Livescribe 3 Smart Pen is a smart pen with phenomenal accuracy in both writing and drawing. It is also comfortable and easy to use thanks to its soft rubber grip and round design. It has a short setup time, only 30 seconds. Pen syncing is easy when you install the app on your smartphone.

Livescribe 3 Smart Pen did not record any inaccuracies in your writings or drawings. The Livescribe app also impresses. Digitizing your handwriting is as easy as swiping left or right. You can also start/stop a recording using the app or the navigation icons printed at the bottom of Livescribe's notebooks, which is a neat feature.

This Livescribe 3 Smart Pen has impressive battery life, lasting up to 14 hours of continuous use. It is charged via the micro-USB port at the top of the pen. Although the Livescribe 3 Smartpen has a rather large and heavy design, the rounded body feels comfortable to use. Overall, Livescribe 3 Smartpen's competitive pricing and advanced features are well worth your consideration.

Advantages:

• The most accurate pen we tested
• Comfortable round design

Disadvantages:

• Heavier than most smartpens
• Requires expensive Livescribe notebooks

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Whether you're an amateur or a professional artist, the Wacom Bamboo Folio Smartpad is the ideal smartpen for you. Thanks to the included smart board, you can use any type of paper with the smartpen, which is perfect for artists who need their ideal canvas.

During the writing and drawing tests, the Wacom Bamboo Folio Smartpad was almost perfect, have just one small error across both tests. It's also one of those comfortable smartpens with a simple screw-on mechanism. The pen itself doesn't need charging, while the pad will run for eight hours before needing to be charged via micro-USB. It takes just over a minute to set up the smartpad and pair it with your smartphone.

Using smartpad is very simple. You need to put a piece of paper on top of smartpad and start writing. When done, you can easily upload your work by pressing a button to sync the smartpad with your smartphone. It instantly saves your work to the Wacom Inkspace app. From here, you can directly view and even edit your masterpieces. If you're serious about drawing, then the Wacom Bamboo Folio is the smart choice.

Advantages:

• Smartpad works with any paper
• Great accuracy with writing and drawing

Disadvantages:

• The paper must be aligned with the smartpad
• Short battery life

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The Neo Smartpen N2 is easy to install and feels comfortable in your hand, but it requires a special notebook and writing pad to function.

The pen has an elongated look, metal body, and elegant design, offering an attractive alternative to many triangular digitals on the market. It's also incredibly easy to use. All you have to do is press a button on the bottom of the pen to turn it on. You can also toggle Bluetooth and pairing settings using the buttons on the pen. When putting the Neo Smartpen N2 through the writing and drawing tests, it performed better than average, but there were a few errors in both the writing and drawing tests.

This Neo Smartpen N2 charges through the micro-USB port located on the top of the pen. Five hours of battery life is quite short. So it will require frequent charging if you are a heavy user. However, setup is quick, taking only about 30 seconds to pair the pen with your smartphone. If you're looking for a metal smartpen that's sleek, works well, and feels great, then the Neo Smartpen N2 is a solid choice.

Advantages:

• One of the most comfortable pens we tested
• Quick setup

Disadvantages:

• Shortest battery life we tested
• A bit on the heavy side

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The Newyes SyncPen 2 smartpen is a hybrid as it comes with both a special notebook and a 10-inch LCD tablet for writing. Write with the pen nib in a book, or trade-in the plastic tip and use the tablet for extras like a choice of colors and different pen styles.

The pen is high quality, made of metal, yet comfortable and relatively light. Writing is converted to text, and you can record it through the app. For the price, it's not cheap, but considering you get the tablet, writing pad, pen, and nib, that's fair enough.

Advantages:

• Paper and LCD tablet uses
• Writing to text
• Intuitive power on/off

Disadvantages:

• Specialist notebooks required
• Pen angle sensitivity

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Livescribe Symphony is a fantastic blend of features, build quality, ease of use, and a reasonable price. It reflects a company that has worked towards perfection for many years, and it is pretty close to that.

The pen feels comfortable and easy to write with, offers 10 hours of battery life, converts text to text directly, and lets you dictate with your paired smartphone. You're required to use special paper for detection, and there were one or two pairing issues during testing, but overall, for the price, this is impressive.

Charges quickly and easily via USB, making it the go-anywhere choice that you don't have to worry about dying with its 90-day standby time. It's also so discreet that you won't be noticed when using the smartpen, nor will you notice, as this is very comfortable and natural to use.

Advantages:

• Ergonomic comfort
• Converts writing to text well
• Dictate with a phone

Disadvantages:

• Special paper required
• The odd pairing issue

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Rocketbook Core offers a differentiator from other smartpens. The core is a notebook made of 36 pages of polyester synthetic that, when used with the included Pilot FriXion pen, can be wiped clean. It means writing clear and natural, then scanning with the app before wiping it off for reuse. That makes this a super affordable and sustainable option.

The scanning part is the only effort. It couldn't be easier as pages are recognized by QR codes, and you can even select icons at the bottom of the page to upload text to cloud storage locations specifically, be it Google Drive, Dropbox, Evernote, and more. It even offers handwriting recognition, so you can search your words digitally and use handwritten titles as digital titles.

Advantages:

• Reusable notebook
• Efficient app scanning
• Affordable
• Sustainable

Disadvantages:

• Scanning takes time
• No audio notes

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The Moleskine Pen+ Ellipse is part of the Moleskine Intelligent Writing System, a collection of high-quality products from the renowned Italian paper manufacturer. The Smart Writing System includes Pen+ and Ncoded Paper Tablets.

Like many smartpens, proprietary paper is required to function properly, but the Moleskine Pen+ Ellipse requires a proprietary manual to function. However, we can comfortably say that Moleskines are the best, as they don't sacrifice style or practicality. However, you pay a hefty price for these fancy notebooks. The pen is sleek and weighs as much as five regular Bic pens. It's comfortable to hold and easy to write on, featuring a triangular design and slim profile.

However, in the handwriting tests, the Pen+ recorded just one error when writing out the full Gettysburg address. Likewise, transcribing words written into the app had highly accurate results, even with messy handwriting. But it fails in drawing tests, so it's not the best choice for artists. Even so, the excellent handwriting accuracy combined with the app's ability to record audio makes taking notes during lectures or meetings great.

Advantages:

• Stylish design
• Excellent writing and drawing accuracy

Disadvantages:

• Only works with proprietary notepads
• Poor battery life

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Livescribe Echo almost has it all. It delivers excellent accuracy for writing and drawing, which is vital for a smartpen. It also comes with a built-in voice recorder, allowing you to record interviews and lectures so you can write them down later. It even has great battery life despite these extras.

Sadly where the Livescribe Echo falls is in the comfort department. Because it had a recorder tucked into the case along with all the other tech, Livescribe had to make the Echo extremely bulky to accommodate all this technology making it cumbersome to use.

With all that said, if you're looking for a smartpen and voice recorder combo, the Livescribe Echo is still a good choice.

Advantages:

• Incredible accuracy for writing and drawing
• Built-in audio recorder

Disadvantages:

• Chunky
• No voice-to-text transcription

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The Repaper tablet successfully combines pencil and paper with digital drawing at a very reasonable price. Repaper Ring's special magnetic technology makes it possible to take a pencil and draw directly on paper that's fixed to an A5-sized tablet. You'll find that pencil drawings come to life digitally on your smartphone and tablet.

The pressure sensitivity works well, allowing for control over the thickness and thinness of your lines. The Repaper tablet can also be used as a graphics tablet using the supplied stylus. The Repaper tablet and the free Repaper Studio app have clean, simple designs that are easy to use for both adults and children. The application is also compatible with many other software programs, such as Adobe Photoshop or Gimp, for more extensive editing.

You can also use Repaper Tablet to take notes, but it doesn't digitize text, so it's better for visual note-taking styles, such as creating mind maps. The Repaper tablet also works well with Microsoft Whiteboard and Google Jamboard, so it's super simple to go live and give presentations online on Zoom or Teams.

Advantages:

• Real paper use
• Reasonable price

Disadvantages:

• Won't digitize text
• Can't use it while traveling
• Slippery tablet

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