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Procreate Pocket
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
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Developer & User Discourse
MagnusMoose13 • Jul 25, 2026
★ 5
Like the app. Lowkey fire. I just have fat fingers so I can’t really paint but still like it.
Jaspr Cragg • Jul 22, 2026
I’m disappointed. Drawing by hand or actually by myself with the finger! Procreate rocks. These changes why I feel like Procreate Rocks! Thank you very much.
“This is why we introduced the pressure slider, which allows your bottom brush slider to be moved while making a stroke on your canvas. This helps adjust the opacity or size of your brush depending on the brush settings when using your finger or a passive stylus. 😃"
“This is why we introduced the pressure slider, which allows your bottom brush slider to be moved while making a stroke on your canvas. This helps adjust the opacity or size of your brush depending on the brush settings when using your finger or a passive stylus. 😃"
Browhyisthereanametakenforts • Jul 19, 2026
I’m not gonna express this kindly because this is how I feel, but it pisses me off the fact that whenever I make a mistake, I can’t undo my mistake and have to manually erase it. PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THE GODS THAT EXIST, ADD THE UNDO BUTTON! LIKE ACTUALLY DO IT! Don’t say you have it in consideration, actually do it. I very much felt scammed. Sure I really love the brushes, but I feel like I have more free will on Ibs paint with adds than the limitations this mobile version of procreate has with no adds. Good day!
BE 777 • Jul 19, 2026
Where in the world is the delete button???😒
kmgreenefc • Jul 18, 2026
Hi there. I’m really enjoying the app so far, I would just like to have the ability to change which side the brush opacity and size sliders are on when using portrait mode. Or if possible, the ability to put the same anchors on the size and opacity sliders as the ones on the iPad version, so users don’t have to hunt down the exact brush size every single time they accidentally touch the slider.
Puppy nova • Jul 18, 2026
It to complex and it sucks
J. Grimm • Jul 17, 2026
It’s still a great app but ever since the company has been devoted to the newer animation app both Procreate and Precreate Pocket have been nearly abandoned. Though Procreate did have a recent update which added the feature involving the grouping of multiple layers simultaneously, that was too little too late.
They have not added features that were expected and long requested in the procreate forums such as an improved file system with search ability. Then there is the bug that happens when hitting undo multiple times it sometimes just stops working to lag and you have to wait for it to do catch up and undo the numerous times pressed. That issue has been in the iPad Procreate app for so many years! Time to fix it!
Come on devs get back into making both the iPhone and the iPad app the very best they can be!
They have not added features that were expected and long requested in the procreate forums such as an improved file system with search ability. Then there is the bug that happens when hitting undo multiple times it sometimes just stops working to lag and you have to wait for it to do catch up and undo the numerous times pressed. That issue has been in the iPad Procreate app for so many years! Time to fix it!
Come on devs get back into making both the iPhone and the iPad app the very best they can be!
Drewt_my_horn • Jul 17, 2026
Working on a piece for 20 minutes when the canvas dimensions swapped their x and y values, rotating all my layers 90 degrees. I guess that's what I get for daring to hold my phone in landscape, then portrait, then landscape again while doing a freehand selection. The masking tools stay primitive and inconsistent, too. Let me work on a mask layer directly (render it out full size, black and white, like it's a proper layer) so I can see exactly what I'm doing. Inverting colors is a bad way to show what you're selecting when your layer is noisy or complex. Sometimes you are able to paste into a mask, sometimes you can't. I suspect under the hood there's a global memory management issue, the bugs are not consistent and only happen when I'm deep into a work, often after repeating a series of steps several times in a row. The user shouldn't have to manually close and reopen the app when they're in their flow. Every time I get deeply involved in my work this app suddenly throws my work away or stops working in an unexpected way. I'm working at resolutions like 1920x720, nothing resource intensive. Appreciate the one-time purchase but dang guys, put up a discord for a volunteer QA team or something, cuz the current one is letting some painful bugs persist for yearrrrs
SpicyEndeavor • Jul 14, 2026
I’ve been using this app ever since early 2020, love it. But it could definitely use some new features like…
- Being able to pin your artworks to the top of the main page
- Some sort of delete folder so if any mistakes happen, it wouldn’t be gone forever.
- Maybe a fast side scrolling feature since I know that a lot of people here make a lot of artworks (maybe have a setting where u can turn that on or off)
I really believe this would improve the app more ❤️
- Being able to pin your artworks to the top of the main page
- Some sort of delete folder so if any mistakes happen, it wouldn’t be gone forever.
- Maybe a fast side scrolling feature since I know that a lot of people here make a lot of artworks (maybe have a setting where u can turn that on or off)
I really believe this would improve the app more ❤️
Cocotheloco33 • Jul 14, 2026
Hi, this app is really good but what I don’t like about it is the layout button. It’s like too big on the side. I wish it was like adjustable and I wish it was like the iPad procreate layout and then second there’s like no undo button in third. I just wish it looked more like the iPad procreate layout setup.
i<3doggos • Jul 13, 2026
i want to grab multiple layers at once. i click one layer to grab it and instead i grab the layer below it or even 2 layers below it. this has to be ragebait. oh my gosh its making me pick up a layer i nowhere near grabbed
Steve the hair harington 777 • Jul 8, 2026
This app is great and a lot like the og one
B3ll_3el_Tym3 • Jul 7, 2026
If you're looking for NO adds, NO subscriptions, GOOD brushes, GOOD tools, then look no further, for you have found your dream app! I love this app! It works great for me! No complaints!
Springy_m_ • Jul 7, 2026
I always wanted a professional app and this one is it, very cheap for all that you get and able to add more with no issue. But there is a single issue. Out of nowhere I couldn't rearrange my layers! I haven't been able to create anything for about a week now. Please fix this! 💔
Tollhouse8 • Jul 6, 2026
This app is just not good it’s so confusing I would much rather use the app I have that is FREE
Wilder497 • Jul 4, 2026
Perfect app for drawing really amazing 😍
Michael jr .s • Jul 3, 2026
My app freezes every time I try to add an image to my canvas. But other than that, it’s a good app.
.bnajeiakkf • Jul 1, 2026
I’d like to suggest allowing users to see how many artworks they’ve created, like, just there. Instead of having to stack them.
pawberri • Jun 30, 2026
wheres the undo button.
bellex1 • Jun 30, 2026
I love the app!
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