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BrushPen doesn’t have too many drawbacks. Interestingly enough, I found one of them to be the fact that you have three different tips at your disposal. While you can always have two on the stylus, you really have nowhere to store the third. The box the
BrushPen comes with has foam padding so you can store both the pen and the extra tip securely, but that box doesn’t have a top, so the only way it truly stays safe is if you keep the stylus’ packaging and keep the box in the sleeve that it comes in. In the end, this isn’t too much of an issue, it’s just more stuff to carry around, and while an argument can be made for simply keeping the extra tip in your bag or with your other iPad accessories, doing so with the brush tip could lead to bent or broken bristles.
The only other aspect that annoys me about the BrushPen isn’t really about the stylus itself, but it’s more about what is implied in some of the advertising I’ve seen for this product. While nothing on the BrushPen's packaging claims to have this ability, PenGo has a video that shows the stylus swirling around an iPad and the brush size in the app seems to increase when more pressure is used. I just want to make it clear for people researching this product who have seen that video. If this is possible, it is not a function of the BrushPen.
If anything, it would be built into the art application and it would adjust the brush size based on the touchscreen receiving a wider area of contact because more pressure is being applied. I will say though, if such an app were to come out, it seems like the BrushPen would be a good product to use on it. Again, this isn’t really something against the BrushPen itself, it does what it says it does, I just wanted to add a bit of warning for anyone who might think that this stylus is more than a stylus.
