Stylus for IPad 5 Gen?

Here’s my “up to date”, comprehensive, but still incomplete, list of Adonit Pixel compatible apps for the iPad/iPad Pro.

Most apps listed support pressure sensing and palm rejection.

Compatible Adonit Pixel apps for drawing

Animation Desk

Amaziograph

Adobe Photoshop Sketch ( palm rejection ONLY, No pressure, no sensing/line variations )

ArtRage

Art Studio Pro ( fully supports the Adonit Pixel and is just as great as Procreate on the iPad )

AutoDesk SketchBook

Colored Pencil

Comic Draw

Concepts

Interactive SketchBook

Medibang Paint

ProCreate

(Adonit is supported as an unsupported stylus, but all stylus features still work, palm rejection IS improved using special, non-electrical conducting, lycra-based material drawing glove )

Tayasui Sketches/Sketches Pro ( Full support for the Adonit Pixel )

Tayasui Sketches School

( this new, free version works with this stylus, but without any palm rejection or pressure sensing, so you need to use a special, non-electrical conducting drawing glove with the Sketches School version to lay your hand/palm down on the iPad’s screen )

Vectornator

ZenBrush/Zen Brush 2

Compatible Adonit Pixel apps for Notes and Notes with drawing types of apps.

GoodNotes 4 or 5

Notability ( palm rejection noticeably improved using special, non-electrical conducting, lycra-based material drawing glove )

Note Shelf 2

Notes Plus ( the current version has, temporarily, removed support for all third party, smart Bluetooth stylii ).

Notes Writer ( palm rejection improved using special, non-electrical conducting, lycra-based material drawing glove )

QuickNotes X Pro ( palm rejection ONLY. No pressure sensing for light/dark or thin/thick lines )

uPad

Zoom Notes

PDF Pen

This stylus works with other non-compatible apps, too, but without any palm rejection and/or pressure features.

You can use this stylus with other apps but will not be able to lay your palm on the screen, unless you use special, non-electrical conducting, lycra-based material drawing glove that works by isolating your hand/palm and allow you to lay your hand/palm on the screen as you draw in these non-compatible Adonit stylus apps.

Something like this found on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/Professional-Anti-fouling-Drawing-Tablet-Graphic-Right-Ha nd-Left-Hand/dp/B017R8M2JY/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?ie=UTF8&qid=1543548123&sr=8-1-spons&k eywords=lycra+drawing+gloves&psc=1

Many more makers of these types of gloves on Amazon.

If interested, to make sure you get the latest installed stylus firmware, you must order the Adonit Pixel stylus directly from the Adonit website, if possible and available



Good Luck to You!

So called “active” stylii are NOT Bluetooth stylii. These “active”, capacitive type stylii do not use Bluetooth, at all!!

The use of the term “active” for these types of stylii means it uses some type a battery to send a very small electrical signal to finer tip of the stylus to simulate a finger touch or a response similar to that of any commonplace, easy to obtain capacitive stylii.

Unlike commonplace capacitive that actually transfer and amplify your fingers electrical impulses through an electrically conductive barrel and tip,

An “active” battery powered stylus simulates this by sending its own battery operated, low level signal to a fine point stylus tip, instead of relying on an actual external electrical impulse from your own body/fingers.

Also, with “active” battery powered stylii, the makers of these stylii can make them from differnt materials that do not, necessarily, need to be made from conductive materials.

“Active” stylii are simply battery powered, capacitive-like stylii that need no Bluetooth connection.

Some types of these stylii offer palm rejection. Many do not.

NO “Active” stylii offer any type of screen pressure sensitivity.

So, in many respects, “Active” battery powered stylii work just like any other commonplace, capacitive, non-Bluetooth stylus.

Most “Active” stylii do not offer ANY pressure sensing or palm rejection.

To be able to use these types of “active” stylii ( and I even still recommend with other third party, smart Bluetooth stylii for consistent palm rejection ) and be able to lay your hand/palm/side of palm on the iPad's screen, you need to use a special, non-electrical conducting, lycra-based material drawing glove that works by isolating your hand/palm and allow you to lay your hand/palm on the screen as you draw in these non-compatible Adonit stylus apps.

Something like this found on Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/Professional-Anti-fouling-Drawing-Tablet-Graphic-Right-Ha nd-Left-Hand/dp/B017R8M2JY/ref=sr_1https://www.amazon.com/Professional-Anti-fouling-Drawing-Tablet-Graphic-Right-Ha

Many more makers of these types of gloves on Amazon.

To date, the ONLY smart, “Bluetooth” stylus I usually, by default, that I always recommend, as it works well with ANY iPad is the Adonit Pixel stylus.

This stylus works very well with a whole range of Apple Pencil unsupported iPads.

Umfortuanely, both Adonit and Amazon are out of stock of these, currently

I contacted Adonit, directly, and they have reported to me the Adonit Pixel will be re-stocked and available, again, by late Jan, early Feb. 2020.

The Adonit Pixel is really THE ONLY smart, Bluettoth stylii that will confidently work with any iPad all the way back to the 2012 iPad 4 generation and the 1st gen iPad Mini!

https://www.adonit.net/jot/pixel/

If you can wait for this stylus to become available, again, this IS the stylus to get.

I still recommend the drawing glove for better, more consistent palm rejection.

Unbelievably, the leader in digital graphics tablets and digital graphics tablet pens, Wacom, have terrible stylii for iPads.

Their only other smart, Bluettoth stylii for iPad is the Wacom Bamboo Sketch and this is simply a disappointing and horrible stylii to use on any iPad.

It even works bad with their “supposedly” iOS compatible Wacom drawing app, Bamboo Paper!

I did a complete negative review of the Wacom Bamboo Sketch on Amazon over two years, ago!

So, I cannot recommend anything from Wacom for any iPad!

If you can't wait, my advice is to simply purchaae a cheaper, simple, commonplace, easy to obtain clear “disc-tipped” type stylus and a drawing glove.

You'll at least be able to lay your hand down on the screen while drawing and the c;lear disc tip makes it more accurate for writing or drawing and the lycra material in the drawing glove makes it easier to glide your hand/palm/side of your hand across the iPad's screen and will leave no “palm” marks on the iPads screen.

Best of Luck to You!

Here is some more of my own personal use info on the Adonit Pixel, for future reference.

This smart, Bluetooth stylus works across a wide range of iDevices.

The Bluetooth connection is stable and its Bluetooth pressure sensing technology is very smooth, natural feeling and has consistent line drawing ability.

Plus it's a quality made, aluminum stylus with two programmable buttons.

I have been using this stylus for well over two years now and it is really good on my iPad Pro.

This stylus works wonderfully for me.

The Adonit Pixel works with iPads all the way back to the 2012, 1st gen iPad Mini and iPad 4th generation!

Has ON/OFF/app shortcut buttons.

Has a nice fine, textured pen tip AND a nice rubber grip.

Magnetically charges, has an auto 15 minute shutdown feature ( to preserve battery life ), charges in a hour, or so.

Has both a small USB charger that that plugs into any USB charging block OR you can purchase an optional charging dock.

I find it only lasts for anywhere between 9-12 hours, but Adonit claims up to 16 hours of continuous use on a single charge cycle.

Made of very high quality aluminum materials.

The Adonit Pixel ONLY works with over a dozen of the major/popular drawing/sketching/painting apps (the Pixel works with, but currently no longer “officially” supported with Procreate, but it still works and works pretty well in Procreate ), and over a half dozen of the popular note taking apps, a half dozen writing apps and about a half dozen PDF style/compatible apps.

You WILL have to perform some pairing and setup parameters in each of the Adonit Pixel compatible apps.

You just DO NOT simply turn on Bluetooth on an iDevice and turn on the Adonit stylus and start writing.

The Adonit Pixel stylus is NOT an Apple Pencil in this regard/respect.

You have to initially Bluetooth pair the Adonit Pixel, setup the hand/palm position and in many apps, set up the stylus screen pressure sensitivity for each and every compatible app!

Once you have, initially, done all of this, all Adonit Pixel compatible apps will remember these settings for future use!

Some Adonit Pixel users claimed their stylus doesn’t work, but it does work well IF you properly know how to set up the Adonit Pixel!