Ugee UT3 review: one of best budget Android drawing displays

A quality tablet that doesn't break the bank, with one small niggle.

Ugee UT3 review; a drawing display on a wooden table
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Our Verdict

With a beautiful display designed for digital art and enough power for most Android art apps, the Ugee UT3 is an excellent budget tablet with a premium feel. But it's slightly let down by small lag and line inaccuracy. A perfect hobbyist drawing display.

For

  • Brilliant display for drawing
  • Slim, light and capable
  • Designed for digital art

Against

  • Some latency issues
  • Poor palm rejection

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Not everyone wants to sign up with Apple and Android tablets are becoming more capable devices generally, and now for creating digital art (and this kind of affordable pen computer is something the best Wacom tablets don't have). The new Ugee UT3 'Fun Drawing Pad' is one of the most impressive Android pen displays I've tested and has been designed by a drawing table brand, for drawing.

This comes in the wake of XPPen's Magic Drawing Pad that delivered a quality drawing tablet with an Android CPU; the new Ugee UT3 takes on XPPen and beats in in every aspect. This is an 8-core CPU tablet with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of memory, and supports Android 14. The eye-catching 14.25-inch ant-glare display has been designed for drawing on, unlike other Android tablets.

iPad Air 13-inch M2
at Amazon

The new M2 Air is very powerful. If you're a pro artist wanting performance but no the iPad Pro price tag, there's no better than this tablet. Pay extra and add the Apple Pencil Pro for the full package.

Samsung Galaxy Tab S10 Ultra
at Amazon

This is the largest, fastest and most feature-rich Android tablet available but it comes at a premium price. But for that you get an UHD 4K AMOLED screen, 12GB RAM, a 3.4GHz CPU and much more.

XPPen XPPen Magic Drawing Pad
at Amazon

This is the Android drawing tablet that paved the way for the Ugee UT3. It's smaller, less powerful and doesn't come with a case, but it has a better stylus.

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The Verdict
8

out of 10

Ugee UT3

With a beautiful display designed for digital art and enough power for most Android art apps, the Ugee UT3 is an excellent budget tablet with a premium feel. But it's slightly let down by small lag and line inaccuracy. A perfect hobbyist drawing display.

Editor, Digital Arts & 3D

Ian Dean is Editor, Digital Arts & 3D at Creative Bloq, and the former editor of many leading magazines. These titles included ImagineFX, 3D World and video game titles Play and Official PlayStation Magazine. Ian launched Xbox magazine X360 and edited PlayStation World. For Creative Bloq, Ian combines his experiences to bring the latest news on digital art, VFX and video games and tech, and in his spare time he doodles in Procreate, ArtRage, and Rebelle while finding time to play Xbox and PS5.