Procreate

Instinctive and powerful illustration tool on the iPad

5.0•12 reviews•

248 followers

Instinctive and powerful illustration tool on the iPad

5.0•12 reviews•

248 followers

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Procreate Dreams is an all-new animation app packed with powerful tools that anyone can use. Create engaging hand-drawn animations, motion graphics and enhance them with photos, videos and sound.

Procreate Launches

Procreate DreamsTools for 2D animation, expressive video, and stories.

Launched on September 8th, 2023

Procreate PocketCreate stunning illustrations and drawings on your iPhone

Launched on August 14th, 2016

Procreate 3The best sketching and drawing app for the iPad

Launched on November 2nd, 2015

ProcreateInstinctive and powerful illustration tool on the iPad

Launched on June 11th, 2015

5.0

Based on 12 reviews

Review Procreate?

Reviewers describe Procreate as an intuitive, powerful iPad drawing app that makes it easy to start sketching without feeling buried in complexity, while still offering depth as skills grow. Users repeatedly praise its convenience, broad brush options, canvas customization, and reliable autosave, saying it supports comfortable, uninterrupted work. A few specific annoyances come up, including compressed JPEG export and some frustrating early workflow moments when the right gesture or step is hard to discover. Overall, feedback is strongly positive and centered on ease, flexibility, and creative flow.

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simple interface (4)

apple pencil support (3)

one-time payment (3)

professional features (3)

customizable brushes (2)

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Lore Machine

•11 reviews

What's great

apple pencil support (3)professional features (3)one-time payment (3)

I learned at a young age that to get absorbed in anything you just need to start. The analogy was always painting. Just splash some color on the page and your mind will fill in the rest. I drew like this for years, but always ultimately sucked. Procreate has managed to capture the joy of that first hook but then gives you the superpowers to keep going and build something extraordinary. Ultimately, I started sharing my drawings with the vibrant community on Reddit and one of my drawings (that took 40 hours to make) went viral. So i went from a non-illustrator to someone people were loving. That was a magical feeling, this is a magical app.

Procreated has also influenced my career beyond drawing - let me be clear I should never be a career illustrator lol. I've taken some of the principals of Procreate and the iPad native experience and applied them to my own app Lore Machine. So the magic lives on in other products!

What needs improvement

I had to think about this and I think I've got the answer in the form of an idea. There are so many frustrating moments when you're getting going in the app, where you repeat a step a thousand times wanting it to work a certain ergonomic way, just jamming your pen into the screen and getting frustrating. It would be cool if there was a Microsoft Word Clippy for Procreate that could feel that repeition and increased pressure and suggested a way out of the futility loop.

vs Alternatives

Honestly, it just came recommended after I had bought the iPad. It's so ascendant, most people tell you not to use anything else.

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•1 review

Sometimes I get to use Procreate on my partner's ipad, and it's the most convenient drawing program in my memory. It seems that there are the most packs of different brushes on Procreate, it's very convenient to customize the canvas and, dammn, the best thing is to auto-save the canvas, even if the device suddenly runs out. Everything remains to the last line, ipad for charging - and keep going! So I'm saving up for my own device, so that I can also work comfortably at any time.

What's great

customizable brushes (2)auto-save feature (1)

What needs improvement

ipad exclusive (1)

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31 views1yr ago

•2 reviews

One of the best graph editors for apple, it literally sold me on my ipad and stylus back in the day. :з I think only the compressed jpeg issue is frustrating, but that's a minor thing compared to the ability to simply and easily draw without forcing and overcomplicated features. (nevertheless they are quite deep if you go deeper).

What's great

simple interface (4)

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26 views1yr ago

Lore Machine

•11 reviews

What's great

apple pencil support (3)professional features (3)one-time payment (3)

What needs improvement

vs Alternatives

Honestly, it just came recommended after I had bought the iPad. It's so ascendant, most people tell you not to use anything else.

Ratings

Ease of use

Reliability

Value for money

Customization

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9 views1mo ago

•1 review

What's great

customizable brushes (2)auto-save feature (1)

What needs improvement

ipad exclusive (1)

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31 views1yr ago

•2 reviews

What's great

simple interface (4)

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26 views1yr ago