XPPen Pilot Pro: A Serious Editing Console for Under Your Left Hand

Loupedeck and Monogram have owned the hardware editing console space for years, and for most photographers the price has been the excuse not to bother. XPPen makes solid drawing tablets at aggressive price points, and if they've brought that same value logic to the Pilot Pro, this becomes genuinely interesting for anyone grinding through culling and colour sessions daily. The real question isn't the spec sheet — it's whether the software integration holds up in Lightroom and Capture One. That's where these things live or die.