Picsart vs. Procreate

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Picsart
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
For visuals and product listings, Picsart's photo editing tools offer solutions for a variety of businesses. While Picsart's capabilities are available through web or mobile, Picsart Enterprise offers photo and video editing APIs and SDKs, integrated through a variety of services (e.g. Zapier, Make, etc.) for a variety of additional use cases.
$13
per month
Procreate
Score 9.4 out of 10
N/A
Savage, headquartered in North Hobart, Tasmania, is dedicated to making exceptional creative tools. They are the creators of Procreate, a digital art and illustration app for iPad. Offering 100s of handmade brushes, a suite of artistic tools, advanced layer system, and its Valkyrie graphics engine — Procreate is designed to enable the creation of expressive sketches, rich paintings, gorgeous illustrations and beautiful animations.N/A
Pricing
PicsartProcreate
Editions & Modules
Picsart Plus
$13
per month
Picsart Pro
$15
per month
Picsart Enterprise - API Services
$95
per month 10k credits
Picsart Enterprise - Print Solutions
from $99
per month 1000 credits included
Picsart Enterprise - Marketing Solutions
from $99
per month 1000 credits included
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
PicsartProcreate
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
PicsartProcreate
Considered Both Products
Picsart
Chose Picsart
I have used Pixlr earlier but Picsart has more features than Pixlr. More effects, more stickers, and fonts on Picsart with high resolution image creation. Support also best at Picsart tool and they are improving customer experience time to time with new features.
Chose Picsart
I wouldn't compare it to the items above. I would compare it to Sketchbook, PicCollage, Phonto, etc. They all do different things and have different fonts and artistic capabilities. I use Picsart as it has artistic effects that I like but that I can't find in other apps.
Chose Picsart
  • Picsart is better in the free version, it offers a lot of features and edits.
  • The filters are good and you can make collage very easily.
  • The app is more user friendly and it is quick to edit any photos and certificate in the tool.
Chose Picsart
I used Lucidchart to develop architect-level integration flow diagrams to visualise integration flow. But Picsart has a user-friendly UI to develop and edit HQ pictures as per business requirements but some options are an enterprise where we need to pay and purchase those …
Chose Picsart
Make your photo editing game stand out with Picsart, the one app with almost limitless features that lets you be truly creative with your photos. With Canva though you can design with millions of stock photographs most of these are available in a Pro version so I end up using …
Chose Picsart
Picsart has a lot of the same basic functionality as Photoshop but is so much more intuitive and user-friendly. There's no wait for it to start up, exporting is super quick and easy, and the tools are super user-friendly. For quick fixes, this is my go-to. It's just so much …
Chose Picsart
Is easier to use and more intuitive, it has an advantage and that is that on their Instagram account they constantly upload tutorials on how to make different types of publications which makes it easy to understand for the average user. It offers a lot of options only with the …
Chose Picsart
Picsart provides more photo editing capability compared to Snagit.
Chose Picsart
Picsart provides many more tools, such as the large amounts of templates that are personally my favorite part of using this app. When using Pixlr, I always struggled getting the correct dimensions when needed. When using Picsart, it is incredibly easy and I can choose the size …
Procreate
Chose Procreate
Procreate is the easiest to understand out of all this software. I use it on my iPad, and I find that drawing with the Apple Pencil straight on Procreate is intuitive and simple, unlike using the complicated pen tool on Adobe Illustrator. As I've mentioned earlier, Procreate is …
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User Ratings
PicsartProcreate
Likelihood to Recommend
8.2
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
PicsartProcreate
Likelihood to Recommend
Picsart is well suited for quick online photo and video creation and editing. It has a lot of templates that can be used to quickly create collages and other artwork for professional use. The video editing tool is really useful for adding sound and text to videos and creating annotated videos for presentations. It is less appropriate for professional photo and video editors, as it lacks advanced editing tools. Graphics designers and other professionals in the photo editing or video editing industry might find this product underpowered.
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Procreate is well-suited for any illustrator, whether they're a beginner or an expert. It offers a vast range of features that will allow anyone with an artistic inclination to start creating right away. It's also appropriate for budding designers, artists, and animators. While the animation options offered aren't super premium, it is a good place to start learning about animating in layers, e.g., in Photoshop. Procreate isn't suitable for people who want to illustrate vector-based images. The app currently only supports raster images that can't be scaled up.
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Pros
  • After tweaking your image, you can share it over e-mail, on Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Dropbox, and many other social media apps.
  • You can browse thousands of images on Picsart.
  • You will find a wide range of tools in Picsart to help you play with your images.
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  • Easy-To-Understand Interface
  • Wide Range of Brushes
  • Custom Asset Sizes
  • Animation Options
  • Intuitive Design
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Cons
  • There are a lot of features available to only paying subscribers, but all those features still appear for the nonpaying user, marked by the crown icon. Particularly with filters and stickers, it can be annoying to scroll through the majority of locked options to find the handful that is free. A filter option would be nice.
  • It would be nice to have access to previous projects where you could still go back and undo edits you've made. The draft feature seems to only be good for one project at a time.
  • Layers would be nice. That way when you use a sticker or add a photo on top and go on to make more edits, you could still move them around instead of just having to undo everything and re-add the stick or additional photo.
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  • More animation support
  • Vector Illustrations
  • Cross Platform Functionality
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Alternatives Considered
I have used Pixlr earlier but Picsart has more features than Pixlr. More effects, more stickers, and fonts on Picsart with high resolution image creation. Support also best at Picsart tool and they are improving customer experience time to time with new features.
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Procreate is the easiest to understand out of all this software. I use it on my iPad, and I find that drawing with the Apple Pencil straight on Procreate is intuitive and simple, unlike using the complicated pen tool on Adobe Illustrator. As I've mentioned earlier, Procreate is a great app for beginners, whereas both Illustrator and Photoshop have steep learning curves. If you want to dive into designing right away, Procreate is your best option!
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Return on Investment
  • Streamlined editing with helpful tools that would take much longer to do manually in other software.
  • Free software without a watermark like many other apps, so it costs nothing but storage space on my phone.
  • Boosted my confidence in being able to post my photos, especially of myself, because I am able to better highlight the best parts of the photos and mask the distractions or less favorable parts of photos.
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  • Positive impact on delivery times
  • Positive impact on creative to designer communication
  • Positive impact on team to client communication through detailed mockups
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