Extract text from Procreate brushes (BRUSH)
To convert BRUSH brushes to another format, you need Procreate or other Settings software.
To convert other file formats to the "App Preset Data" file type, you need software like Procreate or a similar tool.
The .BRUSH file format is a digital brush preset created by Savage Interactive for the Procreate digital painting application on iPadOS. These files store the dynamic settings, stroke behaviors, shape sources, and grain textures required to generate custom digital brushes.
A major disadvantage of the .BRUSH format is its proprietary, closed ecosystem. It is designed explicitly for Procreate's Valkyrie rendering engine. This means the file cannot be natively opened or imported into standard desktop software like Adobe Photoshop or GIMP. Viewing or using these files natively requires an Apple iPad and the paid Procreate app, which creates severe friction for cross-platform designers or teams using Windows machines.
Standard online converters usually fail to process .BRUSH files into formats like ABR because the translation requires replicating proprietary app logic, not just changing file headers.
Internally, a modern .BRUSH file is typically a compressed ZIP archive. It contains PNG image files (the brush shape and texture grain) and a PLIST file (the mathematical settings for pressure, opacity, and scatter). Because our analysis detects this supported embedded format, viewing or conversion is often possible. The most pragmatic conversion target is ZIP. By extracting the archive, you can recover the raw PNG textures and manually recreate the brush in other software, even though the automated Procreate-specific dynamics will be lost.
In rare cases, the .BRUSH extension is also used by the game Battle Brothers for internal sprite definitions, but these are plain data files completely unrelated to digital painting.
Convert.Guru analyzes your BRUSH file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted BRUSHSET, ABR, SUT, ARCHIVE, ZIP, PNG, BRUSHCATEGORY, ZBP, PRBR, SWATCHES, DOWNLOADING, SLDDRT and BMP files.
If you want to convert BRUSH file to PNG, COLOR, SUT, JPG, PDF, GIF, BMP, TIFF, TIF, WEBP, ICO or CUR, you can use Procreate or similar software from the "Digital Illustration Brush Preset" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert RAW, PNG, AI, NEF, PSB, DNG, SVG, GIF, EPS, JPG, ARW or PDF files to BRUSH, try Procreate or another comparable tool in the "Digital Illustration Brush Preset" category.
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our BRUSH converter.