Procreate Pricing
- Design pricing
- No published price
Procreate pricing is recorded here from the vendor's own published plans. There is no free plan and no free trial.
Procreate publishes no standalone pricing page, so this opens the product site. Figures here were read on 19 August 2026.
Procreate pricing at a glance
| Entry price | $12.99 one-time for iPad; Pocket $5.99 one-time |
|---|---|
| Seat minimum | None on the entry plan |
| Free plan | No |
| Free trial | No trial offered |
| How it charges | one time |
| Prices read from | The vendor's own pricing page |
| Last checked | 19 August 2026 |
Every Procreate plan and what it costs
Read from the vendor's own pricing page on 19 August 2026. Charged as one time. No free trial is offered.
| Plan | Price | Billing | What it is |
|---|---|---|---|
| Procreate for iPad | $12.99 | per one-time | One purchase from the App Store, no subscription. Brushes, layers, animation assist, 3D model painting and time-lapse recording |
| Procreate Dreams | $12.99 | per one-time | The companion animation and motion app for iPad, also a single purchase |
| Procreate Pocket | $5.99 | per one-time | The iPhone version, also a single purchase |
Cancelling Procreate, and getting money back
Read from the published Procreate terms on 18 September 2026. These are the terms, not legal advice: consumer law where you live may give you rights the terms do not mention.
| Refund window | None published |
|---|---|
| When you cancel | This is a one-off App Store purchase, so there is no subscription to cancel. |
| Changing mid-term | Procreate cannot authorise a refund or see Apple purchase histories at all: refunds go through Apple, which decides eligibility, and that decision varies by country. |
Procreate help, how do I get a refund ↗ · read 18 September 2026
Procreate pricing against its competitors
Compared on the smallest invoice each vendor will accept, not on the advertised per-seat rate. Where a product has a seat minimum, the figure below is the minimum times the rate, because that is the cheque you would actually write.
| Product | Cheapest paid entry | Free plan | Against Procreate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adobe Creative Cloud | $19.99 a month | No | – |
| Procreate | Not published | No | This product |
| Affinity | Not published | Yes | – |
Which Procreate plan should you buy?
| Your situation | Recommended | Why |
|---|---|---|
| You draw or paint on an iPad | Procreate for iPad | $12.99 once. There is no cheaper professional illustration tool with this depth. |
| You animate, or make motion pieces from your drawings | Procreate Dreams | Also $12.99 once, and a separate app rather than a feature of the first. |
| You sketch on a phone | Procreate Pocket | $5.99 once for the iPhone version. |
| You need generative fill or AI image generation | Do not buy Procreate | The studio has published a refusal to add generative AI. That is a stated position, not a roadmap gap. |
| You work on Windows, Android or a desktop | Consider Affinity or Adobe Fresco instead | Procreate is Apple-only, and Affinity is free on Windows and macOS. |
Three apps, three one-time prices
| App | Price | What it is for |
|---|---|---|
| Procreate for iPad | $12.99 once | Drawing, painting, illustration |
| Procreate Dreams | $12.99 once | Animation and motion |
| Procreate Pocket | $5.99 once | The iPhone version |
No subscriptions, and the pages say so in those words. Regional App Store pricing may differ, which Procreate notes itself.
Set that against the rest of this category: a year of Adobe Creative Cloud is $839.88 on a twelve-month commitment, and a year of Figma Professional is $192 a seat. Procreate is a rounding error, once.
The AI position is a product decision, and it is published
Most vendors are quiet about what their AI does with your work. Procreate has a page about it, and it is unambiguous: no generative AI, no access to your art “by design”, and no activity tracking in the apps. Its own words: “Generative AI is ripping the humanity out of things… We’re not chasing a technology that is a moral threat to our greatest jewel: human creativity.”
Whatever you think of the argument, it is a fact you can plan around, and it cuts both ways:
- If you want generative fill, expansion or image generation in your drawing tool, this is deliberately the wrong purchase. Adobe includes Firefly, and Recraft is built entirely around generation.
- If you want a tool that states it will not touch your artwork, almost nothing else in this category says so on the record.
What it does not do
No page layout. No print colour management. No components or design systems. No desktop version at all - Procreate is iPad and iPhone, so a Windows or Android artist cannot buy it at any price, and Affinity is the free alternative that runs on desktops.
It is also single-author: files export as PSD, TIFF, PNG, JPEG or PDF, and there is no shared workspace or live collaboration. For an illustrator that is usually irrelevant. For a studio passing work between three people daily, it is the thing that decides against it.
Where it sits in a stack
Procreate is where the drawing happens; something else is where the drawing gets used. The common pairing is Procreate for artwork, then Affinity or Canva for the layout that carries it, which together cost $12.99 and nothing. The subscription suites in design start higher than that and keep charging.
Procreate questions, answered
- Does Procreate have a free plan or free trial?
- Procreate has no free plan. No free trial is offered.
- Can I self-host Procreate?
- No. Procreate is a hosted service only, so your data lives on the vendor's infrastructure.
Procreate publishes no standalone pricing page, so this opens the product site. Figures here were read on 19 August 2026.
What this profile is based on
Nobody here has used Procreate. This profile is desk research: prices read from the pages cited below, on the dates shown , from 5 primary sources , with a capture taken by us . How we research a profile.
Desk research from Procreate's own product, company and AI-position pages, read on 19 August 2026. Nobody here has used Procreate, and no drawing performance or brush quality was assessed.
Where Procreate appears on this site
- Another profile Affinity picks it for drawing and illustration on a tablet
- Another profile Recraft picks it for draw it yourself instead
Counts pages on this site that name the product by choice - price guides, pricing question pages, deal records and other profiles. Category and directory indexes list everything automatically and are not counted.
Provenance and freshness
Individually sourced claims
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Procreate for iPad is $12.99 USD as a one-time purchase, with no subscription
Procreate for iPad ↗ · checked
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Procreate Dreams is $12.99 and Procreate Pocket is $5.99, both one-time
Procreate Dreams and Pocket ↗ · checked
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Procreate publishes a position against generative AI: "We're not chasing a technology that is a moral threat to our greatest jewel: human creativity"
Procreate, AI is not our future ↗ · checked
What has changed
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August 2026
- First published, with all three one-time prices read from the vendor's own pages
- Recorded the published no-generative-AI position as a product fact
Sources & verification
Facts on this page were read from the sources below on the dates shown. Where a vendor does not publish a figure, we record it as not disclosed rather than estimating it.
- Procreate for iPad - checked 19 August 2026
- Procreate Dreams - checked 19 August 2026
- Procreate Pocket - checked 19 August 2026
- Procreate, AI is not our future - checked 19 August 2026
- Procreate, who we are - checked 19 August 2026
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