Procreate Pocket Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience57.6% of reviews
Neutral14.0% of reviews
Negative experience28.4% of reviews

~ Based on 2,292 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about Procreate Pocket

Is Procreate Pocket Safe?

Procreate Pocket appears mostly safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Procreate Pocket is 76/100.

This assessment is based on 12,901 user ratings, with an App Store average of 3.8/5.

Safety Analysis

68.7% of ratings point to a safe experience
8.5% of ratings suggest some concerns
22.9% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 12,869 App Store ratings for Procreate Pocket.

Is Procreate Pocket Legit?

Procreate Pocket appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Procreate Pocket is 100/100.

Based on 100 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

BRING BACK THE OPTION TO CONNECT LEGACY STYLUS

BRING BACK THE OPTION TO CONNECT MY LEGACY STYLUS THAT WORKED PERFECTLY ON POCKET. BRING IT BACK!!

:)

I love this app and love drawing on it! I just want the old design back ;-;

So close, yet so far…

I was really excited to try this app, as I’m very familiar with the full version on iPad. However, this mobile version is really getting on my nerves. Any digital artist will tell you that drawing apps and softwares have a potential to crash on occasion… but this app crashes every 2 minutes. I cannot finish any of my work and it doesn’t always auto-save my progress when this happens, which adds a level of frustration. I have no idea what to do about it, it seems the more detailed you try and make something, the more likely it is to just crash repeatedly. PLEASE fix this issue!
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Please don’t do this

this mobile update is horrible i use this app every day and it’s blindingly white for graphic designers and the UX is inefficient and easy to tap the wrong parts of the screen. I’m already genuinely in mourning for this tool. why is there a forced white background? designers can’t afford the strain of looking at this. genuinely why is this what y’all chose to change. just make more brushes and expand the creative features what do you have to prove. maybe expand the customizability of the interface. WHY
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Blind Accessible!

Hi Procreate team! :)
I’m a visually impaired person that would LOVE if procreate could become more blind accessible for not just me but other artists with low vision.
Things like voiceover accessibility, sounds or audio cues, and the option to change the contrast of the app itself would be absolutely amazing along with other tools that can help those with low vision!
But otherwise, i really like the way this app works.
It’s smooth and sharp and i find the interface to be simple and easy to navigate and i love the way the buttons are laid out as well as how many options there are for brushes and opportunities for creativity!

If there are already some blind accessible features i can toggle on my procreate, please let me know! Thank you!!
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I love this app for drawing, but the update made it horrible.

When I put a transparent image on another image, there’s black excess on the transparent image and it’s not clear. It never used to that. Please go back to the normal one, because I’m really sad and I am scared I might not be able to draw on this app. And took away some of my favorite brushes.

Thanks for the update, now put it back

Listen, I love procreate pocket, I’ve been using it for years. But this update to 5.0 has made the app unusable. The toolbar and layers displays cover half the screen. The sensitivity to switch between brush and eraser is so weak I have to click it multiple times. And to top it all off color drop, which used to work perfectly, now doesn’t seem to work at all. I’m all for updating and improving things, but only if they actually make the program work better and easier. This change does not benefit anyone, and has made something that used to work perfectly well barely work at all. I’m so sad that my favorite drawing app would make such a pointless change in their software.
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Oh my God how did this new UI get past the company

Love the new update! :D

Of course it’s a little odd and new to get used to, but this is way better than ever before.

Thank you so much for this!

I love procreate!

I really like the app is just i hate the new update, i really want an option to get the old version back

Good but I don’t like the update.

I love this but the new version changed everything about it and I don’t want to adjust, please change it back🙏

Almost perfect on iPhone Duo

Keep Updating it for IPhone Duo support and features

Suck

Y’all suck now I hate how the new layout looks

needs fixing

this is the first review i’ve ever left on an app because after the newest update, i’m facing an issue that is a pretty large detriment to my procreate experience. before the update i would use the select and cursor tools to move around certain aspects of my art if needed. now, pressing either of those buttons now crashes the app and closes me out of it. so i’m not even able to use those two features. i don’t know what to do about it but it’s been an issue since this newest update and i hope some kind of fix can arrive, because this is an amazing app and it’s an unfortunate glitch.
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It’s ok

It’s good but we need an undo button. Without it the game is pointless. One mistake ruins the whole painting. I am NOT happy about those accidents.

Why'd you change what wasn't broken? (Oct 2026 Update)

First, if you read this and are about to reply with some copy-paste generic PR response, just save your energy. I've been reading recent hate comments for catharsis, and the response is always “we will note that down; hope you get used to how it is now!” It's honestly offensive. We don't want to ‘get used to it’ we want an app that works. Fine. Keep your new ugly minimalistic layout for all I care. But for GOODNESS SAKE fix your unusable app. Instead of replying to everyone with soulless excuses, how about you use that energy to go tell someone with authority that Procreate Pocket is an ABSOLUTELY glitchy, unattractive, unusable excuse of an app now. WE know it's trash. YOU know it's trash. So stop pretending and actually go fix this slop- please. I'll change my review to 5 stars and delete this rant when the app isn't complete dogwater; you have my word.


I normally don't write reviews, but this update made me so mad I couldn't help myself. The newest update has turned a great app into borderline garbage.


1. Sorry figured this first one out so nvm


2. Every time you do an action, a pop-up tells you the action you did but also blocks the ENTIRE art bar so you have to wait like 1-2 seconds every time for it to disappear and be able to click anything again.


3. The zoom button is constantly bugging out and launching the view to entirely different parts of the canvas making it so you have to move back to where you were over and over.


4. The art bar buttons are sticky, so you have to click the buttons multiple times before they open and it often gets stuck not doing anything. (Especially the layers button).


5. The exit button is right next to the paintbrush button which makes it so it keeps accidentally exiting.


6. Not as egregious as the other things, but the add layer button is just a black circle for some reason? This was fixed! Thank you!


7. Could just be my device, but now every time I switch a brush, it doesn't draw anymore and I have to refresh the app. Kinda tired and grumpy rn and wanted to add that you really shouldn't have to be relying on reviews to bug test your app. Kinda feels like it's on you guys to release a product that actually works. Pretty unprofessional and disappointing imo. I'll keep coming back to add more issues as I find them because it peeves me off, but I REALLY shouldn't have so many things to bring up. Gives me a major ick and I’m super annoyed.


It's like the app is trying to be ibisPaint but that doesn't matter because ppl downloaded flipping Procreate Pocket. I love you, Procreate Pocket, but it feels like you made parts of this update just for the sake of making it LOOK like you did something, and now the app people paid 5 dollars for is a trashy imitation of a free app that does it better. If you guys hired playtesters and they said it was good- NEVER hire them again, because clearly they've never used an art app in their LIFE. Also, ask your developers what's their damage?? Not saying to fire anyone, but like- does someone there legit hate their app users?


I get that you're trying to bring in aspects from Procreate, but you could've still done that without revamping the whole design to be a horrid, buggy, manifestation of artists’ worst nightmares. My goodness, if you respect your users at all, change these aspects back. Yikes.


P.S. I went on kind of a rant but I feel it's only fair to say what I like about the update. Being able to color pick from reference images rules. Also, the new art brushes are awesome. I'd be out here singing your guys’ praises if the update for the rest of the app wasn't, honestly, the worst revamp of an app I have ever had the displeasure of using.
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new ui update is horrible

everytime you select a new tool or undo it has new annoying long animations that block the toolbar.

Give me back my layers tab

This has been my go-to app for digital art while using my phone. Until whatever recent updates apparently hid the layers tab and screwed with it to make “page assist” and all the changes to the UI and layout for literally everything and now I’m having to completely relearn the entire app and likely redesign my drawings. These changes were unwanted and unnecessary. Please change it back
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Have to revise my rating

However I may be biased but I can see this being a 5 star app IF you own an iPhone Duo

UI Update

I don't write reviews. I would usually give procreate 5 stars. Your new UI is making me angry. Texture slop brushes. Where is my narinder pencil. Where are my airbrushes. Why doesn't the low opacity eraser work. WHY does EVERYTHING now require you to SCROLL OFF the feature instead of TAP. The sensistivity is so low I have to SCROLL THREE TIMES to successfully exit the canvas feature. Maybe I'm jumping the gun, but this so buns. Thanks.
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