Procreate 4+

Sketch. Paint. Create‪.‬

Savage Interactive Pty Ltd

    • £12.99

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Description

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
• Brush sets to organise your painting, sketching, and drawing brushes
• Over 100 customisable settings for every brush
• Add Metallic and Roughness for painting in 3D
• Brush Studio — design custom Procreate 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 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 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 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
• Colour 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 Colour 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

What’s New

Version 5.3.14

You asked (a while ago) and we've listened! Not only can you Group, you can now even Ungroup. Tap the Layer Group to find it in the Layer Options menu.
This update also brings a multitude of bug fixes.

• Importing large PDF files into the Gallery will no longer cause a crash.
• The secondary component of a Dual Brush will display at the correct size when Dynamic brush scaling is toggled off.
• Repeated crashing of the Colour Panel caused by errant palettes will no longer interrupt your flow.
• Merging down on a Clipping Mask when Animation Assist is active won’t close the app.
• The Remove function in Selections is now removing instead of adding.
• Things will continue to run smoothly if layers are dragged from a large canvas into another artwork.

Work on our next major update is well underway and it's all about everyone's most important tools; brushes.

Ratings and Reviews

4.4 out of 5
6.7K Ratings

6.7K Ratings

Editors’ Choice

With stunning filters and thousands of importable brushes, this app lets you generate high-calibre artwork at a blistering pace. It supports pressure sensitivity and Apple Pencil – as well as iCloud Drive – so sharing your work is incredibly simple.

TheDiamondCat1 ,

I have a few annoying problems.

Okay, this is a okay app. I’m glad I didn’t have to pay monthly and the brushes and the layering and stuff like that is good but I don’t really recommend using the animation on this app because a layer counts as a frame so it’s really hard to do the animations. I always start with a sketch, then add a layer and do the lineart but in animation, I can’t do that so I really struggle to use it. And also, I wanted to animate a dog walking, so I decided to import my video of my dog walking so I could use it as a reference to help me with this animation. It was a one second video so I thought it would be alright and import perfectly fine. Well, it did import and show a tick which means it did do it, and then it put me on the canvas with the video but you could only see the video for a split second and then it disappears. Why does it do that? I edited the video to make it one second because I thought it may be to long so I made it short! All that time wasted. And two days ago I managed to get a video on perfectly fine but now I can’t a video of my dog in! Why? Please, please fix this! It’s driving me around the bend and it’s stupid. Fix this. Apart from that, good app I recommend it if you want to draw (not animate but it could work for some people but I struggle with it) but yeah it’s worth the price do get it apart from those few things

Developer Response ,

When creating a new custom canvas, you'll see your Maximum Layer limit when you input your canvas dimensions. You can also access this by swiping left on any custom canvas in the Create menu and tapping Edit. In regards to not importing your video, we have a bug at the moment that is stopping MP4 and GIF imports into Procreate. We are working on a fix for this in an upcoming patch. If you are experiencing other issues, please contact us via support.procreate.art and we will get back to you ASAP.

tartaresauce ,

Superb!!

Of course no apps are going to be PERFECT, but the next thing to it is always working towards it, which Procreate absolutely nails. There are millions (as far as I can see) of amazing tools on there, as well as complex animation, replay, distortion and so many other cool things. I recommend having a go at Sketchbook, which is free, first. If after 2-3 months you feel comfortable and happy with digital art, and you feel like you’re pushing the boundaries a bit and are looking for more (as I was) then go ahead. You might even earn the money back by selling artwork/brushes on Etsy etc. Yes, it’s £12, quite pricy, but if you think about it, you might spend that much on a good set of art pens or a few notebooks or something. It’s not a subscription, which unfortunately 95% of all apps seem to be, so you can properly OWN it. Plus, if you have an Apple Family Sharing plan, which is free, then you can share it with up to 5 people — which I do — without paying any extra. Also: To the developers, I saw you replied to so many other reviews which is great, well done for the amazing app. Just a couple of asks: 1. Could you add a few more options to the Liquify adjustment? I love playing with it SO MUCH, and it would be super cool to see even more! 2. I often group layers for big projects, and would like to be able to put a layer ABOVE the group and set it as a clipping mask ON the group. I don’t know if this is possible, but if it is, it would be really useful! Thank you!

Developer Response ,

Hey tartaresauce - Thank you for using Procreate and for sharing your suggestions with us. We have noted them down as references for future development. As we are actively working on bringing more features to Procreate, it is possible that they might get considered for implementation. 🤗

App Privacy

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Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.

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