Procreate Dreams for iPad is an animation studio in your pocket that works with the Apple Pencil, sports a touch-optimized timeline and doesn’t require subscriptions.
Procreate by Australian developers Savage is arguably the most advanced iPad painting app. The award-winning software was joined today by Procreate Dreams.
Dreams is a brand-new app that allows anyone to create engaging, rich 2D animations to boost their visuals and elevate their social game to new heights.
You can choose from templates to quickly add motion to your iPhone footage. The app supports keyframes to avoid having to manually animate each and every frame.
Procreate Dreams for iPad lets you create 2D animations
Another cool feature, called Flipbook, enables you to flip between frames as you draw with onion skins and your favorite Procreate brushes.
Procreate Dreams supports live motion and filters to animate titles, credits and annotations in real-time. There’s a timeline with support for multi-touch gestures like swiping and pinching. To make more room to draw, simply flick the timeline away!
You can enhance your hand-drawn animations by adding sound effects, voiceovers and music. The app supports ProRes footage and brings the new Procreate file format that bundles all assets into a single file for easy iCloud syncing and backups.
Let me also metniont a feature termed Stage that allows you to create massive sets for characters to come to life. You can easily undo any action as Procreate Dreams features eternal history for non-destructive editing.
The iPad has no shortage of pro-grade illustration apps. Affinity Designer from developer Serif has an iPad version. Autodesk has nice iPad apps on the App Store, and  Adobe has provided an iPad edition of its Illustrator software since 2020.
These are all nice apps, but Procreate Dreams has no competition—it’s the only pro-grade animation software for Apple’s tablet created for the rest of us.
For further info, visit procreate.com/dreams.
Pricing and availability
Like with other Procreate apps, Dreams supports the Apple Pencils. The iPad-only software is available for a one-off price of $20, with no subscriptions to worry about.
View Procreate Dreams on the App Store
The app is available in nineteen languages and supports all the iPad models capable of running at least the iPadOS 16.3 software.