Procreate Pocket

Carry a full painting studio in your pocket: pick up the Procreate Pocket IPA for iPhone and start sketching on the couch, on a train or in a queue, with the same toolset that artists use on larger screens.

About Procreate Pocket

Procreate Pocket is made by Savage Interactive, the Australian studio behind the Procreate line of art apps. It is a paid Graphics & Design title, and the listing has been live since December 2014. The store page describes it as an app built from the ground up for the iPhone rather than a shrunken tablet port, with a dark interface made for the phone screen.

The brush engine is the headline. The app ships with hundreds of handmade brushes organized into sets, each with a hundred-plus adjustable settings, and Brush Studio lets you design your own, import and export brush packs, or bring in Photoshop brushes. Painting runs on the in-house 64-bit Valkyrie engine, with canvas sizes that reach 16k by 4k on supported hardware, and 64-bit color depth. Smudge sampling, QuickShape for perfect circles and polygons, and Drawing Assist for steadier lines keep strokes clean.

Layers behave like a desktop editor: masks, clipping masks, groups, transforms across several layers and more than twenty-five blend modes. Perspective, isometric, two-dimensional and symmetry guides help with construction, and ColorDrop fills line work in one move. Animation Assist adds frame-by-frame drawing with onion skinning, so you can export GIFs, animatics and storyboards at canvas resolution.

Procreate Pocket key features

• Hundreds of pressure-sensitive brushes with deep per-brush customization
• Custom brush design in Brush Studio, plus brush import and export
• An advanced layer system with masks, groups and many blend modes
• Color tools including ColorDrop and several color panels
• Frame-by-frame animation with onion skinning and export
• Filters such as Gaussian and motion blur, glitch, halftone and gradient map
• 250 levels of undo and redo with continuous auto-save

Price and requirements

In the App Store the app costs $5.99 and needs iOS 15.4.1 or later; the latest notes describe a compatibility update for supported devices and system versions. This listing carries the same app, so no features have been altered.

Procreate Pocket is available through builds.io. Choose the IPA, tap to install, and a blank canvas is a few seconds away, no PC required.