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Convert GIMP brushes to Procreate

Converting a .gbr to .brush rebuilds the brush as native Procreate settings rather than a flat image. Tip and grain images, stroke path settings and pressure dynamics are written into a native Procreate archive. The result screen names what carried over from the .gbr and what was adjusted to fit Procreate.

How it works

1. Upload your GIMP brush. Drop the .gbr / .gih / .vbr file into the converter. We support multi-brush files.
2. Pick Procreate as the target. You can select several targets at once and get one download per format.
3. Download and install. Send the file to your iPad and tap it. Procreate imports it straight into your brush library. Sets arrive as a single .brushset file.

What carries over

From GIMP: Brush tips with their size and spacing from .gbr and .gih files (the first frame of an animated brush), plus the full parametric recipe of a .vbr file: radius, hardness, aspect ratio and angle.

Writing to Procreate: The output is a modern Procreate brush archive. Brushes are rebuilt and verified against Procreate's native engine. Single brushes export as .brush, and multi-brush files export as .brushset.

Common questions

Every direction Brushfactory converts

Pick any other pair. The converter works the same way in all 25 directions.

See how conversion fidelity is measured for what each format contributes and where the honest limits are, or what is actually inside .gbr and .brush files.