The Apple Pencil is a marvelous stylus—one that comes close to mimicking the sensation of writing with a real pen or pencil. It’s also a costly gadget, and the first-generation model comes with all kinds of annoying quirks ranging from an awkward charging process to a removable cap that’s prone to going missing. Thankfully, there’s a good alternative in the form of the Logitech Crayon, which Amazon is currently offering for just $49.99, down $20 from the typical price of $70. It’s a match of the lowest price we’ve ever seen it listed for.
For much of last year you could only get a Logitech Crayon if you were a student, but Logitech and Apple later released it to wider audiences. Its school-centered origins reveal themselves in many aspects of its design. It has two edges like a carpenter’s pencil, so it will never roll off a table. The unmissable construction-zone orange cap over the charging port never leaves the stylus, and unlike the Apple Watch, you can charge the Crayon with an ordinary Lightning cable. It’s super easy to pair and even has an on/off switch. Nowadays, it even works with all recent iPad models, and even the first-generation Apple Pencil can’t say that.
