Scapade MagPower Pro 3-in-1 Foldable 5K power bank review: Smart metal charging pack
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Expert’s Rating
Pros
- Compact 3-in-1 power bank
- High iPhone recharge in tests
Cons
- Slow wireless charging speeds
Our Verdict
Able to simultaneously charge your iPhone, AirPods, and Apple Watch, this compact—if wirelessly slow—3-in-1 power bank makes a great travel companion with enough juice to keep you going for most of a day.
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Many of us own a lot of Apple gear: Apple iPhone TICK; Apple Watch TICK; Apple AirPods TICK.
We’ll likely have an iPhone charger (although they no longer ship one in the box) and an Apple Watch Charger (wisely still included). The AirPods have never come with a charger or even a cable. We travel with all three, so having one charger for all three is helpful. If that charger is also a power bank, it might prove to be even more so.
Scapade’s MagPower Pro is a compact case that opens up to reveal wireless charging spots for iPhone, AirPods and Watch. It’s also a 5000mAh power bank.
Simon Jary
Design
The Scapade MagPower Pro is a neat travel companion, and when closed looks rather like one of those old metal cigarette cases genteel smokers sued to carry.
Easily pocketable, it weighs about the same as an iPhone 17 (180g vs 177g), is about 60% as long (90mm vs 150mm), about the same width (70mm) if you include the MagPower Pro’s silicone hinge, and nearly twice as thick (15mm vs 8mm).
It opens into two parts joined by the hinge. On one side is the wireless iPhone charging pad, and on the other a pull-up Watch charger that allows the Watch to be in Nightstand Mode and below that an AirPods charging pad.
You can pull out the Watch-charging module to create a stand for the iPhone in either portrait or landscape orientation.
When there’s no Apple devices being charged it pleasingly and magnetically snaps together.
Simon Jary
Charging powers
The iPhone wireless charger is rated at 7.5W, Watch at 2W and AirPods at 5W. In terms of potential power, these outputs are not the fastest—indeed they are about as slow as you’ll find on any 3-in-1 charger.
Some chargers support up to 25W for wireless iPhone charging (for iPhone 16 and later) or 15W. The MagPower Pro’s MagSafe-compatible 7.5W will take around 90 minutes to charge an iPhone from 0% to 50%, compared to 45 minutes at 15W and 30 minutes at 25W.
The Apple Watch (series 7 and later) can be fast charged at 5W, so the 2W Watch charging pad is also slow.
If you’re not in a hurry, these slow wireless charging speeds won’t be an issue. If speed is of the essence, consider instead the Alogic Matrix Ultimate Fold 3-in-1 that has a 15W iPhone charging pad on its detachable 5K power bank but is larger and heavier and also about three times more expensive.
Oif you can make do with separate chargers, go for a slim 5K or beefier 10K magnetic power bank with a built-in cable and/or spare USB-C port. You’d need to carry a separate a watch charging cable or a dock such as the Satechi USB-C Magnetic Apple Watch Charging Dock or Scosche WatchIt Keychain. See our reviews of the best Apple Watch chargers for more options.
Simon Jary
Power bank performance
The Scapade MagPower Pro scored a respectable 78% in our iPhone recharging tests, where we use the power bank to charge an iPhone from 0% to however far it can reach before itself spluttering out cold.
Compared to other 5000mAh (5K) power banks, 78% is a good effort. We’ve seen up to 89% but 75% is around average. It’s enough to get most people to their next power socket charging opportunity.
You can certainly get a much slimmer 5K battery packs—read our reviews of the best magnetic power banks—but few that can cope with so many of your Apple devices at the same time.
Price
The Scapade MagPower Pro costs $63.99 or £49.99, which is a reasonable price for a 5K power bank with so many charging points in an attractive, lightweight and compact package.
Check out all the best magnetic iPhone power banks we’ve tested.
Should you buy the Scapade MagPower Pro?
Able to simultaneously charge your iPhone, AirPods, and Apple Watch, this compact and classy—if wirelessly slow—3-in-1 power bank makes a great travel companion with enough juice to keep you going for most of a day and the ability to form a comfortable viewing stand when you’re not moving.
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