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Procreate

Procreate is a versatile, award-winning app for creative digital drawing and painting on iOS. It delivers a robust, professional toolset with hundreds of configurable brushes, a powerful layering system, vector graphic tools, and comprehensive design capabilities, ensuring desktop-level flexibility and power.

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  • iPhone
  • iPad
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Comment summary: Procreate is highly praised for its intuitive interface, making digital drawing accessible even for casual artists. Users appreciate its feature-rich design, including customizable brushes and support for Apple Pencil, though third-party stylus support is less effective. However, many express a desire for the app's availability on Android and other platforms, noting its limitation to iOS. Despite this, it remains recommended for its value and capabilities in creating digital art.
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The animation options are quite easy to learn to use and allow you to make very neat gifs

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Help me to design

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I like procreate

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Bc it is a fun app and it will make me happy

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I like procreate because it has lots of brushes and colors and we can draw any time

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I like it because you get to draw

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It is a art app and I love to derw

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What is Procreate?

Procreate is a multi-award winning, creative illustration app built from the ground up for iPad with a pocket-sized variant for iPhone. The app features a complete, professional toolset that's accessible while still providing the power and flexibility of desktop counterparts. Packed with hundreds of beautiful and configurable brushes, a powerful layering system with over 25 blend modes and the full gamut of vector tools, Procreate offers everything needed for professional design on mobile.

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Our users have written 48 comments and reviews about Procreate, and it has gotten 172 likes

Procreate was added to AlternativeTo by RemovedUser on and this page was last updated . Procreate is sometimes referred to as Procreate Pocket.