Comparison

Procreate Pocket vs Magic Poser

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

Head to head
About

Procreate Pocket

Create expressive sketches, rich paintings, and beautiful illustrations on your iPhone. This app offers a complete art studio with hundreds of brushes, advanced layering, and powerful design tools.

Highlights
  • Hundreds of handmade brushes
  • Advanced layer system
  • High resolution canvases
  • Revolutionary QuickShape feature
  • Frame-by-frame animation
  • Customizable brush studio
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App of the Year winner Procreate Pocket is the most feature-packed and versatile art app ever designed for iPhone. Procreate Pocket has everything you need to create expressive sketches, rich paintings, gorgeous illustrations, and beautiful animations. Offering hundreds of handmade brushes, a suite of intuitive artistic tools, an advanced layer system, and the powerful Valkyrie graphics engine. Work on the couch, on the train, at the beach, or while waiting in line for coffee. It’s a complete art studio in the palm of your hand. Highlights: • High resolution canvases — up to 16k by 4k on compatible devices • Intuitive Dark Mode interface made for iPhone • Revolutionary QuickShape feature for perfect shapes • Smooth and responsive smudge sampling • Powered by Valkyrie, the lightning-fast 64-bit painting engine • Create art in stunning 64-bit color • 250 levels of undo and redo • Continuous auto-save — never lose work again Breakthrough brushes: • Packed with 100s of beautifully crafted brushes • Brush sets keep your painting, sketching, and drawing brushes organized • Over 100 customizable settings for every brush • Brush Studio — design custom brushes • 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 and Clipping Masks for non-destructive editing • Stay organized by combining layers into groups • Transform objects simultaneously across multiple layers • Access over 25 layer blend modes for industry-grade compositing Color without compromise: • Fill your line work with ColorDrop • 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 smooths your strokes for beautiful lettering and expert inking Animation Assist: • Easy frame-by-frame animation with customizable onion skinning • Create storyboards, GIFs, animatics, and simple animations • Export your animations in the full resolution of your canvas Dramatic finishing effects: • Gradient Map — remap your image’s colors with a customizable gradient • Glitch, Chromatic Aberration, Glow, and Halftone to add new dimensions to your work • Gaussian and Motion Blur filters for depth and movement, or use Sharpen for perfect clarity • Advanced Noise filter gives you more control for a classic, retro look • Adjust Hue, Saturation, or Brightness in real time • Powerful image adjustments including Color Balance, Curves, and HSB • 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 celebrated Time-lapse Replay • Export your Time-lapse recording in 4K for high-end video production • Share a short, 30-second version of your Time-lapse on your socials Reference Companion: • Keep a full canvas or reference image with you at all times • Paint on your face with AR • Color-pick right from the reference window Import assets and share your creations: • Import or export your art as Adobe® Photoshop® PSD files • Import Adobe® ASE and ACO Color Palettes • Import images files such as JPG, PNG, and TIFF • Drag and drop artworks, brushes, palettes, and fonts between applications• Export to AirDrop, iCloud Drive, Photos, iTunes, Dropbox, Google Drive, Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), Instagram, TikTok, Weibo, Mail, and more • Share your art as PDF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, GIF, HEVC, or MP4 files

About

Magic Poser

This app provides a 3D character posing tool for artists, allowing them to create custom scenes with realistic anatomy, lighting, and props. It offers intuitive drag-and-pose controls and extensive libraries for detailed artwork creation.

Highlights
  • Intuitive drag-and-pose controls
  • Realistic 3D character models
  • Advanced physics engine for posing
  • Customizable lighting effects
  • Extensive library of characters, poses, and props
  • Export in 2D (PNG) and 3D (OBJ) formats
  • Create unlimited characters and props in scenes
Features
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Ever tried googling for a pose or asking your friend to pose for your artwork? Then you should download and try Magic Poser! Magic Poser is the leading app for posing 3D characters, creating 3D scenes and setting up stunning lighting effects. 12+ million artists use our app to draw better and faster. Start creating poses within minutes on your mobile devices today! Magic Poser is extremely user-friendly and powerful. A must-have app for figure drawing, illustration, comics, storyboarding, concept art, sculpting, fitness instructions, and more! Feature highlights: • Super easy drag-and-pose - Most intuitive posing experience on the market - Anyone can pick it up in minutes - Advanced physics engine - Allows you to manipulate the 3D model like a real doll and automatically adjusts it to the dynamic poses you want - Full control up to every finger and toe - Our skeleton offers control of every part in a real human - Fastest hand posing - 50+ presets and curl sliders to make posing the hand easy and fun! • Best anatomy ever - Best realistic models crafted by our award winning sculptors - Nail male and female anatomy in your figure drawing - Super natural muscle deformations - Much more accurate than a rigid wooden doll • Muscular, fat and skinny body types - Morph your male or female character to different body types - Bring a variety of characters into your artwork - Adjust the amount of change and combine morphs with sliders - You can truly create a unique character just for your art piece • Stunning lighting effects - Add three types of lights - We feature directional light, spotlight and point lights - Add up to 8 lights per scene - Create cinematic shots using multiple light sources - Change brightness, color, radius and a range of parameters - Change time of day - Create any mood such as dawn, noon, dusk and midnight • Extensive library of characters, preset poses, props, hairstyles and clothing! - 25 characters of different styles - Realistic, anime, comic characters for every genre of artists - 3000+ preset poses for full-body, hands and feet - Truly speed up your posing or get more inspiration - 500+ props - Covers commonly used props such as geometric shapes, weapons, furniture, vehicles, everyday items, etc. - 100+ hairstyles and clothing - Customize your characters to another level • Export in 2D and 3D formats - Export in PNG - Export your scene as high resolution images to use in other graphics software - Export in OBJ - Bring our beautiful models seamlessly into other 3D programs • Create expansive scenes - Add unlimited characters and props to your scene - Your imagination is the limit - Group anything together with layers menu - Manage complicated scenes like a breeze • Versatile Views menu - Perspective slider - Bring more impact into your scene with strong perspectives - Save camera angles - Easily save your favorite angles of a 3D scene - Grid guides in three planes - No more headaches with any challenging perspective in your drawing • Back up your scenes locally and in the Cloud - Import/Export your scenes in Magic Poser file (.mp) format - You can easily back them up to your computer or other devices - Upload your scenes to your private Cloud - Keep your works safe and access them across multiple devices • Comprehensive tutorials - Step-by-step video tutorial to help you get started fast - Comprehensive user manual - Master every part of our powerful app EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Procreate Pocket4 screens
Magic Poser4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Magic Poser at Free against Procreate Pocket's $5.99. Magic Poser also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months). Procreate Pocket's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10) and review sentiment (61% vs 32%). On rating, ratings volume, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Magic Poser is free to download; Procreate Pocket costs $5.99 up front. Magic Poser sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per month. Procreate Pocket asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.8 for Procreate Pocket against 3.8 for Magic Poser. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 13K and 12K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 61% of Procreate Pocket's written reviews are positive against 32% of Magic Poser's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Procreate Pocket ships an update every 3 months, Magic Poser every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on September 24, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Procreate Pocket versus Magic Poser: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterProcreate PocketMagic Poser
Price$5.99Free — better
Rating3.8 (13K ratings)3.8 (12K ratings)
Positive reviews61.1% of reviews — better32.3% of reviews
Number of ratings13K — better12K
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFreemium — better
Best chart rank#1 — better#200
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.4.1 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size372 MB230 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperSavage Interactive Pty LtdWombat Studio, Inc.

Customer experience

Procreate Pocket

All ratings12,700 ratings
Positive69.3%
Neutral8.3%
Negative22.4%
Written reviews2,073 reviews
Positive61.1%
Neutral13.7%
Negative25.2%

Magic Poser

All ratings12,206 ratings
Positive68.5%
Neutral7.0%
Negative24.5%
Written reviews1,949 reviews
Positive32.3%
Neutral12.5%
Negative55.3%

User reviews

Procreate Pocket

From 13K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Excellent drawing app for iPhone
  • 👍 Customizable brushes and palettes
  • 👍 Convenient for on-the-go sketching
  • 👍 Affordable price point
  • 👍 Seamless integration with iPad version

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs
  • 🔍 Limited features compared to iPad version
  • 🔍 Lack of undo/redo buttons
  • 🔍 Pixelated output when transforming layers
  • 🔍 Difficult to draw precise lines and shapes

Magic Poser

From 12K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Easy to use
  • 🚀 Helpful for drawing references
  • 👍 Good variety of models and props
  • 👍 Smooth posing and manipulation
  • 👍 Useful for writing and art projects

Room to improve

  • 🔒 Many features locked behind paywall
  • 🔒 Lack of free female model
  • 🐛 Buggy joint and camera controls
  • 🐛 Difficulty selecting overlapping objects
  • 🔋 Frustrating update that removed free features

Bugs and requests

Procreate Pocket

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Imported images/brushes not showing up
  • Layers merging unexpectedly
  • Color issues when tracing or filling
  • Navigation bar disappearing during use

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add blending and smudge tools
  • Increase layer limit and canvas size
  • Implement dark mode option
  • Add text and fill tools
  • Improve undo/redo functionality

Magic Poser

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Invisible models and hairstyles
  • Unrealistic foot and joint movements
  • Inability to access old saved scenes
  • Frequent crashes and loading issues

Requested features

7 requests
  • More body type and weight options
  • Ability to morph and customize models
  • Addition of facial expressions and animations
  • More diverse hair and accessory options
  • Grouping and layering of objects
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  • Multiple camera views and lighting options
  • Import/export of custom models and scenes

In-app purchases

None

Procreate Pocket

No in-app purchases

10 purchases

Magic Poser

Subscriptions1
  • Master Version (Monthly)7 Days trial$14.991 Month
One-time9
  • Medieval weapons pack$0.99
  • Old-style guns$0.99
  • Wombat Coin Pack [100]$0.99
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  • Wombat Coin Pack [325]$2.99
  • Magic Poser Pro Version$4.99
  • Wombat Coin Pack [550]$4.99
  • Wombat Coin Pack [1200]$9.99
  • Pro Version$9.99
  • Wombat Coin Pack [2500]$19.99

Questions

Is Procreate Pocket free?
Procreate Pocket costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Magic Poser free?
Magic Poser is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Procreate Pocket or Magic Poser?
Procreate Pocket and Magic Poser are both rated 3.8 out of 5 on the App Store, from 13K and 12K ratings respectively.
Do Procreate Pocket or Magic Poser have ads?
Neither Procreate Pocket nor Magic Poser shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Procreate Pocket or Magic Poser?
Procreate Pocket ships an update every 3 months, and Magic Poser every 3 weeks. Most recently, Procreate Pocket was updated on September 24, 2026 and Magic Poser on September 24, 2026.
Which is more popular, Procreate Pocket or Magic Poser?
Procreate Pocket currently peaks at #1 in the App Store charts, and Magic Poser at #200. Chart position reflects recent download velocity rather than total install base.

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