I'm using DAGi stylus for about 3 months now and cannot be happier. It's very nice and I think perfect for writing notes. I tried other styluses before (Pogo, etc...) but they never worked for me. Have a look on this video review to see how it works.
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What is you choice as best iPad stylus?
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The Dagi and the Adonit Jot are similar designs. Both use a transparent disc to activate the capacitive screen of the iDevice with a tiny visible point in the middle to identify the precise contact point. The two differ in the length of the stylus itself (The Jot Pro is longer and heavier, more like a true pen) and the Dagi uses a flexible spring to keep the disc in contact with the screen when the writing/drawing is done at an acute (less than 90 degree) angle.
I haven't used the Dagi but I have a friend who has one along with a Jot. He has found the spring to be problematic in keeping the disc in constant contact with the screen compared to the Jot. Others may have a different experience.
Personally, I've found the disc/point design to be problematic, period. Specifically, the design doesn't work very well if one writes at an acute angle to the screen. Note that in the video the reviewer keeps the Dagi at close to 90 degrees in relation to the screen. If you write at a more acute angle, the tendency is for the disc to be out of contact with the screen and consequently for the screen to "miss" short strokes and the beginning of longer strokes.
What this comes down to is that your satisfaction with a particular stylus may well depend on your preferred writing/drawing style. If you write at close to a right angle to the screen (or can adjust to that style) the Dagi or the Adonit Jot may work well for you. If not, you may find that particular design to be problematic.
I bought the iFaraday Artist first, but i am still waiting to receive it. So I keep looking around at others in the meantime. I keep coming back to the Wacom Bamboo, it looks so appealing and I don't know why.. everything I heard about it (for the most part) was high praise.
OK guys between the JotPro from Adonit and the Bamboo Stylus from Wacom what would be your choice?
I have the Alupen, it's good but not great and the e-stylo that I hate.
I mostly looking for a stylus for taking notes rather than sketching or drawing. So I would like something that is precise. My instincts push me towards the Jot Pro since the Bamboo reminds me the look of the Alupen.
Thanks for any feedback.
I have the Alupen, it's good but not great and the e-stylo that I hate.
I mostly looking for a stylus for taking notes rather than sketching or drawing. So I would like something that is precise. My instincts push me towards the Jot Pro since the Bamboo reminds me the look of the Alupen.
Thanks for any feedback.
I've heard nothing but great things about the Bamboo Stylus, The Alupen is in no way comparable to the Bamboo (other then the aluminum) The bamboo has excellent balance and feels like a real quality pen. I am biased because I've never used the Jot Pro before.
I have both the jot pro and the faraday rx. I really like the faraday rx. The jot pro skips strokes and clicks. The faraday is a little light and wish it had a better cap and weight, but the more important part to me is it writes when I want it to. The jot pro skips a lot of strokes for me even though I have replacement disks.
Just a tip from another thread regarding the Jot Pro. Haven't tried it yet but others may find it useful. Try cleaning the Jot disc with dish washing liquid and rinsing. The poster claimed that the problem of missed and skipping strokes stems from touching the disc and leaving trace oil that interferes with the contact.
Can't hurt, at least in my case. My Jot Pro has become virtually unusable as the missed stroke problem has gotten worse with use.
I just tried washing with some dish soap and it does seem to have helped the jot pro. Will you report back after trying it?
Here are my experiences:
Bought the wacom bamboo stylus, as I heard it was better than most.
-Attractive
-Strange weight distribution...but feels good overall. It feels heavy, though unbalanced
-Tip is rubbery and collapses with pressure like many other styluses. Personally I do not like this
-Requires as close to a 90 degrees angle as possible, otherwise it loses responsiveness. It often misses strokes when I'm annotating pdf's, and it doesn't register tapping sometimes too.
Just bought an iFaraday Rx.
My initial impressions
-Feels and looks incredibly cheap
-No weight to it at all
-Probably 30% easier to write with than the bamboo.
I will continue using it and report back
Bought the wacom bamboo stylus, as I heard it was better than most.
-Attractive
-Strange weight distribution...but feels good overall. It feels heavy, though unbalanced
-Tip is rubbery and collapses with pressure like many other styluses. Personally I do not like this
-Requires as close to a 90 degrees angle as possible, otherwise it loses responsiveness. It often misses strokes when I'm annotating pdf's, and it doesn't register tapping sometimes too.
Just bought an iFaraday Rx.
My initial impressions
-Feels and looks incredibly cheap
-No weight to it at all
-Probably 30% easier to write with than the bamboo.
I will continue using it and report back
Finally got around to trying the dish soap washing treatment. Works like a charm. I'm not sure how long the "fix" will last but my Jot Pro is now usable for the first time since a week after I purchased it.
I've tried a few so far. The griffin stylus, one from stylus-r-us, the jot pro which I received last week and the ifaraday rx I received today.
I feel like I'm the only one that prefers the jot pro over the ifaraday. I just like the fact that I always know where my point of contact will be and I don't have any issues with it missing strokes.
I feel like I'm the only one that prefers the jot pro over the ifaraday. I just like the fact that I always know where my point of contact will be and I don't have any issues with it missing strokes.
You may not experience the problem, especially if you (a) write cursively rather than print; (b) keep the Jot near perpendicular to the iPad surface; or (c) you just haven't used the Jot long enough to encounter the problem. (Mine became much worse over time, but as noted above, washing the disc with dishwashing liquid has improved the Jot Pro's performance significantly.)
BTW, having used about half a dozen different styluses I've become convinced that almost any of them can be used productively with practice. The visible "point of contact" advantage of the Jot is a real one but I've also found that when I use the iFaraday I quickly "learn" where the point of contact is and Jot Pro's seeming advantage fades.
heard about active stylus???
I find this intriguing!
does anyone know about this?
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1225098940/ipen-the-first-active-stylus-for-ipad
YKnight
I find this intriguing!
does anyone know about this?
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1225098940/ipen-the-first-active-stylus-for-ipad
YKnight
I find this intriguing!
does anyone know about this?
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1225098940/ipen-the-first-active-stylus-for-ipad
YKnight
Don't know much about it other than the url cited above and some earlier publicity about the project that came out a few months ago. But I find at least one aspect of the promotional material misleading and that makes me skeptical about the entire approach.
Using a capacitive stylus, the width of a mark is not determined by the width of a stylus tip. It's determined by the app being used. If you doubt this take any conventional stylus and make a mark on the iPad screen with any of the many drawing/note taking apps that allow you to set the width of the line. Then do the same with your fattest finger (try your thumb.) You'll find the width of the lines is identical.
The capacitive screen of the iPad requires a certain activation diameter (designed for a finger tip) to enable a mark. The mark itself is at the center of this circle. Some styluses with larger tips may obscure the "contact point" but that does not result in a larger contact point or a wider "mark."
Frankly, I find the video to be misleading in this regard. It's obvious, I think, that the wider marks shown by a capacitive stylus are the result of changing the width of a drawing app, not the greater accuracy of the iPen.
Furthermore, as the video demonstrates, the "iPen" requires an attached receiver to locate placement of the pen. Likewise, it requires a note taking/drawing app to use the signal rather than the capacitive placement to locate the contact point. This may well have advantages such as palm rejection compared to the capacitive stylus (at least theoretically) but it is neither more accurate nor does it result in a finer line when drawing.
By the way, I'm not defending the more conventional (and considerably less complex) technology used by most styluses. Apple took a low cost, simple approach and then defended it as "superior" by arguing that one could use a finger rather than a stylus. That is clearly arguable. But the iPen approach requires just the sort of "add on" technology and hardware that Jobs sought eliminate in the iPad. And it does so without really adding much functionality.
got me a rocketfish on black friday. So far so good. Nothing special. It slides well on my antiglare screen and I can draw stuffs pretty good. Good $5 spent.
Where is the cheapest place to get the Wacom Bamboo Stylus?
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How about the feel of it? Is it any good? I'm not sure if Wacom's style is worth 30x more.
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I'm a little confused here. Are you saying that I do have to apply a bit of pressure with the Wacom pen, but it's about the same amount of pressure that I would use with a pen when writing on paper? If so, then it's not a big deal since I would want a similar writing experience. I'll think it'll be weird if I were to write with less pressure.
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How about the feel of it? Is it any good? I'm not sure if Wacom's style is worth 30x more.
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I'm a little confused here. Are you saying that I do have to apply a bit of pressure with the Wacom pen, but it's about the same amount of pressure that I would use with a pen when writing on paper? If so, then it's not a big deal since I would want a similar writing experience. I'll think it'll be weird if I were to write with less pressure.
While what they have shown is indeed a bit misleading, this solution does nonetheless have a potentially serious advantage in terms of accuracy. If only because you can better see what you're doing. The fat tips of capacitive styluses obstructs fine pen work from view, which can be quite frustrating. Also from what I have heard and experienced, the capacitive sensor is not exactly 1:1.
Besides palm rejection, having the pen be recognized as a seperate input could open the door for some interesting interface methods. Like producing a virtual ruler with two or three fingers and drawing across it with the pen.
Also there is that hover feature. That's something I'm a bit familiar with thanks to my Wacom digitizer tablet. Basically it allows the pen to mimic the mouse-over behavior. It would be interesting to see how app developers could take advantage of that.
Actually capacitive touchscreens are quite a bit pricier than the older, more stylus-friendly resistive touchscreens. Especially since they consume more processing power and battery. Or do you mean compared to the Wacom digitizers they use in higher end TabletPCs? That by itself wouldn't make sense for iOS.
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The concept seems similar to the Dane Electric Z-Pen with the sensor. Of course, that is for writing on actual paper.
In addition, there is already an I-Pen Mouse for the PC.
Just Bought Two Myself
Read reviews and went mid-range. (posted in the post your last purchase thread) My friend who is an artist reckons the best of the best is the Wacom bamboo range, but I wasn't going to spend that kind of money (£79.00) so I will see how I go.
Only want to doodle a bit on my iPad, plenty of free apps to do it with too.
Read reviews and went mid-range. (posted in the post your last purchase thread) My friend who is an artist reckons the best of the best is the Wacom bamboo range, but I wasn't going to spend that kind of money (£79.00) so I will see how I go.
Only want to doodle a bit on my iPad, plenty of free apps to do it with too.
I really have tried them all - own most of the pens above - the one I keep coming back to is a faraday artist...thinnest line is the adonit....
ifaraday.com
ifaraday.com
+1 I ordered an iFaraday Artist, it didn't arrive for 2 weeks (From US to CAN) so I emailed Rustle and he asked me to wait two more days, I emailed him back two days later and he promptly resent me a new stylus which arrived within a week and I love it.
I was debating on the Wacom but for it's price you can buy all three of iFaraday's stylus's in a pack! Way better deal!!