Convert Photoshop Brushes to Procreate
Turn an .abr file into Procreate brushes — free, right in your browser
Try Procreate's own import first. Procreate reads .abr files directly — save one to your Files app, tap it, and the brushes land in your library. For simple stamps and textures that is the whole job, and you don't need this page. Our guide to importing brushes into Procreate walks through it.
This converter is for when that import comes out wrong. Procreate rebuilds each Photoshop brush with its own engine, and complex ones often arrive faint, flattened, or barely marking the canvas at all. What you get here instead is narrower and more predictable: the raw tip image lifted straight out of the .abr and handed back as a clean Procreate stamp, with no settings guessed at on the way.
Everything runs inside your browser. Your file is never uploaded, never stored and never leaves your device — you can confirm that in your browser's network inspector. No account, no email, no watermark.
Read this before you convert
Only the brush shape transfers. This tool makes no attempt at Photoshop's dynamics — scatter, jitter, dual brush, texture and pressure curves are left behind on purpose. Procreate's own .abr import does try to translate them, so if you haven't tried that yet, try it first; this is the fallback for when it mangles the brush.
Plain round brushes are skipped entirely. Photoshop generates those from numbers rather than pixels, so there is no shape in the file to move. Stamps, textures and hand-drawn tips — the reason people buy .abr packs — convert exactly as they are.
Nothing is uploaded — conversion happens on your device
Converting…
What actually transfers
A Photoshop brush is a shape plus a long list of settings. Procreate has its own, differently-shaped list, so only the part both apps agree on can survive the trip. Here is exactly what that means for your pack.
Stamps and hand-drawn tips
Anything Photoshop stored as pixels comes across exactly as it is — the same shape, the same edges, at the same resolution. This is most of what a bought .abr pack contains.
Brush names
Each converted brush keeps the name it had in Photoshop, so a 60-brush pack arrives in Procreate labelled rather than as "Brush 1…60".
Dynamics stay behind
Scatter, jitter, dual brush, texture, angle and pressure curves are Photoshop's own settings, described in a way Procreate has no equivalent for. You get the shape; the behaviour is yours to set in Brush Studio.
Plain round brushes are skipped
Photoshop builds its default round brushes from numbers — diameter, hardness, roundness — with no image anywhere in the file. There is literally nothing to convert, so those are listed as skipped instead of being faked.
How to turn an .abr into Procreate stamp brushes
- Open this page and choose the Photoshop .abr file. It is read on your own device — nothing is uploaded.
- A single brush downloads as a .brush file. A pack of several downloads as a .zip containing one .brush per brush.
- If you got a .zip, long-press it in the Files app on your iPad and choose Uncompress.
- Tap a .brush file. Procreate opens and puts it in an "Imported" set at the top of your brush library.
Looking for the ordinary way in — dropping the .abr straight into Procreate and letting it do the conversion? That's our full guide on importing brushes into Procreate, and it's the one to read first.
When it doesn't work — common problems and fixes
Photoshop won't open my .abr either
Then the file is damaged or it isn't really an .abr — a few sites hand out a renamed .zip or .rar. Open it in an archive utility: if it unpacks, what you have is an archive containing the brush file, and it's that inner file you need.
Every brush came out as a filled square
The shape's polarity is inverted for your pack. Tick the Invert box and convert again — what prints and what stays empty will swap.
Most of the pack was skipped
The pack is mostly round brushes with settings applied rather than drawn tips. That's common in "painting" and "blending" sets. Stamp, texture and shape packs convert almost completely.
I got a .zip and Procreate won't open it
That's expected when the .abr held more than one brush: the zip is a folder of .brush files. Unpack it first — long-press it in the Files app and choose Uncompress — then tap each brush inside.
The brush imported but paints nothing
Check your paint colour and your layer. A shape printed white-on-white is invisible, and a hidden or locked layer takes no paint at all.
It paints a stamp instead of a stroke
Converted brushes arrive with stamp spacing, because that's what a single tip is. Open Brush Studio → Stroke Path and lower Spacing until the shape repeats into a continuous stroke.
Frequently asked questions
Do Photoshop brushes work in Procreate?+
Yes. Procreate imports .abr files directly — save one to your Files app, tap it, and the brushes appear in your library. Try that first: for stamp and texture brushes it is all you need. Where it struggles is complex brushes, which Procreate has to rebuild with its own engine and which can arrive faint or flattened. That is what this converter is for.
Procreate already imports .abr — why use this converter?+
Because the two do different things. Procreate's import tries to translate the whole Photoshop brush, settings included, and on a complex brush that translation is where it goes wrong. This converter doesn't attempt it: it takes the tip image out of the .abr and gives you a clean Procreate stamp you can tune yourself. Use it when Procreate's own import gave you something unusable, or when a plain, predictable stamp is what you actually wanted.
What exactly transfers, and what doesn't?+
The shape of each brush transfers, at full resolution, with its name. Photoshop's dynamics — scatter, jitter, dual brush, texture, angle and pressure settings — do not, because Procreate has no matching settings to receive them. You get a clean tip that you can then tune in Brush Studio.
Why did it skip some of my brushes?+
Photoshop has two kinds of brush. Sampled ones are drawn images and convert fine. Computed ones — the default round hard and soft brushes — are generated from numbers, with no image stored anywhere in the file. There's nothing to convert, so we list them as skipped rather than inventing a circle for you.
Does my file get uploaded anywhere?+
No. The whole conversion runs in your browser, on your device. Open your browser's network inspector while converting — you'll see no request carrying your file.
Can I do this on my iPad?+
Yes. Open this page in Safari on the iPad, pick the .abr from Files, and the download lands back in Files ready to tap. No computer needed at any point.
Why did I get a .zip instead of a .brush?+
Because your .abr contained more than one brush. We output one .brush per brush and put them in a zip together. Unpack it and import the brushes individually — Procreate takes them one at a time.
Can I convert brushes I bought?+
Technically yes, and for your own use that's usually fine. Whether a licence allows it is between you and whoever sold you the pack — read what you agreed to. Converting doesn't grant you the right to redistribute anything.
What about going the other way, Procreate to Photoshop?+
That's our other converter — it turns a Procreate .brushset into an .abr that works in both Photoshop and Clip Studio Paint.
Going the other way?
If you have Procreate brushes you want to use in Photoshop or Clip Studio Paint, our other converter handles that direction — same rules, same browser, nothing uploaded.
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