The Playlink elektra - E stim anal toy is an exciting attempt at improving the Elektra plus plug, but ultimately fails at basic usability.



The Playlink elektra is a colorful and inviting purple color that draws you in at first glance, begging you to insert it inside. The ribbing is fun and playful, and the size is moderate with a thoughtfully shaped base to ensure the toy will not enter too deeply. Unfortunately, the power button is on the shaft as well, so you must remember to turn on the toy before insertion. This is a bit of a downside, as by the time you have comfortably inserted the toy, you might have to take it out and start all over again!

As per the description, this one is purely app controlled, so you must download the "Pretty Love" app from your go-to app store and sync this toy to bluetooth before its first use. Within the app, there are a lot of fun local options such as preset patterns, drawing your own, or having it vibrate along to locally stored music. Additionally, there's a feature where you can interact with other people's toys over the internet or allowing others to interact with yours if they have the correct code. Interestingly enough, you can only enable the e stim portion of the functionality when using the preset patterns. It does not appear that you can activate any of the e stim features when using the drawing feature nor the music.

The overall connectivity of the app is pretty terrible. Simply putting it in your front pocked with they toy inserted will sever the connection. You literally need to hold the app right behind your butt in order to maintain a proper connection. This is where having the power button on the body came back to haunt me. Given this, you cannot control the toy without the app. And since the app experiences severe connectivity issues, your session is only as long as your patience will allow.

After discovering this fatal flaw, I immediately removed the toy and prepared for cleanup. Luckily, due to the silicone nature of the material, it was easy to clean up with hot water and soap and ready to be stored until I had the patience to use it again.

I really wanted to like this toy, but it was nearly impossible to use for longer than a couple of minutes.

Setup was really simple, just downloaded the app and synced the toy via bluetooth. I lubed up and put it inside and was super excited to get to work. I started with the preset vibration patterns and started to enjoy myself. The variability of the sensations is a huge upside for me, and the fact that the estim setting is independent is also helpful in ensuring you can have both types of pleasure on demand, but not all the time. Unfortunately, upon moving my phone just a couple inches too far from my body, I was immediately greeted with "connection lost" and the toy ceased to continue vibrating. It doesn't automatically reconnect either once back in range, which is a huge downside.

Just for completion sake, I tried the other two modes, drawing and music. Drawing works just like any other toy with a similar mode, and is fun while the connection persists, but does not perform any better than the preset mode. And finally, the music mode is also useful while it lasts. Sadly, neither of these two modes integrates the e stim function, so that also takes away severely from the overall usability of the toy.

Unless you plan to hold your phone between your legs while playing with it, the toy is unusable without a remote that bypasses the requirement for an app.