Comparison

Procreate Pocket vs Camera 4 HalfTone 2

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, gorgeous illustrations, design concepts, enhanced photos, and beautiful animations. Offering hundreds of handmade brushes, a suite of intuitive artistic tools, and an advanced layer system. Work on the couch, on the train, at the beach, or while waiting in line for coffee. It’s a creative companion in the palm of your hand. Highlights: • Sketch ideas when inspiration strikes • Create engaging photo collages and draw-overs • Add filters and captivating effects to your images • Mark-up documents and give feedback on the fly Breakthrough brushes: • Packed with hundreds of beautifully crafted brushes • Organize your brushes into sets and libraries • Over 100 customizable settings for every brush • 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: • Revolutionary QuickShape feature for perfect shapes • 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 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: • Gradient Map — remap your image’s colors with a customizable gradient • Glitch, Chromatic Aberration, Glow, and Halftone 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 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 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 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, and animated GIFs, PNGs, and MP4s Accessibility • Global stroke stabilization, Dynamic Type, VoiceOver, and color naming

About

Camera 4 HalfTone 2

Transform your photos into unique halftone art with this app. Easily create vintage-style dot patterns, adjust dot size and rotation, and blend with the original image for a fashionable look. Save your creations in high resolution.

Highlights
  • Create color and black and white halftone dot images
  • Generate polka dot patterns
  • Adjust halftone dot size
  • Adjust halftone rotation
  • Control original image blend rate
  • Save images up to 2000x2000
Features
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Why don't you do something different than usual, such as POP advertising and newspaper printing? Camera 4 HalfTone 2 is an app that allows you to easily create halftone images. The photos you take may turn into fashionable art. Please do try that out! = FEATURES = - Color, black and white halftone dot image - Polka dot - Halftone dot size adjustment - Adjustment of halftone rotation - Adjustment of original image blend rate ** NOTE ** - Maximum saved image size is 2000x2000 - It does not generate exactly the same image as the conventional version of the app(Camera 4 HalfTone). = Differences from the past = - Speeding up processing - Compatible with polka dots Sample images created with this app can be found on Instagram. http://instagram.com/darjjeelling @darjjeelling

Screenshots

Procreate Pocket4 screens
Camera 4 HalfTone 24 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Camera 4 HalfTone 2 at Free against Procreate Pocket's $5.99. Camera 4 HalfTone 2 also leads on rating (4.7 vs 3.8) and review sentiment (100% vs 61%). Procreate Pocket's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (13K vs 12). On in-app purchases 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

Camera 4 HalfTone 2 is free to download; Procreate Pocket costs $5.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Camera 4 HalfTone 2 holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Procreate Pocket has 13K ratings behind it against 12, 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 100% of Camera 4 HalfTone 2's.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
Procreate Pocket versus Camera 4 HalfTone 2: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterProcreate PocketCamera 4 HalfTone 2
Price$5.99Free — better
Rating3.8 (13K ratings)4.7 (12 ratings) — better
Positive reviews61.1% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings13K — better12
Update frequencyEvery 3 months—
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidAd-supported — better
Best chart rank#1 — better—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1.1 GB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSavage Interactive Pty Ltddarjjeelling

Customer experience

Procreate Pocket

All ratings12,727 ratings
Positive69.3%
Neutral8.3%
Negative22.4%
Written reviews2,094 reviews
Positive61.1%
Neutral13.6%
Negative25.3%

Camera 4 HalfTone 2

All ratings12 ratings
Positive91.7%
Neutral8.3%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Camera 4 HalfTone 2

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Procreate Pocket

No in-app purchases

None

Camera 4 HalfTone 2

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Procreate Pocket free?
Procreate Pocket costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Camera 4 HalfTone 2 free?
Camera 4 HalfTone 2 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Procreate Pocket or Camera 4 HalfTone 2?
Camera 4 HalfTone 2 is rated higher. Procreate Pocket averages 3.8 out of 5 from 13K ratings, while Camera 4 HalfTone 2 averages 4.7 from 12 ratings.
Do Procreate Pocket or Camera 4 HalfTone 2 have ads?
Camera 4 HalfTone 2 shows ads; Procreate Pocket does not.

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