Procreate Dreams vs Picture Bin
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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.
Picture Bin
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Picture Bin finds the clutter in your photo library and helps you tidy it — entirely on your iPhone. Every scan, every edit, every detection runs on the Apple Neural Engine. No photo ever leaves your device. No accounts, no uploads, no analytics. FOUR PILLARS • Cleaner — Spot blurry shots, near-duplicates, accidental screenshots, over- and under-exposed frames, oversized Live Photos, and sensitive content. Swipe to keep or trash, then mass-delete through Apple's standard confirmation sheet. • Smart Search — Type "beach", "receipt", "passport" — Picture Bin classifies every photo in your library on-device and indexes the text it finds, so you can search by what is actually in the picture. • Quick Edits — Background removal (general subject or person), auto-crop to the most attention-grabbing region, auto-straighten using Apple's horizon detection, auto-color, and subject lift. Save the result back to Photos as a new file — your originals are never touched. • Privacy — Redact emails, phone numbers, IBANs and credit-card patterns from screenshots before you share them. Pixellate faces with one tap. Apple's on-device sensitive-content detector flags problematic photos in your scan results. ZERO CLOUD, BY DESIGN Picture Bin uses only Apple's public Vision, VisionKit, Core Image, Photos and SensitiveContentAnalysis frameworks. There is no SDK in this app that talks to a server. You can run it in airplane mode and every feature still works. LIMITED OR FULL LIBRARY Grant access to your entire library — or pick exactly which photos Picture Bin can analyze, using Apple's Selected Photos picker. You can change your mind any time in iOS Settings. PRO SUBSCRIPTION Cleaner and background scanning are free. Smart Search, Quick Edits and Privacy redaction are part of Picture Bin Pro — monthly or yearly, with a free trial. All processing remains 100% on-device whether you subscribe or not. Subscriptions auto-renew until cancelled. Manage or cancel in your Apple ID Account Settings. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://positiongames.com/snaptidy/privacy REQUIREMENTS iOS 18 or later. Some features (foreground-subject masking, image-aesthetics scoring) take advantage of the Neural Engine on A14 and later.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Picture Bin at Free against Procreate Dreams's $12.99. Procreate Dreams's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and iOS requirement (16.3 vs 18.0). On update cadence, ads and device support 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
Picture Bin is free to download; Procreate Dreams costs $12.99 up front. Picture Bin sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Procreate Dreams asks for nothing beyond the download.
Procreate Dreams ships an update monthly, Picture Bin every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Procreate Dreams | Picture Bin |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $12.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.9 (537 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 40.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 537 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.3 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1.7 GB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Savage Interactive Pty Ltd | Position Games Limited |
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
Picture Bin
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Procreate Dreams
No in-app purchases
Picture Bin
- Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
- Pro Yearly$12.991 Year
Questions
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