DaVinci has gone small. The Miqro is a proper pocket-sized dry herb vaporiser, smaller than a box of matches, and it keeps most of what made the IQ worth owning. Same conduction-plus-convection heating, same removable 18350 battery, same fiddly-but-good app and dot-display controls. It’s the IQ that learnt to hide.
If you’ve held an IQ, the Miqro feels almost cute next to it. About 80mm tall and light enough that you forget it’s in there. That’s the whole pitch, really. You give up a bit of bowl size and battery life, and in return you get a vape you’ll actually carry.
What’s new
The headline feature is the adjustable bowl. The mouthpiece pearl pushes down into the chamber, so you can shrink a full bowl to roughly a third of its size when you only want a quick one. Load a little, drop the pearl, and you’re not wasting herb stinking out the room for a two-minute session. It’s a small idea that solves a real annoyance, and the bigger IQ doesn’t do it.
The chamber’s ceramic-lined zirconia, and the airpath is all glass and ceramic past the bowl, so the flavour stays clean. DaVinci kept the flavour-chamber trick from the IQ too: there’s a spare section in the mouthpiece you can pack with herb to add taste on the way out, or leave empty.
Battery’s removable, which still matters. It runs a single 18350 cell, so you carry a spare instead of hunting for a cable mid-day. Charging is over USB when you do need it. Fair warning, an 18350 is a small cell, so you’ll get fewer sessions per charge than the IQ’s 18650. That’s the trade for the size.
How it runs
There are two ways to drive it. Smart Paths, which ramp the temperature up over a session, or Precision mode, which holds a set number you choose. The dot display shows a rough temperature readout, and the DaVinci app fills in the fine control if you want degree-by-degree.
For dry herb, somewhere around 185 to 200°C is the sweet spot for most people, lower for flavour and higher when you want bigger clouds. The Miqro tops out around 220°C. It’s conduction-led with a bit of convection, so it heats fast, maybe 30 to 40 seconds to first draw, and it does reward a slower, gentler pull rather than yanking on it.
It’s not a bottomless cloud machine. Pack it, take your time, and it’s a genuinely pleasant portable. Treat it like a desktop and you’ll be disappointed.
Miqro vs IQ: which one
Both are good. They just suit different people.
Get the Miqro if size and stealth come first. It’s the one that lives in a pocket without you noticing, the adjustable bowl is great for microdosing, and it lands at a friendlier price than the IQ. The catch is the smaller bowl and shorter battery life, so it’s happiest for solo, on-the-go sessions.
Get the IQ if you want more in a single bowl, longer runtime from the 18650, and you don’t mind the extra bulk. It’s the better pick for sharing or for someone who’d rather not refill as often.
Honestly, for a lot of people the Miqro is the smarter buy. The IQ’s main advantages are capacity and battery, and if you mostly vape alone in small amounts, the Miqro gives you the same flavour in a body half the size for less money.
Worth knowing
A couple of quirks. The pearl that adjusts the bowl can get a touch sticky with resin over time, so it wants a wipe now and then to keep moving freely. And the small chamber means cleaning is quick but frequent, a cotton bud with isopropyl every handful of sessions keeps the flavour honest. Same routine as any DaVinci, just a smaller version of it. There’s more on that in our general vaporizer maintenance guide.
The included 10mm bowl spacer is the bit people lose first, so keep it somewhere safe. It’s what lets the adjustable bowl work properly with a smaller load.
For the rest of the lineup and where the Miqro sits in it, have a look at the DaVinci range. And if you’re weighing a small conduction unit against the convection crowd, our dry herb vaporizer guide lays out the differences without the jargon.
That’s the Miqro at launch: DaVinci’s answer to “can you make the IQ smaller and cheaper without ruining it.” On first impression, mostly yes.