Grams28 131 Essential Pouch Review: A Luxury Leather Pouch To Hold Your Everyday Carry

Whether you are traveling or going out with friends, carrying all of your essential Everyday Carry or EDC tech items can be a bit of a hassle. That’s where Grams28 131 Essential Pouch comes in. This handy and fashionable pouch makes it possible for users to store and carry a bunch of items easily.

The Grams28 131 Essential Pouch, which we are going to review in detail today is a compact-sized organizer pouch that can be used to carry around your iPhone, AirPods, Powerbank, Passport, chargers, cables, wallets, keys, cash, pen, credit cards, and more.

The best thing about this particular pouch is that it can be used to store items safely and placed in a backpack or carried around like a crossbody sling with its detachable strap.

Manufactured in Arzignano, Italy this pouch itself is made up of premium full-grain pebbled leather, which gives it a luxurious look and feel. It only weighs 170g, which makes it super easy to carry it in hand or wear it through a pouch. The dimensions of this pouch are 20 W x 11 H x 4.5 D in cm. The pouch ships with a basic strap, however, you can separately purchase a more premium strap from Grams28’s website.

What I like about the Grams28 131 Essential Pouch is that it is quite versatile. When you don’t want to carry it around with you like a sling, you can simply detach the adjustable strap and use it as an internal packing organizer for your backpack. When used in this mode you can store your cables, memory cards, AirTags, cash, credit cards, AirPods, and other smaller items safely inside this organizer.

Then when you are traveling you can put your essential items in this pouch and wear it like a sling. It truly gives you the best of both worlds experience.

Inside the pouch, you get 5 pockets in total. There’s a large compartment for carrying larger items, a slim zipped pocket that is great for storing valuables like cash or credit cards, a compact pocket that is good for storing your iPhone and passport, and two meshed pockets that let you store cables, chargers, AirPods and other smaller items. There’s also a handy pen holder that is great for holding a pen or an Apple Pencil.

My experience of using the Grams28 131 Essential Pouch

I have been using the Grams28 131 Essential Pouch as my everyday carry for 2 months now and have plenty to say about this pouch. As someone who has never in his life carried a sling pouch the whole concept seemed weird at first. That is until I had to go on a trip to London and used the 131 Pouch during my 2 connecting flights and 4-hour layover.

Here’s what I carried in my Grams28 131 Pouch: A Passport, an iPhone 15 Pro Max, AirPods Pro, an AirTag, a MagSafe charger for iPhone, a lightning cable, a pen, a travel-sized perfume bottle, a small GaN charger, credit cards, and cash.

To my surprise, the pouch was not only able to fit all of the items listed above but it did so without becoming bulky. The pockets inside the pouch are very well-designed and can store many items without breaking a sweat. Another good thing that I noticed with this pouch is that all the things stay in their place even when you shake the pouch rigorously.

With this pouch, you get invisible zippers that compliment the luxury look of this pouch while also being super smooth when it comes to opening and closing them. The case carries minimal branding that actually looks cool.

All in all, I am very impressed with the craftsmanship, practicality, and luxurious feel of this pouch and recommend it to anyone who can afford its price. Thanks to its premium materials this pouch will remain with you for a long period and let you carry your Everyday carry with ease.

Our rating of the Grams28 131 Essential Pouch: 10/10

Pricing and availability

You can buy the Grams28 131 Essential Pouch for $189 from the official website here. It comes in black only.