icon > tap the option directly underneath the colour selection > select Touch. Now try drawing with your finger on the drawing pad to see the stroke effect.We hope this sheds some light on the situation! Please don't hesitate to let us know if you need any further assistance. 🙏
Love it
Daria strel
I've been using this app for five years now, and the only things I miss are realistic color blending like in Rebelle and water blending like in Sai. Otherwise, I'm happy and stopped drawing on the computer a long time ago. There were also occasional freezes while working, but I could save the file separately or simply restart the app, and my progress would be saved.
Developer Response
Hey there - thanks for leaving us a 5-star review! We are grateful for your support and happy to hear you are enjoying using Procreate. We will be happy to take your suggestion onboard. ❤️Performing force restart is usually a great way to remove such issues and we also suggest checking your storage space if you are having freezing problems! 😄
If we talk about raw efficiency — no one reached the level procreate did years ago
Dosorami
Idk what exactly developers’ team made and how, but still even through years no one, no any other program for graphics and no any other device can provide faster engines for brushes (even the largest brushes up to 4000 px radius) and transformation. It can be 32gb ram macbook pro with m4 max in it and photoshop and it’s still not as smooth as procreate on ipad pro. I have no idea what is the difference why others cannot do the same procreate did years ago, but this software doesn’t leave any chances for everyone else. Maybe efficiency and speed isn’t so important for many users but for me that’s the priority and procreate is reference when it’s about experience, quality and speed. So thank you for making my existence as an artist so easier:)
Developer Response
Hello Dosorami, thank you for leaving us a review! We are so grateful for your support and for hearing your appreciation of our brush engine! 🖌️💚🎨
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
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 .
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