Digital Stylus Pencil for iPad, iPad Pro, and iPhone - Graphite

Update 14 Jan 16:So I left my initial review for the 53 digital stylus. It was an honest review of a product that I thought was great, but I had a poor experience with it. I don't leave reviews to get attention from the vendor. I leave reviews on amazon to give customers a honest assessment on the product they might potentially buy. Within a day of my review, I was contacted by a REAL PERSON from the company. This wasn't an automated response to three star review, but a real person contacting me and asking me what they could do to make me happy. This meant a lot to me. A product can be good, but if there isn't a great customer service team attached to it, it will never be great. Not only did FiftyThree send me (no questions asked) replacement items for my stylus, but they offered in-depth advise on how to prevent my experience from happening again. This is a company with a very impressive device, who obviously cares a lot about the customer too. This makes this stylus a five star product. I look forward to FiftyThree's next generation stylus.The pen seems to be a great concept. After a few days of light use, the eraser side stopped being recognized as the eraser. I fiddled with it like the instructions said, but ended up having to replace the eraser tip with the one that was included. I was kind of disappointed with that. A few days later, the pressure sensitivity on the pen/pencil side started working intermittantly. So like the eraser, I cleaned it, and did the trouble shooting. After having to use the test portion in the 53 app overtime I needed to use the pen, I ended up replacing the pen tip with the included replacement. I was a little disappointed that I had to use the tip replacements within the first week of owning it. This was just light use, a few sketches and drawings getting used to the app. The app and pen are solid when they work together. I like being able to angle the pen to get that "pencil shading" effect. Overall, a great product, but having to use both of my replacement tips in the first week knocked it down to three stars for me.

I love the stylus and how it works with my iPad and the Application Paper53, however, and this is what bothers me a bit but I still love the stylus don't get me wrong: "The Tips", oh man, they should be more wear resistant (any improvement here would be very welcome), - this is why I'm giving it four stars (actually it's more like 4.5).I have a screen protector on my iPad and when the stylus was new the rubber tip was great but then after just two weeks it started sagging and jumping lines, I ordered replacement tips because I figured they would come in handy and boy o boy, they not only are handy but since I am a heavy user it turns out the first replacement lasted only about 9 days before it started sagging like the one the stylus came with, which if you can manage it's not a deal breaker but I would love it if they lasted longer. I know that in a consumer economy buying replacement parts are necessary (like ink and batteries, etc,) but again, I would love some heavy duty tips, I would buy those even if they were more expensive than the 8 bucks you pay for the replacement pair of tips Paper sells for this stylus that it indeed magical, exciting to use and awesome but it would be "super awesome" if the tips withstood my style of sketching.

I'm not impressed. As of 09SEP15 I'm STILL thing to find a pressure sensitive stylus to go with my Air2.My first attempt was the Pogo Connect 2, which said it was compatible, but it's unpredictable depending on the program. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.I had a Pogo Connect with my iPad 3 and it worked great, so the experience with the Air 2 has been disappointing. I know this isn't a Pogo Connect review, but there it is.This isn't a Wacom Creative review either, but I was excited when the Stylus 2 came out, but it's still not compatible with the Air 2. Again, I had the v1 with my iPad3 and it worked quite well.I bought this Pencil specifically because I'd heard it was the only one that actually worked with the Air2. I'd watched some YouTube videos and read some other reviews from happy people so I went ahead and got one. I have to say I'm disappointed. It's as unpredictable as the Pogo 2. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't depending on the app. I was expecting a lot out of it with the Paper app, but the results were the same. Sometimes it draws, sometimes it smudges, there's no predictable pressure sensitivity in my experience.I know Apple screwed up by releasing the Air 2 without telling developers about the changes, but going on a year of having this, and not being a developer, I'd think one of these big companies would have a pressure sensitive stylus that works correctly. It's frustrating.Overall, this feels like a carpenter's pencil in your hand. If I turn it off it draws a line just like the $5 stylus I bought does.Some people have had a god experience with this thing, but that isn't my experience. But, ti's the same disappointing experience as the other pressure sensitive stylus' soooo...lol...