The Anker MagSafe-compatible 3-in-1 Cube with Apple Watch charger is not a beautiful object. It’s a matte black brick that unfolds into a slightly larger matte black brick. Belkin’s equivalent costs nearly twice as much, looks marginally nicer on a nightstand, and charges your devices at exactly the same speed. Anker wins by not caring about any of that.
The unit folds flat to roughly the size of a deck of cards, which is the actual selling point. Travel chargers that feel like travel chargers - compact enough that you throw them in a bag without thinking - are rarer than they should be. Most 3-in-1 stands are desktop furniture. This one disappears.
It supports MagSafe at up to 15W on iPhone 16 models, fast-charges Apple Watch Series 7 and later with the magnetic fast-charge puck (not a generic Qi coil), and handles AirPods on a standard Qi pad at the base. That hierarchy matters. Some competitors cut corners on the Watch puck specifically - using a slower coil that technically charges the Watch but not at the fast-charge rate the hardware supports. Anker doesn’t.
The part that actually annoyed me
The USB-C cable is captive and short. Not dramatically short, but short enough that where you plug it in determines where you can set it down, and that constraint gets old fast on a cramped nightstand. It’s a deliberate size tradeoff, not an oversight, but it’s still a tradeoff you feel daily.
The Watch arm also only tilts to one angle. Nightstand Mode works fine, but if you want to read the watch face from a different position, you’re adjusting the whole charger, not just the arm.
What it replaces
I had three separate charging cables occupying three separate outlets before switching to this. That’s the math that actually justifies a 3-in-1 purchase - not convenience, but outlet consolidation and the elimination of the low-grade anxiety of packing chargers for a trip.
Anker sells this in the $55–65 range depending on where you buy it and what’s on sale. Belkin’s BoostCharge Pro version runs $99–110. If the Belkin is prettier to you, that’s a legitimate preference. But the charging outcome is identical, and ‘prettier’ doesn’t survive a week in a backpack anyway.