Adonit Star Review: Fountain Pen iPad Stylus With Basic Essentials – SlashGear

Communicating to the tablet in a similar way that Apple Pencils do, the iPad disregards touch input from your hand resting on the screen while using the stylus. The Adonit Star’s part in the iPad’s palm rejection feature worked flawlessly with no issues to report. This stylus’s precision, low latency, and consistent communication with the iPad were plain to see and experience. The Adonit is comfortable enough to hold for long periods of time.

Testing for this review focused on office productivity (writing), and some photography editing. The ultra-fine tip is absolutely wonderful for hand-written notes, digital productivity like writing in a calendar, and photo editing on Lightroom. Meanwhile, it doesn’t take a modern-day da Vinci to see that the Star, as neat of an iPad accessory as it is, is no artist’s tool. This stylus keeps it simple — it’s primitive, as far as smart stylus devices go — it’s an option for you when you want to choose style over higher-end features.

The fact that palm rejection is this stylus’ only intelligent feature completely disqualifies it from competing for the attention of digital creators. There’s no pressure sensitivity to control brushstroke size and opacity, no tilt-to-shade for complex digital art — and even if there were, the metal piece giving the fountain pen allusion would cause major concern for scratching the iPad screen if you were tilting the stylus to shade and draw. Plus, there’s the absence of multifunction or shortcut buttons — and the lack of specialized support for creative apps like Procreate or Adobe Fresco.