The best travel charger for your iPhone, Apple Watch and AirPods

New Butterfly 2 in 1 from Twelve South is the best travel charger for your iPhone, Apple Watch and AirPods because of its design, materials and featureswith fast charging and aluminum in a ridiculously small charger.

Twelve South has once again outdone itself with a charger for our devices that can boast the best of the best in every aspect. If we look at the materials, it uses anodized aluminum and vegan (synthetic) leather. If we talk about technical characteristics, this includes fast charging for iPhone (with MagSafe certification) and for Apple Watch (also certified). And if we focus on its design, it is surprisingly small and has excellent finishes. We can go even further and talk about what is included in the box, in which the manufacturer did not skimp on the inclusion of everything you need, without forgetting the USB-C to USB-C cable, 30W power adapter and adapters for all sockets

which you can find while traveling around the world. To top it all off, we also have a bag to carry it in our bag or suitcase. Impossible to be more complete.

Accustomed to manufacturers saving costs by eliminating power adapters from charging bases, it is appreciated that Twelve South not only includes it but also has a higher power than usual: 30W. This is what is needed so that the two fast chargers, the MagSafe and the Apple Watch, can operate at full capacity (15W and 5W respectively). It is true that it is a 2 in 1 charger designed mainly for the iPhone and the Apple Watch, but we can also charge our AirPods in both positions, thanks to the fact that the MagSafe system that they integrate makes it compatible with any MagSafe base but also with the Apple Watch charging disk. Besides, an important detail is that the Apple Watch charging disk can be placed vertically or horizontally.

Also The Butterfly base can be used as a support for charging the iPhone and viewing multimedia content

At the same time, to do this, we just need to join the two loading discs on the back, allowing us to place our iPhone on the table in a horizontal position to view the content or to use the sleep mode that arrived in iOS 17 as a novelty . Other usage options with this same setup allow you to use just the MagSafe drive or Apple Watch drive, taking up less space than when we had it fully deployed. The closure of both parts is magnetic, both on the front to “close” the base and on the back to use it as a support. The two pieces are quite tightly joined in both positions. The only thing that breaks the design of this charging base is the USB-C connector on the back. The included cable is nylon braided, which is also a nice touch.

It’s inevitable to think of Apple’s now-discontinued MagSafe Duo base when seeing this butterfly from Twelve South. There are several years of difference between the two products, but the truth is that the much more expensive Apple base almost looks like a toy next to it, and it didn’t include the plug-in charger either. To this day, I can’t find a more compact and stylish travel base with better features than this Butterfly. His price? $129.99, which considering everything it offers us is not bad at all. Of course, for the moment only available on the Twelve South website and on the Apple Store in the United States. Hopefully it reaches other countries soon, including USA.

Against

• It’s pricey to say the least, but I think it’s worth what it costs.