A painting tablet, without the computer.
Procreate might just be the most exciting digital painting app on a
mobile device. We
’ve taken desktop performance, added
professional features, built an amazing brush engine and
squeezed it all into your iPad.
Whether you
’re madly sketching concepts or
crafting a detailed illustration, Procreate has
everything you need.
Beautiful brush strokes.
Procreate uses the advanced OpenGL Silica™ painting engine—engineered exclusively for iPad—to squeeze every drop of juice from the GPU (graphical processing unit). The result delivers unparalleled performance on a mobile device. No matter what speed you paint, watch paint decay, blend and smudge in realtime—no more waiting for your app to catch up to you. With Procreate, being creative on an iPad just got a whole lot more awesome.
Smudge and mix paint without the mess
Blend colours on your iPad like never before. Procreate uses 64-bit colour sampling to mix paint together effortlessly, in a way that's familiar to traditional illustrators. The smudge tool has been finely tuned to react differently by adjusting the precision pressure slider—the more pressure you choose, the more colour will be pushed around. Want to smudge like a pencil would? It's as easy as setting it to low pressure!
Procreate also has a new feature that seriously blurs the line between the traditional and digital medium – paint loading and wetness. Once your paint runs out, you'll be blending colours on the fly, all while keeping up the crazy responsiveness of Procreate.
Make your mark
As a first for a mobile painting app, Procreate is engineered to allow creation of completely new brushes in a few easy steps. Make every brush your own with 16 fully-customisable characteristics, many of which are unique to Procreate. Import anything from your Photos library to create endless effects!
Never worry about saving work again.
You won't even notice it, but Procreate is constantly saving your progress in the background. Besides the benefit of keeping you in the zone, you can expect to come back to exactly the same spot you left it—every single time.
Industry-grade tools
Feel at home with a familiar, extra large (HSB) colour picker, eyedropper, and a smudge tool that goes beyond its desktop counterparts. On top of all this, you'll find comfort in a layering system that allows up to 16 layers, the ability to merge down and up, transform, and show/hide. Another feature we're proud to boast about is up to 100 undo or redo states. That's right. 100. Let your imagination go wild, knowing there's always a backup plan.
Precision design
While you're in the zone,
stay
in the zone with intelligent interface design. The most used tools have been put right up front
—no more navigating complex menus just to change brush size and opacity! And because all your tools are always there when you need them, you'll spend more time having fun and being creative.
Packed with over 100 features!
- Desktop grade paint engine, with amazing & precise brush strokes
- 16 customisable brush settings for each brush
- HD canvas size: 1920 x 1408px (iPad 2 only)
- SD canvas size for iPad 1 (960x704px)
- Incredible Paint tools
- Precise Eraser tools
- Smudge tool with advanced 64-bit colour calculations
- Duplicate brushes
- Delete brushes
- Make new brushes
- Import ANY image as a brush grain
- Import ANY image as a brush shape
- Realtime preview of brush adjustments
- Adjust Grain movement
- Adjust Grain scale
- Adjust Grain zoom
- Adjust Grain rotation
- Set grain filter mode
- Adjust Shape rotation
- Adjust Shape randomise
- Adjust opacity speed
- Adjust speed size
- Adjust Dynamics paint loading
- Adjust Dynamics wetness
- Adjust Plot spacing
- Adjust Plot scatter
- In-app customisation help
- Smart tools remember settings as you switch between them
- Create new layers
- Delete layers
- Duplicate Layers
- Rotate layer in 45º increments
- Flip layer vertically
- Flip layer horizontially
- Up to 16 Layers allowing ease of editing and control
- Lock alpha pixels for easy masking
- Merge layers up
- Merge layers down
- Instantly reorder layers
- Clear layer without deleting the entire layer
- Toggle visibility with just one tap
- Adjust layer opacity with live thumbnail preview
- Flood fill the canvas with any colour
- Extra large RGB colour chooser
- RGB Hue slider
- RGB Saturation slider
- RGB Black slider
- Save your favourite colour swatches
- Eye-dropper tool
- Left align precision sliders, preference
- Eyedropper delay preference
- Tap and hold anywhere on the canvas to instantly pick a colour
- Compare current and newly chosen colour
- Auto-save means you never loose work again
- Import images from Photo Library
- Two finger pan & zoom navigation from 50% to 6400% zoom
- Three finger tap to show actual pixels
- Quick-pinch shortcut for fit-to-screen
- Flip canvas horizontally
- Flip canvas vertically
- Synthetic pressure sensitivity (brush fall-off)
- Synthetic reverse pressure sensitivity (brush pinch)
- Rapidly adjust the size of your brush, on the fly
- Rapidly adjust the opacity or pressure of your brush, on the fly
- Paint in portrait orientation
- Paint in landscape orientation
- Non-interpolated zoom, allows you to work with pixel precision
- 100 levels of undo and redo
- Name your artwork in the document chooser
- Duplicate your artwork in the document chooser
- Email your artwork from the document chooser
- Store and view work-in-progress
- Export to your artwork to your Photo Library
- E-mail images to anyone
- Easy access settings and user guide
- Pull canvas edges into centre of screen
- Export layered PSD files to iTunes
- Export transparent PNG files to iTunes
- Normal blend mode
- Multiply blend mode
- Add blend mode
- Screen blend mode
- Lighten blend mode
- Exclusion blend mode
- Blend mode indicator
- Tap & hold tools for brush menu
- Automatically switch to Paint when choosing a colour.
- Live preview for brush size & opacity is now accurate (regardless of zoom level)
- HD artwork indicator
- Sliders now use pull-away scrubbers (app wide) for more accuracy
- Disable eye dropper shortcut switch
- Brush wetness icon in brush library
- Advanced brush settings help
- Clear/fill layer automatically unhides a hidden layer
- Hold paint/smudge/erase to invoke library
- 12 preset brushes
- Colour favourites swatch
- Comparison colours
- Lock alpha pixels (Can be used as mask)
- Independent tool, preference
