Comparison

Procreate Dreams vs Cura Display

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

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About

Procreate Dreams

Create stunning 2D animations, expressive videos, and captivating stories with powerful yet intuitive tools. This app offers a rich brush library, advanced frame-by-frame animation features, and seamless integration of video, audio, and text for professional-quality creations.

Highlights
  • Frame-by-frame animation tools
  • Multi-track timeline
  • Keyframe animation
  • 300+ textured brushes
  • Video, photo, and audio editing
  • Real-time rendering engine
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Procreate Dreams is an award-winning animation app, packed with powerful tools that anyone can use. Create rich 2D animations, expressive videos, and breathtaking stories on iPad. With over 300 beautifully textured Procreate brushes, Procreate Dreams is perfect for creating gorgeous hand drawn, frame-by-frame animations. Highlights: - Powerful frame-by-frame animation tools. - Responsive Multi-track timeline. - Keyframes for motion and cinematic animations. - Record motion or effects effortlessly through touch. - Handcrafted animation brush library. - Next generation, realtime rendering engine. Create frame-by-frame animations: - Explore over 300 beautifully textured brushes to bring artistic soul to your work. - Compatible with all Procreate brushes - Up to 16K resolution for drawings. - Paint outside your stage. - Customizable onion skins. - Automatic, freehand/lasso, and shape selections. - Permanently transform, warp and distort your drawings. - Blend modes and clipping, luminance, and layer masking - Apply permanent filters & adjustments. Compose video, photos, audio, and type: - Import, edit and trim video. - Draw-over your content. - Add voice-overs and music. - Craft titles, type and credits with typography styling, and design attributes. Add animated motion and effects: - Add keyframes to your content for precise transitions of motion and effects. - Modify easing to refine your timing. - Move, scale, rotate, warp & distort animations. - HSB, opacity, gaussian blur, lens blur, noise, and sharpen effects. - Group content to unlock the power of layered animations. Import existing assets and content: - Import video & photos in JPG, PNG, TGA, Procreate, MP4, GIF, and ProRes format. - Import audio in MP3, AIFF, WAV, FLAC, AAC, CAFF, M4A, AC3, and MP2 format. - Import custom and purchased Procreate brushes. - Import layered Procreate files. - Import Procreate Animation Assist as a Flipbook. Share your work with the world: - Export MP4s and MOVs in H264, HEVC, and ProRes codecs. - Export transparent video. - Export PNG sequences with transparency for professional pipelines. - Export your current frame as a transparent image. - Share your .drm files with your audio and video included. Next generation technology - Seamlessly mix drawing, frame-by-frame animation, keyframing, video editing, and compositing. - Real-time rendering makes waiting a thing of the past. - Never lose artwork again with continuous auto-save and undo history.

About

Cura Display

This app uses AI to curate your best photos from your iPhone and family's devices, displaying them on any screen. It intelligently selects highlights, organizes them into collections, and offers privacy controls for sharing.

Highlights
  • AI-curated best photos
  • Syncs iCloud albums
  • Supports multiple screens (TVs, iPads)
  • Family photo sharing
  • Privacy controls
  • Smart photo clean-up
Features
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Your best photos, from your iPhone and your family's, on every screen you own. Now with Cura AI. Most of us have thousands of photos on our phones, and so do our partners and families. The best moments rarely make it off them. CURA finds them and shows them on the TVs, iPads and screens around your home. CURA AI: THE BEST OF YOUR PHOTOS, PICKED FOR YOU Thousands of photos, and no time to choose? Cura AI looks through your photo library and picks and curates your best moments: the people, places and occasions worth seeing every day. • Built for big libraries: Cura AI works through thousands of photos and picks around 500 of your best for your displays. • The whole family: run Cura AI on each iPhone and iPad on your account, and everyone's best moments come together on the same screens. • Private by design: Cura AI runs on your iPhone or iPad. Nothing is uploaded while it works. • You're in control: review any pick before anything uploads. Remove photos, swap in a better shot of the same moment, or add favourites it set aside. • Choose who sees what: set each photo for everyone, family, a partner, or keep it on your phone only. Sensitive photos are flagged for you to decide. • Smart clean-up: duplicates, screenshots, receipts and messaging-app images are set aside automatically. • Fresh, not frozen: run Cura AI again any time to add your newest best moments, and your screens follow. BEST-OF COLLECTIONS CURA also builds Best-Of collections from everything in your CURA library, such as Latest & Best and Best of my Favorites, refreshed every week and ready to show on any display. YOUR PHOTOS, YOUR SCREENS • Sync your iCloud photo albums, including iCloud Shared Albums, kept up to date automatically • Upload photos and videos straight from your library, or connect Flickr • Organize everything into Collections and assign them to any display • Use this iPhone or iPad as a CURA smart frame, or send collections to Apple TV and other TVs • Manage it all from the app, or from any browser at curapp.io • Sign in fast with Apple, Google or Facebook FOR BUSINESSES AND SHARED SPACES The same app gives offices, lobbies, shops, hospitality and galleries robust display management: • Run many displays from one account, grouped into rooms • Spread a collection across a room's displays, matched to each screen's orientation, landscape or portrait • Content filters per display or room keep only suitable images on screens in shared spaces • Set how long each image shows, from seconds to days • Manage every display remotely from any browser • Works across Apple TV, Google TV, Android TV, Fire TV, Roku and Samsung TVs More: https://curatortec.com/cura-for-business/ GET STARTED 1. Open CURA and register this device to your account (create one for free if you don't have one). You'll see the CURA Welcome collection appear. 2. Tap Sync Albums & CURA AI. Let Cura AI scan and pick your best photos, or choose an iCloud album to keep updated automatically. You can also Upload Photos straight from your library. 3. Optionally connect Flickr to pull in your Flickr favorites and albums. 4. Create Collections and assign them to your displays — this device, or your TV. 5. Press Start to play, or turn on Auto Start so your display comes to life on its own. Getting started is free — 4 of your phones and 1 display are included. Help and how-to videos: https://curatortec.com/support Questions: info@curatortec.com · Support: support@curatortec.com

Screenshots

Cura Display4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Cura Display at Free against Procreate Dreams's $12.99. Cura Display also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.9) and device support (3 vs 1). Procreate Dreams's advantage is ratings volume (594 vs 2). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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

Cura Display is free to download; Procreate Dreams costs $12.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Cura Display holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Procreate Dreams has 594 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Procreate Dreams ships an update monthly, Cura Display every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Procreate Dreams versus Cura Display: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterProcreate DreamsCura Display
Price$12.99Free — better
Rating3.9 (594 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews41.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings594 — better2
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, Apple TV — better
Requires iOS16.316.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1.7 GB137 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperSavage Interactive Pty LtdCurator Technologies Inc

Customer experience

Procreate Dreams

All ratings537 ratings
Positive71.9%
Neutral10.8%
Negative17.3%
Written reviews2,226 reviews
Positive41.0%
Neutral24.4%
Negative34.6%

Cura Display

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Procreate Dreams

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Undo/redo issues, sometimes undoing more than intended
  • Crashes and freezes when working with complex animations
  • Inconsistent behavior when importing assets from Procreate

Requested features

6 requests
  • Lasso tool for selecting and transforming parts of drawings
  • Ability to merge, reorder, and manage layers
  • Custom brush creation and import options
  • Improved timeline controls and onion skin visibility
  • More intuitive UI and better discoverability of features
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  • Ability to set custom canvas size and frame rate

Cura Display

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Procreate Dreams

No in-app purchases

None

Cura Display

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Procreate Dreams free?
Procreate Dreams costs $12.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Cura Display free?
Cura Display is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Procreate Dreams or Cura Display?
Cura Display is rated higher. Procreate Dreams averages 3.9 out of 5 from 594 ratings, while Cura Display averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Procreate Dreams or Cura Display have ads?
Neither Procreate Dreams nor Cura Display shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Procreate Dreams or Cura Display?
Procreate Dreams ships an update monthly, and Cura Display every 3 weeks. Most recently, Procreate Dreams was updated on November 7, 2026 and Cura Display on November 3, 2026.

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