Procreate vs One Circle
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
One Circle
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One Circle is a minimalist yet surprisingly addictive circle-drawing challenge. The idea is simple: draw a circle on the screen, and the app instantly evaluates your stroke using roundness, closure, and smoothness to produce a score and grade. Every attempt is quick, clear, and satisfying, making it easy to jump back in for one more try. It works as a light casual game, but it is also a fun precision challenge. There is no complicated setup and no long tutorial. Open the app, draw once, and get your result within seconds. If you want to take it further, sign in to save your scores and drawing paths, review your personal history, track your best performances, and submit your top results to the leaderboard. Global, Today, and 7-Day rankings help turn every great score into a real challenge. You can also turn your latest result into a shareable score card, save it as an image, or send it directly to friends so every near-perfect circle is worth showing off. Main features: - Draw a circle and get scored instantly - Score grades and multi-factor feedback - Save results and path history - View history details - Global, Today, and 7-Day leaderboards - Shareable score card export - Email OTP sign-in - English and Chinese language support - Privacy policy, user agreement, and account management settings If you enjoy simple, fast, replayable experiences, One Circle is built to make you want just one more attempt.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: One Circle at Free against Procreate's $12.99. One Circle also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.3). Procreate's advantage is chart position (#95 vs unranked). 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
One Circle is free to download; Procreate costs $12.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Procreate | One Circle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $12.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.4 (51K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 69.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 51K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Best chart rank | #95 — better | — |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.3 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1.1 GB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Savage Interactive Pty Ltd | 真祥 黄 |
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
One Circle
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Procreate
No in-app purchases
One Circle
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Procreate free?
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Do Procreate or One Circle have ads?
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