Apple Offers ‘Procreate Pocket’ for iPhone Free, via Apple Store App

Apple is offering popular iPhone drawing app, Procreate Pocket as a free download via its Apple Store app. The app, usually priced at $2.99, offers a number of painting and drawing tools for iPhone users.

Procreate Pocket is packed full of tools and adjustments for creating amazing artwork. 

• Beautiful drawing tools
– 12 specially made brushes for illustration and concept sketching
– Download and import thousands of custom Procreate brushes
– Pressure sensitivity for devices with 3D Touch
– Persistent precision brush sliders for rapid brush and opacity adjustment 

• Studio-grade features
– Powered by the acclaimed 64-bit Silica painting engine
– Optimized for iPhone 6S and 6S Plus 
– 64-bit color for professional accuracy 
– Never worry about making mistakes with 250 levels of undo 
– Continuous auto-save so your work is always preserved
– 4K Cinema Canvas for iPhone 5 and above

• Full layering system
– Dynamic layer caps offer as many layers as possible for your iPhone hardware
– Lock your layer transparency with a single swipe
– Create, merge, delete and adjust opacity of layers
– 18 layer Blend Modes for perfect compositing

• Redefined tools
– Move, distort & shear
– Non-uniform and uniform transformation 
– ColorDrop
- ColorDrop threshold
– Freehand selection tool
– Quick duplicate selection

• GPU accelerated filters 
– Gaussian Blur 
– Sharpen 
– Hue, Saturation, Brightness 
– Curves 

• 1080p video recording
– Procreate records your every stroke without interruption or delay

• Sharing
– Multiple file formats including .procreate, PSD, JPG and 24-bit PNG
– iCloud Drive
– AirDrop 
– Print via AirPrint

Please note, the app is only free, if you follow the steps listed below, if you go directly to the App Store to download it, you will pay $2.99 for the privilege.

To get the app for free, do the following:

1. Download the Apple Store app, if you don’t already have it installed.
2. Open the Apple Store app.
3. Tap the “Featured” tab in the tab bar at the bottom of the app.
4. Scroll down until you see a small banner that says “Download Procreate free.”
5. Tap the Banner.
6. Tap “Download now for free.”
7. You’ll be taken to the App Store, where you’ll enter your password and then click “Redeem.” The app will install automatically.

Again, be sure to follow the above steps, or you’ll be charged $2.99 for the app. One other note, this is for the iPhone version of Procreate. The iPad version is a completely separate app.