Comparison

Procreate Dreams vs AuraLens Lifelogging

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

Head to head
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

AuraLens Lifelogging

Features
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AuraLens is an automatic lifelogging camera app that quietly captures the moments that usually slip by. Set your capture quality, choose an interval, pick a lens and start logging life. AuraLens saves still images over time, building a visual record of your day that you can return to later in a clean, fast timeline. Simply pop it in your shirt pocket or a lanyard and capture your whole trip. It's designed for real life, walks, family time, travel, creative outings, events and everything in between. Whether you want a personal archive, a memory aid or a passive way to document your day without constantly reaching for your camera, AuraLens makes it simple. Your sessions are saved locally on your iPhone, with optional manual backup for extra peace of mind. When you are finished, you can browse sessions in Library, scrub through moments quickly, favourite the images you want to keep and explore Highlights selected from your strongest shots. AuraLens can now also save location points during a session, letting you see where your memories happened on a private map. View sessions by place, follow a photo trail from a walk or day out and jump from a captured image straight to its saved map location. How AuraLens works - Choose a capture quality Set a logging interval Pick a lens your device supports Start logging and let AuraLens capture still images over time Review your sessions later in Library, Favourites and Highlights Export images or whole sessions to your photo library Plus, Low Power Mode to dim the screen and reduce battery use Features - Timed photo logging that captures your day automatically Multiple capture quality options to balance clarity and storage Adjustable intervals for slower or denser logging Lens selection based on your device Selfie camera logging Volume button triggers for extra shots Apple Watch companion app with snapshot trigger Add Apple Watch complication button to your watch screen Apple Watch double tap Pause and resume a session with your Apple Watch iPhone lock screen button and Action button shortcut Max resolution image setting Fast session viewer with timeline scrubbing Full-screen image viewing with zoom and pan Favourite individual images and moments Highlights view that surfaces stronger suggested images Memory Map for browsing sessions by place Optional session location and photo trail mapping Photo Trails that show where images were captured during a session Place names instead of raw GPS coordinates Optional location metadata captured once at session starts Power Save Mode to dim the screen and reduce battery use A Manual Capture during a live capture session Reliable session saving and interruption recovery Save images or whole sessions to camera roll Manual backup support for iCloud Files App Local-first storage on your iPhone Apple Vision Pro Viewer AuraLens View lets you view your captured sessions on Mac with the AuraLens View companion app Support for Shortcuts, Action Button and Lock Screen launch! AuraLens is Great for Family days and time with children Travel and day trips Walks, hikes and scenic outings Events and social moments Creative inspiration and visual journalling Quietly documenting everyday life Pop your iPhone in your shirt pocket or on a lanyard and snap away!

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: AuraLens Lifelogging at $0.99 against Procreate Dreams's $12.99. AuraLens Lifelogging also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs monthly) and device support (4 vs 1). Procreate Dreams's advantage is iOS requirement (16.3 vs 18.6). On ads and in-app purchases 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

Procreate Dreams costs $12.99 and AuraLens Lifelogging $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Procreate Dreams ships an update monthly, AuraLens Lifelogging every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Procreate Dreams versus AuraLens Lifelogging: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterProcreate DreamsAuraLens Lifelogging
Price$12.99$0.99 — better
Rating3.9 (577 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews41.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings577 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS16.3 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size1.7 GB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSavage Interactive Pty LtdMark David

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

AuraLens Lifelogging

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Procreate Dreams

No in-app purchases

None

AuraLens Lifelogging

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Procreate Dreams free?
Procreate Dreams costs $12.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is AuraLens Lifelogging free?
AuraLens Lifelogging costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Procreate Dreams or AuraLens Lifelogging have ads?
Neither Procreate Dreams nor AuraLens Lifelogging shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Procreate Dreams or AuraLens Lifelogging?
Procreate Dreams ships an update monthly, and AuraLens Lifelogging every 6 days. Most recently, Procreate Dreams was updated on October 25, 2026 and AuraLens Lifelogging on October 24, 2026.

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