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Loved by creative pros and aspiring artists alike, Procreate is the leading creative application made for iPad.

Offering 100s of handmade brushes, a suite of innovative artistic tools, advanced layer system, and the lightning fast Valkyrie graphics engine — Procreate has everything you need to create expressive sketches, rich paintings, gorgeous illustrations and beautiful animations. Work on the couch, the train, the beach, or while waiting in line for coffee. It's a complete art studio you can take anywhere; packed with these powerful features and more:

• Highlights:
- Ultra High Definition 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 and Animated Export
- Powered by Valkyrie: the fastest 64-bit painting engine for iPad
- Connect a keyboard to use shortcuts
- Create art in stunning 64-bit color
- Continuous auto-save — never lose work again

• Breakthrough brushes:
- Packed with hundreds of beautifully crafted brushes
- Brush sets to organize your painting, sketching and drawing brushes
- Over 100 customizable settings for every brush
- Add Metallic and Roughness for painting in 3D
- Brush Studio – design your own 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 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

• The design tools you need:
- 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 smooth out 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 finger 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 while keeping the ability to fine-tune its effects
- 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
- Let the mind-bending powers of Warp, Symmetry, and Liquify Dynamics bring your art to life

• 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 shorter 30-second Time-lapse on your social networks

Share your creations:
- Import or export your art as Adobe® Photoshop® PSD files
- Import Adobe® ASE and ACO Color Palettes
- Import images files such as JPG, PNG and TIFF
- Export your art as layered native .procreate file, PSD, TIFF, transparent PNG, multi-page PDF, web ready JPEG, OBJ, USDZ, and animated GIFs, PNGs, and MP4s

What's New

Introducing Procreate 5.2 featuring all new Stroke Stabilization, 3D Model Painting, Page Assist, and breakthrough accessibility tools. This update contains some urgent fixes including scaling quality in Transform, as well as fixing up laggy brush strokes.

Other fixes:
- Increased Layer limits for the iPad Pro 2018 12.9", and the 11" 1st Gen iPad Pro.
- Eyedropper now displays your Canvas with the correct Color Profile.
- Layer Select will now stop showing you those pesky Groups.
- Fix for glitching when Warping a Layer under a Clipping Mask.

• iPadOS 15 memory updates
iPad Pros with 6GB of RAM or more can now take advantage of the extra memory and create even more layers and even bigger resolutions. Compatible iPads can now create canvas sizes up to 16k by 8k, and make hundreds more layers for animation.

• Stroke Stabilization
Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast. Combine standard Stabilization with Procreate's new Motion Filtering for ultra smooth and stable stroke creation. Set stabilization app-wide, or apply to individual brushes in Brush Studio.

• Recent Brushes
All of your most recently used brushes are now just a tap away. Recent Brushes automatically populates with your last used brushes, plus you can pin your favorites so they're always available.

• Brush Size Memory
Save your exact brush size and opacity with just a single tap. 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.

• 3D Model Painting
Paint gorgeously detailed 3D models for game assets, industrial design, or just to learn something new. Paint directly on OBJ and USD models with all your favorite brushes, QuickShape, image filters, and more.

• Material brushes
Paint beautiful textures with Color, Metallics and Roughness all at once with Material brushes. Isolate individual materials and apply effects and adjustments, transform, smudge, paint or erase. Any normal and ambient occlusion materials from your model will also be respected.

• 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 directly into Page Assist. Get down to business and Procreate. Ha Ha Business!

• Lighting Studio
Use up to four customizable full color light sources to create that perfect atmosphere. Then place your object into any of the 11 natural and artificial lighting environments, ranging from Nightlife to Daytime and anywhere in-between.

• View in AR
Bring your 3D painting into the real world using AR. Perfect for client presentations, or confusing children.

• 3D Animated Export
Share your 3D creations quickly and easily in an animated video. Bring them to life by displaying every angle using full rotations with Spin. But maybe you don't like to go all the way? We have something for you swingers too.

• Improved Adjustments
It's really great to Pencil in filters using any brush! What wasn't great was having to choose between Layer and Pencil every single time you wanted to apply an Adjustment. Layer and Pencil options are now always available to switch between; you can apply an effect to the entire layer, then retouch with Apple Pencil at any time.

• New Color Cards
Get yourself some hardware store chic with the new larger palette swatches. Colors are automatically named by shade and color, or customize the name at any time. You'll never struggle to find Disruptive Beige again. You can smell the sausages from here.

• Larger Text
None of us are getting any younger and its reassuring to know you can now increase the size of Procreate's text. Sliders, thumbnails and buttons will also get swol making Procreate more usable for more artists.

• Single Touch Gestures
Use a single touch to move, zoom and rotate your canvas, or fit to canvas without needing to pinch.

Ratings and Reviews

Great! BUT a few major flaws

So I've been using procreate for almost a full year now. Honestly one of the best drawing apps due to the design of it.

However I do have a few MAJOR gripes about the app. I'm a very particular about organization and I usually store my art in folders within folders, within other folders, and so on. Procreate obviously doesn't have this feature since stacks are only allowed to be made. Another gripe I have is the lack of a "recently deleted" section in the app, once artworks are deleted they're gone forever. I've only realized how troublesome this was because a friend of mine wanted to know what was the biggest canvas/file I have in my gallery. As I was looking through the gallery I had realized that I had accidentally deleted my "completion" stack (I don't know when I had accidentally deleted it, but it was already too late for anything to be done, plus I hadn't really notice it since my completion stack is at the bottom of my gallery). I am a bit bummed about it since I like saving art to see how much I've grown, but what can I do about it.

I hope that procreate implements these features or similar ones to these problems, because it's honestly what's holding the app back in my opinion. The UI of the app is simple and isn't overwhelming at all compared to other programs. Along with that they provide versatile default brushes. It's just a great app!!….. apart from the lack of folders and recently deleted section like I mentioned.

Hey there - thank you for the review of Procreate and the detailed feedback regarding the Gallery, Stacks and the possibility of a recently-deleted feature. We will take this feedback on board for the future, if/when we opt to make changes to Procreate's Gallery. 😎

It's wonderful!

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 !!!!!!

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!

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Savage Interactive Pty Ltd

Size

602.1 MB

Category

Graphics & Design

Compatibility

iPad: Requires iPadOS 14.4 or later.

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English, Arabic, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish

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