Kind of on this subject, I'll tell you something I've been dealing with: None of these Wacom UD stylii are durable enough for me. I've broken several S-pens, a Noris Digital, and that Kaweco Al-Star pen that costs over $100 that you have to import from Europe. The Al-Star uses the same cheap-plastic cylinder structure as the Noris Digital in the area where the nib comes out, which you can break easily if you side-shade too aggressively.
People like to diss the Apple Pencil for how expensive it is but I've lost way, way more money at this point on the UD styluses. I had one Apple Pencil actually crap out on me after ~2-3 years of use... no idea what happened but one day it stopped just stopped working altogether.
The thing that kills me the most about Samsung is they won't sell replacement nibs on their website. I did end up stockpiling my fair share of official nibs through the 4+ Galaxy Tab S-pens I've bought so far (they each come with like 2 nibs), but then my dumbass either loses them or they just get mixed up with all the other unofficial nibs I bought, and I can't tell which is which.
When I take a chance on some S-pen nibs on Amazon, it's actually a huge risk that never pays off because the internals of the S-pen are shockingly fragile in my experience. If you insert and start using something that isn't exactly right, you seriously run the risk of the pen's behavior being permanently altered not long after -- mainly by having unwanted inputs when the pen is just hovering above the screen but not making contact.
I need to see if there's another store that I can trust to sell official S-pen nibs. Amazon definitely is not it -- that site is full of illicit Samsung accessories.
Btw, the only "unofficial" nib that did alright with the S-pen are the Wacom One nibs, but now I'm too afraid to use those on my Tab S10+ because I'm worried they'll scratch the new coating this screen has which rather drastically reduces the glare. I already spotted a little hairline scratch on it that can only be seen under intense direct light, and can't be felt at all, but I was tripping over it. I got my hopes up that this was Gorilla Glass Armor, like on the S24 Ultra, but it sure AF is not, at least according to my last Google search, even though it has a very similar look.
Gotta get a screen protector before I can use the Wacom One nib again. The official clip-on one from Samsung actually worked really well for me on my Tab S9+, but when I tried to use the one for S9 Ultra on my S10 Ultra because they were ostensibly the same, the touch input was way too gimped even with the extra sensitivity turned on. This was literally within the 1st week of the S10 Ultra coming out and they hadn't released an "official" S10 Ultra one yet, but I think they're still the same... and I'm just so spoiled by magnetic screen protectors at this point I haven't been willing to look around for the traditional type yet.
Like Forged, I have never had any problems with the sturdiness of my Samsung pens, but I imagine this has to do with the drawing style each one has. I've been using them for the last 4 years in a daily basis and, so far, the only breaks I have had have been when they have fallen to the floor.
I always use felt nibs from Wacom (ACK22213), and the HP ZBook X2 replacement ones. I don't have compatibility issues with de ZBook's, but the Wacom's, I don't know why, don't work with my Samsung S-pen styluses because I get unwanted inputs when the pen is just hovering above the screen. The ZBook X2 nibs are currently impossible to get in Europe, and since I have few, I only use them on my S-Pens. And I use the Wacom's, which have been easily available so far in Europe, on the rest of the pens I own; the Wacom One 1st generation (DTC133), the Lamy AL Start, and the HP ZBook X2 ones.
I have also tried the Boox/Remarkable Marker tips (I cannot distinguish between them), which are black, as opposed to the Wacom and the ZBook felt nibs, which are a yellowish white. They work well, but they easily scratch the matte screen protector that I always use (not only to improve the drawing experience but also to protect the screen surface from accidental scratches). This is why I do not recommend them.
Kind of on this subject, I'll tell you something I've been dealing with: None of these Wacom UD stylii are durable enough for me. I've broken several S-pens, a Noris Digital, and that Kaweco Al-Star pen that costs over $100 that you have to import from Europe. The Al-Star uses the same cheap-plastic cylinder structure as the Noris Digital in the area where the nib comes out, which you can break easily if you side-shade too aggressively.
People like to diss the Apple Pencil for how expensive it is but I've lost way, way more money at this point on the UD styluses. I had one Apple Pencil actually crap out on me after ~2-3 years of use... no idea what happened but one day it stopped just stopped working altogether.
The thing that kills me the most about Samsung is they won't sell replacement nibs on their website. I did end up stockpiling my fair share of official nibs through the 4+ Galaxy Tab S-pens I've bought so far (they each come with like 2 nibs), but then my dumbass either loses them or they just get mixed up with all the other unofficial nibs I bought, and I can't tell which is which.
When I take a chance on some S-pen nibs on Amazon, it's actually a huge risk that never pays off because the internals of the S-pen are shockingly fragile in my experience. If you insert and start using something that isn't exactly right, you seriously run the risk of the pen's behavior being permanently altered not long after -- mainly by having unwanted inputs when the pen is just hovering above the screen but not making contact.
I need to see if there's another store that I can trust to sell official S-pen nibs. Amazon definitely is not it -- that site is full of illicit Samsung accessories.
Btw, the only "unofficial" nib that did alright with the S-pen are the Wacom One nibs, but now I'm too afraid to use those on my Tab S10+ because I'm worried they'll scratch the new coating this screen has which rather drastically reduces the glare. I already spotted a little hairline scratch on it that can only be seen under intense direct light, and can't be felt at all, but I was tripping over it. I got my hopes up that this was Gorilla Glass Armor, like on the S24 Ultra, but it sure AF is not, at least according to my last Google search, even though it has a very similar look.
Gotta get a screen protector before I can use the Wacom One nib again. The official clip-on one from Samsung actually worked really well for me on my Tab S9+, but when I tried to use the one for S9 Ultra on my S10 Ultra because they were ostensibly the same, the touch input was way too gimped even with the extra sensitivity turned on. This was literally within the 1st week of the S10 Ultra coming out and they hadn't released an "official" S10 Ultra one yet, but I think they're still the same... and I'm just so spoiled by magnetic screen protectors at this point I haven't been willing to look around for the traditional type yet.