How durable it the iPod touch 5 screen?

5C cases will not fit. 5S will kinda fit, you may need to put a couple sheets of paper between your case and iPod to take up the couple of milimters of difference...and there's some conflict with your volume button.

As to a case, if you want impact protection you're gonna have to deal with some rubber.

As to the screen protector. I have the Zagg one. It's expensive but it sticks on and doesn't pop up, not like cheap ones do.

You slip any 'naked' device in your pocket it's gonna get scratched. Maybe not major scratches but little ones. You drop it, it's gonna get damaged...or it may not. For the kind of impact protection you're waning, you're gonna need a $50+ case.

I kept my iPod 4 in a screen protector and simple back cover, then I put it in a small camera case that I put in my purse....it wasn't horribly bulky but protected it quite well. Maybe something like that. Walmart had one that would just fit the iPod.

Hello. Skydiver pretty much said it all! Don't know that I have anything more other than another voice in the dark. You really should get the case that is meant for your iPod. The phones look like the iPod but they are different dimensions and buttons are in different places. The screens are glass and glass breaks and scratches, etc. Unfortunately the cases that protect the glass as well as the body of the iPod will have rubber and add some bulk. As for falls and drops, any fall / drop may do damage if it hits the road so to speak the right wrong way, even with a case, but your odds of survival without damage are better with a case.

I have a Griffin Survivor it's day glow yellow and black, makes it easy to find. One of the benefits of the rubber, makes holding on to my iPod easier, and it keeps the iPod from slipping falling out of my pocket when I bend over. The seals on the ports have kept mine clear of stuff in the ports and kept the weather off my iPod. I know this is starting to sound like a commercial but I'm happy with my case. I have beat the snot out of it, dropped it on rocks, spilled tea on it, been caught in the rain and snow, gone dirt biking, rolled it down a flight of stairs in a backpack with a glass bottle of tea, (remember the tea), the bottle broke, tea on everything, ruined everything, but just wiped the iPod off and still going, and worst of all... left it in the hands of a 6 year old, so far, so good. Something to note some cases state they are waterproof and some say they are watertight, waterproof means spill something on it or get wind driven rain on it your most likely protected (the Survivor is waterproof) but drop it in the toilet and your all wet. Watertight can go in the water and should be OK as long as the seals work. Sorry it's so long, Hope this helps, Good luck.