Review: Procreate 4

Milestone update for the iPad painting software boasts exciting features for artists and illustrators.

Our Verdict

An already excellent app gets even better thanks to a significant technological overhaul beneath the hood, along with a litany of improvements both dramatic (wet paint) and subtle (elegantly redesigned menus), in time for iOS 11’s new file system.

For

  • Layer masking finally introduced
  • Much easier to organise files
  • Wet paint opens up creative possibilities

Against

  • Layer masking very basic (for now)
  • Canvases still can’t be resized
  • Undo aside, adjustments to colour and effects permanently alter the art on a layer

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I've been enjoying using Procreate since getting the first iPad Pro and the Apple Pencil back in 2015. All the best art apps for painting and sketching on Apple’s powerful tablet have their strengths and weaknesses, but Procreate is the one I often gravitate back to.

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