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
Procreate lets you generate high-caliber artwork at a blistering pace using a robust layering system, stunning filters, and thousands of importable brushes. Plus, Savage Interactive’s super-intuitive app supports pressure sensitivity and Apple Pencil—as well as iCloud Drive and a seamless video recording of each brushstroke—so sharing your work is incredibly simple.
All of my pics has been crushed.
Aibechka
Plz, fix that crush!
Developer Response
Hey there - this is terrible news. We recommend you restore your iPad from a backup if you have one. If you need any help with this, or with identifying why Procreate has been crashing, please contact procreate.art/support and we'll help out however we can.
Brushes
senpai D
This update is totally ridiculous. I had different brush sets on my various tablets. After the update, all my custom brush sets disappeared, and now the brush library is the same on both tablets. What a heck!!???? Instead of new brushes that nobody needs, you should have added new tools!
Developer Response
Edited 17/03/2026 - Hey senpai D - Updating Procreate should not affect your existing Procreate data. All of your Procreate default and custom brushes should have been upgraded when you first opened Procreate after the update to version 5.4. When the Procreate 5.4 update is installed, all the brushes you had in Procreate 5.3.15, or an earlier version, should appear in the Classic Library. This includes the original default brush sets and any custom imported ones you might have had. All of the new Procreate 5.4 brushes will appear in a separate library, the Procreate Library.To navigate to the Brush Libraries, please try pinching out or tapping the title of the library you are currently in > select ‘Back to libraries’, then head into the Classic Library. You should be able to locate your custom brushes as well as old Procreate default brushes here.We hope this helps! If you are unable to locate your brushes in the Classic Library, please be sure to get in touch with us directly via our support form (procre.at/support). We will troubleshoot further for you and assist however we can. 🙏31/10/2025 - Hi there! Thanks for leaving your valuable feedback. Could we please ask you to update your app to the latest 5.4.7 version please? We addressed the lagging issues in version 5.4.6, so they should be reduced unless you are running low on storage. We also understand that some customers prefer the previous interface design with a less rounded appearance and/or the more compact design, and this feedback is truly valuable to us. We have added your vote to the requested idea to change the app interface, and this will be seen by our development team directly. 18/08/2025 - Hi there! Thanks so much for your thoughtful feedback and kind words! At the moment, text layers in Procreate are rasterized when moved between canvases, so they can't be re-edited as text once transferred. For print workflows, currently, Procreate only supports one color profile per canvas, so switching between RGB and CMYK can cause shifts. You can duplicate your file and change the color profile under Canvas > Color Profile, but some colors may look different since CMYK has a more limited range. For the best control, many artists work in RGB and do the final CMYK conversion in other apps before printing. We will note down your feedback for the team to consider! 🙏18/08/2025 - Hey there - thanks for leaving us a review and taking the time to share your feedback. We’ve added your vote towards this feature request and are working hard on the next update, which we plan to include the Selections tool (lasso)! Check out the roadmap(procre.at/roadmap) for more details! 🫶03/08/2025 - 牛了牛君你好,感谢你给我们的建议和五星好评。我们已经将你的建议记录下来啦,希望能够在未来版本中为你带来更多好用的功能。
Constant Crashes, No Help From Support
гусалион
The app constantly crashes, making it nearly impossible to work. I’ve tried freeing up memory and checked that everything is up to date, but the issue persists. I contacted support, but they haven’t replied for 5 days. Very disappointing experience.
Developer Response
Hi Iгусалион - If you are experiencing crashes and freezing there are a few things we recommend trying:1. Force restart your iPad procre.at/restart2. Ensure you have enough storage space on your iPad (check iPad Settings > General > About)3. If you are running the iPadOS26 beta, uninstall it and update to the officially released OS.4. Turn off Stage Manager in Control Centre.Are you noticing any improvements?
This compatibility update helps you get the best out of Procreate on every supported device and operating system version.
Version 5.4.9
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