Wacom - Intuos Creative Stylus for Apple® iPad® 3rd Generation and iPad mini - Black

It's an expensive stylus and you really need to use specific apps to get the most out of it. We ended up going through several apps before we found one that 1) we liked the best and 2) supported the stylus. If you don't use one that supports the device, it's just a really expensive stylus. The degree of sensitivity is really amazing. It's almost like having a regular Wacom Bamboo or Intuos tablet. But you get the feel as if you are drawing directly on the iPad. But again, this is one of those devices that I wouldn't recommend for just anyone. An artist will love it! A casual sketcher, not so much.

I've used this stylus with Procreate running on my 3rd generation iPad and have been very happy with the results. There were some issues at first getting the Bluetooth connection established, but these were resolved by removing and reinserting the battery. The tip is still thicker than I would prefer, but it's not a big factor when I'm actually using it. Pressure sensitivity adds a whole new dimension to drawing that was not available before on an iPad. The iPad running Procreate with this stylus is now my preferred drawing method.

I like what the Intuos Creative stylus, my two biggest complaints are 1)power on and off and 2)battery cap. You can't power it on or off with a button. Instead, it comes on with the touch of the two programed buttons. So if you accidently touch them or if trigger in your backpack then the battery life is diminished. Secondly, the battery cap doesn't stay closed. Movement, in my bag's pen sleeve, causes the cap to loosen. One day I grabbed it for use and notice the cap was gone....forever.

I like this stylus. I have the regular Bamboo stylus as well, and I like that very much. But this is even better. The tip is very sensitive, so little pressure needs to be applied. And it works as a pressure sensitive stylus with quite a number of apps on my iPad. The only possible thing I could ask is for a finer tip, but that's getting nit-picky.

As a college student, I take a LOT of lecture notes. This stylus lets me use Bamboo Paper (an app I was already using) to a higher potential. I can easily erase areas or click to undo without ever moving the pen. The palm-detection is excellent and does well to prevent random stray marks or interaction with my hand rather than the pen. The device is Bluetooth, but doesn't connect to the iPad directly. Instead it connects within the application. The auto-power off feature is nice for saving battery, however it frequently means that I am waiting to reconnect the stylus before taking the next section of notes.

So I actually have the original creative stylus as well and the bamboo fineline stylus. And thought the creative stylus 2 is the best of the set it is catered specifically to the artist. Like the fineline which is meant to be used as a pen for taking notes. The creative stylus, original one, has a thick tip so it's really good for painting and drawing but not so much for sketching and definitely useless for taking notes. Creative stylus 2 - artist, sketching, drawing, may be okay for note-taking. Creative stylus original - good for drawing, works with iPad Air 2 better than other 2, not good for sketching or note-taking Bamboo fineline - best for note taking, okay for drawing slightly better for sketching but half the pressure points of the creative stylus so may not be great for actual artistic drawing.

I love Wacom tablets and was drawn to the stylus because it is pressure-sensitive. I have tried different styli in the past, and I found this stylus to be the most pen-like. Is it perfect? No, but it is great for sketching ideas.

Until a pen is made (that feels like a traditional one) with a tip that doesn't wear off or break (as has happened multiple times with Targus, Bamboo styluses, Apple styluses, and the Jot), this will be my main stylus for writing on iPad. Just wish bamboo tablet programs could be used on iPad, you know, like the bamboo drawing tablet that I can write comments on any word or Page document I pull up. Can't you guys negotiate something with Apple? Hope so!