Best fine tip writing stylus for iPad Air?

Hey! I have been writing (a lot) on my ipad for quite a while now ( a year) so i believe i can give u some tips about styli.

I have checked out all kinds of styli. The worst styli you can find out there are the rubber end ones. Even if they have a fine point they're still incapable. When ur screen or the rubber point is going to be slightly humid then its rubbish. U will need something more solid.

I have bought both Adonit Pro and Adonit Script t different times and tried them out.

I had first started using Adonit Pro. Its incredible really. The only con about it is that if ure not careful with it u can lose the disc, and also u must replace the disc every 3 months or so, depending on the rate ur using it.

I use it every single day and a lot. I do not write on paper, just on my ipad. I study medicine so u could understand i write a lot. It also has a magnet inside, which lets it attach on your ipad smartcase. It really comes in handy trust me.

Then the Script was produced and many styli users went a bit mad about if it was worth it or not etc. I liked the fact that it had no disc. BUT at the end of the day i was dissapointed. I gave it a one month chance. Many cons and few pros.

Cons:

BATTERY required therefore heavier and u need to buy a battery average every month (not that of a big deal though)

CLICKING NOISE. if ur in a coffee shop or something like that its perfectly fine. But if ure in the library then its a pain in the *** believe me. Everyones going to be ****** at u

IPAD ORIENTATION ISSUES. If ure writing on a vertically orientated ipad then the styli works great. If its horizontally then the stylus tends to write about 1-2mm inferiorly to your tip. I tried to get used it but just couldnt. After going back to my Adonit Pro i realised i was suffocating with the Adonit Script.

TOO EXPENSIVE.

Conclusion: I vehemently reccomend Adonit Pro.

ps1. i have nothing to do with Adonit. Just trying to help!

ps2. ill send u some pictures of my work so u get the idea of how writing with the Adonit Pro is. My writing is exactly the same when i write on paper

I have been using the Lynktec Apex finepoint stylus and love it. It does not require a bluetooth connection to work on the iPad Air or any tablet I have found. They have a rechargeable and a battery powered version. It works with any note taking app I have found. It is truly like writing with a pen. The words you are writing appear below the tip, so it looks and feels like you are writing with a pen. The rechargeable stylus is a bit bulky, but it works great. A charge lasts about 10 days before needing a recharge. I would recommend it to anyone. I use it in meetings for note taking, and have been asked many times how it works and if they can try it. Everyone I have let use it and try it have gone out and bought one. I just purchased the purchased the Apex Plus, which is not as bulky and has a nicer look. It is battery operated (AAA). I traded the look of the pen for the rechargeability of the pen.

I ended up picking one of these bad boys up today at Target. The Jot Pro that is. I have owned a couple bamboo stylus, the cheap $15 stylus grocery stores sell and even the Pogo devices. As far as writing and accuracy is concerned, the Jot Pro is by far superior... and for the price, you really cannot beat it. I tend to use the bamboo stylus for larger drawings, or items that do not need to be as "perfect" for a lack of better words. Im satisfied!

Hey ystino!

so, 1: i only reccomend noteshelf

2: i had jot evernote and i think jot touch 4 is really similar to it. If u study in a library, the noise will be quite a pain in the ***, especially for

the others. But the bottom line is jot touch 4 isnt as good as jot pro.

3: so about screen protectors. I never had but i had a small scratch from jot evernote. Jot pro did not create any scratches. The reason i dont use a screen protector is to not affect the performance of my stylus

Hoped i helped 🙂

I recommend the MEKO disk stylus This product is very good. Responsive. Fine point. Like a real pen on the pad. And of course good price!!!! Works well with iPad Air. I attached a photo. My drawing is bad but you get the point.

Jot Flip (from 2012) with disk nib on iPad 3

Pros:

• Base models quite cheap now! (≈$20-30).
• Quiet.
• Doesn't 'miss' sections of writing with a screen protector.
• Nib lasts far longer with continued use than any rubber stylus I've used (they all broke 1 month or so in).
• Very precise and simple (i.e. no battery & easy to see tip placement).

Cons:

• Nib requires replacement every 3-4 months (given everyday use).
• Grit caught between nib and screen protector causes scratches (and frosting long term).
• Nib can break off or become loose with excessive wear (Although you can sometimes just reattach if you can find it!).
• The very fluid writing feel takes a bit of time to get used to (very low friction).

I've been using a Jot Flip by Adonit for the last two years or so. Wonderful stylus! Main drawback is that the plastic disk at the tip tends to wear down after 3-4 months (mind you, it's in constant use throughout the uni semester...) and if you have a screen protector, the stylus will completely ruin it over time. This seems to happen whenever a small piece of dust or grit gets stuck between the disk nib and the screen, and this will generally make the screen protector frosty with continued use, with the occasional deep gouge. As a result I haven't been game enough to try the stylus without a screen protector for fear of damaging the glass (which most likely is considerably tougher than a plastic film). Other than this, it's a great stylus, and the price has dropped quite a bit since I bought mine in 2012. Not too noisy either (especially if you're used to running-writing).

Also, if you're considering a rubber tip, they're no good for long-term use. I found the tip (incredibly smooth at first) became overly grippy with continued use. It ended up leaving dark marks on the screen from wear (just rubber marks, which could be scrubbed off) and subsequently the grip caused the rubber to fault and tear. Very frustrating.

Hey man.

So two factors affect how easily and successful one is writing on an iPad. Its the combination(!!) of a NOTE-TAKING APP & the STYLUS. If one of the two is of low quality, even if the other is perfect, then u wont have good results, i.e. making your life difficult. U should enjoy writing on an iPad.

As I've aforementioned, I strongly recommend the stylus "ADONIT PRO'' & the note-taking app, "NOTESHELF"

Sohail9 wrote:

by the way, I've seen many of these styli don't work on ipad AIR as well as on other devices and I have an air, what's with the air?

I have both an iPad Air and an iPad 3. Never noticed any difference in the way any of the stylii I have work from one to the other. The Jot Pro works on both quite nicely.

Hey!

With the adonit jot pro i had no scratching issues. with jot pro script i had 2 scratches.

i heard notes plus is a really really good application but i havent tried it since theres no lite edition.

i would recomend the jots with the pixelpoints. i had jotr script and it just a waste of money. there was such a big fuss about it, but it turned out to be huge failure. no wonder after a couple of months they produced jot touch, which is really similar to jot script. thats why im not even bothering of trying it out. i reccomend a stylus with no bluetooth technology.from all these i would suggest wacom feel. that looks like a stylus with precision

Sohail9 wrote:

Hi Alex, after reading what you've written here i'm gonna buy Adonit Pro,

I've also been using it for over a year and love it.

I just purchased an iPad Air for my daughter to use when she returns to Grad school this fall. We have an iPad to and the 6 mm broad-tip styluses worked OK for quick notes. With the higher resolution screen and a few years to improve things, I thought that then would have gotten better.

In fact, I think that they have gotten worse. We purchased a Defender case for the Air and I bought several of the inexpensive rubber tipped styluses. They all required too much pressure for writing comfortably and all skipped leaving the writing to be unusable.

Next, we purchased the 'Pencil' from 53 the makers of the iPad app 'Paper'. This uses a low powered bluetooth tech that WITHOUT the screen protector worked much better. You could use it to take notes using the Goodnote App. With the screen protector, the skipping returns and the pressure causes the tip to rub on the screen too much.

I have ordered the Adonit Script to try that, but there are several posts on the net that suggest that I won't be pleased with that either if using a screen protector. Honestly, does anyone really take their Air into an environment with people jostling about and NOT protect it?

I went to the Apple Store and their answer was "We don't sell a stylus, so we don't know anything about them." I made an appointment with the local Genius who admitted that they (the local store genuses were aware of the problem, but that Apple had not official response to the problem. [Seems that a problem doesn't exist if you don't acknowledge it.]

Our plan is to wait for the Adonit Jot Script stylus arrival, and if it doesn't work, we will return the Air and look at alternatives.

Hope you have better luck or better yet find the answer so that the rest of us can use the Air to its full potential.

Wacom markets the INTUOS CREATIVE STYLUS 2 as "ergonomically designed for creative professionals with a thin pressure-sensitive tip that lets you draw, sketch, paint, on your iPad with the intuitive and natural feel of pens and brushes." http://www.wacom.com/en/us/creative/intuos-creative-stylus-2

Has anyone used this Wacom model stylus? With what results?

I got one to test and wasn't happy with it for handwriting. Slow and rather erratic, and that using Penultimate which is supposedly optimised for the Jot Script. Drawing would probably be fine.

Regards.

Noteshelf and justmobile stylus. No Bluetooth or battery needed. I write literally all day with this combo.