

The upbeat promo video demonstrates the features and speed of the app, and also shows Wacoms Bamboo Stylus product too: I can’t give any specific recommendations because I’ve never used a Stylus for the iPad or iPhone, but anything is probably better than that silly sausage that became strangely popular last year in Korea due to their chilly winters. If you want to go against Mr Jobs grain and grab a stylus, here are a few to choose from since they all appear to work the same: Get Bamboo Paper on the iOS App Store, it’s free until June 30 but afterwards it costs $2. That’s a big relief if you’ve been annoyed with the rendering lag that exists on some of the other drawing apps out there for the iOS platform. It’s compatible with iPad 3 and newer, iPad Mini, and iPad Air.Īvailable now, the Wacom Bamboo Stylus Fineline retails for $59.It has all the standard features you’d want, with different paper types, ink color options, sharing functionality, but maybe most important is that MacWorld says it has one of the “fastest rendering engines for drawing” on the iPad. Pen construction is brushed aluminum, with a premium design that makes it look more like a fancy fountain pen than a cheap, disposable ballpoint. A programmable button on the pen lets you use it as a shortcut to quickly launch your favorite drawing or note-taking app. Like the Surface Pro 3’s stylus, it will also let you put your hand on the screen and not have it affect what you’re doing, similar to drawing on an actual paper. When used with the Bamboo Paper app, the pen functions in a pressure-sensitive manner (1,024 levels of sensitivity), allowing you write thinner or thicker lines depending on the amount of pressure you’re putting on the screen. The Wacom Bamboo Stylus Fineline can instantly pair with the iPad using Bluetooth Smart, allowing you to quickly use it for drawing and handwriting, as well as with apps that require precision controls.

Seriously, it even looks more like a real pen than a capacitive stylus, so the tactile experience of scribbling on a notebook or doodling on a sketch pad can be fully recreated. If you want as close an experience of putting a real pen to paper, however, it’s hard to do any better than the Wacom Bamboo Stylus Fineline.ĭesigned for precise drawing and note-taking, the digital writing tool features a fine tip that’s as close to pointed as you can get without scratching the tablet’s Retina display.

There’s no shortage of styluses available for the iPad.
