Review: Wacom MovinkPad 11 with Pro Pen 3

Review unit on loan from Wacom Singapore

The Wacom MovinkPad 11 is a 11.45-inch Android 14 tablet that works with the Wacom Pro Pen 3. This tablet is marketed as a portable digital sketchpad for artists. The tablet was released in July 2025 and is priced at USD 449.

Here in Singapore you can get it on Lazada SG and Shopee SG for SGD 619.

The Wacom MovinkPad 11 competes with the iPad 11 (2025), Samsung Tab S10 FE and XPPen Magic Drawing Pad 2025 at this price range.

Bottom line

The Wacom MovinkPad 11 has good support for pressure, tilt and palm rejection. Pen performance is outstanding so drawing experience is fantastic. The display is bright, vibrant, sharp and even has 90Hz refresh rate. The matte glass surface feels nice to draw on.

I have reviewed many Android tablets and not many have the combination of good pressure, tilt and palm rejection. These are the three most important features for drawing and Wacom has nailed almost all the things that contribute to a wonderful drawing experience. So as a tablet marketed for drawing, it does have what's needed to stand out among the competition even if the other specifications aren't as good.

The tablet has several downsides but none are deal breakers. Audio sounds hollow. The tablet runs on Android 14 and we don't know whether there will be future OS updates. The lack of fingerprint and face unlock is quite inconvenient.

I hope this product sells well and models in the future can get more features, or even a larger size.

Specifications

• Display: 11.45" IPS, 2200 × 1440 resolution
• Refresh Rate: Adaptive 90Hz
• Color Gamut: 99% sRGB (CIE 1931)
• Display Colors: 16.7 million
• Brightness Colors: 400 nits
• Processor: MediaTek Helio G99
• RAM: 8 GB
• Storage: 128 GB
• Operating System: Android 14
• Connectivity: USB Type-C (USB 2.0), Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n/ac, Bluetooth 5.2
• Camera: Front 5 MP, Rear 4.7 MP
• Audio: Stereo speakers, Dual microphones
• Sensors: G-sensor, e-compass, ambient light sensor
• Battery: 7,700 mAh (typical)
• Stylus: Wacom Pro Pen 3 (battery-free, 8192 pressure levels, tilt support, 3 buttons)
• Special Features: Anti-glare etched glass, Quick Draw feature, Wacom Canvas app, Clip Studio Paint Debut (2-year license)
• Weight: Approx. 1.3 lbs (588 g)

Things included

• Wacom MovinkPad 11
• Wacom Pro Pen 3 with nib holder (Felt nib x3)
• USB-C to USB-C Cable (1m/Power)
• IPI Booklet
• Regulation sheet

There's an original Wacom flipcase included (Shopee SG | Lazada SG) which is sold separately for SGD 60 (USD 46). The cover is made of cloth material and can get dirty easily.

This flipcase is designed to prop up the tablet only at this angle. There's a pen holder for the Wacom Pro Pen 3.

Design

First thing you'll notice when you see the home screen is... there's no wallpaper and the very few apps (no bloatware). Wacom has decided to keep it simple with the design which is interesting. Downside here is I can see some shadowing effect from the LCD at the bottom left edge due to uneven LCD glow.

Design of the Wacom MovinkPad 11 looks good. Corners for the body and LCD are rounded off. Bezels are thin enough and uniform on all sides. Build quality feels solid enough.

This tablet only has two speakers although there are four sets of speaker grills. Audio sounds hollow but it's not too bad. The USB-C port only has USB 2 transfer speed, and from what I have seen charges at 10W.

Buttons for power and volume, 5MP front camera and auto-brightness sensor are located on the landscape side. It's safe to say this tablet is designed for use in landscape orientation. Unfortunately, there's no face unlock.

The back and sides are matte textured metal. There's a 4.7MP rear camera and has no camera bump. The tablet is completely flat with four rubber feet to provide some grip on the table.

Note the extreme viewing angle of the LCD. Weight of the tablet is 588g and that's considered lightweight enough for a tablet with an 11.5-inch display. The tablet is quite portable without being too big and does work well as a portable digital sketchpad.

Display

The 11.45-inch LCD is bright, vibrant and sharp. Resolution is 2200 x 1440 with an aspect ratio that's almost 3:2.

Brightness is up to 400 nits and that's sufficient for use in a bright room environment, not under or near direct sunlight.

This 3:2 aspect ratio makes the tablet more usable, wider, in portrait orientation compared to 16:10 and 16:9 tablets. When tablet is in portrait orientation, the auto-brightness sensor is located higher and unlikely to be covered by the hand.

Wacom advertised 99% sRGB coverage. There is minimal to no colour shift or drop in brightness when viewed from extreme angles. This is a good quality LCD, and you get 90Hz adaptive refresh rate too.

The matte glass surface provides effective anti-glare, and content on the screen can still be seen through diffused reflections.

The display is laminated so there's no parallax when drawing. The matte surface provides subtle tactile experience for writing and drawing. The surface is considered smooth so pen will still glide on it quite easily, so to get good control over the pen will take some time to get used to.

Performance

The processor in this tablet is the very popular Helio G99 found in many budget tablets. It's a midrange processor which isn't that powerful but more than sufficient for running drawing apps. Together with 8GB of RAM, overall performance is quite smooth and mostly lag-free with rare occasions of slight stutter. Having the 90Hz refresh rate also helps make the tablet feel more responsive.

Gaming is possible but don't expect to play games at the highest graphics settings.

It would be great if the processor can be more powerful, but this is not a deal breaker. Even the XPPen Magic Drawing Pad 2025, Ugee UT2, Ugee UT3 and many other tablets I've tested use Helio G99.

OS and software

The tablet runs on Android 14, and that takes up 3GB out of the usable 117GB. The OS is pretty much stock Android so there aren't many features. Google Play Store is available so you can always find apps to get the features you need, or install your own custom launcher.

There's this Quick Drawing feature where you can draw on the sleeping display, Double-tap to Wake, auto-brightness, 80% battery charge, split screen mode. The Lift-to-Wake feature does not work well and just randomly wakes the display. Not an isolated incident.

I don't see any bloatware. The three pre-installed apps I see are Wacom Canvas, Wacom Shelf and Clip Studio Paint. Wacom has provided a 2-year license for Clip Studio Paint Debut with the purchase of this tablet.

Wacom has included their own drawing app called Wacom Canvas with the tablet. The drawing tools almost mimics traditional media with their limitations. There are only five drawings tools, namely black pencil, blue pencil, black ink pen, hard eraser and soft eraser. In other words, the drawing tools are too limited.

Here are some of the limitations for Wacom Canvas:

• No fill bucket
• No masking tool
• No transform tool
• No selection tool
• No gesture shortcut for zoom, but there are soft keys
• Brush size cannot be changed
• Eraser size cannot be changed
• Colours cannot be changed
• Canvas cannot be rotated
• There are no layers
• Canvas size is fixed to 2094 x 1334 px
• No way to choose compression for file saves
• The only file format is PNG

When drawing with Wacom Canvas, it really feels like you're drawing with limited tools on a paper where you can't zoom because finger gesture for zoom is not available.

There are three main issues I have the app. First, there's noticeable aliasing effect with solid lines while drawing in the form of jagged steps, and the app has no settings to tweak. Second, there's compression artifact with the PNG. Third, there's no way to increase the artwork resolution.

There are many capable drawing apps available from the Google Play Store so you're not forced to use Wacom Canvas.

The other Wacom app provided is called Wacom Shelf which is a simplistic file browser that lets you browse images, such as your Wacom Canvas artworks. For some reason, the app will only let you choose from these five folders to monitor images:

• /Pictures
• /Documents
• /Download
• /DCIM
• /Movies

The problem is Wacom Shelf will show images from my /Pictures/Wallpaper folder too, and there's no way to set it to show only /Pictures/Wacom Canvas folder. You also cannot delete files from Wacom Shelf, you have to do that with other file browsers.

Pen

The included pen is the Wacom Pro Pen 3 which supports tilt, 16K levels of pressure sensitivity and palm rejection. The pen is not powered by battery so there's no need for charging and Bluetooth pairing. This pen actually uses a newer version of Wacom EMR, not the same version from the S Pens from Samsung Galaxy tablets.

The Wacom MovinkPad 11 is also compatible with other Wacom EMR pens. In the settings, there's the option to disable support for older Wacom EMR pens.

The pen comes with three side buttons and whether they are customisable will depend on the apps you use.

Note the extended tip and tapered front of the pen that makes it easy to tilt the pen for tilt effect.

The back of the pen can be turned and removed to reveal a storage space for three replacement pen tips.

Line tests

Line tests below are created in Medibang Paint.

1. The pen is sensitive and initial activation force is very low. Thin lines can be drawn easily with a thick brush selected. Diagonal line wobble is not noticeable.

2. Lines are able to taper smoothly and sharply.

3. Line transition from thin to thick and back is smooth. Thin lines can be drawn after drawing thick lines.

But the thin lines here are slightly thicker than I expected. This is not an issue with drawing apps with pressure curve adjustment. It is possible to use other Wacom EMR pens to get other pressure performance, see test #1 with the Wacom One Standard Pen that can draw thinner lines, but thicker lines will also be thinner.

4. You can get consistent line width while maintaining consistent pressure while drawing.

5. No issues with drawing dots.

6. No issues with cursor misalignment. The cursor is always directly beneath the pen tip, more specifically at the contact point.

Tilt sensitivity works well.

The Wacom Pro Pen 3 has outstanding pen performance which is quite similar to pen displays or pen tablets. The pen performance is consistent and predictable. The pen performance you see here goes into the top three, together with Apple and Samsung (uses Wacom EMR too).

Drawing experience

This was my first sketch using the Wacom Canvas app. The matte glass surface provides subtle tactile drawing experience but is still considered quite smooth so it will take a while to get used to controlling the pen.

The pen has good support for pressure sensitivity. Pen performance is probably as good as or slightly better than the Apple Pencil or Samsung S Pen.

Main issue with drawing this with Wacom Canvas is having to workaround with the lack of drawing tools.

This was also drawn with Wacom Canvas. It may not be obvious but there are obvious compression issues when you zoom in close to look at the line art.

The aliasing effect on smooth lines is quite ugly. And unfortunately there's no way to increase the canvas resolution so that you can downsample to a sharper image.

This was drawn with Wacom Canvas using the blue pencil. Aliasing effect isn't as obvious because the pencil lines have rough edges. Tilt sensitivity works well. The Wacom MovinkPad 11 is one of those rare tablets where tilt sensitivity actually works well.

This was also drawn with Wacom Canvas, using the pencil.

Palm rejection works well. Unintentional gesture activation rarely happens.

The 11.45-inch display is big enough to fit one tool bar and one column of palette by the side. Having two columns of palettes on the screen will make the drawing area much smaller.

This was drawn with Medibang Paint Pro.

Line quality is good because pen performance is good.

This was drawn with Concepts app. Even four finger gestures work with this app.

Note taking or writing performance is good too.

Battery life

Battery capacity is 7700 mAh and battery life is around 8-10 hours.

Conclusion

Wacom did a great job at bringing their pen technology over to Android and it was a success. The overall drawing experience is fantastic. The pen performs well, the matte glass is wonderful to draw on, the visual quality of the display is good. The Wacom MovinkPad 11 can definitely compete with the iPads or Samsung Galaxy tablets as portable drawing tablets.

For a first generation product it's pretty good. Hopefully future models can add more and better hardware features.

Pros and cons at a glance
+ Beautiful design and solid build quality
+ Vibrant, sharp and bright display
+ Laminated display
+ Auto brightness works well
+ Matte drawing with good anti-glare and sharpness
+ Wacom Pro Pen 3 included
+ Compatible with other Wacom EMR pens
+ Pen has good support for pressure and tilt
+ Palm rejection works well
+ Smooth overall performance
+ Android 14
+ 4-finger gestures work
- Audio sounds hollow
- No face unlock
- No microSD card slot
- Case can get dirty easily
- Future Android OS updates not confirmed
- Matte glass may be too smooth for some
- Should have included 256GB storage for the price
- Multiple user accounts not supported

Availability

The Wacom MovinkPad 11 can be purchased from Wacom online store, Shopee SG and Lazada SG.

And the original Wacom flipcase for the MovinkPad 11 is available here: Shopee SG | Lazada SG

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