Comparison

Still Screen Pro vs Procreate Dreams

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

Head to head
About

Still Screen Pro

Prevent accidental screen touches and unwanted rotation with this utility. Freeze images on your phone or tablet to keep them static, ideal for shopping lists, sharing photos, or tracing. Maintain your desired orientation without interruption.

Highlights
  • Freeze screen image
  • Lock screen orientation
  • Prevent accidental touches
  • Useful for shopping lists
  • Ideal for sharing images
  • Supports tracing from images
Features
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If you want to quickly freeze the image on the screen and avoid accidental touch or rotation, then this app is for you. You can hold your phone or tablet whatever way you like without worrying about touching the screen and image moving away. The image will remain on the screen with its orientation locked. Below are a few situations that you will find Still Screen app extremely helpful: - Use it on your phone when viewing your shopping list image in the store. Hold your phone in whatever way you like and the shopping list stays on your screen. - Freeze the screen when you are passing your phone to other people to see an image. You have surely experienced that people accidentally touched the screen and moved away from the intended image. Use Still Screen app to avoid similar situation in future. - You want to give your phone to a cashier to scan a coupon bar code but don’t want him or her to accidentally touch the coupon image and move away from the screen. Again, use Still Screen app to freeze the image of coupon before giving it to cashier. - Use it to freeze the image of your boarding pass before boarding the plane. - You want to trace something from an image of your iPad. Use Still Screen to freeze the image temporarily during tracing.

About

Procreate Dreams

Create stunning 2D animations, expressive videos, and captivating stories with powerful yet intuitive tools. This app offers a rich brush library, advanced frame-by-frame animation features, and seamless integration of video, audio, and text for professional-quality creations.

Highlights
  • Frame-by-frame animation tools
  • Multi-track timeline
  • Keyframe animation
  • 300+ textured brushes
  • Video, photo, and audio editing
  • Real-time rendering engine
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Procreate Dreams is an award-winning animation app, packed with powerful tools that anyone can use. Create rich 2D animations, expressive videos, and breathtaking stories on iPad. With over 300 beautifully textured Procreate brushes, Procreate Dreams is perfect for creating gorgeous hand drawn, frame-by-frame animations. Highlights: - Powerful frame-by-frame animation tools. - Responsive Multi-track timeline. - Keyframes for motion and cinematic animations. - Record motion or effects effortlessly through touch. - Handcrafted animation brush library. - Next generation, realtime rendering engine. Create frame-by-frame animations: - Explore over 300 beautifully textured brushes to bring artistic soul to your work. - Compatible with all Procreate brushes - Up to 16K resolution for drawings. - Paint outside your stage. - Customizable onion skins. - Automatic, freehand/lasso, and shape selections. - Permanently transform, warp and distort your drawings. - Blend modes and clipping, luminance, and layer masking - Apply permanent filters & adjustments. Compose video, photos, audio, and type: - Import, edit and trim video. - Draw-over your content. - Add voice-overs and music. - Craft titles, type and credits with typography styling, and design attributes. Add animated motion and effects: - Add keyframes to your content for precise transitions of motion and effects. - Modify easing to refine your timing. - Move, scale, rotate, warp & distort animations. - HSB, opacity, gaussian blur, lens blur, noise, and sharpen effects. - Group content to unlock the power of layered animations. Import existing assets and content: - Import video & photos in JPG, PNG, TGA, Procreate, MP4, GIF, and ProRes format. - Import audio in MP3, AIFF, WAV, FLAC, AAC, CAFF, M4A, AC3, and MP2 format. - Import custom and purchased Procreate brushes. - Import layered Procreate files. - Import Procreate Animation Assist as a Flipbook. Share your work with the world: - Export MP4s and MOVs in H264, HEVC, and ProRes codecs. - Export transparent video. - Export PNG sequences with transparency for professional pipelines. - Export your current frame as a transparent image. - Share your .drm files with your audio and video included. Next generation technology - Seamlessly mix drawing, frame-by-frame animation, keyframing, video editing, and compositing. - Real-time rendering makes waiting a thing of the past. - Never lose artwork again with continuous auto-save and undo history.

Screenshots

Still Screen Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Still Screen Pro at $2.99 against Procreate Dreams's $12.99. Still Screen Pro also leads on rating (4.6 vs 3.9) and review sentiment (69% vs 41%). Procreate Dreams's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (537 vs 65). On ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

Still Screen Pro costs $2.99 and Procreate Dreams $12.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Still Screen Pro holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Procreate Dreams has 537 ratings behind it against 65, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 69% of Still Screen Pro's written reviews are positive against 41% of Procreate Dreams's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Still Screen Pro ships an update every 3 months, Procreate Dreams monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
Still Screen Pro versus Procreate Dreams: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStill Screen ProProcreate Dreams
Price$2.99 — better$12.99
Rating4.6 (65 ratings) — better3.9 (537 ratings)
Positive reviews69.2% of reviews — better40.8% of reviews
Number of ratings65537 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank#194 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPad
Requires iOS8.1 — better16.3
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB1.7 GB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNaeimeh Jami AlahmadiSavage Interactive Pty Ltd

Customer experience

Still Screen Pro

All ratings65 ratings
Positive90.8%
Neutral1.5%
Negative7.7%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive69.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative30.8%

Procreate Dreams

All ratings537 ratings
Positive71.9%
Neutral10.8%
Negative17.3%
Written reviews2,194 reviews
Positive40.8%
Neutral24.5%
Negative34.7%

Bugs and requests

Still Screen Pro

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Procreate Dreams

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Undo/redo issues, sometimes undoing more than intended
  • Crashes and freezes when working with complex animations
  • Inconsistent behavior when importing assets from Procreate

Requested features

6 requests
  • Lasso tool for selecting and transforming parts of drawings
  • Ability to merge, reorder, and manage layers
  • Custom brush creation and import options
  • Improved timeline controls and onion skin visibility
  • More intuitive UI and better discoverability of features
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  • Ability to set custom canvas size and frame rate

In-app purchases

None

Still Screen Pro

No in-app purchases

None

Procreate Dreams

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Still Screen Pro free?
Still Screen Pro costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Procreate Dreams free?
Procreate Dreams costs $12.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Still Screen Pro or Procreate Dreams?
Still Screen Pro is rated higher. Still Screen Pro averages 4.6 out of 5 from 65 ratings, while Procreate Dreams averages 3.9 from 537 ratings.
Do Still Screen Pro or Procreate Dreams have ads?
Neither Still Screen Pro nor Procreate Dreams shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Still Screen Pro or Procreate Dreams?
Still Screen Pro ships an update every 3 months, and Procreate Dreams monthly. Most recently, Still Screen Pro was updated on September 26, 2026 and Procreate Dreams on September 29, 2026.

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