Gateron Green Apple Switch Review

In the introduction to the last review posted before this one, the one detailing the Sillyworks x Gateron Type R tactiles, I shared both how excited I was as a fan of Ohio State to get to watch them play in their college football semi-final game against Texas and how screwed up I was for the entirety of that week because of the placement of that game on Friday night. I am both excited and somewhat confused to share that that sentiment has also persisted into the week leading up to this review as well! Despite the national championship game between Ohio State and Notre Dame taking place last Monday night, long in advance of my normal preparations for switch reviews, that night I was just taking off on what has been a roller coaster of a second cold/flu/pneumonia/COVID/death illness that I’ve faced in just the last handful of months. The celebration of beating the Fighting Irish in the championship and gloating about being a Buckeye fan at work all week was pretty short lived with both me and my girlfriend quickly spiraling downhill after the game with us experiencing basically every symptom in the book at random and for varying amounts of time. This is in spite of the medications that we’ve been habitually abusing this week to try and stave off those symptoms, for the record. As you might expect, when you’re curled up in bed and cycling between fevers or chills, or just trying to stay upright and conscious with fatigues and headaches, you’re not exactly sticking to your normal 5-9 schedule after your 9-5. So alas, here we are with yet another switch review written by a less than put together me trying to put together something more together than less. Or something like that. Hopefully saying “I typed like a champion today” for this one will both amuse most of you out there into overlooking the typos and sentence structure and dig at the few Irish fans out there among you as well.

Figure 1: Still feels a little surreal to think about if you ask me. Last time they won a championship was in 2014...

Despite my better judgement, or perhaps due to me being only able to muster a limited degree of judgement this week, the background section of this review is going to be a bit unorthodox and different than the last few that I’ve pulled together. Whereas in the previous months I’ve been moving quite diligently through the backgrounds of new manufacturers, new designers, and wide histories of releases from different companies, these Gateron Green Apple switches are both new and un-marketed enough that they really don’t have all that much history to them yet. Furthermore, they hardly have any intrinsic context either, seemingly existing as a release of Gateron’s choosing to be stocked by any vendors interested in them and championed by no one specific vendor. Thus, rather than shorting this background section down to one limp paragraph and leaving you all a bit perplexed as to why I would choose a switch with so little story to write a story about, I figured I would fill the background section with the personal context as to why I chose to review these switches. Or, at the very least why they stood out to me and my current state of mind about switches. See most of the time my decisions in choosing to review certain switches over others is obvious – the switches chosen are technologically interesting, switches that the community is incredibly excited for, or ones that key on a certain historical niche that I have yet to explore or detail in writing. Other times, though, my rationale is a bit more opaque and mysterious. Aside from the fact that I have to choose switches which I personally want to write about as at the end of the day as I am the one that actually has to type out these massive run on sentences that you’re just scrolling past anyways, sometimes certain switches just stand out to me because of their color, their feeling, or a simple trick of marketing. I am fallible too, and even I can fall for marketing gimmicks. The Green Apples pulled me a tiny bit because of their marketing, but also a much larger part of where that fits into what has been on my mind lately other than a fever. Let’s get into that a bit…

Switch Background

You just reviewed a tactile switch made by Gateron, Goat, so why the heck are you doing a deep dive on another one so soon? Well, immediately after posting my links across all of my various social media accounts to the Sillyworks x Gateron Type R Switch Review last Sunday morning, I was presented with an advertisement for the Green Apple switches from some random company. At this point I honestly can’t remember much about the photo and the caption at all, save for the one single tag line that stood out so much that it has permanently seared itself into my brain – “heavy tactile”. After having had my mind, as well as all of my reasonable expectations of what a tactile switch could be, turned on my head only a few days prior while constructing the review for the Type R switches, I admittedly had to think pretty long and hard about what “heavy tactile” actually meant. Are the springs overall heavy and weighed in the 70-100 gram range? Is the tactile bump itself ‘heavy’ in that it peaks up at forces that high? Is the bump itself actually lightly weighted in an absolute sense but heavy because it is such a jolt of force away from where the switch starts out? What even are “heavy tactile” switches in general? Not sensing that this was likely the first indicator that I was coming down with an illness that was soon to affect my cognition all week, this lead me down an old familiar spiral that I’ve had many a time over the handful of years since I first got a force curve machine. The spiral largely exists circling about one question: “How does one quantify tactile switches?”

Figure 2: It easily just as well could have been this ad for all I know.

Anyone who has sat and thought about quantifying the tactility of switches ultimately comes to the conclusion that it really is not all that complicated of an idea. There has to be some set of numbers, details, or measurements that can be made about the bumps in tactile force curves that allows them to be grouped, categorized, or otherwise discussed in more concrete, yet-to-be-defined terms. Anyone who has thought about this subject at length, though, will recognize that this is a significantly more deep and complicated idea to try and actually pursue. While the math behind concepts like taking the area under the curve or the differential displacement between the start of a tactile bump and its peak is something that they teach high schoolers to do in math classes, implementing those foundational math concepts into a system that can be evenly applied to all sorts of force curves of various types and in such fashion that it yields tangible, usable results is the reason that this has yet to be accomplished at any scale with keyboard switches. Or it’s just because there are people who aren’t as crazy as I am out there. After finishing my postings for the Type R Switch Review and then immediately buying a set of these Gateron Green Apple switches to try and ascertain physically what a “heavy tactile” is, I spent the rest of the day thinking on this topic again. It even got so far that I ended up putting some serious hours into some Excel sheets to try and figure out ways to go about capturing all of the numbers, metrics, and details about tactile bumps in force curves that I could want. And while I’m not going to announce that I’ve finished this project and that I’m rolling it out here today, I do want to share that I think I actually have a system that will be usable to quantify tactile switches.

Figure 3: Behold! A fraction of the working chaos that is my brain represented in Excel form.

“What gives, Goat, why are you starting yet another paragraph with a rhetorical tactic like this and also why are you announcing that you’ve “solved” quantifying tactile switches without actually sharing any of the data you’ve processed so far?” Well, unlike the linearity project that I announced via my article ‘On Differences in Linear Switches’ almost a year ago to the day, quantifying tactility is a significantly more complicated endeavor. In addition to trying to wrangle a ton more data points and metrics, it’s still not exactly a perfect system that I’ve developed and I’m still trying to work out the limitations of the system and where it’s the weakest when it comes to describing tactile switches. As well, over the course of the two weeks following my creation, I was only able to process about 50 total tactile switch force curves of the 355 that I’ve collected as of the time of posting this review. This isn’t really enough data processing for me to make sure that the system won’t break down when it encounters some sect of tactiles that I’ve not touched yet. Additionally unlike the linearity project, the current state of the work is such that there’s almost too much data that it’s spitting out in its raw form to actually be useful or interpretable for most readers. So far, this model is spitting out:

- The length and linearity (slope, R^2) of any pre- and post-bump linear travel regions

- The width of both positive and negative tactile bumps relative to the rest of the stroke

- An approximated integration of the area ‘under’ the curve for both positive and negative tactile bumps

- Ways to quantify the asymmetry or lopsidedness of both the positive and negative bumps

This is almost 30 raw data points on its own. While my full debut of this project on quantifying tactile switches will ultimately see you all getting access to all of this raw and processed data in this form, 30 different numbers is simply too much for the average enthusiast to try and make sense of with switches. If I can trim this set of 30 numbers down to just a handful of key, easily comparable numbers – such as a “bump size” number, an “asymmetry factor”, or a percent “bump width” of the stroke – I think that it will be infinitely more useful to you all than it is currently. Even though I am teasing this information to you and not really providing much more may not feel entirely satisfactory, you’re simply just going to have to trust me on this one.

Pulling it all together, I have been thinking a lot about tactile switches lately, and especially so whenever I see them being marketed with descriptors like “heavy” or “100% tactile”. I think that I’ve finally turned the corner on one of the largest switch data processing goals that I’ve ever had, and I am just excited to share with you all that I have finally actually made progress on something that I’ve spoken on for years now. I wish I could give you a definitive date of when this will be dropping, but unfortunately I can’t make any promises as to when it will come out. Just know that I am both working on it in the background and that it is largely the reason why I chose to review these switches here today. Perhaps sharing all of this here in this fashion is my personally self-hating way of trying to motivate myself by getting all of you excited about it and encouraging you all to bug me more about releasing it. For some perspective as to how long it could be before we finally have tactile switches quantified, I shared really no hints on the linearity work while it was in process and that took me almost 3-4 months of solid effort to nail down and get squared away before putting it out in the form that it is today. (It also took me two dedicated weeks to pull that debut article together.) While I am much more experienced in my data processing now and haven’t fallen for the same mistakes that I made back in the linearity work, I am also only a manic few weeks into quantifying tactility by comparison. I’d like to have a significant portion of the tactile switches processed before I sit down and write the article debuting quantified tactility, so assume that it could be a few more months before this all comes together and leaves my head/Excel sheets that I’ve been working on late into the night. Don’t worry, though, my girlfriend who knows nothing about data processing and even less about switches assures me that my ramblings are “neat”. Or, at the least that’s what she’s learned to say so that I’ll leave her alone and stop forcing my mathematical explanations onto her.

Figure 4: She has to basically view that Excel sheet like this scene from 21 Jump Street when I'm done explaining it.

Tying this last paragraph to the switches that you’ve all actually came here to read about, the Gateron Green Apple switches debuted in late September of 2024, though the exact date I’m unable to pin down. Designed by and released from Gateron without collaboration with a designer or a specific vendor, the Green Apple switches have distributed to quite a few store fronts by the end of January 2025 when this review was initially posted, being for sale at Divinikey, Kinetic Lab, Keebhut, Lume, Milktooth, Hippokeys, and a few others among western vendors. Also priced for sale directly on Gateron’s western facing storefront (where I purchased my set from), these switches are available in packs of 35 switches at the price of $21 per 35 pack or $0.60 per switch. Marketed as being ‘heavy tactiles’, the Gateron Green Apples have effectively no other description nor marketing fluff given to them by Gateron, save for the occasional mentions of having full POM housings, and so their general longevity as a switch is effectively unknown. The sheer number of vendors which have picked it up, though, as well as the number of content creators that have spoken on it and posted ads alongside these vendors leads me to believe that these switches will be available for quite some time throughout 2025 and maybe beyond.

Green Apple Performance

Appearance

At the highest level, the Gateron Green Apple switches come with a candy green top housing that separates pale, green-tinted cream colored stems and bottom housings which match each other. While this colorway doesn’t immediately scream out as matching any specific varietal of apple out there, I’ve been able to rationalize the color scheme by thinking of it as a green apple that has been bitten into, partially exposing the inner white flesh for some contrast. Whether or not this was actually the thought process behind coloring or naming the switches in this fashion, it is a unique enough colorway that they won’t be able to be mistaken for really any other switches that I can recall having seen over the years. This is perhaps a good thing for their identifiability as there are really no features on the outside (nor inside) of these switches which cause them to stand out amongst the flurry of Gateron-branded switches that have hit the markets over the last year or two. Despite the lack of uniquely identifying features, there are still details in the parts of these switches which I feel obligated to detail here as they don’t necessarily line up with those seen in other recently released Gateron switches ostensibly produced around the same time period. Discussion of these sub-part details may be found in the paragraphs and photos below.

Figure 5: Gateron Green Apple switches and their components.

Looking first to the candy green POM top housings of the Green Apple tactile switches, we’re greeted with a few details of note that have been seen in a few other Gateron switches in reviews here before. First is that of the thin, rectangular LED slot that has been bifurcated by a thin plastic strip that doesn’t really restrict all that many aftermarket, through-switch LED options. The second feature is that of the inverted ‘GATERON’ nameplate which has been seen on the vast majority of Gateron-branded switches made by Gateron since the debut of it with the Oil King switches in 2022. Despite the similar time frame in which they were likely produced, though, it should be noted that this inverted nameplate did not appear with the Sillyworks collaboration in the Type R switches. While this could likely be due to the Type R housings having custom molds made for them whereas the Gateron Green Apple switches were likely made using stock, already present production tooling, it is still a bit odd to see them switch between these conventions in such a short time frame. Internally, the housings have very little of note that the photographs below can’t speak for. The only detail which I will comment on is that the mold markings are located in the upper left- and right-hand corners beneath the nameplate region as is almost customary for Gateron-made switches.

Figure 6: Gateron Green Apple top housing exterior design showing inverted 'GATERON' nameplate and thin, bifurcated rectangular LED/diode slot.

Figure 7: Gateron Green Apple top housing interior design showing similarities with most other modern, premium Gateron switches as well as capital letter mold markings in the upper left- and right-hand corners underneath the nameplate region.

Moving next to the cream green, POM stems of the Green Apple switches, we encounter no real novel design details or features that haven’t been seen in stems before. In fact, the Green Apple stems are pretty traditional in their design as they have squared off slider rails, a small, tiered center pole, and a nearly average stem length of around 13.55 mm in total length. Tacking on some mold ejector circles on the front plate of the stem just above the tactile stem legs and some well applied factory lubing to all sides of the stem, we again work through tropes that have been seen in stems made by Gateron and all switch manufacturers for many years now. Interestingly, though, it seems as if Gateron has either returned or stayed steadfast with these ‘simple’ stem designs in the face of many other brands diversifying their designs and tweaking every single feature from dampening mechanism locations to the taper and size of their slider rails. Perhaps the simplicity in design and focus on execution of the stems in Gateron’s switches is one of the reasons they’ve remained as high of quality as they have for some time. The only feature on the stems which is outside of the most common pattern of stem design, but far from unique or rare to see, is that of the slanted ‘capes’ on the backplate of the stem.

Figure 8: Gateron Green Apple stem front and back sides showing non tapered slider rail, tiered center pole, and trace amounts of factory lubing reflecting in the light.

Figure 9: Side profile of the Gateron Green Apple tactile stem.

Finally arriving to the cream green, POM bottom housings of the Green Apple switches, we again are greeted with a slew of features which have been seen many times over in other Gateron switches. Internally these features include a large south side spring collar, centered ‘bumps’ at the base of the slider rails of the stems that act as dampening pads, and trace amounts of factory lube in all of the nooks and crannies of the housings. Unlike the most recently reviewed Type R tactiles, the LED/diode region of the bottom housings of the Green Apples is entirely wide open and can accommodate virtually any through switch LED which works with the bifurcated top housings. Externally, the Gateron Green Apples come only in 5 pin/PCB mount variety with two capital letter mold markings on the inner south edges of these legs and a large ‘GATERON’ anticounterfeit marking between the metal PCB pins. To say that this is anything other than a bread-and-butter, down the middle, insert euphemism here style of Gateron bottom housing design for modern Gateron switches would be a lie.

Figure 10: Gateron Green Apple bottom housing interior showing south side spring collar, dampening pads at the bases of the slider rails, and trace amounts of factory lubing.

Figure 11: Gateron Green Apple bottom housing exterior design showing PCB mounting pins, 'GATERON' anticounterfeit stamp, and pair of capital letter mold markings common to almost all Gateron-made switches.

Push Feel

Of all of the ways that I hypothesized above that the Gateron Green Apple switches could be defined as “heavy tactiles”, the reality is perhaps the most disappointing in that these are simply the combination of the descriptors ‘heavy’ and ‘tactile’ rather than ‘heavily tactile’. Despite their peak force measuring in around 65 gf (and bottoming out force less than that) as can be seen in the force curve below in Figure 12, the Green Apple switches feel quite weighty underneath the fingers and punch much higher than their listed weight. I could easily have been fooled into thinking that these switches had weights that were listed in the mid to high 70 gf at peak and bottom out force if I hadn’t consulted my force curve machine first. The tactile bump, itself, is not sharp, but instead wide and meandering with a start at the very top end of the switch that passes into a brief transmission of a linear region quickly ended by a firm, slightly pointed bottoming out. Even though the bump itself is far from anything that could be construed as sharp or heavily tactile in nature, there is the tiniest bit of snap to its feeling that can really only be felt as a contrast with the slightly pointed bottoming out. In the instances in which I was able to not bottom out these switches when typing, which is a bit difficult given their shortened travel distance at 3.200 mm, I didn’t really notice any tactile snappiness at all. Perhaps this is because my ‘half strokes’ were really only rocking along the long tactile bump and not really making much, if any contact with the short post-bump linear region of the Green Apple’s stroke.

Figure 12: Force curve diagram for the stock Gateron Green Apple switch.

As for the smoothness of the Gateron Green Apples, these switches are certainly smooth though not quite in the same way as most other factory lubed Gateron switches. Rather than being on the deliberately lubed and more heavily coated end, the Green Apples feel as if they are a smidge closer towards the raw, barely lubed end of the spectrum and have some degree of ‘texture’ to their strokes. Especially shown through the peak of the tactile bump where the stem legs and leaves are making the most contact, this texture is noticeable through the lube but definitely not rough or grainy enough to be called scratch. Even thinking about calling this phenomenon “scratch” just feels wrong in some indescribable way. It’s just enough of a material feeling to let you know that it is there, when it is present in the switches that it is in. Like with all textbook strange phenomena, this texture is not entirely present in all switches or at all times either, which gives the Green Apples a certain variability that is a bit unexpected given Gateron’s production quality in recent years. Further adding to this mystery is that not all of the bottom outs of these switches are necessarily consistent, either. In some switches, one in a couple handfuls of bottom outs will occasionally feel as if they ‘skip a beat’ and hit with a softened, padded mallet like feeling as opposed to their slightly pointed and firm normal strokes. Paired up with the inconsistent texturing through the strokes of some of these switches, you will every now and then get some Green Apples that just feel more soft, delicate, and slightly ‘chewy’ than the rest of them. Is this enough to necessarily require that you go out and select for the Green Apples which don’t display this behavior? Likely not, though it is something that you may notice if you’re paying a strong amount of attention to the feeling of these switches when typing on them.

Sound

The Gateron Green Apple switches are tactiles that have very little noticeable sound from their tactile bump and instead a sound profile that emphasizes the pointy nature of the bottom out. Medium in terms of overall volume at normal typing speeds, the pointiness of these switches sound as if it is coming from deeper within the switch than other pointily bottomed out switches which instead sometimes sound like they’re coming directly from within your ear drums or trying to mask the entirety of the switch. The ‘texture’ in the push feeling notes above isn’t really prominent in the sound profile at any typing speeds, though the noted inconsistency in bottom out strikes is more than noticeable here in the sound of the Green Apples. This variation in the sound of the bottom outs, with some also sounding much more muted and muffled than others gives a pretty variegated typing experience with the switches, with some switches not only sounding different from ones right next to them at fixed typing speeds, but also different from all of the rest at increased typing speeds as well. While I’m not personally a fan of this inconsistency and I think that it points to perhaps inconsistent factory lubing or part tolerances on Gateron’s behalf, perhaps this slight degree in variation of typing sounds is something that some people could come to enjoy. In a way these switches have subtle undertones that are more organic and fluid than some switches which are rigid, consistent, and unyielding in terms of their sound profile regardless of usage conditions.

Wobble

Despite the Gateron Green Apple switches having an above average, barely noticeable amount of equal magnitude stem wobble in both the N/S and E/W directions, these very shockingly do have some top housing give from loose tolerances. Present ever so slightly in the N/S direction, at the least the batch that I received is a rare instance in which Gateron’s manufacturing tolerances have not been absolutely on point.

Measurements

If you’re into this level of detail about your switches, you should know that I have a switch measurement sheet that logs all of this data, as well as many other cool features which can be found under the ‘Archive’ tab at the top of this page or by clicking on the card above. Known as the ‘Measurement Sheet’, this sheet typically gets updated weekly and aims to take physical measurements of various switch components to compare mold designs on a brand-by-brand basis as well as provide a rough frankenswitching estimation sheet for combining various stems and top housings.

Figure 14: Numerical details regarding the stock Gateron Green Apple switches.

Have you ever wanted to be bombarded with more switch data than you’ve ever seen at any point in your life before? Consider checking out the ‘Force Curve Repository’ hosted on my GitHub that contains all force curves that I take both within and outside of these full-length reviews. In addition to having these graphs above, I have various other versions of the graphs, raw data, and my processed data all available for over 1000 different switches for you to use however you see fit. Check it out via the ‘Archive’ tab at the top of this page or by clicking any of the force curve cards above.

Break In

Break In Notes

17,000 Actuations

- At 17,000 actuations, the aforementioned inconsistencies in bottoming out feeling and sound become even more noticeable in the Gateron Green Apple switches. Assumedly due to factory lube migration, switches broken in this far are much more consistent in their individual stroke to stroke tone, but significantly different from one another when compared side by side.

- As is expected in break in testing, both the stem and top housing wobble noted in the stock Gateron Green Apple switches increased after 17,000 break in cycles. While the top housing give is still far from truly needing to have films to fix it, it is certainly much more noticeable here than in the stock switches.

34,000 Actuations

- Much to my surprise, the factory lube migration noted above at 17,000 actuations appears to have largely cleared up by 34,000 actuations. All of the Gateron Green Apples have begun to sound like their stock forms once again, and perhaps with a touch less of the variation than was initially noted in the stock switches.

51,000 Actuations

- After 51,000 break in cycles, the Gateron Green Apple switches did not further change their push feeling nor sound than what was previously described at the 34,000 actuation point. The only change that was noticed was a slight increase in the stem wobble of these switches, in both N/S and E/W directions. The top housings did not appear to increase in the amount that they budged in the set of switches that was broken in to 51,000 actuations.

Figure 16: Comparative force curve diagram showing no substantial change in the force curves of the Gateron Green Apple switches throughout the break in process.

Comparison Notes to Other Notable Tactile Switches

Note – These are not aimed at being comprehensive comparisons between all factors of these switches as this would simply be too long for this writeup. These are little notes of interest I generated when comparing these switches to the Green Apple switches side by side.

Figure 17: Switches for comparison. (L-R, Top-Bot: Sillyworks x Gateron Type R, Cherry MX Purple, Drop Holy Panda X, Neapolitan Ice Cream, JWICK Taro, and Attack Shark Blue Jelly)

Sillyworks x Gateron Type R

- Despite how similar these two tactiles are in terms of their total stem travel, the ever so slight reach of the Green Apples paired with their post bump linear region makes them feel as if they have a stroke that is significantly longer than the Type R switches.

- There is marginally more N/S and E/W stem wobble in the Gateron Green Apple switches than there is in the Sillyworks x Gateron Type R switches.

- In terms of their overall sound, the Green Apple and Type R switches are fairly similar to each other with perhaps their biggest tonal difference coming at the point of bottom out. The Type R switches have a much more resounding, punctual, and forceful tone to their bottom outs whereas the Green Apples, by comparison, have a softer, less forceful sound to their bottom out.

Cherry MX Purple

- Despite the Cherry MX Purple switches using the factory lubing from Cherry’s MX2A platform, they are quite a bit more scratchy than that of the Gatreon Green Apple switches in both the tactile bump and the non-tactile parts of their strokes.

- While the overall strength of the tactile bump relative to the rest of the strokes of these two switches feel pretty similar, there is a bit more of a snappy sharpness to the Cherry MX Purples than that of the Green Apples. I suspect that this is from the more sudden start into the positive tactile bump that can be seen in their comparative force curve diagram below.

- Overall, the Cherry MX Purple switches are more quiet and scratch-forward in their sound than the Gateron Green Apple switches.

Drop Holy Panda X

- Even though the comparative force curve between these two switches below would seem to suggest that they should more or less feel the same as one another, the Drop Holy Panda X switches have a tactile bump that feels a tiny bit more sharp and snappy in hand than the Gateron Green Apple switches.

- While the HPX switches have some stem/leaf leg induced ping in their sound and feeling, they do not have the same sort of texturing to their stroke that the Green Apple switches have. I guess this definitionally would mean that the HPX switches are smoother than the Green Apples, though I’m more inclined to just describe them as a different sort of ‘not quite smooth yet still smooth’.

- There is quite a bit more stem wobble in both the N/S and E/W directions of the Gateron Green Apple stems than there is in the Drop Holy Panda X switch stems.

Neapolitan Ice Cream

- Yet again we encounter another comparative force curve diagram for two switches being compared here that would suggest that they feel nearly identical and yet that couldn’t be further from the truth. The Neapolitan Ice Cream switches are snappier, sharper, and altogether more violent in their housing collisions and tactile bumps than the Gateron Green Apple switches.

- The Neapolitan Ice Cream switches are definitely less smooth than the Gateron Green Apple switches, with their strokes having enough graininess to them to actually qualify as being called scratch as opposed to just ‘texture’.

- There is quite a bit more stem wobble in the Neapolitan Ice Cream switches than the Gateron Green Apples.

JWICK Taro

- The JWICK Taro switches have a tactile bump that when compared to the Green Apples feels a bit more ‘tight’ and snappy in that they start up and are whisked past comparatively quickly before reaching their post-bump linear region.

- In terms of their overall sound profiles, these two switches are among the most quiet of all of those here in this comparison list, though the JWICK Taros just edge out the Green Apples in terms of their more muted, dampened, and bass heavy tones at bottom out.

- There is much more stem wobble in both the N/S and E/W directions of the Gateron Green Apple switches than there is in the JWICK Taro switches.

Attack Shark Blue Jelly

- The Attack Shark Blue Jelly tactiles not only feel sharper, louder, and more in your face in their tactile bump than the Green Apple switches, they also sound that way too. These are whatever the extreme opposite end of ‘subtle’ tactiles are.

- There is quite a bit more scratch in the strokes of the Blue Jelly switches than those of the Green Apple switches.

- The Green Apple switches do have marginally less stem wobble than the Attack Shark Blue Jelly switches in both N/S and E/W directions, though the fact that the Green Apples are a Gateron-made switch in 2025 that has housing wobble does not help their scoring on this metric at all.

Scores and Statistics

Note – These scores are not necessarily completely indicative of the nuanced review above. If you’ve skipped straight to this section, I can only recommend that you at least glance at the other sections above in order to get a stronger idea of my opinion about these switches.