Procreate is a drawing and painting app for the iPad made by Savage Interactive. James Cuda and Alanna Cuda founded the company in Hobart, Tasmania, and released the app in 2011. Procreate Pocket is a separate version for iPhone, and Procreate Dreams is an animation app released in 2023.
Procreate is built for use with the Apple Pencil. It offers hundreds of brushes for sketching, inking, painting and lettering, and users can make or import their own. Artists work with layers, blend modes, masks and selection tools much like on a desktop program. Time lapse replay records every stroke as a video of the drawing process. Files export to PSD, PDF, PNG and animated GIF, so artists can move work to other tools.
Procreate is a one time purchase with no subscription and no in app purchases. The company has said publicly that it will not add generative AI features to the app. Procreate runs only on iPad, with Procreate Pocket on iPhone. It is widely used by illustrators, comic artists, tattoo artists and hobbyists in the US, the UK, Europe and Australia.