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.
Amazing app but needs a fix
Miriam Johansson
I have been using this app ever since I got an iPad. So overall it’s very good but recently I’ve been facing one issue. I thought it was my Apple Pencil but when I got it checked out it was perfectly fine. Whenever I draw using the Apple Pencil on Procreate, it doesn’t work properly or has limited strokes. But whenever I use my finger it works properly. This is not an issue with my Apple Pencil at all, so please try to take a look at it.
Developer Response
Hey Miriam - this could be related to settings or the pressure sensor of the Apple Pencil. If you have time, please head to our Support Form (procre.at/support) and provide us with some further details of the issue.
Vector features and improved brushes pls
Slyer sly
I have been using this app for a few months now and it’s fine for drawing art but this app lacks a lot, I originally installed it for creating comics but later found out that I can’t due to all the things it’s missing for a faster more better flow of work. When will u finally add vector features, brushes, and tools, u know they are in demand more then 3d features right? Plus the brushes really need improving, we should be able to import actual design with it’s original colours and textures without having to worry about opacity, smart guides and selection tool also needs improving, they aren’t very helpful, I was expecting a lot from this app and I seriously bought an iPad instead of a normal tablet just for the sake of this app and I was highly disappointed.
Developer Response
Hey there - thank you for the review of Procreate. We are planning to add more features to the app that may make it more easily support comic creation. Check out procre.at/procreateroadmap for some details of our upcoming plans. ⭐
Tiny update to make life easier
Danny_110
I love the app every thing about the app is literally perfect but to make it even perfect i have a suggestion which i really want to have to keep my projects sorted so as I literally love the stack feature but i want the stacks within the stack to organise stuff better e.g if a client has multiple illustration and logos so i wanna put the within the stack with having two more stacks keeping the name i want, to separate logos and illustrations of the client
Developer Response
Hey Danny - thank you for the review! We appreciate the suggestion, too. This is something we can look at further when opting to make changes to the Gallery in the future. 🙇
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 .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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The developer indicated that this app supports the following accessibility features. Learn More