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 color
- Continuous auto-save — never lose work again
Breakthrough brushes:
- Packed with hundreds of beautifully crafted brushes
- Organize your brushes into sets and libraries
- Add Metallic and Roughness for painting in 3D
- Brush Studio — with over 100 customizable 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 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:
- 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
- Use Scribble to name layers, change settings, and create text
Accessibility features:
- Advanced stroke stabilization
- Dynamic Type, VoiceOver, and Feedback Sounds
- Assignable single-touch gestures
- Color naming
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:
- 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 Color 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.
Please make an account system! READ PLZ ‼️
Urilad
Listen, I absolutely love this app, it doesn't become extremely laggy at times, and it's just overall great, I could say a lot, but WHAT I REALLY WISH was in this app that would make it an amazing 10/10 is like an Account System! I've seen many artists lose their beloved art pieces because either they couldn't do backup with like iCloud or like their drawing device probably broke or whatever. Backup process could be extremely difficult to do especially when you have NO STORAGE to save anything! Listen, I would've bought more storage but I'm still a minor and obviously can't really do that. but, listen it would just really make everything so much more amazing and just relieving if there was a way to make an account so then it could save all artwork, and if you get a new device, you can log right in and receive your artwork back again without any issues. Again, I absolutely love your app, I've been using it for about three years maybe or two! But sadly I've had to delete a year worth of artwork because of this storage or backup issues, I was worrying about losing my artwork and trying to do the backup thing and only to come to a sad conclusion that I really deleted the artwork for no reason at all, I absolutely hate the 5gb iCloud does, but oh MY GODDDD I would much Appreciate it if you read this! 💗 I would greatly appreciate it too if you do actually make an account system, much appreciated! :) (please 😭)
Developer Response
Hello Urilad - thanks for leaving us a review and for your feedback. We are sad to hear about your experience and the loss of your work. We are very interested in improving file management in Procreate to help reduce the impact of accidental deletions and instances of data loss. Your vote has been added towards including an account system so we can track customer support for this. It’s very important to us to be able to offer the best options for our customers, so we would like to improve file management for file and data security. In case it can be helpful for now, we recommend checking out our Help Centre article for Backing up Procreate artworks (procre.at/handbookbackup). Hopefully, this can help advise a suitable method for creating backup files. The Community Care team are here to help as well if you have any questions (procre.at/support). 🙏🎨
a pretty solid app for any skill range
spiritwolf121
I’ve been using procreate for a few months now, and overall it’s been an amazing platform, and I tried out probably 10+ different drawing apps to see which ones worked the best for me, so this app really tops them all. I can’t say I really have too many complaints other than small nitpicks. But heres some smaller things that I would really love to see on this app- I think it would be very beneficial if there could be a slider/more customization for the paint bucket tool specifically, to change the fill rate and opacity, maybe the texture of the fill-in, and all that jazz. as for the animation, I have two suggestions, think it would be very nice if you could make the layers set up into “frames” rather than just layers, because if you add more than like 3 “frames”, even if you’ve made each frame into a group, it turns into hellfire and makes my brain hurt. another thing- and this ones my biggest complaint about the animation feature, I reeeaaallllyyy wish you could add/insert sound into the app, combined with all of this app’s other amazing features it would be awesome for animatics/animations/etc and the inability to add sound is one of that potential downfalls for that. Besides that I have been very happy with this app and it has caused me to be able to open commissions and hopefully someday make a living off of what I love, so thank you for all of the effort and care you’ve put into this app so far and I am so excited to see where it will go in the future!
Developer Response
Hey there - thank you very much for this feedback, and for being willing to try Procreate out! We're always happy to read about the parts of the software we could improve in the future. Have you tried the Animation Assist feature to help with your frames? This is in the Canvas tab of your Actions Menu. We may be looking into making some quality of life changes to this in the future.Thank you again for the feedback!
It’s wonderful!
JillyBean91334
I love Procreate so much, having a iPad Pro with a Apple Pencil works so well with this app, the price is worth buying it. Tbh I stop using my laptop for drawing since the drawing and painting feels so natural and smooth though sometimes when I try to use the short cuts it won’t work other than that it’s works like a charm. There are some things that could be worked on, color picking a color from a reference or from the color wheel isn’t the exactly what it should look like while painting with it, it’s a little bit off, though It’s not noticeable at first (it’s not a big problem at all it just something I’ve noticed while using Procreate over the years) and now the blending tool, the blending tool can be really good but sometimes the blending tool can be frustrating to work with and sometimes while blending it makes the color muddy or won’t give a nice type a texture, I know sometimes it can be what brush you use for the blending tool. It would be nice to get a better version of it, also it might be a bug or something but when I leave a painting and go back I lose some of the progress of the painting and I haft to redo what I’ve already done. Other than those small details this is the best app for everyone it’s easy to use, you can create masterpieces with it, I wouldn’t go to another drawing app, I would say THIS is a app that you should try out. Everyone from 3 to 90 years old can use this app. It’s the best app out there just get it try it out !!!!!!
Developer Response
Hi JillyBean91334 - Thanks for the rating and for bringing these points to our attention! When using the Eyedropper tool, it can take into account the colour input from other layers, so this could be why you're noticing the colour deviation. Also, if you'd like some help with this Smudge Tool trouble, we'd be more than happy to offer assistance.Simply email support@procreate.art with the details and we'll jump in and assist.Thanks for the review!
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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