Worth it Stage 1
Procreate is paid for once, with no subscription and no ads, so its money comes from making a good app. It has publicly refused generative AI (2024), siding with the artists who use it. Files export to standard formats like PSD. Stage 1.
- Since
- 2011
- Category
- Creative tools
- VC-backed
- No
- Public
- No
- Website
- procreate.com
The promise
Its first promise, and how much is kept · Scoring
100% kept
“Instinctive, powerful and portable, Procreate lets you work anywhere – without compromise.”
Why it’s rated 1
The criteria it meets, with sources · Method
- Alignment 1 of 3
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- A1 Paid for without surveillance
- Lock-in 0 of 4
- None
- Extraction 0 of 7
- None
- Decline 0 of 3
- None
Result An alignment criterion, no lock-in, and at most one extraction criterion, so stage 1.
News signals
Sourced reporting, tagged by strategy