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.
Great, but
Sparrow.head
You know, I really like procreate, but 1) dividing brushes into two libraries was unnecessary, especially without a comfortable way to move brushes and folders from one to another; 2) at least 2 or 3 layers for animation is a must, I understand that you want to sell your other program, but cmon, make at least two for color and lineart, not adding just this little is extremely greedy; 3) what’s with the new round design? Literally no one asked for this
Developer Response
Hey there - thanks for leaving us a review and for your feedback! In case it is helpful to know, the layer limit (or frame limit) is in place to help with app stability and is based on the canvas size and RAM capability of your iPad. We are always aiming to improve, so more layers are something we work towards, and we’ll add your vote of support to this improvement and towards your other points. In the meantime, reducing the canvas size can allow for more layers. 🫶
Lag
QurT04
recently, my procreate has been having problems with latency. the line that I draw appears after I finish it, and it doesn't depend on how fast I use the stylus or the size of the canvas. this makes it very difficult to work with an iPad, because why did I buy it if even a paid application can't provide me with comfort? please contact me and resolve this issue.
Developer Response
Hi QurT04! Thanks for your feedback. If you are facing latency issues while using Apple Pencil in Procreate, please start by updating to iPadOS 18.1. If problems continue, try these steps: 1. Disable Zoom in Accessibility 2. Clear space and update Procreate 3. Force restart your iPad 4. Remove the case and screen protector 5. Ensure the iPad isn’t charging 6. Use on a non-conductive surface 7. Toggle off recent Accessibility settings. If the issue persists, please reach out to us via procre.at/support and we will try to assist however possible.
change the program language
PAVEL Sha
hello. I figured out how to change the language of the program, but when changing there are problems with translation in the Brush tool, there are objects that are not translated and this is very confusing. I sent you the pictures via the support form. how can this be fixed? Thanks
Developer Response
Edited 26/11: Hey Pavel - thank you for letting us know. We'll do our best to help you out via email. 🤗Hey there - if you change your iPad language to German (Settings > General > Language & Region > iPad Language), then back to English, an option in Settings > Procreate should appear to allow you to select your preferred language.If you continue to have trouble with this, please fill out the Support Form at support.procreate.art and we'll help out further.
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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The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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