When I first used it, I found the glassy feeling of the screen a little off-putting and strange, but after a few months I’m completely used to it. It's really, really smooth, and combined with the smoothness of the plastic nib of the Apple Pencil you’ll find your stylus gliding over the screen with almost no friction at all. The screen of the iPad Pro is made from precision-milled glass. The Pencil is more than good enough to work professionally with, of that I’m certain. Apple have somehow managed to remove the need for cursor calibration, and there isn’t any noticeable parallax either, so the Pencil is technically very accurate - however, there is no cursor when drawing and the Pencil’s nib is fatter than a Wacom or Huion stylus', so it's hard to say which is more accurate. I don’t think I’ve once run out of battery with my Pencil - I just clip it to the iPad overnight and whenever I take a break, and that's enough to keep it topped up just fine. However, even though it's a bit annoying that it needs charging now and then, it lasts hours and charges to full battery in 10 minutes. I don’t think the pressure levels of the Apple Pencil are public knowledge, but from my experience they are indistinguishable from the 4000 or 8000 on a Wacom or Huion stylus.īeing battery-powered, it has to be charged regularly.

It just has a single hidden button: double-tap the side of the pencil and it’ll act as a button, usually switching to an eraser in most apps. ‍The Pencil is relatively short on features - no buttons, no eraser on the end, no rubberized grip. It’s shape encourages me to hold it a little further back and looser, much like I would hold a real pencil, making it a little more comfortable to hold for long periods than the typically wider and tapered Wacom and Huion stylus’. It’s thin and resembles a slightly heavy pencil, with a rounded nib.

As far as I’m aware the Pencil is the only fully-functional stylus for the iPad Pro.

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