Procreate Pocket vs e
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
e
Create storyboards with various drawing tools, text input, and layer management. Preview your work in full-screen mode and export to PDF or MP4. Supports multiple aspect ratios and frame rates.
- Multiple drawing modes
- Text input and editing
- Layer management
- Image import
- Full-screen preview
- PDF and MP4 export
- Customizable aspect ratios and frame rates
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Main features of this storyboard app -You can use various functions by switching between 3 modes. 1st View • A function similar to the storyboard style, inputting characters such as writing, and inputting the number of seconds -You can draw from the moment you make a cut on the screen with the drawing function similar to Japanese storyboard style. -You can use the keyboard and copy and paste to enter text and text. -You can enter or directly specify the number of seconds with the stopwatch function. -You can freely specify the drawing size when using PAN, TB, large format, etc., and the size of the drawing area will increase according to that specification. The size is maintained even when outputting to PDF. -You can edit each cut, such as changing the order of cuts, deleting, new insertion, and copy & paste, just like using a smartphone. -If it is the same cut, you can handle it as the same cut without pressing the next cut by pressing the cut concatenation button. 2nd View • Toolbar function -Several pen styles, pen colors, pen opacity and eraser features. -Hand tools can be moved (tap & move) and scaled (pinch in & pinch out). • Layer function -Equipped with standard layer functions such as hiding layers, changing order, and deleting. -You can select the layer to use the move and scale functions in conjunction with the hand tool on the toolbar. It is possible to select more than one at the same time. • Image import function -You can import images from within the Photos app. 3rd View • Full screen mode -Full-screen video check function -Equipped with a switching function between camera mode and full drawing mode, and layer function. -Pinch in and pinch out to enlarge or reduce the screen. • Output function -You can create a Japanese-style storyboard PDF, create a PDF for each cut, and output an mp4 format video. -The total number of seconds is automatically calculated and entered when the PDF is output. • Supports various screen aspect ratios and frame rates. -4:3, 16:9 and other aspect ratios such as 1.85:1 and 2.35:1 are supported. -The frame rate can be selected from 24 fps and 30 fps. -You can also select the switching of the position of dialogue and G, and the correspondence to the serial number of cuts for each part and scene. To use this application, a monthly or annual subscription must be purchased separately. ver 1.5 -Fixes have been made to lighten the operation. The opacity of brushes is switched between the previous 1.4 version and the current one from 1.5 after 65. The higher the opacity (closer to 0), the higher the load, causing delays and slowness with the pencil and brush tools. If you want to avoid delays and slowdowns with the pencil and brush tools, it is recommended to use opacity as close to 100 as possible. -The action of the Back button from the Edit screen has been changed to wait until saving is complete. Therefore, the Back button cannot be operated until saving is completed. Please note that this is not a malfunction. -The behavior of the screen transition to the edit screen has been modified to be more stable. -When Duplicating a video, there was a case that the video would not be saved and would be blank, but this has been corrected. -Fixed some minor issues, such as canceling during video export. -Safety has been improved. How-to videos:https: //www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=oKvQqb3aAZI&fbclid=IwAR0PlHlhl8ZzGiCjXBONcWaXvvV8RVsP1I-tL1LdJTBEOdk9HpE4HzeuqDM&app=desktop End Use Lisence Agreement : https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: e at Free against Procreate Pocket's $5.99. Procreate Pocket's advantage is rating (3.8 vs 1.5) and review sentiment (61% vs 20%). On update cadence, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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
e is free to download; Procreate Pocket costs $5.99 up front. e sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month. Procreate Pocket asks for nothing beyond the download.
Procreate Pocket holds the better App Store score, 3.8 against 1.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Procreate Pocket has 13K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 61% of Procreate Pocket's written reviews are positive against 20% of e's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and July 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Procreate Pocket | e |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $5.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.8 (13K ratings) — better | 1.5 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 61.1% of reviews — better | 20.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 13K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid — better | Subscription |
| Best chart rank | #1 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.4.1 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 372 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Savage Interactive Pty Ltd | SGA Works LLC |
Customer experience
Procreate Pocket
e
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
e
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Procreate Pocket
No in-app purchases
e
- Draw&edit (1mo)・1mo Free trial1 Month trial$8.991 Month
- Drawing & editing (1 year)$52.991 Year
Questions
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