Procreate Pocket vs Stichara Embroidery
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, 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
Stichara Embroidery
Design colorful stitched artwork on your device with a calming and creative embroidery experience. Choose from multiple stitch styles and thread colors to create beautiful patterns. Save your projects locally and enjoy a relaxing hobby.
- Realistic stitch types
- Wide color and fabric selection
- Intuitive touch controls
- Relaxing creative experience
- Save projects locally
- Offline creation
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Stichara Embroidery is a calming and creative embroidery experience that lets you design colorful stitched artwork directly on your device. Whether you're an experienced embroidery enthusiast or simply looking for a relaxing hobby, Stichara makes it easy to create beautiful patterns one stitch at a time. Choose from multiple stitch styles, experiment with different thread colors, and watch your designs come to life on a customizable fabric canvas. Features • Three realistic stitch types for unique creations • Wide selection of thread colors and fabric backgrounds • Smooth and intuitive touch controls • Relaxing creative experience suitable for all skill levels • Save your finished embroidery projects locally on your device • No account required and no internet connection needed to create Perfect for hobbyists, artists, and anyone who enjoys mindful creativity, Stichara Embroidery transforms your device into a portable embroidery studio. Start stitching, express your creativity, and build beautiful designs wherever inspiration strikes.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Stichara Embroidery at 5.0 against Procreate Pocket's 3.8. Stichara Embroidery also leads on price ($1.99 vs $5.99). Procreate Pocket's advantage is ratings volume (13K vs 1) and chart position (#1 vs unranked). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Procreate Pocket costs $5.99 and Stichara Embroidery $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Stichara Embroidery holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Procreate Pocket has 13K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Procreate Pocket | Stichara Embroidery |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $5.99 | $1.99 — better |
| Rating | 3.8 (13K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 59.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 13K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #1 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 — better | 26.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1.1 GB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Savage Interactive Pty Ltd | Mike Alexander Reyes Gamboa |
Customer experience
Procreate Pocket
Stichara Embroidery
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
Stichara Embroidery
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Procreate Pocket
No in-app purchases
Stichara Embroidery
No in-app purchases
Questions
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