Procreate Pocket
59
Quality Score
Solid
Procreate Pocket
by Savage Interactive Pty Ltd
High confidence
✍️ Bumetric analysis
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Procreate Pocket is an iOS app from Savage Interactive Pty Ltd in the Business category, currently rated 3.8★ across 12,828 ratings. Initial signal reads as mixed reviews: supporters praise core features while critics cite stability and value gaps.
Quality Score is 59: Solid (established niche player). For a Business app, that means established niche player. The full BU Investment Matrix below scores 8 dimensions including monetisation, growth, and operational risk.
Track changes month-over-month in the Performance section below: live snapshot history and revenue forecast included.
💰 Monthly revenue · now vs forecast
● Right now
$16.6K
per month
→
12-mo forecast
$17.2K – $36.0K
per month
→
24-mo forecast
$21.3K – $63.8K
per month
MID tier
💡 Grow this revenue
Free AI audit of this app’s store listing
- Title & subtitle keyword fit
- Description hook & conversion structure
- Screenshots, ratings, reviews strategy
Typical impact: +2-5× organic installs
📊 Performance Tracking LIVE
151 snapshots on record
Rating
3.8
Reviews
12,828 reviews
Forecast Revenue / mo
$16.6K
Snapshots tracked
151
since Jun 2023
ONE-TIME · BUILD
💰 Estimated build cost
$205K
↳ What it cost to build · not monthly revenue
Likely range $155K – $275K
$25K · MVP floor
$100K · indie scale
$500K+ · studio build
📈
Pays back in ~12 months at current MRR
Synthetic estimate. Inputs: category complexity, file size, screen count, monetization layer, platform reach, age × team-size proxy. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-agency rate surveys. Full math + source list on /methodology.
Where the money goes
| 🧱 MVP baseline (design + 1-store ship) | +$28K |
| 📱 5 unique screens × $4.5K | +$22K |
| 📦 Asset bundle (1151 MB) | +$40K |
| ⚙ Business complexity ×1.50 | +$45K |
| ⚙ 11.9y maintenance × ~1-person team | +$71K |
Total estimate
$205K
ONE-TIME · EXIT VALUE
💵 Estimated acquisition value
$300K
↳ What it would sell for · not monthly revenue
Marketplace range $225K – $400K · 18× MRR multiple
💸
~1.5× build cost (break-even+)
Synthetic estimate. Multiple band derived from ad-supported + age, rating quality, category demand, and user-base maturity. Calibrated against 2024-2026 indie-app-marketplace closed-deal medians. Full math + comparable deal list on /methodology.
How the multiple was built
| 📺 Ad-supported base | 15× MRR |
| 📅 11.9y proven track record | +20% |
| ⭐ ★ rating 3.5-4.0 (mixed) | -8% |
| 🏷 Business category multiple | +10% |
Final multiple
18× MRR
👥 Estimated audience size
580K
Lifetime downloads (US-equivalent)
Monthly active
52K
Daily active
15K
Synthetic estimate from ratings × category benchmarks. Calibrated against 2024-2026 mobile-attribution retention + DAU/MAU reports. Numbers are US-storefront-equivalent — true global audience can be 5-10× larger for international apps. Full math + source list on /methodology.
How we sized it
| 📲 Business engagement | ~65 installs / rating |
| 📅 11.9y of rating accumulation | -30% |
| 🔁 Business D30 retention | 22% |
| 📍 DAU / MAU stickiness | 0.30 |
DAU / MAU
30% sticky
🛠 Estimated tech stack
🍎
Native iOS (Swift / UIKit)
Medium confidence · 55%
Also possible
React Native
Flutter
Heuristic guess from app bundle size, category, store description signals, and release-date stack era. Bumetric does not disassemble binaries — for binary-level certainty you would need an SDK intelligence tool or the manifest itself. Reasoning chain on the right. Full ruleset on /methodology.
Signals we read
| 📦 App bundle size | 1151 MB |
| 🏷 Category context | Business |
| 📦 Large iOS bundle | → Native Swift / UIKit (pre-2020 era) + assets |
💀 Maintenance status
Active
5%
Last shipped 2026-10-23 · 5 days ago
0 · Active
50 · At risk
100 · Abandoned
Heuristic risk score from time-since-last-update + ratings velocity proxy + Editor's Choice / curated featuring signals. Calibrated against 2024-2025 app-store ranking decay reports. Not a guarantee — a quiet app with a healthy codebase looks the same as an abandoned one until something breaks. Full math on /methodology.
Risk signals
| 📅 5 days since last update | Active development |
Verdict
Active
🔬
How we forecast this revenue
MEDIUM CONFIDENCEBaseline
$16.6K/mo · ML-estimated from 234 triggers
Growth rate
+4.0% MoM · MID tier baseline (compound monthly)
6 months
$15.8K – $26.3K
12 months
$17.2K – $36.0K
24 months
$21.3K – $63.8K
Compound growth at +4.0% MoM (tier baseline for MID). Range widens with horizon — typical noise band ±25% at 6mo.. Ranges widen with horizon — distant futures carry more uncertainty.
📊
BU Investment Matrix
Below median · 47/100MID TIERunderperforming peersGrowth Velocity
5.0
Founder Strength
3.4
Product Quality
7.7
Revenue Strength
4.2
Monetization Maturity
1.0
Defensibility
4.5
Market Position
2.0
Operational Safety
10.0
- 💰 Revenue: Modest — $11K - $24K/mo · MID tier · medium confidence, trajectory unclear.
- ⭐ Quality: 3.83★ across 12,828 reviews — strong (top 10%).
- 📍 Market: Not yet charting in any of the 9 monitored markets.
- 📈 Growth: dev shipping weekly.
- ⚠️ Risk: Low — no material risk signals detected.
🎯 For competitors: Mixed picture. Worth competing if you have a clear UX or pricing edge — otherwise crowded segment.
💵 For acquirers: Estimated asking range 18-32× monthly = $298K-$531K.
Composite of 8 dimensions computed deterministically from public signals — no LLM, every score traces back to a measurable input. Default weights shown; "compete" / "acquire" / "invest" lenses re-weight without re-fetching.
Range:
💰 Forecast Revenue / mo
MODELRevenue forecast computed from BU's 234 trigger model on each snapshot. Calibrated against ground-truth from 58 verified-revenue apps.
🔬Forecast Breakdown — Why This Estimate?Top 10 of 10 triggers
Our ML model uses 200+ signals from public data. These are the most influential for this app:
| Mid install base (12,828 ratings)METRIC | +$5,500 | |
| Paid app ($5.99)METRIC | +$2,800 | |
| bugsREVIEW | −$1,800 | |
| 5 starREVIEW | +$1,800 | |
| excellent appREVIEW | +$1,500 | |
| Mature app (11y old)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| Multilingual (18 languages)METRIC | +$1,500 | |
| highly recommendREVIEW | +$1,400 | |
| slowREVIEW | −$1,200 | |
| too expensiveREVIEW | −$1,000 |
METRIC = structural app data · REVIEW = mined from user reviews · ✓ VERIFIED = Stripe-verified anchor (TrustMRR)
📈 Reviews Growth
LIVECumulative review count from first BU snapshot. Each point = a tracked update.
⭐ Rating Trend
LIVEAverage rating evolution. Updates with each new review batch.
🆕 What's New · v5.0.1
Great things come to those who wait. There's a fresh new look and so many features in Procreate Pocket 5, including brush libraries, Page Assist, and exciting hardware compatibility, that we better get into it.
New Brushes… Full release notes →
New Brushes… Full release notes →
Profile & Insights
Everything we know — and don't — about this app and its company.
Identification
- App name
- Procreate Pocket
- Developer
- Savage Interactive Pty Ltd
- Bundle ID
- au.com.savageinteractive.procreate-pocket
- App Store URL
- Open in App Store
- Category
- Business
- Content rating
- 4+
- Languages
- AR, EN, FR, DE, HI, ID, IT, JA, KO, MS, PL, PT, RU, ZH, ES, TH, ZH, TR
Company
- Website
- procreate.com
- Tagline
- Procreate - Home
- Description
- Powerful and easy-to-use drawing and animation apps, made for both creative professionals and aspiring artists. Pay once. No subscription.
- Founded
- Not found
- HQ / Address
- Not found
- Employees
- Not found
- Logo
- Available
Revenue
- Reported revenue signal / mo
- Not found
- AI revenue estimate / mo
- Not found
- AI annual estimate
- Not found
- Model estimate / mo
- $16.6K/mo
- Top-grossing rank
- 🇮🇳#10 /100 🇦🇺#17 /100 🇬🇧#31 /99 🇯🇵#32 /100 🇺🇸#39 /100 🇩🇪#40 /100 🇫🇷#45 /100
- All-time revenue
- Not found
- Pricing
- Not found
Founder
Founder data not yet collected for this app.
Funding
Funding data not yet collected for this app.
Press & Links
Press & Links data not yet collected for this app.
Contacts & Socials
- Socials
- instagram instagram.com/Procreate · tiktok tiktok.com/{'@'}procreate?lang=en · twitter twitter.com/Procreate · youtube youtube.com/{'@'}Procreate
- Not found
- Phone
- Not found
- Contact page
- Not found
- About page
- procreate.com/who-we-are
📈Ratings growth12,703 ratings+2742% lifetimeShow 3-year history estimate ▾
Tracked (60 weeks) Pre-tracking estimate (0 weeks) · model-based, ±5% noise · anchored to release date and current value
🌍Top Countries — Grossing Rank9 countries
🇮🇳IN#10 /100
🇦🇺AU#17 /100
🇬🇧GB#31 /99
🇯🇵JP#32 /100
🇺🇸US#39 /100
🇩🇪DE#40 /100
🇫🇷FR#45 /100
🇨🇦CA#54 /100
🇧🇷BR#63 /100
📊Category Rank Trajectory#10 now · best #10 · worst #51
Lower line = better rank · Estimate from ratings growth model · Lower position on chart = worse rank · Higher = top of chart
💰Pricing History$0.00 → $5.99 (+0%)
🚀Update Frequency · Releases per Quarter3 releases tracked
🚀Version Release Timeline3 releases tracked
Profile is built from iTunes Lookup + developer site scrape + ML revenue model. Empty fields show "Not found" — additional sources (Crunchbase, X, IndieHackers, Acquire.com) coming.
📝 About this app
App of the Year winner Procreate Pocket is the most feature-packed and versatile art app ever designed for iPhone.
Procreate Pocket has everything you need to create expressive sketches, gorgeous illustrations, design concepts, enhanced photos, and beautiful animations. Offering hundreds of handmade brushes, a suite of intuitive artistic tools, and an advanced layer system. Work on the couch, on the train, at the beach, or while waiting in line for coffee.
It’s a creative companion in the palm of your hand.
Highlights:
• Sketch ideas when inspiration strikes… View full description on the official store →
Procreate Pocket has everything you need to create expressive sketches, gorgeous illustrations, design concepts, enhanced photos, and beautiful animations. Offering hundreds of handmade brushes, a suite of intuitive artistic tools, and an advanced layer system. Work on the couch, on the train, at the beach, or while waiting in line for coffee.
It’s a creative companion in the palm of your hand.
Highlights:
• Sketch ideas when inspiration strikes… View full description on the official store →
App Specs
🔐 Own this app? Claim & verify MRR →💾 1.1 GB🔞 4+📱 iOS 26.0+🔖 v5.0.1🔄 updated 5d ago🌐 AR, EN, FR, DE, HI +13📂 Business💰 Paid🚀 Launched 2014 (11y old)
📅
What Worked™ · Development Pipeline
19 EVENTS TRACKEDDetected changes in this app over its tracked lifetime — each event links cause (what changed) to effect (what moved). Sorted newest first.See full history →Version history →
2026-09
📸
Refreshed store screenshots — 8 of 8 updated
2026-09
🔧
Shipped update — v4.0.18 → v4.0.19
→ 30 days after: reviews +35 low · multiple changes
2026-07
🔧
Shipped update — v4.0.16 → v4.0.18
→ 30 days after: reviews +49 high confidence
2026-05
💲
Went paid — introduced $5.99 price point
→ 30 days after: reviews +44 high confidence
2026-04
⭐
Rating ↑ 3.29 → 3.85 (improved 0.56★)
→ 30 days after: reviews +68 high confidence
2026-04
📈
Crossed 1,000 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +68 high confidence
2026-03
🔧
Shipped update — v? → v4.0.16
→ 30 days after: revenue +$259/mo · rating +0.55★ · reviews +12,040 high confidence
2026-03
📈
Crossed 500 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: revenue +$259/mo · rating +0.55★ · reviews +11,977 high confidence
2023-12
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +9 high confidence
2023-12
📈
Crossed 100 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: reviews +14 high confidence
2023-09
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.12★ · reviews +16 high confidence
2023-09
📈
Crossed 50 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating −0.16★ · reviews +20 medium · co-occurring
2023-08
⭐
Rating ↑ 2.72 → 3.07 (improved 0.35★)
→ 30 days after: rating −0.16★ · reviews +20 medium · co-occurring
2023-07
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.35★ · reviews +26 high confidence
2023-07
📈
Crossed 10 ratings — social-proof flywheel kicking in
→ 30 days after: rating +0.05★ · reviews +15 high confidence
2023-07
⭐
Rating ↓ 2.75 → 2.40 (dropped 0.35★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.05★ · reviews +15 high confidence
2023-06
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating +0.05★ · reviews +15 medium · co-occurring
2023-06
⭐
Rating ↓ 4.00 → 2.50 (dropped 1.50★)
→ 30 days after: rating +0.05★ · reviews +15 medium · co-occurring
2023-06
🚀
First tracked snapshot — initial data captured
→ 30 days after: rating +0.05★ · reviews +15 medium · co-occurring
📸
Store Page History
8 SCREENSHOT CHANGESEvery time a developer swaps a store screenshot we archive both versions. Compare side-by-side to see what messaging / visuals changed.
iPhone screenshots
Slot 1
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-13
2026-09-25
Slot 2
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-13
2026-09-25
Slot 3
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-13
2026-09-25
Slot 4
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-13
2026-09-25
Slot 5
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-13
2026-09-25
Slot 6
2 ver.
2 ver.
2026-05-13
2026-09-25
🧪
Tech & Domain Intel — procreate.com
- Mail provider
- Microsoft 365
- Tech stack
- Microsoft 365 · Apple Pay / Sign in with Apple · Meta (Facebook) Ads · Google Workspace · Notion (workspace)
Derived from public RDAP + DNS TXT records (no scraping, no login).
🌍
Multi-Country Performance
Available in 9 of 9 monitored markets| Market | Rating | Reviews | Current version |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇺 AU | 3.90417★ | 720 | 3.90417★ this version |
| 🇧🇷 BR | 3.94563★ | 515 | 3.94563★ this version |
| 🇨🇦 CA | 3.86998★ | 1,469 | 3.86998★ this version |
| 🇩🇪 DE | 3.87195★ | 656 | 3.87195★ this version |
| 🇫🇷 FR | 4.06541★ | 428 | 4.06541★ this version |
| 🇬🇧 GB | 3.6605★ | 2,215 | 3.6605★ this version |
| 🇮🇳 IN | 4.13934★ | 122 | 4.13934★ this version |
| 🇯🇵 JP | 4.00746★ | 402 | 4.00746★ this version |
| 🇺🇸 US | 3.82752★ | 12,836 | 3.82752★ this version |
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📝 Description
95
BU Score · Transcendent
Full revenue analysis
Read the article-style breakdown for Procreate Pocket: category rank, percentile, growth signal, comparable apps, and how the forecast is calibrated against verified-MRR anchors in this niche.
About this analysis
Why high confidence: 12,828 ratings · no founder-verified revenue (model estimate only).
❓ Frequently Asked Questions
10 answers · auto-generated from this app's public dataHow much does Procreate Pocket make per month?▴
Based on our ML-calibrated revenue forecast, Procreate Pocket earns approximately $16K/mo. This is a US-storefront-equivalent estimate; global revenue can be several times larger for internationally-distributed apps. See the methodology page for the full formula and confidence bands.
Is Procreate Pocket profitable?▴
With estimated build cost $205K and monthly revenue $16K, Procreate Pocket looks profitable — pays back its estimated build cost in roughly 12 months at the current run-rate. Profitability also depends on paid-acquisition spend and refund rate which the public model doesn't see.
How many users does Procreate Pocket have?▴
Estimated audience: ~580K lifetime downloads, ~52K monthly active users, and ~15K daily active users. Derived from ratings count × category installs-per-rating × age decay. US-storefront-equivalent — global audience can be 5-10× larger for internationally-distributed apps.
What apps are like Procreate Pocket?▴
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What is Procreate Pocket built with?▴
Our heuristic places Procreate Pocket on the Native iOS (Swift / UIKit) stack (Medium confidence, 55%). Signals: app bundle size, category context, store-description markers, release-date era. We don't disassemble binaries. Alternative possibilities: React Native, Flutter.
Is Procreate Pocket still actively maintained?▴
Maintenance status: Active (5% abandonment risk). Last shipped version was 5 days ago. The risk score combines time-since-last-update with Editor's Choice / curated featuring + user-base maturity adjustments.
How much would Procreate Pocket sell for?▴
Estimated acquisition value: $300K (marketplace range $225K – $400K). Calculated as 18× monthly revenue using the standard multiple for the detected monetization model + adjustments for age, rating quality and category demand. Calibrated against 2024-2026 Flippa / Acquire.com / MicroAcquire closed-deal medians.
When was Procreate Pocket last updated?▴
Procreate Pocket last shipped a new version on 2026-10-23 — less than a month ago. This is the date Apple / Google last accepted a new build, not a content-only push.
Who makes Procreate Pocket?▴
Procreate Pocket is published by Savage Interactive Pty Ltd on the Apple App Store. See the full publisher portfolio (other apps by the same developer) via the More by developer block on the product page above.
What is Procreate Pocket's BU Score?▴
Procreate Pocket has a BU Score of 59/100 (Solid). The score combines App Store rating, ratings count, monetization model and revenue signals calibrated against founder-verified MRR anchors. See the BU Score formula.