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, gorgeous illustrations, design concepts, enhanced photos, and beautiful animations. Offering hundreds of handmade brushes, a suite of intuitive artistic tools, and an advanced layer system. Work on the couch, on the train, at the beach, or while waiting in line for coffee.
It’s a creative companion in the palm of your hand.
Highlights:
• Sketch ideas when inspiration strikes
• Create engaging photo collages and draw-overs
• Add filters and captivating effects to your images
• Mark-up documents and give feedback on the fly
Breakthrough brushes:
• Packed with hundreds of beautifully crafted brushes
• Organize your brushes into sets and libraries
• Over 100 customizable settings for every brush
• 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 organized by combining layers into Groups
• Select multiple layers to move or Transform objects simultaneously
• Access over 25 layer blend modes for industry-grade compositing
Color without compromise:
• Fill your line work with ColorDrop and SwatchDrop
• Disc, Classic, Harmony, Value, and Palette color panels
• Import color profiles for color matching
• Assign Color Dynamics to any brush
Precision design tools:
• Revolutionary QuickShape feature for perfect shapes
• Add vector text to your illustrations
• Easily import all your favorite 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 stabilization smooths strokes for beautiful calligraphy and expert inking
Animation and Page Assist
• Easy frame-by-frame animation with customizable 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:
• Gradient Map — remap your image’s colors with a customizable gradient
• Glitch, Chromatic Aberration, Glow, and Halftone 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 Color 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 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
Reference Companion:
• Keep a full canvas or reference image with you at all times
• Paint on your face with AR
• Color-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 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, and animated GIFs, PNGs, and MP4s
Accessibility
• Global stroke estabilization, Dynamic Type, VoiceOver, and colour naming
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.
Can’t see an app on MacBook
ma.ri.ko
I bought an app on iPhone and can’t find it on my user’s account on MacBook… Why? ;(((I can see other iPhone applications I purchased and can use them on my Mac…
Developer Response
Hi ma.ri.ko – Thanks so much for your 4 star review! 💕Procreate Pocket is designed for use on the iPhone only and is not compatible with MacBook, which is why it isn't appearing for you.
new interface
TEXT TO SPEECJ
I have been a user of procreate pocket for years and it has always been my favorite drawing app. Now it's ruined. It's so janky and laggy, my clicks don't register most of the time, what on earth was the thought process with that bucket tool animation? How did that even pass playtesting?? It's so annoying to use now. I've always hated using any other drawing app that isn't procreate but drawing on this is so frustrating now that i've been using a different drawing app lately. It just upsets me and so many more of your users and we hope you at least add a feature where you can toggle the previous interface on and off. So many people are greatly upset by this
Bring back the UI
NadinaTV
This is absolutely atrocious and completely unreadable. Took all the joy from creating anything. I cannot find myself in the app anymore. Tool bar used to be so easy to manage and now it’s all on one side? Why? The color dropping? Very confusing! Brush and layer menu coming from the bottom? Who thought it was a good idea? Instead of improving the app you changed it completely and confused so many people including me. I’ve been using this app for years. Now I need to learn it from the beginning. Absolutely devilish from you, devs.
Developer Response
Hi NadinaTV — Thanks for sharing your review with us 🙏. We understand that changes to the interface can be confusing while learning the new design, and it's valuable for us that you have taken the time to share your feedback. The idea of optionally switching back to the previous interface or a different design is recorded as requested in our internal database, and we have added your upvote and comments to it. - The update for Procreate Pocket 5 was mainly done to keep it more aligned with Procreate for iPad, while expanding the possibilities for the available features in the app for the future; we added the same Brush Library system as on iPad, which allows you to sync your brushes with iCloud Drive, and we will also bring more useful tools to iPhone over time. We have also released the updated Handbook for Procreate Pocket (procre.at/pocketbook), with information on all the current features and interface. - For any questions about the Procreate apps, feel free to contact us anytime via the Support Form at: procre.at/support, which is our official channel to help you promptly.
Great things come to those who wait. There's a fresh new look and so many features in Procreate Pocket 5, including brush libraries, Page Assist, and exciting hardware compatibility, that we better get into it.
New Brushes
There's over 150 new brushes in the Procreate Library created by our in-house Brush Developer Kyle T. Webster. It’s like being handed the keys to your own fully stocked art store; one that’s filled with brushes and styles that combine real-world familiarity with the endless possibilities of digital art. The beloved Classic brush library is still available by pinching inwards, or tapping ... and Show all libraries.
Brush Search
Find just the brush you need by swiping down in the brush library and start typing text or emoji.
Brush Libraries
Add another level of organisation to your brushes. Build collections of the brush sets you need for a project or art style. To access, create, edit, or share libraries, use the pinch gesture in the Brushes panel.
Stroke Stabilisation
Combine standard Stabilisation with Motion Filtering for ultra smooth and stable stroke creation. Set stabilisation app-wide, or apply to individual brushes in Brush Studio.
Page Assist
Ideal for creating storyboards, comics, books or use it as a sketchbook. Keep your focus on a single page or quickly flick through to where you need to be. Import PDFs and mark up your documents.
Colour History
Quickly jump back to your most recently used colours.
Recent Brushes
All of the brushes you've been using are now just a tap away. Plus you can pin your favorites so they’re always available.
Brush Size Memory
Save your chosen brush size or opacity by tapping + in the preview. Creatives, tattoo artists and inkers can now keep every line beautifully even and consistent as you save up to four size or opacity memories within any brush across paint, smudge and erase.
Brush file management
Sleep better at night by protecting your precious brush collection. Backup, organize and share them right in the Files app. Choose from storing your brushes On My iPhone or in iCloud Drive, and if you change your mind, you can move them later in the Actions menu.
New Brush Studio settings
Procreate Pocket brush settings are now fully compatible with iPad. You can remove anti-aliasing with alpha threshold; perfect for pixel art. We’ve also added more controls for spacing, shape roundness, stroke jitter, and per brush pressure curves. With the new Preview tab in Brush Studio, you can make further adjustments to how your brush thumbnails appear in the brush library.
Colour Cards
Name each swatch in your palette automatically by shade and colour, or customise the name by tapping on it. You can also turn on colour naming notifications in Settings for a description every time you pick a colour.
So much more:
- VoiceOver Support
- Customisable onion skin colours
- Feedback sounds
- Dynamic brush scaling
It's fabulous to see Procreate Pocket back to its former glory. Now go make something on the train with the new brushes #ProcreateArtist
Version 5.0.1
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