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 App but Missing RULER Tool!
Karliendev
I love Procreate and use it daily as an Illustrator and Designer - it is definitely one of the mist versatile and powerful drawing apps for iPad Pro with Apple Pencil. The one that really annoys me though: Why is there no RULER Tool or ability to drag custom guides e.g. like in Photoshop? It’s really difficult to accurately measure actual artwork size and allocate bleed for print purposes. A Ruler is such a BASIC Design and Drawing Tool - I cannot understand why Procreate does not have one? Most free drawing or note apps like Apple Notes, Adobe Sketch, Autodesk Sketchbook Pro, Concepts and others all have Ruler Tools - Why does Procreate as an industry professional Paid App not have this basic functionality? PLEASE LISTEN to your users!! If you had a Ruler and adjustable guides I would have given the App 5 stars.
Best app for drawing/painting on the iPad
Ryan Noik
This is absolutely one of my favorite apps on the iPad. I have tried many, including the recent Adobe Fresco, and Procreate still wins hands down as *the* go to painting apps for iPad. If you are artist, and you don’t already have it, drop everything and do yourself a favor and get it. If you are not an artist but want to stimulate your creativity, I cannot recommend picking this up anyway, especially if you have the Apple Pencil. And thankfully it is a once off payment, no subscriptions! As well with V5 around the corner, the best may very well be getting better with the free update. Love the app and can not recommend it highly enough.
The update is horrible
mizzyy!
great app until it started deleting my stuff… I honestly really love this app! It has great features and easy to use, but recently ever since the update which is total bunz by the way, it deleted all my brushes I imported just to add some new brushes which are useless to me. It’s also overpriced for what you’re getting, it doesn’t even have a ruler tool. I’ve had this app for years and only now have been experiencing problems ever since this update I actually hate it so much what were you guys thinking? This update has caused nothing but problems the app is so glitchy and I’m being kicked out often and why do I have to wait 5 minutes just for my brushes to load brushes I don’t even have anymore. You guys have to fix this
Developer Response
Hi there! Thanks for leaving us a review. We have not removed any of your old brushes with the latest updates. All the old default, your custom and imported brushes should be in the "Classic Library". When you have your brush library open, use two fingers to pinch inward. This gesture will bring up all available brush libraries, including the Procreate Library with all newly added brushes. Could you please try checking for your brushes in the "Classic Library"? Regarding our pricing - since December 2022, we have not changed the price of Procreate. It remains a one-time purchase of $12.99 USD, and there are no additional in-app purchases.And in regards to the brush loading issue - please follow these steps to keep your iCloud-stored brushes on your iPad:In Files App, tap iCloud Drive under Locations on the left bar → Tap and hold on your "Procreate Brushes" folder → Tap “Download Now” to prioritise iCloud Drive downloading this folder. You can also select "Keep Downloaded".You should see your iCloud syncing progress at the bottom. Once it’s done, check your brush libraries in Procreate and they should be loading properly.
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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