Comparison

Procreate vs Creative Woodturner

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

Head to head
About

Procreate

This app provides a comprehensive digital art studio for iPad, offering tools for sketching, painting, illustration, and animation. It features a vast brush library, advanced layering, color management, and precision design tools for creative professionals and aspiring artists.

Highlights
  • Hundreds of handmade brushes
  • Advanced layer system
  • High resolution canvases
  • 3D Painting with Lighting Studio
  • Frame-by-frame animation
  • Precision design tools
  • Continuous auto-save
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Loved by creative professionals and aspiring artists alike, Procreate is the leading creative application made for iPad. Procreate has everything you need to create expressive sketches, rich paintings, gorgeous illustrations, and beautiful animations. Offering 100s of handmade brushes, a suite of industry-leading artistic tools, an advanced layer system, and the powerful Valkyrie graphics engine. It’s a complete art studio you can take anywhere. Highlights: - High resolution canvases — up to 16k by 8k on compatible iPad Pros - Beautifully intuitive interface made for iPad and Apple Pencil - Revolutionary QuickShape feature for perfect shapes - Smooth and responsive smudge sampling - 3D Painting with Lighting Studio, exportable as models, images, or animations - Powered by Valkyrie, the lightning-fast 64-bit painting engine - Speed up your workflow with keyboard shortcuts - Create art in stunning 64-bit color - Continuous auto-save — never lose work again Breakthrough brushes: - Packed with hundreds of beautifully crafted brushes - Organize your brushes into sets and libraries - Add Metallic and Roughness for painting in 3D - Brush Studio — with over 100 customizable settings - Import and export custom Procreate brushes - Import Adobe® Photoshop® brushes, and run them faster than Photoshop® Full-featured layering system: - Layer your art for precise control over details and composition - Create Layer Masks and Clipping Masks for non-destructive editing - Stay organized by combining layers into Groups - Select multiple layers to move or Transform objects simultaneously - Access over 25 layer blend modes for industry-grade compositing Color without compromise: - Fill your line work with ColorDrop and SwatchDrop - Disc, Classic, Harmony, Value, and Palette color panels - Import color profiles for color matching - Assign Color Dynamics to any brush Precision design tools: - Add vector text to your illustrations - Easily import all your favorite fonts - Crop and resize your canvas for perfect composition - Perspective, Isometric, 2D, and Symmetry visual guides - Drawing Assist perfects your strokes in real time - StreamLine and stabilization smooths strokes for beautiful calligraphy and expert inking - Use Scribble to name layers, change settings, and create text Accessibility features: - Advanced stroke stabilization - Dynamic Type, VoiceOver, and Feedback Sounds - Assignable single-touch gestures - Color naming Animation and Page Assist - Easy frame-by-frame animation with customizable onion skinning - Create storyboards, GIFs, animatics, and simple animations - Sketch page-by-page concepts or begin a comic with Page Assist - Import, edit, and share PDFs Dramatic finishing effects: - Brush in image adjustments and effects with Apple Pencil - Glitch, Chromatic Aberration, Bloom, Noise, and Halftone add new dimensions to your work - Gaussian, Motion, and Perspective Blur filters create depth and movement - Powerful image adjustments including Color Balance, Curves, HSB, and Gradient Map - Bring your art to life with the fun, intuitive, and creative Warp, Symmetry, and Liquify Dynamics Time-lapse replay - Relive your creative journey with Procreate’s Time-lapse Replay - Export your Time-lapse recording in 4K for high-quality video production - Share a shorter 30-second Time-lapse on your socials Import assets and share your creations: - Import or export your art as Adobe® Photoshop® PSD files - Import Adobe® ASE and ACO Color Palettes - Import image files such as JPG, PNG, and TIFF - Export your working files in layered .procreate or PSD file formats - Share your art as TIFF, transparent PNG, multi-page PDF, web-ready JPEG, OBJ, USDZ, and animated GIFs, PNGs, and MP4s

About

Creative Woodturner

Design intricate woodturnings in realistic 3D. Visualize your creations in real-world settings using augmented reality. Instantly update designs and wood textures to see immediate changes.

Highlights
  • 3D woodturning design
  • Realistic 3D rendering
  • Augmented reality visualization
  • Real-time design updates
  • Wood texture customization
Features
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Design your next woodturning before you make the first cut. Creative Woodturner lets you explore ideas, refine proportions and visualise finished pieces before committing them to timber. Sketch your profile and instantly see your design transformed into a realistic 3D model. Whether you’re planning a bowl, vase, goblet, urn, spindle or something completely original, Creative Woodturner gives you an easy way to experiment with shapes and materials wherever inspiration strikes. DESIGN YOUR TURNING Draw the profile of your piece and Creative Woodturner automatically mirrors it around the centre axis to create your turning. Add lines, curves, beads, coves and other details to build up your design. SEE IT IN 3D Watch your design come to life in the realistic 3D viewer. Make changes to the profile or wood and immediately see the result, helping you get the proportions right before heading to the lathe. EXPLORE DIFFERENT WOODS Try your design with more than 140 wood images, including figured woods, burrs, end grain, segmented patterns and more. It’s a great way to explore how a piece could look before using valuable timber. DESIGN WITH DIMENSIONS Add horizontal, vertical and diameter measurements to your designs, with support for both metric and imperial units. PLAN SEGMENTED TURNINGS Use the wrap feature to experiment with segmented turning designs and see how patterns will appear around the finished piece. PRINT YOUR DESIGNS Once you’re happy with your idea, print your design and dimensions to take into the workshop. VIEW YOUR TURNING IN AUGMENTED REALITY Use AR to place your finished design into the real world and get a better sense of its scale, shape and appearance. Creative Woodturner is designed for woodturners who want to explore more ideas, experiment without wasting material and arrive at the lathe with a clearer picture of what they want to make. Design it. Refine it. Then turn it.

Screenshots

Creative Woodturner4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Creative Woodturner at $5.99 against Procreate's $12.99. Creative Woodturner also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 70%) and device support (3 vs 1). Procreate's advantage is chart position (#98 vs unranked). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 costs $12.99 and Creative Woodturner $5.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Procreate ships an update every 2 weeks, Creative Woodturner every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Procreate versus Creative Woodturner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterProcreateCreative Woodturner
Price$12.99$5.99 — better
Rating4.4 (51K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews70.4% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings51K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank#98 — better—
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.315.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1.1 GB58 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSavage Interactive Pty LtdWattl Ltd

Customer experience

Procreate

All ratings50,591 ratings
Positive85.3%
Neutral5.0%
Negative9.7%
Written reviews3,931 reviews
Positive70.4%
Neutral10.8%
Negative18.8%

Creative Woodturner

Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Procreate

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Random freezing and crashes, especially after recent updates
  • Issues with the fill bucket tool not working as expected
  • Problems with exporting animations and preserving the animation quality

Requested features

4 requests
  • Implement a proper stroke stabilizer and shape tools
  • Add the ability to import audio and sync animations to audio
  • Improve the fill bucket tool to work across layers
  • Introduce a folder system for better organization of artworks

Creative Woodturner

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Procreate

No in-app purchases

None

Creative Woodturner

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Procreate free?
Procreate costs $12.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Creative Woodturner free?
Creative Woodturner costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Procreate or Creative Woodturner have ads?
Neither Procreate nor Creative Woodturner shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Procreate or Creative Woodturner?
Procreate ships an update every 2 weeks, and Creative Woodturner every 3 weeks. Most recently, Procreate was updated on October 27, 2026 and Creative Woodturner on October 25, 2026.

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