Top pick
This small and inexpensive charger will fast-charge any phone, including iPhone, Samsung Galaxy, and Google Pixel handsets. But it has only one port.
Today’s USB-C phone chargers are tiny and cheap—often between $10 and $20, sometimes even with a good cable. Anker’s PowerPort III Nano is the best, most compact option for sending the fastest possible charge to most phones, capable of delivering 20 W over USB-C.
It’s impressively compact. The PowerPort III Nano is very small. Measuring 1.75 inches long, including the non-folding prongs, and only a little more than an inch wide and tall, its dimensions are almost identical to those of the 5 W charger that Apple packed with most iPhones for the past decade. It’s less than half the size of Apple’s comparable 20 W charger.
It has only one port, but it delivers up to 20 W. The PowerPort III Nano has a single USB-C port. Our testing hardware showed that the port worked as advertised, with a proper 20 W power draw measured at 9 volts/2.2 amps. (It also supports 15 W charging, which makes it compatible with USB-C devices that don’t use the Power Delivery standard, such as some Android phones.)
As with all of the other USB-C chargers we recommend in this guide, you should see most phones charge from empty to somewhere between 50% and 55% full in half an hour or so, compared with 20% full in the same time period on a 5 W charger. In fact, during our tests the iPhone 13 battery reached about 52% capacity in that time and 83% in an hour.
It works with Apple MagSafe accessories. The Anker charger also provides full power to MagSafe wireless charging accessories, including Apple’s MagSafe Charger and MagSafe Duo Charger and the others we recommend.
It comes with a cable. This charger comes with a 6-foot version of one of our favorite cables, the Anker PowerLine II, with USB-C and Lightning connectors. (That’s great for owners of older iPhones, but if you have an iPhone 15 or Android device you’ll need to supply your own cable.) It has sturdy housings, supports up to 18 W charging speeds, and its MFi certification means it meets Apple’s standards for safety and performance.
It has a long warranty, and Anker’s customer service is trustworthy. Anker’s 18-month warranty is on a par with many of its competitors’ coverage offerings. On the rare occasions Wirecutter staffers have had to take advantage of the protection, they’ve found the process to be quick and easy.
Flaws but not dealbreakers
- Its stationary plug gives it a less-streamlined shape for packing compared with those with a foldable plug.
- Although it has enough power to charge most phones at top speed, it falls short of some phones’ full capabilities (like the iPhone 14 and newer, which can draw up to 27 W).
