# Klypse: the pod kit after the disposables ban

> Innokin Klypse: slim body, 700 mAh cell, 2 ml refillable pods. What this pod kit changes day to day compared with a single use device in the UK.


When single use devices left British shelves, shops pushed forward compact hardware able to reproduce the same gesture without ending up in a bin. The Innokin **Klypse** is one of the names that came up most often in that shift. Pen format, no buttons, a pod you fill yourself: on paper the promise is an object as simple as a disposable but built to last. What matters is what that actually changes once it is in a pocket every day.

## Klypse: which device are we actually talking about

The name now covers a whole family, and that is the first source of confusion in any British listing. Innokin has run the concept through several successive versions: the original, then the Klypse Zip, the Klypse Mecha, the Klypse Pro and the Klypse Plus.

This article deals with the original, the plainest device in the range and the one UK review sites covered on release in May 2022, among them Planet of the Vapes and Ecigclick. The later versions add cell capacity, a screen or a power setting, so they do not behave the same way.

One thread does run through the whole family. The 2 ml pods are shared across models in the range, so a user moving from one body to another keeps the same consumable rather than being left with a drawer of dead parts.

That detail is worth more than it sounds in Britain, where the pod is the part you buy repeatedly and the body is the part you buy once.

## What is actually in the kit

The original sits in a flat aluminium alloy body, 94 mm tall by 29 mm wide and 15.2 mm thick. The footprint is close to an elongated lighter, which explains a good part of its appeal to people coming off the old sealed format.

Inside is an integrated 700 mAh cell charged over a USB-C port, a figure confirmed on UK retail listings such as Vapouriz. Output is capped at 16 W and adjusts itself: there is no button, no screen and no airflow control on this particular model.

The device fires on inhalation, exactly as a single use device did. A magnetic cap covers the mouthpiece, an unusual touch at this level, which stops the part you put in your mouth collecting pocket lint. The pod itself attaches and detaches magnetically.

On the pod side, capacity is 2 ml with a side fill port and an integrated 0.8 ohm mesh coil on the version supplied in the kit. That coil is not removable on its own: when it tires, the whole pod is replaced.

## Klypse against a disposable: what changes day to day

This is where the comparison earns its keep, because the gesture is almost identical while everything behind it differs. Nothing about the draw itself has to be relearned.

On a single use device there was nothing to do. You vaped until it was empty, then the object left with its cell inside. With this kit two new actions appear: filling the pod through the side port with the liquid of your choice, and charging the body like a phone.

Two constraints disappear in exchange. The device is no longer thrown away, only the consumable turns over, and the flavour range is no longer whatever one manufacturer decided to sell, since the pod is fillable from any legal bottle.

Autonomy also changes character. A sealed device advertised a fixed puff count that only ever counted down. Here 700 mAh recharges indefinitely but requires a cable on a rhythm set by how hard the device is used, which for sustained daily use means a nightly charge.

Maintenance exists where previously there was none. You watch the liquid level so the coil never fires dry, and you swap the pod when flavour starts to fade. None of that is technical, but it is no longer the zero upkeep of the old format.

## The pods, the part that really defines the format

On this type of hardware the body is a one off purchase and the pod comes back regularly, so the consumable structures the experience far more than the spec sheet does.

Range pods are commonly sold in packs of three by British retailers and exist in several coil values. UK listings show 0.6 ohm, 0.8 ohm and 1.2 ohm versions compatible across the Klypse and Klypse Pro bodies.

That choice is not cosmetic, it sets the draw. The 1.2 ohm pod leans towards a tight mouth to lung draw, while lower values open the airflow and give a looser inhale with a different vapour character.

The 2 ml capacity is not a design decision either. The Tobacco and Related Products Regulations 2016, administered by the MHRA, restrict tank capacity in the United Kingdom to no more than 2 ml, and cap nicotine containing e-liquid at 20 mg per ml in refill containers of no more than 10 ml. Every legal pod sold here sits inside those figures.

Reading a device through its consumable rather than its battery is the most useful habit for a first purchase, which is the approach we take in our [guide to a first kit and its running costs](/uk/vape-starter-kit-guide/).

## Why this format survived the ban

The prohibition on single use vapes that took effect on 1 June 2025 does not target vaping technology, it targets a design. Defra guidance defines a single use vape as one that either has a battery you cannot recharge or is not refillable.

To be reusable, the same guidance requires a rechargeable battery, a refillable container holding the e-liquid, and a removable and replaceable coil where the device has one. The guidance accepts a coil contained in a removable and replaceable pod, and expects both refills and coils to be separately available to buy.

The **Klypse** meets that description on each count: the cell charges over USB-C, the pod refills from a bottle, the coil sits inside a pod that detaches and is sold separately in packs. That is precisely why hardware of this shape filled the gap left on British shelves, as we set out in our explainer on [the disposables ban](/uk/disposable-vape-ban-uk/).

The shift is economic as much as technical. A model built on selling a device and discarding it has given way to one built on selling a durable body and a flow of pods, which for the buyer means a heavier first purchase and a lighter renewal.

The format is not free of material consequences either. A pod with a bonded coil is still a plastic and metal consumable replaced on a cycle, even if the volume involved bears no comparison to a complete device binned after a few days. Where it sits against the other options is covered in our review of the [alternatives to disposables](/uk/disposable-vape-alternatives/).

## Frequently asked questions

### Is the Klypse legal to sell in the UK after the ban?

Yes. Defra guidance defines a reusable vape as one with a rechargeable battery, a refillable container and a removable, replaceable coil. A body that charges over USB-C with refillable pods sold separately meets that description.

### What cell does the original carry?

The original model carries an integrated 700 mAh cell charged over USB-C, with output capped at 16 W. Later versions in the range advertise larger capacities and add adjustments.

### Do you replace the coil or the whole pod?

The coil is integrated into the pod and does not come out on its own. When it tires, the entire 2 ml pod is replaced, and UK retailers usually sell them in packs of three.

### Are the pods interchangeable across the range?

The 2 ml pods are shared between models in the family, so a stock of consumables survives a change of body within the range rather than becoming unusable.

### Are there settings to adjust on the original?

No. This model runs without a button, without a screen and without an airflow ring. It fires on inhalation and manages its own output. The Mecha and Pro versions are the ones that introduce adjustments.

## What to take away from the Klypse

The **Klypse** is a clean illustration of the turn British retail took after single use devices were withdrawn: an object of roughly the same size, used with the same gesture, whose cell recharges and whose pod refills. What changes day to day comes down to two actions added, charging and filling, and two constraints removed, a fixed puff count and a fixed flavour list.

For the Observatoire this class of pod remains a useful marker of the post disposable market. The format is judged less on its spec sheet than on its consumable, and that is where the difference lies between hardware you keep and a product you replace.

Everything described here applies to the original **Klypse**, not to the Zip, Mecha, Pro or Plus versions, whose capacities and adjustments differ and which should be read on their own listings rather than by analogy.

<em>Editorial content for adult readers only. Vaping products usually contain nicotine, a substance that causes addiction. Not for sale to under-18s in the United Kingdom. This article is not a buying recommendation.</em>