Procreate Pocket

Sketch and Paint on iPhone.

Only for iPhone

$5.99

12K Ratings
Awards

Editors’ Choice

Apps
Ages

4+
Years
Category

Graphics & Design
Developer

Savage Interactive Pty Ltd
Language

EN
+ 17 More
Size

332.7
MB

iPhone

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 color • 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 organized • Over 100 customizable 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 organized by combining layers into groups • Transform objects simultaneously across multiple layers • Access over 25 layer blend modes for industry-grade compositing Color without compromise: • Fill your line work with ColorDrop • 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 smooths your strokes for beautiful lettering and expert inking Animation Assist: • Easy frame-by-frame animation with customizable 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 colors with a customizable 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 Color 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 • Color-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 Color 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

Ratings & Reviews

3.8

out of 5

12K Ratings

Editors’ Choice

Inspiration tends to strike when you least expect it—heck, some of our best ideas come to us in the shower—and Procreate is a dazzling way to snatch sparks of visual genius out of the ether and bring them to life. Behind the app’s slick drawing and painting tools are robust features that you’d expect from a full-fledged illustration package—it even has the ingenious ability to use your Apple Watch as a color palette picker. If a brilliant notion does strike in the shower, though, get out and dry off.

Editors’ Choice

Inspiration tends to strike when you least expect it—heck, some of our best ideas come to us in the shower—and Procreate is a dazzling way to snatch sparks of visual genius out of the ether and bring them to life. Behind the app’s slick drawing and painting tools are robust features that you’d expect from a full-fledged illustration package—it even has the ingenious ability to use your Apple Watch as a color palette picker. If a brilliant notion does strike in the shower, though, get out and dry off.
New Additions to Pocket
03/26/2022

katiem0128
Overall, as someone who doesn’t have an iPad to draw on the actual Procreate app, Pocket is very useful to create drawings with many different brushes, layers, etc., to show my creativity while saving $395 instead of buying an iPad. Although it is challenging to create something on such a small screen, you usually get used to the fact that you have limited drawing space, and the app lets you zoom in and out however you need. The app is very useful but I’ve noticed that people who have the Procreate app on iPads have more access to create new and different things with updates being released. One huge example of this is the 5.2.2 update, where you can choose a template out of many different 3-Dimensional objects and draw anywhere on it to create your own designs. I think this update is awesome and helpful, especially for graphic designers or people who run businesses to test their ideas for logos out on objects that seem real. But I, for one, am jealous of people who were given this update because it doesn’t seem like this same update will be released on Procreate Pocket. Procreate seems like the app that people are continuously making tweaks and updates on, but on Pocket it seems like there aren’t any major updates, which I’m a little disappointed at because I think phone users should have the same abilities as iPad users. But other than that, I really enjoy using Procreate Pocket and would recommend this app to anyone who wants to express themselves using digital art.

Developer Response
Hey Katiem - thank you very much for your review of Procreate Pocket! Not to worry - we'll definitely be updating Procreate Pocket further in the future, so thank you for all the feedback! 🤩
New Additions to Pocket
03/26/2022

katiem0128

Overall, as someone who doesn’t have an iPad to draw on the actual Procreate app, Pocket is very useful to create drawings with many different brushes, layers, etc., to show my creativity while saving $395 instead of buying an iPad. Although it is challenging to create something on such a small screen, you usually get used to the fact that you have limited drawing space, and the app lets you zoom in and out however you need. The app is very useful but I’ve noticed that people who have the Procreate app on iPads have more access to create new and different things with updates being released. One huge example of this is the 5.2.2 update, where you can choose a template out of many different 3-Dimensional objects and draw anywhere on it to create your own designs. I think this update is awesome and helpful, especially for graphic designers or people who run businesses to test their ideas for logos out on objects that seem real. But I, for one, am jealous of people who were given this update because it doesn’t seem like this same update will be released on Procreate Pocket. Procreate seems like the app that people are continuously making tweaks and updates on, but on Pocket it seems like there aren’t any major updates, which I’m a little disappointed at because I think phone users should have the same abilities as iPad users. But other than that, I really enjoy using Procreate Pocket and would recommend this app to anyone who wants to express themselves using digital art.
Developer Response 03/27/2022
Hey Katiem - thank you very much for your review of Procreate Pocket! Not to worry - we'll definitely be updating Procreate Pocket further in the future, so thank you for all the feedback! 🤩
Best few dollars ever spent
09/03/2019

( ・∇・) ♡
This app has come a very long way, and it’s still my go to choice for digital art and art on the go. It has become very close to the iPad counterpart and is really loaded with good features for a mobile drawing app. The learning curve is not too bad and it is very easy to learn how the app works, making it great for newcomers to digital art. The app does work wonderfully, it crashes from time to time- and unfortunately, will mess up your drawings very rarely. Upon crashes sometimes it might delete full layers or put an entire block on your art. It has only happened twice to me in my 2-3 years using the app, and it isn’t too much to worry about, it is overall very reliable! It saves incredibly high quality images, and the playback feature is really nice. It has very dynamic features in terms of drawing guides (perspective and grids), and liquify and distorting options through selections. Canvas sizes are customizable as well as brush sizes, which brushes can also be imported. It truly is a professional grade app for art! My only true complaint about this app is the recent shift in the effect of resizing images within your canvas. It makes your images really grainy now with recent updates, which is actually a little more frustrating in comparison to when it used to make your selections a little blurry on resize. This can prove to be really frustrating. Otherwise, I recommend this app for artists, and photo editors. It is very dynamic and totally worth the money.

Developer Response
Hi there - thank you for your awesome review of Procreate Pocket! We're sorry to hear that you've experienced crashes, but it's good to hear that they're quite rare. If you ever do experience trouble again, please do reach out to support@procreate.art and we'll help out.When it comes to resizing, try tapping on your Settings option in the bottom right, then select Bilinear or Bicubic. This should markedly reduce pixellation when transforming images.We hope this helps! Thanks again for your rating and review!
Best few dollars ever spent
09/03/2019

( ・∇・) ♡

This app has come a very long way, and it’s still my go to choice for digital art and art on the go. It has become very close to the iPad counterpart and is really loaded with good features for a mobile drawing app. The learning curve is not too bad and it is very easy to learn how the app works, making it great for newcomers to digital art. The app does work wonderfully, it crashes from time to time- and unfortunately, will mess up your drawings very rarely. Upon crashes sometimes it might delete full layers or put an entire block on your art. It has only happened twice to me in my 2-3 years using the app, and it isn’t too much to worry about, it is overall very reliable! It saves incredibly high quality images, and the playback feature is really nice. It has very dynamic features in terms of drawing guides (perspective and grids), and liquify and distorting options through selections. Canvas sizes are customizable as well as brush sizes, which brushes can also be imported. It truly is a professional grade app for art! My only true complaint about this app is the recent shift in the effect of resizing images within your canvas. It makes your images really grainy now with recent updates, which is actually a little more frustrating in comparison to when it used to make your selections a little blurry on resize. This can prove to be really frustrating. Otherwise, I recommend this app for artists, and photo editors. It is very dynamic and totally worth the money.
Developer Response 09/10/2019
Hi there - thank you for your awesome review of Procreate Pocket! We're sorry to hear that you've experienced crashes, but it's good to hear that they're quite rare. If you ever do experience trouble again, please do reach out to support@procreate.art and we'll help out.When it comes to resizing, try tapping on your Settings option in the bottom right, then select Bilinear or Bicubic. This should markedly reduce pixellation when transforming images.We hope this helps! Thanks again for your rating and review!
Conflicted feelings
12/21/2018

Sw1ft3r
I’m not sure what to feel towards Procreate Pocket. I’ve recently purchased the app on my iPhone in hopes that I would be able to use the same wonderful drawing app I know and love without having to carry around a huge iPad Pro wherever and whenever I want to draw, but I’m struggling to find any situation where I’ve ever felt comfortable using the application on the iPhone. I feel like I’ve had too high of an expectation from the iPad app to really see where the pocket version can shine but I cannot say that it would ever be a viable alternative to the iPad version let alone be some form of replacement. It’s lack of features that the iPad has like the extra drawing guides, liquify and quick shape are some of the biggest features that I would have really liked to have seen on Pocket, but sadly aren’t included as of making this review. I really want this app to succeed, but right now it’s simply unusable since I’m so used to the iPad version. I would also HIGHLY recommend some sort of cloud syncing if that isn’t already a feature so I can work on my projects across devices. Seeing as this isn’t an option right now from what I’ve seen, this is a huge bummer because It takes away one of the big reasons I wanted to purchase it in the first place.
Conflicted feelings
12/21/2018

Sw1ft3r

I’m not sure what to feel towards Procreate Pocket. I’ve recently purchased the app on my iPhone in hopes that I would be able to use the same wonderful drawing app I know and love without having to carry around a huge iPad Pro wherever and whenever I want to draw, but I’m struggling to find any situation where I’ve ever felt comfortable using the application on the iPhone. I feel like I’ve had too high of an expectation from the iPad app to really see where the pocket version can shine but I cannot say that it would ever be a viable alternative to the iPad version let alone be some form of replacement. It’s lack of features that the iPad has like the extra drawing guides, liquify and quick shape are some of the biggest features that I would have really liked to have seen on Pocket, but sadly aren’t included as of making this review. I really want this app to succeed, but right now it’s simply unusable since I’m so used to the iPad version. I would also HIGHLY recommend some sort of cloud syncing if that isn’t already a feature so I can work on my projects across devices. Seeing as this isn’t an option right now from what I’ve seen, this is a huge bummer because It takes away one of the big reasons I wanted to purchase it in the first place.