It has a superior layout and better color palette support that Artstudio Pro simply doesn’t have. For this reason alone my choice has been made for me. So if I’m forced between push and shove…I’m sticking with Clipstudio Paint. I’m deleting Artstudio Pro soon. Now if Procreate does the same thing I’ll have to sit down once again and make the same cold hard decision which app to stick to if I’m forced to pay annual fees for something I purchased. Most important in that decision will be file support…and Artstudio Pro simply doesn’t have that much file support that can be converted to. Not to mention brush library support is way behind Procreate.
I agree that CSP is a great program for digital artists, but its user interface is the worst thing that’s ever been ported to iPad. It’s practically unusable without a keyboard or a remote. It is not designed for a touch device, it is designed for a desktop. They have the companion app now for shortcuts, but it’s way inferior to the Tabmate which is unusable on IOS. Don’t get me wrong, I learned digital art on CSP (on desktop) and still feel it is an amazing piece of software. But, saying it’s superior over ASP isn’t a fair comparison. They are drastically different in what they’re designed for and CSP for iPad isn’t user friendly at all. Now if you’re comparing desktop programs, it’s again not a great comparison… ASP on Mac is much younger than CSP.
For me, I’d take ASPs file conversion limitations over CSPs terrible cloud system, but that’s just me.
Now for Procreate’s brush engine vs ASP’s… While ASP’s brush engine has more of a learning curve, it is much more feature rich than Procreate’s. I’ve been able to recreate all my Procreate brushes without any problems.