Cricut's Explore 4 Is Faster, Cheaper but I'm Not Sure I'd Call It Better

8.0 / 10 SCORE Cricut Explore 4 $249 at Cricut Pros Much faster than its predecessor Reliable performance Great starting price Cons No new supported tools No new supported materials Ask anyone who regularly uses a Cricut what could be done to improve the experience and you typically hear one answer over all of the others. It's a great machine with cool software, but it could be faster. Cricut's Explore 3 introduced a way to create faster than the competition, without losing quality or precision in the process. Cricut's line of Smart Materials is vast but pricey and doesn't cover the full breadth of what these cutting machines are capable of. With the new and somewhat obviously named Cricut Explore 4, the speed and accuracy previously available only to Smart Materials now exists with whatever you feed it. Best of all, this new machine is now one of the most affordable on the market. It has always been easier to show what a Cricut cutting machine does than describe it to someone i ... Read full article.