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Tech · Logitech · 2023

Logitech MX Anywhere 3S

Master-line engineering in a travel shell: precise, near-silent, and small enough to feel cramped by evening.

Every one of these is excellent for about an hour — #2

Overall

7.6

out of 10

Axis scores

Tech is scored on these 5 axes. The total is their plain average — nothing is weighted.

Logitech MX Anywhere 3S — axis scores out of 10Horizontal bar chart of editorial scores out of 10 across 5 axes. Bars run from a shared zero baseline; longer is better. Logitech MX Anywhere 3S: Performance 8.6, Value 6.8, Durability 7.8, Ease of use 6.6, Design 8.2.PerformanceLogitech MX Anywhere 3S — Performance 8.6 out of 108.6ValueLogitech MX Anywhere 3S — Value 6.8 out of 106.8DurabilityLogitech MX Anywhere 3S — Durability 7.8 out of 107.8Ease of useLogitech MX Anywhere 3S — Ease of use 6.6 out of 106.6DesignLogitech MX Anywhere 3S — Design 8.2 out of 108.2Editorial score out of 10 — higher is better
  • Performance — How well it does the core job
  • Value — What the same money buys elsewhere
  • Durability — Failure and fade reports past the one-year mark
  • Ease of use — Setup, daily operation, cleaning, maintenance
  • Design — Build quality and how it sits in a room

Specs

Sensor
8,000 DPI Darkfield, tracks on glass
Scroll
MagSpeed electromagnetic, free-spin
Connection
Bluetooth, no receiver in the retail box
Battery
Up to 70 days, USB-C

As published by the manufacturer. We didn't measure these ourselves.

Is it for you

Buy it if

  • A mouse that lives in a laptop bag and comes out on hotel desks
  • Glass tables and polished surfaces where ordinary optical sensors give up
  • You want the Master scroll wheel without the Master footprint

Skip it if

  • Eight hours a day at one desk, where a full-size shell treats the hand better
  • You assumed a USB receiver was included
  • Large hands, or anyone who catches both side buttons at once

The retail box holds no receiver. That is the first thing to know, because the Logi Bolt dongle bundled with the desktop Master mice is a separate purchase here unless you buy the business variant, which does include one. On Bluetooth alone the mouse behaves like every other Bluetooth mouse: fine almost always, with a beat of hesitation on wake that people blame on the hardware.

Darkfield tracking is not marketing language. The sensor works on a glass table and on the lacquered conference-room surfaces where a normal optical mouse produces nothing at all, and that matters far more for a mouse you carry than for one that lives on a mat.

Size is the trade. Everything good about the larger Master mice is here — the electromagnetic wheel that free-spins through a long document, the quiet switches, per-application button mapping — inside a shell built to survive a bag. For two or three hours it is excellent. Across a full day the hand curls tighter than it would on a full-size shape, which is why it scores where it does on ease of use despite being the better-made object.

Customising anything means installing Options+, a resident application that updates itself on its own schedule and occasionally loses a profile after a major version bump. Default assignments are sensible enough to skip it, but gestures and per-app mapping live behind it.

The side buttons are small and sit close together. Owners with larger thumbs report pressing both, which is a consequence of the shape rather than a defect, and it tends to surface after the return window has closed.

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