I've got both the Mighty and the Crafty + side by side.
Here's my honest opinions comparing the two.
DISCLAIMER : I recognise some may disagree with my views, but they are here and they are unbiased.
I'm also going to try and avoid stating a lot of what people have already spoken about such as disappointments with this not being a larger upgrade and lacking more features (such as a removable battery, no usb c, blah blah blah)
Firstly, if you already own a Mighty, I don't think upgrading is worth it.
The Mighty performs just as good and out performs in some areas.
Though if you're looking for a new vape, the Crafty is JUST AS GOOD as the Mighty
in many aspects and is definitely worth it if you value portability.
POSITIVES:
First major pluses for the Crafty+ :
+ Form factor this is one of the best on the market to combine portability with quality vapour.
This thing is light weight, feels great in the hand, significantly lighter than the Mighty.
+ Vapour as good quality if not marginally better thanks to a number of adjustments to the heaters design and optimisations to the internal firmware/software.
+ Heat up time JUST as fast if not slightly edging out the Mighty.
+ Battery about as good as the Mighty from my experience. Perhaps marginally better?
It's hard to say, i'd need to properly test further and I don't want to speak out of place on this.
But I guess i'm saying that even the fact it's comparable to the Mighty is really impressive.
+ Slightly better/stronger flavour than the Mighty purely from the smaller mouth piece.
+ Crafty has a stand...
It still baffles me Mighty can't properly stand up without paying for a 3rd party stand.
+ Generally firmware is more optimised than the Mighty.
+ Appears to function consistent even on 1 bar of battery compared to the original Crafty which seemed to really get whispy on the final bars.
+ Great fit in the pocket, actually a portable device, where as Mighty is 'portable' but you couldn't really comfortably lug it around in your pocket like you can with the Crafty.
+ The addition of an extra boost mode (Making 3 in total) is much more ideal than the 2 heat modes the original Crafty had.
NEGATIVES:
For me these are the Crafty + faults compared to the Mighty:
- No pass through charging, Mighty has pass through charging, its really annoying when you can't use the vape and have to wait for it to charge. That's never been an issue for me with the Mighty.
- Crafty cooling unit by design is smaller and has tinier grooves at a shorter distance, this means the vapor is harsher than the Mighty. The Mighty cooling unit actually fits perfect onto the Crafty. I tested both back to back and there's a definite difference. The Mighty cooling unit is smoother. I suppose if you really wanted you could use the Crafty with the Mighty cooling unit if you wanted smoother vapor.
- I straight up don't like using this mobile interface, not only does it present a legitimate security risk for people in non legalised countries due to the fact it requests bluetooth and location data. I also find the actual interface not to be ideal. I do appreciate that there's a lot of features and more ability to tweak your crafty with the Mighty, I actually wish they went further with it. But my primary issue is that the app crashes, it disconnects, and I dislike this routine of clicking on the app > Selecting whether I want to use the Crafty or the Hybrid> Selecting my serial number > Then maybe I can see the temp or it lags or doesn't connect well.
I think this must not be the issue for the wider audience, and perhaps my phone is too old to use this newer app. It did definitely work better on my friends newer phone. Some people will have fun with the app, its a neat gimmick, a party trick, but the screen on the Mighty to me is just way more straight forward and avoids so much trouble of "Hey man can you take out your phone so I can see what temp I am".
I also keep getting the error message 'could not read project status register (2); the initiation of read sequence request failed' No idea what that means! Might just be a result of the product still being new and the app just needing an update, but still not acceptable to be having problems like this on launch. Rather than making the logo bright orange I would rather they'd put a very tiny basic screen there to just tell me the temp.
- Lighting (IN MY OPINION) could be illustrated better from my perspective if it went
RED: normal temp
GREEN: boost
BLUE: max boost
- I'm not totally a fan of having to take out the pick every time I want to charge the device, I suppose it does sort of protect the charging port. But eh, it's something I didn't have to do on the Mighty. The Crafty seems to have a lot of those things, extra unnecessary little tasks, it's very... 'crafty' like that.
- Mighty's mouth piece is more fool proof because you can turn it on either way, Crafty requires it to be round a certain way, this is another thing you will have to get used to coming from a Mighty
- The other issue that will come about from the Crafty's smaller cooling chamber is it will get gunked twice as fast and have to be cleaned more regularly.
MEH:
Here's differences I noticed that are neither really negative or positive to me:
* Crafty's pick is transparent, Mighty's pick is solid.
* Vibration is weaker on the Crafty.
* Crafty + logo now bright orange, personally to me i'd rather pure black, but eh.
* Logo design at top of cooling unit has been updated.
FINAL CONCLUSIONS :
At the end of the day it's still early days with this vape, and it's hard to make a final conclusion. I feel as if i'll wake up tomorrow and feel as if I overlooked some details I could of touched on. These two devices are VERY similar. I'd say the Crafty is just as good as the Mighty but it has a few small nuances that add a little extra work to the process.
If portability is important to you and you don't own a Mighty already, I'd say get one.
If you already own the Mighty, I'd say wait to see if a Mighty+ or Plenty+ arrives.
Or potentially Ghost Stealth MV2. Vapexhale have also been talking about doing a portable for a while. Hopefully 2020 will see some more bigger leaps in progress in the vape scene.
Storz N Bickel seem only interested in doing baby steps.
