Comparison

Clip Studio Paint vs Brushes for Procreate

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Clip Studio Paint

Create digital art with a vast array of brushes, textures, and colors. This app offers tools for drawing, painting, comic creation, and animation, with features like 3D models for reference and advanced layer options. It provides a free trial and subscription plans for full access.

Highlights
  • Unlimited custom brushes
  • Realistic color mixing
  • Artist-made materials
  • 3D model references
  • Comic creation tools
  • Animation features
  • Advanced layer editing
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Start drawing and painting in a free 30-day trial. ・Up to 3 months free with your first plan ・Subscribe for the time you want to use it. Get all the latest features, materials, and cloud storage (10 GB)! *Please note that after your trial, you will need to make an in-app payment to save and export. Clip Studio Paint makes drawing a piece of cake, in any style! Whether you are a beginner or a pro, Clip Studio Paint will improve your creative experience while helping you grow. Now with new, powerful features! Unlimited amount of brushes at your fingertips to recreate any style - Use brushes with the same textures as real art materials - Adjust details such as brush shape and paper quality to your liking - Make unique colors with realistic color mixing, like traditional paints - Draw with transparency to erase, so no need to switch brushes Countless artist-made materials - Level up your art with free materials, for backgrounds and more - Discover community-made brushes from creators worldwide - Add details with materials like frills and more Coloring made easy - Easily color even with line gaps using the magnetic lasso tool - Lock transparency to paint over layers without affecting other areas - Set light source and shadow position with Shading Assist - Instantly reference and apply colors from an image to your art using Color Match - Enhance your art with filters like Chromatic Aberration, Retro Film, Pencil, and more Learn alongside other creators - Loads of official tutorials and creator tips available - Watch tutorials on our YouTube channel, for step-by-step advice - Ask questions on the Clip Studio Ask community Create the perfect reference with 3D models - Use 3D drawing figures to help with drawing anatomy - Customize character face and body models with beginner-friendly tools - Attach 3D objects like hats and shoes to characters for more specific references - Use 3D shapes to draw perspective Adjust after you draw - Liquify to make adjustments to the balance of your illustrations - Mesh Transformation allows you to transform to different shapes - Change up the poses of your character drawings with Puppet warp - Non-destructive color adjustment layers to get your art just right - Gradient maps give color to your grayscale illustrations Stress-free layer features - Assign colors and make multiple columns of layers to browse them at a glance - Enjoy the freedom of masking and clipping on multiple layers to edit and move your work - Add various effects to apply to the layer in a non-destructive way The ultimate comic creation app - All the tools you need for comic creation, from storyboard to finishing touches - Panel frames, speech balloons, text, effect lines, and screen tones in an instant - Make data for prints, web comics, manga, or webtoons (6 GB+ memory recommended) - Manage multi-page projects Professional animation, on any device - Use all the same tools as animation studios - Unique features allow you to draw your frames as you like - Enjoy a pencil and paper look and feel, but digitally - Expand your drawings to 4K resolution without losing quality by saving it as vector data ●Grade features ・PRO: All the tools you need to create stunning illustrations & short animations ・EX: All the above + multi-page functionality for comic/manga artists and unlimited animation frames *Clip Studio account needed to buy a plan. ● Target Devices and Specifications ・Minimum free storage space: 3GB, 4GB recommended ・Recommended display size: 10.5"+ Please see the following for supported devices. https://support.clip-studio.com/en-us/faq/articles/20200153 Supported pressure-sensitive pens ・Apple Pencil ● In-app purchases ・Required to save the canvas and export it to various file formats on iPad. Note: You will be charged to the Apple ID used for subscription. Terms of Service https://www.celsys.com/en/information/csp/ https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Brushes for Procreate

Access a vast library of over 3855 professional-quality brushes, fonts, textures, and more for Procreate. Enhance your digital art with easy one-click installation and new content added weekly. Create stunning artwork for commercial use.

Highlights
  • 3855+ Procreate brushes
  • Easy 1-click install
  • New content weekly
  • Fonts, textures, stickers
  • 3D models and palettes
  • Video tutorials
  • Commercial usage allowed
Features
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Get trendy brushes for Procreate. In collaboration with professional artists we made thousands top brushes that allow you to make fantastic works easily and take your art to the next level! Our Brushes, Fonts, Textures, Stickers, Collections, 3D Models & Palettes trusted by thousands of artists all over the world will help you! We've helped millions of artists improve their work and take it to the next level. Don't miss the new brushes that have been released EVERY Thursday FOR more than 4 YEARS. Don't miss it! Use any content with easy & fast 1 click install. It suits both Procreate for iPad and Procreate Pocket for iPhone. New content is available every week, at least 55 new Procreate brushes and sets per month! And also constant updates of textures, fonts, thematic collections, 3d models, stickers and video tutorials. Your works made with our content are allowed for commercial usage! Every single item is unique and illustrated by our artists, so you will know what you can do with it. And we know that every artist even Pro needs some good brushes to boost art and productivity. We spent thousands of hours working to make professional tools for you and save your time! Create gorgeous authentic digital paintings and drawings in Procreate with ease! -- Brushes, brush sets, collections: One of the largest brushes collections on the web. Only high quality brushes in big size for all the canvas sizes. 1500+ single brushes and sets with more than 3000+ brushes totally. 40-80 new brushes every month (uploaded weekly). Direct 1 click install to your Procreate Imported brushes folder. Crafted only for our app by top and high-paid artists with love and passion for detail. -- Fonts: Add a new stylish look for your texts. No boring regular fonts, only fresh, modern and trendy content. -- Textures: Transform your digital artwork in seconds with the textures. Use them like the bottom layer to make. Try to overlay it to make a new sharp look. Or just draw on them! -- Stickers: Download or copy stickers directly to your work. Or even Instagram Stories.Our gorgeous stickers will help you complete composition or just help you not to draw some things! -- 3D Models: A new dimension of art. Use your imagination with all sorts of 3D models that you can draw on. Create like never before. -- Palettes: Dozens of palettes with hand picked colors made by colorists will help you to rocket start your art with right colors. -- Video: Some video tutorials right in the app to help you make your works with our brushes (all the brushes are available to download below video). And some speedpaints for you inspiration! Our FREE VERSION Brushes app gives you the opportunity to unlimited downloads for free. You can download 495+ free brushes and get new free content EVERY WEEK. With any of SUBSCRIPTION option you can: - Get unlimited access to all 3000+ brushes, dozen fonts, textures, collections and so on. - Get additional premium brushes and brush sets every week. - Guarantee of quality and risk free refunds. You can choose one of the subscription options: - 1 months - 6 months - 12 months This app is not an official part of the Procreate app. This application is created by enthusiastic artists to create the largest and most affordable collection of brushes and other things for the amazing Procreate application. Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at the time of purchase confirmation. Subscription renews automatically unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel your subscriptions by going to your account settings on the App Store after purchase.

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Clip Studio Paint at every 3 weeks against Brushes for Procreate's every 2 months. Brushes for Procreate's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Clip Studio Paint sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $4.89 per month and Brushes for Procreate sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Clip Studio Paint against 4.7 for Brushes for Procreate. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14K and 20K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 46% of Clip Studio Paint's written reviews are positive against 48% of Brushes for Procreate's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Clip Studio Paint ships an update every 3 weeks, Brushes for Procreate every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Clip Studio Paint versus Brushes for Procreate: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClip Studio PaintBrushes for Procreate
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (14K ratings)4.7 (20K ratings)
Positive reviews45.7% of reviews48.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings14K20K — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size583 MB29 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperCELSYS,Inc.Maria Puznaeva

Customer experience

Clip Studio Paint

All ratings13,919 ratings
Positive92.1%
Neutral2.4%
Negative5.6%
Written reviews923 reviews
Positive45.7%
Neutral11.8%
Negative42.5%

Brushes for Procreate

All ratings19,572 ratings
Positive94.3%
Neutral3.4%
Negative2.3%
Written reviews416 reviews
Positive48.3%
Neutral10.8%
Negative40.9%

User reviews

Clip Studio Paint

From 14K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Best drawing software for iPad
  • 🎨 Powerful features like vector layers
  • 💻 Seamless transition from desktop to iPad
  • 👍 Great for comics and illustrations
  • 🎨 Diverse brushes and materials

Room to improve

  • 💰 Expensive subscription model
  • 🔍 Confusing interface for beginners
  • 🔒 Requires internet connection to save
  • 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs
  • 💻 Lacks full desktop feature parity

Brushes for Procreate

From 20K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🎨 Creative possibilities
  • ⭐ Helpful and convenient
  • 🤯 Lots of brushes to choose from
  • 👍 Great layout
  • 🤩 Amazing app

Room to improve

  • 💰 Expensive subscription
  • 🔒 Difficult to find free brushes
  • 🤮 Horrible app experience
  • 🤯 Overwhelming premium content
  • 🐛 Crashes frequently

Bugs and requests

Clip Studio Paint

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Inability to save work without subscription
  • Laggy performance with large files
  • Unreliable auto-save and recovery
  • Issues with brush and tool responsiveness

Requested features

4 requests
  • One-time purchase option
  • Improved file management and cloud integration
  • Simplified interface for casual users
  • More animation and 3D tools

Brushes for Procreate

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Brushes not importing properly to Procreate
  • App freezing when trying to download brushes
  • Subscription issues and unable to cancel

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add a free brush filter
  • Improve brush categorization
  • Offer more free brushes
  • Allow purchasing individual brush packs
  • Improve brush previews

In-app purchases

11 purchases

Clip Studio Paint

Subscriptions11
  • PRO Monthly$4.891 Month
  • PRO Monthly Single-Device Plan3 Days trial$4.891 Month
  • PRO Monthly Single-Device Plan3 Months trial$4.891 Month
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  • PRO Monthly Dual-Device Plan3 Days trial$7.991 Month
  • EX Monthly3 Months trial$9.691 Month
  • EX Monthly Single-Device Plan3 Months trial$9.691 Month
  • EX Monthly Single-Device Plan3 Days trial$9.691 Month
  • EX Monthly Dual-Device Plan3 Days trial$13.491 Month
  • PRO Annual$28.901 Year
  • PRO Annual Single-Device Plan3 Days trial$28.901 Year
  • PRO Annual Single-Device Plan3 Months trial$28.901 Year
6 purchases

Brushes for Procreate

Subscriptions6
  • Brushes for Procreate & Pocket$9.991 Month
  • Become Procreator with Brushes$19.991 Year
  • 6 Months Subscription$29.996 Months
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  • 12 Months Subscription - Sale$29.991 Year
  • 12 Months Subscription$37.991 Year
  • 试用有限优惠$37.991 Year

Questions

Is Clip Studio Paint free?
Clip Studio Paint is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Brushes for Procreate free?
Brushes for Procreate is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Clip Studio Paint or Brushes for Procreate?
Clip Studio Paint and Brushes for Procreate are both rated 4.7 out of 5 on the App Store, from 14K and 20K ratings respectively.
Do Clip Studio Paint or Brushes for Procreate have ads?
Neither Clip Studio Paint nor Brushes for Procreate shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Clip Studio Paint or Brushes for Procreate?
Clip Studio Paint ships an update every 3 weeks, and Brushes for Procreate every 2 months. Most recently, Clip Studio Paint was updated on September 25, 2026 and Brushes for Procreate on September 24, 2026.

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