Best Nintendo Switch Styluses of 2026

The most useful thing in the BoxWave package isn't the pen. It is the clip-on lanyards, a short loop and a 12-inch elastic coil among them, that anchor the stylus through the console's headphone jack — so on a handheld that gets pulled out on a train, the pen stays attached to the thing it is for instead of rolling around the bottom of a bag.

The EverTouch itself is a fiber-mesh stylus with a longer, weighted barrel than the multi-packs here, and the mesh works at any angle, so you can hold it like a pen rather than propping it upright. It also wipes fingerprints as it crosses the screen, which we appreciated more than expected on a console whose display is mostly smudges by the end of a commute. A broad, soft tip like this one trades a little fine detail for that gentleness, and for tapping through menus and doodling a face on a Mii, that is the right trade.

Of everything here, this is the one pen sold specifically for the Switch: the listing names the Switch 2, the Switch, the Lite, and the OLED, and the design follows through with a slim aluminum barrel, a cap, and a lanyard.

One end is the flexible transparent disc for drawing, the other a soft nib for pressing through menus and the on-screen keyboard, and both work on any capacitive screen, so the pen pulls double duty on a tablet when the console stays home. On the Switch the disc earns its keep: with the contact point visible through the plastic, placing a design or lining up a Mii's eyes stops being a guessing game.

The cap is the detail that makes it a pocket pen — the tip is covered when it rides loose in a bag, which is more than the multi-pack pens manage — and the lanyard threads onto a case loop so it does not get left on a seat. It is the newest design in this group, and one pen is the whole package.

Most styluses here give you two ends. MEKO gives you three: a transparent disc behind a screw-off cap, then rubber tips in two sizes, 0.18 inch and 0.27 inch, so the pen in your hand can change jobs without you picking up a different one.

The small rubber tip is the one we kept reaching for on the Switch. It is the closest thing here to a fingertip that actually fits, and it makes tapping the tiny icons in the system settings and the eShop noticeably less fussy than a finger or a fat rubber end. The larger rubber tip is for scrolling lists, and the disc, once the cap comes off, is for anything that needs a line.

At 18.73 grams and 5.9 inches it sits in the hand like an ordinary pen, and the two-pack splits naturally between a bag and a desk. MEKO also backs it with a two-year warranty, the longest cover in this group — worth having on a pen with more small parts than most.

Nobody buys five styluses because they need five. They buy them because the last three went missing, and this set is built for exactly that person: five alloy pens in five colors, plus three spare disc tips and six spare rubber tips.

One end is the flexible disc for drawing and precise taps, the other a rubber tip for scrolling. The rubber end is a broad, soft contact patch, which is lovely for flicking through a long list and less lovely when you are hunting a single key on the eShop keyboard, where we sometimes pressed twice to be sure the first tap landed.

What we like most is the redundancy. Five pens means one can live in the case, one by the TV, one in the car, and two can go to whoever keeps borrowing yours, and nine spare tips mean a worn end does not retire the pen. For a shared Switch, that is the right calculation: not which pen is nicest, but which one you can afford to lose.

Unscrew a Kenkor pen and something rattles inside: a spare tip is stowed in the barrel. That is the neatest small idea here, because the replacement travels with the pen instead of waiting in a baggie at home, and it is why this is the set we pack for a trip.

The pen itself is a three-pack in black, pink, and white, with an aluminum barrel, a flexible disc at one end, and a rubber tip at the other. On the Switch the disc did what a disc should — placed a Mii's features and drew a clean line in a doodle — and the rubber end handled scrolling without any drama.

Glide is the other thing we noticed: the rubber end moves across the display more smoothly than a dry fingertip, and the disc follows a curve without skipping. A one-year warranty covers all three pens, which is more cover than the budget multi-packs tend to offer.

Set against the other multi-packs, this one wins on the small things: the spare that travels inside the pen, colors that do not all look alike, and a barrel that feels like aluminum rather than painted plastic. For a pen that gets knocked around in a bag, that is the balance we want.

These are the cheapest pens here, and they are honest about it: five slim alloy barrels, five colors, and a soft rubber tip at each end, the smaller one about a fifth of an inch across.

There is no disc in this set, so precision stops where a rounded rubber end stops: fine for scrolling the eShop, tapping menu items, and picking out letters on the on-screen keyboard with a little patience, not fine for drawing anything with a line in it. What they do have is glide — the tip moves over the Switch's screen without the drag of a dry fingertip.

The calculation is coverage. Five pens means one can live in the car, one by the TV, and one in the case, and nobody has to care much when one walks off. Coverage rather than craftsmanship is the whole point, and at this price a household can stop treating a stylus like something precious.

A clip mount is the whole idea here: the pen comes with a rubber holder that grips the edge of a screen or a stand, so it has a place to live instead of a place to get lost.

The pen is a white metal-bodied dual-tip, with a mesh end for scrolling and a transparent disc for detail, and a magnetic cap that parks on the barrel rather than disappearing under a keyboard. At 20 grams it has more presence in the hand than the lightest pens in the multi-packs.

That adds up to a desk arrangement: a tablet on a stand, a smart calendar on a kitchen counter, the kind of screen that stays in one place and wants a pen beside it. The magnet on the cap is a small thing that saves a lot of hunting.

We liked it for exactly what it is, a pen with a home. If the Switch comes out in handheld bursts and goes back in a case, this solves the problem the other pens quietly create, which is never being where you left them — as long as the surface it grips is one that does not move.