Steve Jobs envisioned the iPhone and iPad as devices that would be controlled by the touch of a finger on a touch screen. However, Apple has created such multifunctional devices that they can already be used as notepads for writing and even canvases for drawing. We offer you an overview of styluses that will make creativity on your gadgets even more convenient.
We admit that writing long notes, drawing or drawing with a stylus is still more familiar and more convenient than with a finger.
If you have never used a stylus on iPad before, then before buying, you should pay attention to a few things.
iPad not sensitive to pressure
This feature does not allow you to draw lines of different thicknesses. In part, this shortcoming is corrected by Bluetooth styluses. The developers have put a lot of effort into creating a pen that works not on the principle of pressing the touch screen, but with the help of a Bluetooth code. These styluses allow you to write and draw with varying pressure, which is convenient enough for writing text and lines of different thicknesses. However, they have a number of drawbacks: not all applications support them; work on Bluetooth 4.0 limits the use in idevices (starting from iPad mini, iPad 3, iPhone 5); however, sometimes they need to be recharged or the battery changed.
Stylus weight
This setting is important if you're planning on working for a long time and the app you're using doesn't disable palm touch. Prolonged “hovering” of the hand over the screen can be quite tedious.
Tips: size, shape, material
Styluses of the middle price range from $10 to $40 are equipped with a pen made of rubber with a size of 6-9 mm. That is, manufacturers are trying to repeat the tip of the middle finger. There are feathers that are slightly smaller and made from a variety of materials, but as a rule, there is a compromise to be made here. They make it harder to press down on the touchpad so that the iPad responds to pressure or the pen is more slippery than traditional rubber.
Bluetooth-enabled styluses, thanks to their technology, can have a wide range of different nibs made of different materials: rubber, transparent disc nibs, plastic nibs like a pen nib.
What's better? It largely depends on your tasks. The rubber provides more grip on the screen. This is good when you have to keep your hand on the weight, but annoying when you need to write quickly. Cloth pens also slow down on the screen, and are quite soft, making them less accurate. The plastic nibs are much more nimble, but they can produce annoying squeaks as they move across the iPad screen.
For writing
If you hate taking notes on virtual keyboard or swipe to sign a document, you'll need a stylus for quick notes. We suggest you consider Adonit's $75 Bluetooth stylus Jot Script. It uses Pixelpoint technology, which allows you to write cleanly and quickly. The nib, not traditionally rubber, but made from a tiny piece of plastic, improves screen visibility and writing accuracy.
Of course, Script is not perfect for all tasks. Due to the plastic tip, it slides a little on the screen, and it only has one fully supported app (Penultimate). Other applications that have a hard time accepting pen tilt can be awkward to use.
The build quality of the stylus is excellent. Requires an AAA battery which will last a long time due to the overall low power consumption.
Our choice is Jot Script: 2mm plastic tip, $75. Pros: Bluetooth; fast writing; it is the most accurate stylus on the market. Cons: Sliding across the iPad screen; limited application support; weak pressure sensitivity.
Do you use styluses or is it not necessary? Are you ready to invest in a stylus after reading this review?
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Most frequently asked question from clients:
Hello! Please tell me why the prices in your store are lower than in others and sometimes even much lower?
Kazantsev Ruslan Valerievich:
After the purchase, I was very surprised, the stylus gives the impression that you are holding a real pencil in your hands, there is no delay when writing text, I use it on the iPad Pro 9.7, the screen size is enough, it charges quickly from the iPad. It's a little inconvenient that when you turn off Bluetooth, you again have to insert it into the iPad for synchronization, and the cap is not tied to a pencil, it's easy to lose, even though it's on a magnet.
Hello! Tell me, is this stylus compatible with the iPad Air 1? How well will it work?
Astakhov Vakhtang Gennadievich:
I consider it a worthwhile purchase. It is much more convenient for me to work with a stylus than with my fingers. But here, of course, a matter of taste and availability of funds.
The stylus is comfortable, not heavy, it is very pleasant to draw with it.
Tolstikhin Pavel Alexandrovich:
The best stylus. Much more convenient than the Samsung stylus. This was decisive when choosing a tablet
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Increasingly, touch screen tablets and smartphones are being used as sketchbooks, notepads, and even canvases. However, drawing and writing with a finger is extremely inconvenient. To do this, many companies are developing styluses that mimic the familiar feeling of working with a pen, felt-tip pen or brush. We bring you a list of 10 capacitive screen styluses worth checking out.
Just Mobile AluPen
Just Mobile's AluPen stylus is a sleek, aluminum pen-shaped budget device designed specifically for the iPad. The soft rubber tip allows you to work with the tablet much more efficiently than with your finger. It is accurate, smooth, does not leave fingerprints on the screen, perfect for taking notes, creating sketches and graphic drawings.
WACOM Intuos Creative Stylus
Wacom Intuos Creative Stylus with 2048 levels of pressure sensitivity and Bluetooth support able to create drawing effects on paper with a regular marker or pencil. Suitable for serious digital artists, the stylus has interchangeable nibs for drawing, sketching and painting. Programmable buttons provide fast access to the right items, which saves time.
LYNKtec TruGlide Pro
The TruGlide Pro stylus is LYNKtec's bestseller. The device does not require a Bluetooth connection and special applications. The body is made of anodized aluminum and the 5mm tip is made of special microfiber. It is more durable and glides more smoothly and smoothly than rubber counterparts. The design of the device allows you to change it to a nozzle in the form of a brush.
Sensu Brush
The Sensu Brush, a digital brush developed by Artist Hardware in the USA, was released in 2012 thanks to the Kickstarter crowdfunding platform. The required amount for the release of the device was collected in just a few days. With the Sensu Brush, which has a bristly tip made of highly conductive fibers, you can draw on any device with a capacitive screen, and the tactile sensations in the process are as close as possible to working with a real brush. A list of recommended applications can be found on the manufacturer's website.
Wacom Bamboo Duo2
Ten One Design Pogo Connect
The Pogo Connect stylus is already a cut above the device. Firstly, it reacts not only to pressure (and reads 100 levels of pressure), but even to the tilt of the pen. At the same time, the tablet, when connected to Pogo (and it connects via Bluetooth 4.0), ignores the touch of the hand when drawing. In addition to the stylus, 4 different attachments are available, including 2 hard nibs and 2 brushes. A nice bonus is that Pogo allows you to track its location, and it will be difficult to lose it. Pogo Connect is powered by a AAA battery, the charge of which, according to the assurances of the developers, is enough for almost several months.
Adonit Jot Pro Stylus
Adonit Jot Pro is great for writing, sketching and drawing on the iPad screen. The main advantage of the Jot Pro is its accuracy, which is achieved thanks to an unusual tip. At the end of the pen is a small round plate of silicone with a special coating. It allows you to control the thickness of the line (having 2000 levels of pressure sensitivity), while the feeling of the stylus is comparable to writing with a regular ballpoint pen.
Adonit Jot Script
Personal experience after 48 hours of operation.
What we have been waiting for so long has come true. Apple released the iPad Pro, we wrote, and two weeks later the guys from Onlyphones.ru offered to plunge into the world of fine art and test all the possibilities of the Apple Pencil stylus.
What is iPencil capable of, is the game worth the candle, and how does the owner of the iPad Pro live, in whose hands the Apple Pencil fell into? Let's talk about the advantages and disadvantages of the stylus.
Reason #1: no delays
For people who use the computer as a professional tool, the worst enemy of all time remains delay. The sound engineer struggles to minimize the time it takes to convert audio from analog to digital; designer - wins back precious milliseconds, drawing another stroke on graphics tablet. Apple Pencil is devoid of such shortcomings.
As soon as you touch the iPad Pro's huge screen with the tip of the stylus, it instantly responds to your touch. The lines are clear and even, and the artist has the feeling that they are drawing on a slate board or a piece of parchment. Response speed this accessory has the highest praise, and the signal reading frequency reaches 240 times per second.
Reason #2: Very sensitive
Despite its small size, comparable to the size of a regular ballpoint pen, Apple Pencil is packed with all sorts of sensors to ensure its smooth and trouble-free operation. The stylus distinguishes not only pressing force(up to 2048 degrees), but also the tilt angle.
By setting a slight slope, you can quickly shade a section of the drawing, as if working with a regular pencil.
Reason #3: Long lasting
Inside the Apple Pencil is a miniature battery that has a capacity of only 80 mAh Despite such a small size, after a full charge, the stylus is ready to use. 12 o'clock continuous work.
Moreover, universal Charger for Apple Pencil at your fingertips. The gadget is equipped with a traditional Lightning port, and a simple connection to the corresponding port of the iPad Pro for just 15 seconds will give the stylus 30 minutes of work. Full charge time is about 50 minutes.
For charging via a regular network, a miniature adapter is provided: an Apple Pencil is inserted on one side, and a Lightning cable on the other.
Reason #4: The palm is not the enemy
Even an experienced artist knows what is fraught with touching with a palm to a drawing that has just been drawn with a slate or charcoal pencil. This is the case when the hands that created the drawing can also spoil it. Apple has foreseen this as well.
Despite the fact that according to all the "laws of the genre" of the capacitive screen technology, it should respond to the touch of a human hand, working with the Apple Pencil you can touch the screen with the edge of your palm, leaning on the tablet screen as if on a regular sheet of paper. The tablet will not go berserk from this action, and the clarity of the stylus will not deteriorate at all.
Reason #5: Works through "obstacles"
Another curious feature of the Apple Pencil is the ability to work through a sheet of paper. Suppose that you want to draw as accurately as possible a fragment of the original drawing printed on paper.
To do this, just attach the sheet to the iPad Pro screen and circle all the required contours. The tablet counts all stylus touches despite the fact that there is an impromptu obstacle between the screen and the pen tip - a sheet of paper.
Reason #6: Instead of a finger
The main purpose of the Apple Pencil is drawing. However, the stylus is compatible with just about everything you would normally do when touching the tablet with your fingers.
Opening links, launching applications, scrolling, interacting with menu items, typing (support for third-party keyboards and keyboards that allow handwriting) - Apple Pencil can do it all. Among the limitations of the accessory is the inability to open the Notification Center, Control Center, switch to Slide Over or Split View. Most likely, this limitation is purely software in nature, but "Apple decided so."
Reason #7: App Support
To implement a really good product, the ingenuity of engineers and the bright look of a designer are not enough. Need software support. The number of apps compatible with the Apple Pencil is growing exponentially.
Today, Apple's stylus is compatible with: Pixelmator, Adobe Comp CC, Paper, Adobe Phoroshop Mix, Adobe Photoshop Fix, AutoCAD 360, Autodesk SketchBook, Evernote, Adobe Illustrator Draw, Canva and a number of other applications. The inclusion of stylus support by developers allows not only to optimize the interaction of the accessory with the interface, but also enable support for iOS features such as Split View.
A little sad
Ask any marketer and he will confidently answer that there is no “perfect product”. The Apple Pencil is no exception, and the list of disadvantages of the "Apple Pencil" looks something like this:
- The stylus is only and only compatible with the iPad Pro. It will not work with other devices, including Apple products.
- Unavailable multitasking. Apple Pencil does not allow you to switch to Split View and Slide Over modes - the main innovations of iOS 9. You can only do this with your finger.
- No eraser. Users familiar with alternative styluses that work with capacitive screens, one of the advantages of this category of products include the presence of an eraser. Touched the screen with the other end of the stylus - activated the eraser mode. The Apple Pencil does not have this feature.
- Apple Pencil does not support multi-touch gestures. However, no stylus can do this.
A skeptical user will surely classify the next Apple development as “expensive and unnecessary toys.” A professional designer or artist, being a creative person, will think about purchasing an Apple Pencil, because the desire to experiment is the main engine of creativity. The Apple aficionado and user who has been waiting for the "big iPad" will pick up the stylus without hesitation.
Where to buy an Apple Pencil? We suggest stopping at the Onlyphones.ru online store. First, it is in stock today; secondly, among the impressive assortment of accessories for Apple devices, you will definitely want to buy “something else”.
AT modern world We almost every day do not do without gadgets. They have replaced many familiar devices for us, such as a calendar or organizer; as well as some applications in which we drew or made important sketches.
Now that we don't have to carry around notes or large blueprints, there is new question How to do precise work with your finger?
After all, we do not always get them even on the letters we need on the keyboard. And here such an innovation comes to our aid, which was born along with touch phones is a stylus. We will tell you about what they are and whether it is possible to make a stylus yourself in this article.
Earlier, before the appearance of heat - touch screens styluses came with each phone, and their distinguishing feature was a rubber tip on the end, but if you take such an old stylus in your hands and try to move it around your new gadget, then nothing will happen. Because the screens of that time are very different from those that are used now.
Therefore, first you need to figure out what styluses are and which one is right for your favorite gadget.
What are styluses?
In general, all styluses can be divided into 2 categories, these are:
- For capacitive screens;
- For heat - touch displays.
If you've never bought a stylus, then you need to know a few things about this tablet control assistant. Styluses, unlike the device for which they are intended, are sensitive to pressure and not sensitive.
Apple developers have tried for iPad pro and iPad mini . They introduced the ability to interact with the stylus through Bluetooth technology.
Now the tablet will be able not only to distinguish the size of the stylus pen, but the pointer itself will be able to receive information directly from your device.
Applications that support this technology so far not a large number of, but let's hope that soon there will be more of them, after which we will be able to fully experience all the delights of Bluetooth pointers.
Device weight
This parameter is almost the most important criterion when choosing an assistant. If you work for a long time, you will notice that the lighter the accessory is, the more time you will be able to work and your hand will not get tired.
After all, prolonged retention of the pointer in the air can adversely affect the fatigue of the working hand.
Dimensions
You can also find an accessory with a smaller pointer, but in terms of convenience it will be inferior to its big brothers.
Capacitive screen stylus for use on iPad mini
The stylus of this type has characteristic features. After all, capacitive displays use a circuit between two touchscreen plates to remove your touch.
Such a pen in its tip usually has a magnetic coil or metal filings. AT this case the pointer will work like clockwork. Fortunately or unfortunately, capacitive touchscreens are slowly but surely disappearing into oblivion, they are replaced by heat - touchscreens.
The advantage is obvious heat - the sensor can respond to much large quantity touches unlike capacitive, as well as even the slightest pressure on a device with a thermal sensor activates it, in comparison with capacitive, which will only work with a certain force of your pressing.
Stylus for iPad air 2, as a representative of warm-touch touchscreens
The peculiarities of such styluses are that this type of pointer can work on modern displays, and they also have a very thin tip, which will help you more accurately convey your movement and point to a point than it would be on a capacitive screen with a thick end stylus.
Mechanical writing finger
If writing text or typing a message on the virtual keyboard seems impossibly uncomfortable to you, you can use the stylus designed for typing on your tablet.
The tip of such devices is traditionally made not of rubber, but of a tiny plastic piece, which has a positive effect on the visibility of the display, and also helps to type text quickly and efficiently. Also, these devices may have Pixelpoint technology, which is designed to more accurately position the pointer on the device display. These pointers are the most accurate on the market. There are also disadvantages.
Due to the plastic tip, the accessory will not be very convenient for drawing, in particular, the assistant can slip on the surface of the tablet display. The number of applications that support pointers of this category is very limited. The power supply depends on one AAA battery, since the device is not energy efficient enough, one such battery can last you a long time.
iPad with stylus for drawing
Drawing styluses have a huge range of settings, a large selection of pressure sensitivity, and many specialized applications support pointers in this category.
On the ipad is better just you can pick up a pointer from Wacom. The assistant from this company supports Bluetooth technology, as well as up to 3000 switching positions of pressure sensitivity. Assistants from this company, of course, cannot be compared with the apple pencil, which is sharpened to interact with the products of the company of the same name, but they are not much inferior to it in terms of functionality.
Bundled with Wacom comes with a beautiful carrying case, as well as a set of interchangeable nibs with varying degrees of zoom and programmable buttons for those who want to draw as much as possible.
Top best styluses for iPad
Unlocks this top accessory called the Apple pencil. This is a special device for controlling the iPad. Apple pencil stylus expands the capabilities of the tablet to work with graphics, animation and other content.
Its undoubted advantages include the fact that the apple pencil can be charged directly from the device via a Lightning adapter . Also apple pencil has a large number of modes and settings for convenient operation.
Universal Pointer
A universal stylus is perfect for you, if you are just immersing yourself in the world of electronic pointers, and you have neither the strength nor the time to understand their features.
It will allow you to draw in most graphics applications, as well as sit comfortably in your hand and not make you feel uncomfortable. The thickness of the tips of such pointers is in the region of 6 millimeters, this value is optimal for work. These assistants will help you sketch, sketch, and control your device.
How to make a stylus for iPad?
A personal pointer for each person who uses the tablet is a more humane solution from the hygiene side.
In order not to dirty the screen with your fingers and perfectly interact with graphics, drawings, and also so that designers can work much more efficiently, you can create this accessory at home.
There are two types of homemade pointers, disposable and durable.
To make a disposable input device you will need:
- Non-writing helium or ballpoint pen.
- Scissors to cut anything.
- Foil, you can take the one that is suitable for cooking.
- Electrical tape or thread to twist this thing.
- A piece of cloth or a hygienic cloth.
- Water with edible salt.
Twist the foil into a tube shape, then insert it into the pen so that the tip of the foil peeks out a little from the pasta hole, then tamp the foil a little.
Then you will need to cut the hygienic stick in half and insert it into the foil tube so that the cotton wool on the tip of the stick can contact the foil, or you can tightly wrap a piece of foil with a cloth. After these steps, tightly wrap the base of the handle with foil, all the elements of the assistant must be connected under pressure, and also in close contact with each other. You can also create a homemade case if you want to give it an elegant look. To bring the device into action, you need to slightly moisten the tip of the foil in a salt-water solution. Now the device is truly ready to go.
To make a durable input device, you will need the same non-writing helium or ballpoint pen, as well as pliers and a piece of polyethylene foam material to save electrical radio components. The instruction is still the same, but polyethylene foam is used instead of foil moistened with water. . That's all the homemade stylus is ready to use, it will last you as long as the effort you spent to create it.
