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, rich paintings, gorgeous illustrations, and beautiful animations. Offering hundreds of handmade brushes, a suite of intuitive artistic tools, an advanced layer system, and the powerful Valkyrie graphics engine. Work on the couch, on the train, at the beach, or while waiting in line for coffee.
It’s a complete art studio in the palm of your hand.
Highlights:
• High resolution canvases — up to 16k by 4k on compatible devices
• Intuitive Dark Mode interface made for iPhone
• Revolutionary QuickShape feature for perfect shapes
• Smooth and responsive smudge sampling
• Powered by Valkyrie, the lightning-fast 64-bit painting engine
• Create art in stunning 64-bit colour
• 250 levels of undo and redo
• Continuous auto-save — never lose work again
Breakthrough brushes:
• Packed with 100s of beautifully crafted brushes
• Brush sets keep your painting, sketching, and drawing brushes organised
• Over 100 customisable settings for every brush
• Brush Studio — design custom brushes
• 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 and Clipping Masks for non-destructive editing
• Stay organised by combining layers into groups
• Transform objects simultaneously across multiple layers
• Access over 25 layer blend modes for industry-grade compositing
Colour without compromise:
• Fill your line work with ColorDrop
• 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 smooths your strokes for beautiful lettering and expert inking
Animation Assist:
• Easy frame-by-frame animation with customisable onion skinning
• Create storyboards, GIFs, animatics, and simple animations
• Export your animations in the full resolution of your canvas
Dramatic finishing effects:
• Gradient Map — remap your image’s colours with a customisable gradient
• Glitch, Chromatic Aberration, Glow, and Halftone to 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 Colour 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 celebrated Time-lapse Replay
• Export your Time-lapse recording in 4K for high-end video production
• Share a short, 30-second version of your 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
• Colour-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 Colour Palettes
• Import images files such as JPG, PNG, and TIFF
• Drag and drop artworks, brushes, palettes, and fonts between applications
• Export to AirDrop, iCloud Drive, Photos, iTunes, Dropbox, Google Drive, Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), Instagram, TikTok, Weibo, Mail, and more
• Share your art as PDF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, GIF, HEVC, or MP4 files
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.
App is bugged for me, but...
chrupkiserowe
Can't insert a photo because the entire app freezes. BUT. There's an easy workaround until the bug is fixed -- you just put your phone in the landscape mode. Works like a charm. Amazing Support, thanks a lot ❤️Also, that's not *my* workaround, the Support let me know about it!
Developer Response
Edited 16/03/2026 - Hi there — Thanks for sharing your updated review with us 🙏. We are glad to hear that the workaround of setting your iPhone to landscape orientation has helped you, and we will keep working hard to correct any issues impacting the Procreate apps. — For any future queries about our apps, feel free to contact us anytime via the Support Form at: procre.at/support, which is our official channel to help you always promptly.13/03/2026 - Hello 黽, thank you for reaching out to us! We are sad to hear you've had this experience and will help however we can. It sounds like your files were out of sync with iCloud, and when changing locations, these files weren't available/accessible to move yet, leading to this issue. We would like to collect as much information as we can to see how we can help. Please reach out to our Customer Care team using our form (procre.at/support), and we'll investigate this together. ➡️ Please include a screenshot of your Brush Library in Procreate and what you can see in your Files app > Procreate Brushes folders for both iCloud Drive and On My iPad. Please also check your recently deleted folder in your Files app and on your iCloud Drive. We will do all we can to help! 🙏07/11/2025 - Hi 黽 - It sounds like you are experiencing a known bug. Are you able to invert the texture again by tapping two fingers on the image?
New update
Pola Lola
In my opinion the dark mode isn’t that nice I rather have white mode the options like wand are now harder to use since you have to look for blur as the icon
Developer Response
Hi Pola Lola – To change from Dark interface back to Light mode, head to Modify > Actions > Preferences and tap the Dark interface button so that it is toggled off. If you have any further queries, please don't hesitate to get in touch via our Support Form. We'll do everything we can to help. 😄 (https://support.procreate.art/)
This update includes fixes and improvements to keep Pocket running smoothly.
Version 4.0.18
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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The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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