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Savage Interactive debuts Procreate Pocket, bringing iPad illustration tools to larger-screened iPhones

Demonstrating the types of apps that will increasingly migrate from Apple’s tablets to its larger iPhone 6 models, Savage Interactive has released Procreate Pocket ($3), a shrunken-down version of its signature iPad app Procreate. Widely admired for its professional-grade drawing tools, Procreate previously enabled tablet users to compose multi-layer illustrations using numerous brushes and a mistake-friendly, multi-layer Undo tool.

Now focused on on-the-go sketching, Procreate Pocket pares down the brush selection to 12, with the ability to add additional brushes online, and wireless sharing of compositions with the iPad.

Similar to the tablet version, Procreate Pocket includes layers, a 250-level undo feature — key when drawing with a finger on small screens — and supports a 4K-resolution canvas for all iPhone 5 and 6 models.

Blurring, 64-bit color accuracy, and advanced selection tools have also been brought over from the iPad app. For instructional purposes, Procreate Pocket can also directly record the creation process directly to your device in 1080p video form. Procreate Pocket is available in the App Store now for $3, and Procreate for iPad is available for $6.

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Comments

  1. kylem1701 (@kylem1701) - 9 years ago

    You know, it’s just one of those days when you draw that young blonde beauty stereotype to sell your crappy product, because when all else fails sexualize a woman. And then, oops, you forgot to draw her right breast on. LOL.

    • SKR Imaging - 9 years ago

      Once you use the app, you’ll know how wrong you are about this dev team and its apps.. 4K resolution canvas on a phone is mind blowing stuff.. not a crappy product at all.

    • Martin Stær Andersen - 9 years ago

      I suppose you thought yourself terribly clever when you wrote your snarky comment, not to mention thinking yourself funny going by your LOLing at yourself, but you obviously don’t know Procreate or its users. Procreate is recognised as THE benchmark for mobile painting apps, and all the artwork included in the app are by users in their forums produced in Procreate; they produce some truly amazing and inspirational work, this Anime piece inclusive. I only wish I could draw as well. I bet you can’t. Which is why you criticise in your snide manner. Unlike you, I do know know my artistic anatomy though, and there’s nothing wrong with that drawing.

  2. beyondthetech - 9 years ago

    I reached out to the Pixelmator team and asked them to make their app as a Universal. They say that the best image editing software is the one you have readily available, just like a camera, so now that Procreate has stepped up to the plate, I’m hoping that Pixelmator will listen and do the same and make it work for the 6 and 6 Plus, too.

  3. bsenka - 9 years ago

    Does it work with the new Wacom Intuos Creative Stylus 2?

    • Martin Stær Andersen - 9 years ago

      Nope. Mobile version doesn’t have stylus support at all, it’s meant for quick mobile sketches with your fingers. Moreover, SI has announced Procreate won’t have official support for WICS2 due to it not working well (SI says Wacom admits it can’t be fixed), even though the Wacom SDK is integrated.