The Cricut Joy 2 is a $99 compact cutting and drawing machine that handles stickers, cards, and bookmarks using app-provided templates and a blade-based cutting mechanism.
After three weeks of testing, The Verge's Sheena Vasani found it genuinely lowered the barrier to making things, a meaningful result for a device in a category full of overcomplicated, underused hardware. The machine is small enough for a desk, comes in multiple colors, and pairs with a Cricut app that supplies ready-to-cut designs.
The review is worth reading in full for the honest accounting of what the Joy 2 gets wrong, how the app and template ecosystem actually works in practice, and whether a $99 price point holds up against the cost of materials and any required subscription access.
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