Procreate Pocket

This is a compatibility update with important fixes and a bonus new feature.

This update delivers some important fixes along with greater support for Animated PNGs.

- Animated PNG frames will be preserved upon import instead of being flattened.
- Brushes should no longer be mysteriously overridden.

This update provides support for the latest iPhone 16 models, along with iOS 18 compatibility for all. A number of fixes are also hitting your back pocket.

- Not only can you Group, you can now even Ungroup. Tap the Layer Group to find it in the Layer Options menu.
- Pure white can now be selected on the Color Disc by dragging the reticle to the outer edge of the Saturation disc.
- Improvements to the interface when working in Light Mode.

We hope you’re continuing to love creating art on the go with Procreate Pocket!

स्वागत, ยินดีต้อนรับ, Witamy, and Selamat datang to Hindi, Thai, Polish, Malay, and Indonesian speakers!

As well as quality of life improvements and bug fixes, this update adds the Smiley Sans font for both Chinese Simplified and Roman characters.

If you're looking for more resources and help, head to help.procreate.com/pocket

This update includes compatibility improvements, and a fix for a Transform tool issue that could sometimes cause a crash.

Did you know that you can now find resources and help in our Help Center? You can check it out at help.procreate.com/pocket

This update includes a fix for corruption after performing undo/redo actions in Liquify. Don't forget - files exported from Procreate Pocket in versions 4.0.8 and higher will not be able to be opened by older versions of Procreate and Procreate Pocket. Files created in older versions of Procreate and Procreate Pocket will automatically update.

This update introduces improvements to file compression that will keep your files compatible with Procreate versions 5.3 and higher. Files exported from Procreate Pocket in versions 4.0.8 and higher will not be able to be opened by older versions of Procreate and Procreate Pocket. Files created in older versions of Procreate and Procreate Pocket will automatically update.

This is a compatibility update to get you ready for all the shiny new hardware and iOS features coming your way.

We have a compatibility patch for the iPhone SE (2022) plus a couple of changes to the way that Transform works.

- We have fixed a bug where you could only Transform using the nodes.
- Now when holding the Transform icon you'll be able to pinch outside of your selection to resize it, and pinch inside the selection to resize the Canvas.

This update adds support for the new iPhone 13 devices, improved cards dismissal as well as updating the Procreate Pocket Handbook and Procreate Support links.

• Official support for iPhone 13, iPhone 13 Mini, iPhone 13 Pro, iPhone 13 Pro Max
• 120Hz ProMotion support for iPhone 13 Pro, and iPhone 13 Pro Max
• Procreate Pocket Handbook added in Actions > Help
• There's no need to swipe away menu cards anymore, they will now dismiss automatically when you begin drawing on the Canvas.

We have an important update today for those with new installations of Procreate. We noticed you didn't have the correct default Brushes and we want to fix that for you! It also resolves some brush sets that could not be opened.

We have a little patch for you today to stop crashing and data loss when you are being indecisive with Crop & Resize. You’ll also no longer experience crashes when reloading a mask while using QuickShape.

This version includes some nice, little polishes of this huge update, including:

- CMYK color value sliders have now made an appearance.
- Projector interface is pretty again.
- Introduces haptics to transform snapping - snaptics!
- Third-party stylus list was empty, you can now select your stylus.
- Importing Palettes from Files adds the Palette to the top instead of the bottom.
- Procreate Pocket will no longer freeze when you tap New Brush multiple times.
- No more data loss through very particular use of Widgets.
- You can rotate orientation in Grain Editor safely.
- Brush About Info will save.
- You can now name a Canvas preset.
- Opacity cross-menu only works when you have an active selection.
- Lots of Arabic UI fixes.

We hope you loved all the big, dark changes to Procreate Pocket!

Your Pocket has never been this dark, this big or this powerful.

This update includes a fix for crashing FacePaint recording.

• Dark Interface
The flagship Dark interface from iPad returns.

• Valkyrie Graphics Engine
The new standard in performance comes to Procreate Pocket. The Valkyrie graphics engine moves as fast as you can sketch, paint or draw.

• Brush Studio
Harness the power of the Procreate Brush System with the all new Brush Studio. Use over a hundred new settings to customize a brush, or create your own from scratch.

• Animation Assist
Procreate's powerful, yet easy to use animation tool now makes its debut on iPhone. Create rich illustrative animations, looping GIFs and snappy animatics.

• Color Harmony
Pick from Complementary, Split Complementary, Analogous, Triadic, and Tetradic for beautiful color combinations every time

• All New Filters
Get the perfect finish with all of Procreate’s stunning effects now on your iPhone including Glitch, Chromatic Aberration, Bloom, Halftone and Noise filters, along with Gradient Maps and an advanced Clone tool.

• Reference Companion
Always keep your composition in focus while you paint in the details. Import a reference image that will stay by your side; ready to provide inspiration and colors.

• FacePaint
Use AR to paint straight onto your face with every Procreate Pocket feature available.

• Palette Capture & SwatchDrop
Capture the colors around you. Create custom Palettes full of vibrant swatches or import your Adobe® ACO and ASE palettes. Drop swatches directly onto your canvas for faster fills.

• New Transform and Snapping
New Transform brings total accuracy to Procreate Pocket. Use Snapping to precisely align objects to your canvas and layers. Now scale and stretch from any orientation with Bounding Box Adjust.

• Selection Color Fill
Boost your workflow by automatically coloring selections. Add, remove or change colors instantly using any of the selection tools.

• Combine brushes
Swipe two individual brushes and tap Combine to make a completely new and unique brush.

• ABR import
You can import your favorite Adobe® Photoshop® brushes and they’ll also paint faster than they do in Photoshop®. lmao.

There’s so much more:
• New importable CMYK and RGB ICC profiles
• Color Dynamics
• Custom QuickMenu Profiles
• Redesigned Copy and Paste Menu
• Crop and Resize Snapping
• Text Numeric Input
• New Font Companion
• iOS 14 Quick Launch Widget
• New brush rendering modes
• New grain blend modes
• HEVC Time-lapse with alpha
• Animated Transforms
• ABR brush import
• New Text Selection appearance
• Improved memory handling
• Increased smudge sampling performance
• New Blur Brushes
• New Brush author card
• New create canvas system and canvas information
• Improved GIF export and new GIF dithering options
• Create reset points for brushes

We hope you enjoy using Procreate Pocket wherever you are. If you’re loving all the new features, filters and fun additions, let us know with an App Store review.

Your Pocket has never been this dark, this big or this powerful.

• Dark Interface
The flagship Dark interface from iPad returns.

• Valkyrie Graphics Engine
The new standard in performance comes to Procreate Pocket. The Valkyrie graphics engine moves as fast as you can sketch, paint or draw.

• Brush Studio
Harness the power of the Procreate Brush System with the all new Brush Studio. Use over a hundred new settings to customize a brush, or create your own from scratch.

• Animation Assist
Procreate's powerful, yet easy to use animation tool now makes its debut on iPhone. Create rich illustrative animations, looping GIFs and snappy animatics.

• Color Harmony
Pick from Complementary, Split Complementary, Analogous, Triadic, and Tetradic for beautiful color combinations every time

• All New Filters
Get the perfect finish with all of Procreate’s stunning effects now on your iPhone including Glitch, Chromatic Aberration, Bloom, Halftone and Noise filters, along with Gradient Maps and an advanced Clone tool.

• Reference Companion
Always keep your composition in focus while you paint in the details. Import a reference image that will stay by your side; ready to provide inspiration and colors.

• FacePaint
Use AR to paint straight onto your face with every Procreate Pocket feature available.

• Palette Capture & SwatchDrop
Capture the colors around you. Create custom Palettes full of vibrant swatches or import your Adobe® ACO and ASE palettes. Drop swatches directly onto your canvas for faster fills.

• New Transform and Snapping
New Transform brings total accuracy to Procreate Pocket. Use Snapping to precisely align objects to your canvas and layers. Now scale and stretch from any orientation with Bounding Box Adjust.

• Selection Color Fill
Boost your workflow by automatically coloring selections. Add, remove or change colors instantly using any of the selection tools.

• Combine brushes
Swipe two individual brushes and tap Combine to make a completely new and unique brush.

• ABR import
You can import your favorite Adobe® Photoshop® brushes and they’ll also paint faster than they do in Photoshop®. lmao.

There’s so much more:
• New importable CMYK and RGB ICC profiles
• Color Dynamics
• New Private Layer
• Custom QuickMenu Profiles
• Redesigned Copy and Paste Menu
• Crop and Resize Snapping
• Text Numeric Input
• New Font Companion
• iOS 14 Quick Launch Widget
• New brush rendering modes
• New grain blend modes
• HEVC Time-lapse with alpha
• Animated Transforms
• ABR brush import
• New Text Selection appearance
• Improved memory handling
• Increased smudge sampling performance
• New Blur Brushes
• New Brush author card
• New create canvas system and canvas information
• Improved GIF export and new GIF dithering options
• Create reset points for brushes

We hope you enjoy using Procreate Pocket wherever you are. If you’re loving all the new features, filters and fun additions, let us know with an App Store review.

Procreate Pocket 3.0.7 gives you full compatibility support for the iPhone SE 2020, and a fix for palettes imported from Procreate 5.

There's also loads of goodies for you on our instagram channel. We're giving away artist-created coloring pages, skill-boosting live streams, and entries for the 2020 Art Prize open May 20!

This update includes fixes for Procreate 5 brush import. Procreate Pocket is also moving to the new Graphics & Design AppStore category, which may help your Screen Time setup.

We love reading your reviews so please consider leaving one on the AppStore.

This update continues Procreate Pocket improvements for iOS 13.

* Fixed issues with AirDropping multiple files
* Solved issues triggered by creating custom documents in landscape format
* Actions and Adjustment headings are now localized for everyone
* Untitled palettes now even share
* The FPS slider in animation exports will no longer appear tiny

Please share your experiences with Procreate Pocket by leaving us a review!

This update will hopefully go mostly unnoticed by you, unless you want your DPI respected in image exports, but it will prepare you for the future. Don't forget to check out our announcements for Procreate 5, and to leave a review on the App Store!

This update will hopefully go mostly unnoticed by you, unless you want your DPI respected in image exports, but it will prepare you for the future. Don't forget to check out our announcements for Procreate 5, and to leave a review on the App Store!

This update offers minor improvements to Procreate Pocket, including fixes to the importing of older documents, translation corrections, and solutions for assorted crashes.

* Previously, scrubbing to clear a Text layer triggered crashes
* We have also fixed the crash caused by using Cut, Copy or Paste on a Text layer after Distort or Warp.
* ColorDrop now allows you to undo or cancel without crashing
* Issues with editing QuickShapes with Simplified Undo disabled
* Simplified Undo also wouldn't visually update Text layers until another action was performed.
* Loading Gallery Preview no longer causes intermittent crashes
* Importing older Procreate documents from the Gallery occasionally produced blank layers

Please share your artwork with the hashtag #procreate, and share your thoughts by leaving us a review.

This update offers fixes and minor improvements to Procreate 3, including GIF importing, Text, Layer locking and merging, Crop, QuickMenu, and Australian/UK English.

* Fixed pressure sensitivity interaction with styluses
* Improved behaviour of inserted and imported GIFs
* Canvas favourites scroll again on small phones
* UK and Australian English localisation
* Yellow/Blue slider in Color Balance now updates canvas
* Improved card behaviour in Crop, Actions, and Adjustments
* Fixed an issue causing QuickMenu to move off-centre when rotating screen
* Prevented locked text layers from rasterizing on ColorDrop
* And many other small visual and behavioral fixes.

We also fixed the Review button so it sends you to the App Store, as it should! Please consider using it to leave us a review.

There comes a time in a young app's life when it starts to experience certain… changes. Procreate Pocket is growing up, and shocked to discover it suddenly has Text in places it never had Text before. It's also noticing Liquify, Warp, QuickShape, Crop, Symmetry, Clipping Masks, Drawing Guides, and so much more.

• Text and Typography
Now that Procreate Pocket has reached textual maturity it's discovered the joy of importing fonts and slipping type into illustrations and designs. With elegant controls and powerful customisation options, your incredibly deep and original song lyrics have never looked better.

• QuickShape
No complex menus or tool swapping here: just draw any shape and watch it bend and snap to form flawless squares, rectangles, circles, triangles, and polygons like magic.

• Liquify
Now you can Pull, Expand, Pinch, and Twirl just the way you like it - but remember to lock your bedroom door first. Exclusive Edge and Crystal brushes add fine control and serendipity to your art, and you can enhance any adjustment with mind-bending Distortion and Momentum.

• Crop & Resize
Crop & Resize gives you the power to trim down or enlarge your canvas, and you won't even need those dubious emails from your spam folder.

• Advanced Drawing Guides
Structure your art using new 2D and Isometric Drawing Guides, and snap your strokes to your guide with Drawing Assist.

• Symmetry
Symmetry Drawing Guides mirror your strokes as you paint. Customize with half, quadrant, or radial options, and use mirror or rotational modes to create mind-blowing kaleidoscopic effects.

• Warp and Distort
With up to 16 nodes for fine control, you can wrap, fold, and curve your artwork to fit any angle.

• Improved Selections
Use new Shape Selections to quickly isolate elliptical or rectangular areas of your artwork. Feather your edges for soft and beautiful blending to take care of those pesky blemishes.

• Improved Inking
Precisely adjust the shape and size of your stroke taper: fully customizable pressure curves are now built directly into every brush for size, opacity, and bleed. If only it was always this easy to control your flow.

• Clipping Masks
Clipping Masks let you apply colours, textures, and dazzling effects to any layer. The base layer controls visibility and the clipping mask handles the rest.

• Transform Interpolation
Take the edge off your transformation results when you choose Bilinear, Bicubic, or Nearest Neighbor. Now you'll never be hard at inappropriate times.

• Gallery Preview
Pinch outward to view your artworks edge to edge, without any distractions. Tap or swipe for a slideshow - but if you swipe too far, you may see things you can’t unsee.

• Share Layers
Export multiple layers to a PDF, a folder full of PNG images, or express your feelings through the medium of animated GIFs.

• Brush Set Sharing
Now you can easily archive your brush sets, or share them freely with anyone who catches your eye.

• 30-Second Time Lapse
Export full length Time-lapses or begin your chosen career as a social media influencer with 30-second recordings. It is too a real job, Mom!

• View Single Layer
Give a misunderstood layer some alone time by holding the Visibility checkbox.

• QuickMenu
Access all your favourite features fast. Activated by double-tap or stylus button, this handy radial menu offers six customizable options.

• Redesigned interface
Keep the focus on your canvas, with everything you need to refine your illustration close at hand. Procreate Pocket has grown into its interface and is feeling cute. Might delete later.

Your likes and comments give us life, so leave a review on the App Store!

This update contains important fixes and optimisations to ensure Procreate remains excellent for everyone.

We care deeply about the health of your Pocket, and it'll feel a whole lot better with this hospital-grade update.

- Vital signs are stronger with significant improvements to performance and stability.
- Improvements to battery life will increase your endurance. Don't worry, it's perfectly legal.
- Pocket has had subtle yet extensive cosmetic work and, yes, we can give you the number of its surgeon.
- Making overlapping QuickLines is faster with Transform mode available on Undo.
- Turn your layers inside out with the new color Invert option.
- We've finally cured that mystery condition that caused a crash after undoing a layer deletion.
- The Background Layer visibility and Canvas Size Delete buttons couldn't feel your touch, but now the nerve damage has been repaired.
- We've also fully prepped Procreate Pocket for future compatibility, so you can travel safely.

Now that everything's in tip-top shape, let us know what you think by leaving a review on the App Store.

Welcome to Procreate Pocket 2!

We're so excited to finally release the most advanced version of Procreate Pocket we've ever built, completely reimagined for iPhone. Redesigned and reengineered from the ground up, every line of code and every pixel is new. Use 136 handcrafted brushes, powerful wet painting effects, and hundreds of other features to create beautiful artworks, anywhere you are.

Powered by the same groundbreaking engine as Procreate 4, and with full support for iPhone X, you’ll find that almost everything you know and love on iPad now fits in your Pocket.

We’d like to thank everyone who participated in Apps for Earth by purchasing Procreate Pocket. The iconic Procreate spectrum has returned to your springboard once again, and we’d like to thank Apple and WWF for the Apps for Earth campaign. Together, we’ve all helped make the world a little bit better.

Procreate Pocket, Apple and WWF are working together to protect life on our planet.

Procreate Pocket is made in the beautiful wilderness of Tasmania, so protecting the natural world is vitally important to us. We're teaming up to help the earth, and you can too. From now until April 24, WWF will receive 100% of the proceeds from your purchase. Visit our website to learn more about what you can do to help us save the Earth, one brushstroke at a time.

Procreate Pocket 1.6 has exciting new features like 3D touch pressure sensitivity, a new native Watch app, and a huge boost to performance.

We're thrilled to introduce painting with pressure sensitivity on your iPhone. Using your finger or any regular capacitive stylus you can adjust the brush size or opacity by adjusting the pressure of your stroke.

There's also a Shortcut to instantly create a new canvas on 3D Touch devices. Just hold the Procreate Pocket icon on the Home screen and boom.

There are massive speed improvements of up to double the frame rate across all supported devices. Live fast, die young. Actually, forget about that second part.

The Apple Watch app is reborn as Procreate Palette. It's also been upgraded to watchOS 2, which greatly improves the battery life and speed of response.

It's now easier to remove all the evidence with the new two-finger tap to Undo. There's also three-finger tap Redo, and four-finger tap to toggle fullscreen.

On iPhone 5 and over, Procreate Pocket now uses the full toolbar from Procreate for iPad when in landscape orientation. We love you no matter your orientation.

If you were lucky enough to have an iPhone with 3D touch you were unlucky enough to be unable to tap or drag layers. Your luck just got better.

Totally and completely, utterly unrelatedly, Alpha Lock is now accessed via the Layer Options menu rather than the swipe gesture.

Also we fixed a migration issue that caused pressure sensitivity to like, not work.

There's a bunch of little fixes and tweaks that we'd love to tell you about, but we think your time is better spent checking out Procreate Pocket 1.6 for yourself. If you think it's awesome, please leave an awesome review on the App Store.

Procreate Pocket 1.6 has exciting new features like 3D touch pressure sensitivity, a new native Watch app, and a huge boost to performance.

We're thrilled to introduce painting with pressure sensitivity on your iPhone. Using your finger or any regular capacitive stylus you can adjust the brush size or opacity by adjusting the pressure of your stroke.

There's also a Shortcut to instantly create a new canvas on 3D Touch devices. Just hold the Procreate Pocket icon on the Home screen and boom.

There are massive speed improvements of up to double the frame rate across all supported devices. Live fast, die young. Actually, forget about that second part.

The Apple Watch app is reborn as Procreate Palette. It's also been upgraded to watchOS 2, which greatly improves the battery life and speed of response.

It's now easier to remove all the evidence with the new two-finger tap to Undo. There's also three-finger tap Redo, and four-finger tap to toggle fullscreen.

On iPhone 5 and over, Procreate Pocket now uses the full toolbar from Procreate for iPad when in landscape orientation. We love you no matter your orientation.

If you were lucky enough to have an iPhone with 3D touch you were unlucky enough to be unable to tap or drag layers. Your luck just got better.

Totally and completely, utterly unrelatedly, Alpha Lock is now accessed via the Layer Options menu rather than the swipe gesture.

There's a bunch of little fixes and tweaks that we'd love to tell you about, but we think your time is better spent checking out Procreate Pocket 1.6 for yourself. If you think it's awesome, please leave an awesome review on the App Store.

iOS 9 is here! Have some fixes. You’ve earned them.

- Multiply blend mode and some Adjustments were very broken. They’re better now.
- Layers didn’t want to go where you put them, now they do what they’re told.
- Exporting a PSD file by email will now actually work.
- We also thought it would be great if the video recording setting actually enabled you to turn video recording on or off. Radical, we know.
- We fixed an issue where copying a selection while in Transform mode would copy the entire layer instead.
- Changing your background colour used to also change your selected colour. While this was inclusive and heartwarming, it wasn’t overly practical.

If you haven’t seen yet, we’ve just made a big announcement - Procreate 3 is coming. This free update for existing users of Procreate for iPad will be our biggest release yet, and it’ll be out by the end of 2015. For more information, check out http://procreate.si

Version 1.5? “What happened to the other 4 versions?” we hear you ask. Well, this update is so big it's jumped four versions ahead. Let’s start off with the big news:

• Apple Watch app!
The traditional wooden artist’s palette has served painters and illustrators for centuries. This simple tool allowed artists to arrange paint and tools in the artist's hand as they crafted illustrations and fine art.

Procreate Pocket, together with the Apple Watch, reinvents this concept into something new – the digital palette. Reintroducing this centuries-old concept, made fresh by technology, allows us to operate in two distinct modes.

- Swatches
Inspired by the traditional palette, the Swatches mode displays a number of paint ‘wells’ ready for the artist to use. The perfect placement of Apple Watch allows artists to bring digital paint to the canvas by simply touching a color.

- Off-screen tools
The Tools mode moves the six essential painting tools from iPhone to Apple Watch. As digital artists crave less interface and more canvas space, Procreate Pocket will animate into a minimalist interface when this mode is active.

- Glance
Track how long your masterpieces take to create. This is an ideal feature for time-billing professionals. Simply glance over at your Apple Watch and BOOM! Insta-billable-hours!

- Quick canvas and Clear layer
Force tapping in any mode will give you the option to quickly create a new doc, right from inside your current work in progress or, clear your current layer. Perfect for quick sketching!

• Swatches
Create up to 27 unique swatch colors and group them into three easy to use palettes.

• Improved brush size and opacity sliders
We may have gotten a little carried away with the sensitivity of your brush size and opacity sliders. Actually they kind of sucked. So, we made them not suck. With Procreate 1.5 you won’t accidentally keep invoking your brush and opacity sliders. Hurrah for not sucking!

• Rapid mode-swapping
We’ve injected serious amounts of speed into process of adding filters, transforming and selecting things. Let’s say you’ve selected part of object and you really need to transform it. Gone is the need to dive through a bunch of menus – now you can just tap the Mode icon at the top to instantly access the advanced menu, ready to jump to any mode you need!

If you like these free updates, we’d really appreciate if you could let others know, by giving us a quick review on the App Store. Your review will make all the difference!

Updated to include Chinese translations