QuickMenu

Enable, invoke, and customize QuickMenu for one-touch flexibility and convenience.

QuickMenu offers you a fully customizable radial menu so you can work your way, fast.

Every part of QuickMenu is customizable, from the six radial buttons to the shortcut you use to invoke it.

Enable QuickMenu

Assign a custom shortcut to activate QuickMenu.

Tap Actions > Prefs > Gesture controls > QuickMenu, and toggle any shortcut to activate QuickMenu.

If you use Apple Pencil to paint, we recommend using Touch or squeeze (Apple Pencil Pro required) to trigger QuickMenu.

Discover other ways to trigger QuickMenu in Gesture Controls .

Use QuickMenu

Tap to call up QuickMenu, or touch-drag to pick the function you need at lightning speed.

If you invoke QuickMenu with Touch, a one-finger tap will open the radial menu. It will remain open until you tap a button to select that option.

For a faster result using Touch, try a touch-drag gesture: when you tap, leave your finger held down, drag in the direction of your desired button, and release to select it.

Once you grow familiar with the location of each button in your radial QuickMenu, you can perform this touch-drag movement so quickly it becomes a simple muscle-memory flick in the right direction to trigger the option you need.

Customize QuickMenu

Set the six QuickMenu buttons to put your favorite tools at your fingertips.

By default, QuickMenu offers the following options:

1. New Layer

2. Flip Horizontally

3. Copy

4. Merge Down

5. Clear Layer

6. Flip Vertically

You can change any of these buttons to the Procreate functions you need the most. Invoke QuickMenu, and press-and-hold the button you want to change. After a moment, the Set Action menu will pop up. Scroll through the following list of options and tap the one you want.

1. 2D Guide Visibility – turns 2D guides on or off

2. Actual Size – shows your artwork onscreen at actual pixel size

3. Add Text – invokes a text box and the Apple keyboard

4. Adjustments – assigns an adjustment of your choice to QuickMenu

5. Alpha Lock – alpha locks your current active layer

6. Animation Assist – opens and closes the animation assist interface

7. Clear Layer – clears your current active layer

8. Clipboard – invokes the Copy & Paste menu

9. Clone – opens the clone interface

10. Copy – copies any content on the current selected layer to clipboard

11. Copy Canvas – copies the entire canvas to clipboard

12. Cut – cuts any content on the current selected layer to clipboard

13. Delete Layer – deletes your current active layer

14. Drawing Assist – turns drawing assist on or off

15. Duplicate Layer – duplicates your current active layer

16. Dynamic Brush Scaling – turns dynamic brush scaling on or off

17. Erase – activates the erase tool

18. Eyedropper – activates the eyedropper tool

19. Fill Layer – fills your current active layer with your current active color

20. Fit to screen – fits your entire canvas to the screen

21. Flip Horizontally – flips your canvas horizontally

22. Flip Vertically – flips your canvas vertically

23. Full screen – turns full screen mode on and off

24. Isometric Guide Visibility – turns isometric guides on or off

25. Layer Select – selects the top layer of any content sitting directly under the center of QuickMenu

26. Layer Opacity – activates layer opacity

27. Liquify – opens the liquify interface

28. Layer visibility – turns the visibility of your currently selected layer on or off

29. Merge Down – merges your current active layer with the layer below

30. New Layer – creates a new layer

31. Next Frame – moves to the next frame when in Animation Assist, or adds a frame when on the last frame of the timeline

32. No Action – creates an empty button in the radial dial

33. Onion Skin – turns onion skins on or off only when in Animation Assist

34. Open Adjustments – opens the adjustments menu

35. Open Color Panel – opens the color panel

36. Open Layers Panel – opens the layers panel

37. Page Assist – activates and deactivates Page Assist

38. Paint – activates the paint tool

39. Paste – pastes whatever is currently in your clipboard into a new layer

40. Perspective Guide Visibility – turns perspective guides on or off

41. Previous Brush – reverts back to the previous brush you used

42. Previous Color – reverts to you most recently used previous color

43. Previous Frame – moves to the previous frame only when in Animation Assist

44. Project Canvas – turns project canvas on or off if your iPad is connected to a second display

45. QuickShape - turns QuickShape on or off

46. QuickShape stroke - turns on edit QuickShape for your last stroke

47. Recolor – activates recolor

48. Redo – redoes your previous action

49. Reference – invokes the reference companion

50. Select Brush – assigns a brush of your choice from the Brush Library

51. Select Layer Contents – selects all contents contained on your active layer

52. Selection Tool – activates the selection tool and panel

53. Single touch move – activates single touch move

54. Single touch zoom – activates single touch zoom

55. Smudge – activates the smudge tool

56. Solo Visibility – activates solo visibility to view the contents of a single layer in isolation

57. Symmetry guide Visibility – turns symmetry guide visibility on or off

58. Transform tool – activates the transform tool and panel

59. Undo – undoes your previous action

Procreate will remember your custom button settings.

QuickMenu Profiles

Set an unlimited number of custom QuickMenu Profiles for easy access to extra QuickMenu layouts.

Find having access to only six QuickMenu buttons limiting? Assign a different set of buttons to an alternative QuickMenu Profile. You can create as many alternative QuickMenu Profile as you like.

This is helpful if you use different sets of actions for different processes while you work. For example, you may want a different set of QuickMenu actions for sketching compared to when coloring a sketch. In cases like this, set up a QuickMenu Profile for sketching and a different profile for coloring.

To create a new QuickMenu Profile, invoke QuickMenu and tap the central QuickMenu Button titled ‘QuickMenu 1’. This will bring up the QuickMenu Profile menu.

Tap the + button in the top right of the menu to add a new QuickMenu Profile with No Action assigned to the six buttons. Tap and Hold each button to assign the actions you want to the new QuickMenu Profile.

Double-tap a QuickMenu Profile’s title to re-name it with a customized title.

To swap between QuickMenu Profiles, invoke QuickMenu and Tap the central QuickMenu Button. This will invoke the QuickMenu menu, Tap any of your QuickMenu Profile in the window to select it.