The best monitor arms for your single or dual setups
The stand that came with your monitor is probably serviceable. But I’ve never come across a monitor with a stand I’d truly call “great,” even among the best monitors you can buy. At best, your monitor moves up and down when you want it to, and at worst, they take up too much space on your desk. That’s why getting a mounting arm is a great idea for any workspace. It gets your monitor up off your desk and clears space, making more room for your computer, for instance, a new MacBook Air.
Manage your cables
EleTab Single Monitor Desk Mount
Staff Favorite
EleTab’s VESA arm features a full 90-degree up and down tilt, full landscape, and portrait swivel, and channels for holding your monitor’s cables to help keep your desk neat. It supports monitors up to 17.6 pounds.
Beyond basics
Amazon Basics Premium Single Monitor Stand
This monitor arm attaches to your desk with a sturdy clip, lets you easily rotate your monitor between landscape and portrait orientation, and has a tilt range of 70 degrees backward and five degrees forward. It supports displays up to 25 pounds.
Great budget option
VIVO Single 13 to 27 inch LCD Monitor Desk Mount Stand
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This is a good stand at a reasonable price. The arm fully extends as you need it to, provides 15 degrees of tilt in every direction, and 360 degrees of swivel, making it easy to orient your monitor between landscape and portrait positions. It also supports displays up to 22 pounds.
Heavy duty
3M Dual-Swivel Monitor Arm (MA140MB),Black
This is a tough, heavy-duty monitor arm. Despite its strength, the arms are actually hollow, allowing you to run your cables through the arm to tidy up your workspace. It supports monitors up to 30 pounds, which should be enough to hold up an iMac.
Dual-wield monitors
VIVO Dual Arm Monitor Desk Mount Height Adjustable
If you’ve picked up two monitors and need to mount them both, this is a great option. It features a heavy-duty clamp, so the weight of two monitors won’t cause it to tip over, and each arm is independent of the other, so you can adjust each screen to the perfect height for your needs. Each arm supports monitors weighing up to 14.3 pounds.
Manage every cable in existance
EleTab Dual Arm Monitor Stand
Like its one-armed counterpart, this dual-arm desk mount from EleTab offers detachable cable management clamps that let you cleanly route your cables behind your monitor. Each arm supports monitors up to 17.6 pounds.
Nowhere near basic
Amazon Basics Premium Dual Monitor Stand
AmazonBasic’s dual-monitor stand takes after the single-monitor version, with both arms offering a tilt range of 70 degrees backward and 5 degrees forward and provide a wide range of motion. The monitor attachment plates support both 100-by-100mm and 75-by-75mm. Each arm supports monitors up to 20 pounds.
Mount up
Jarvis Monitor Mounting Arm – Fits up to 32″ Computer Displays
Utilizing a gas-activated mechanism, Jarvis’ mounting arm will offer a sturdy platform for your monitor while still allowing for easy repositioning when it’s called for. This option supports monitors with a weight of up to 19.8 lbs and comes in black, silver, and white color options.
Adapt your stand
Husky Mounts VESA Adapter Plate
The arms on the rest of this list primarily support the 100-by-100mm VESA size, a common size for the mounting bracket on a lot of monitors. If you’ve got a monitor with a larger mounting bracket, up to 200-by-200mm, this plate from Husky Mounts will let you adapt any of the arms on this list to hold your monitor.
Our recommendations
These are all great monitor arms, but I’d pick up the EleTab Single Monitor Desk Mount if I were getting one. It’s a nice balance between price and ease-of-use, wide tilt angles, and built-in cable management as great additional perks make it one of the best monitor arms you can get for the price, even if some of those great USB-C monitors have made that less of a concern than it used to be. But it’d be hard to go wrong with any of the monitor arms on this list. Each has the strength to hold most common monitors.
EleTab also makes a Dual-Arm monitor desk mount for anyone who needs to mount two monitors, which lets you freely adjust both screens as you need to. Both arms can hold most flat-screen monitors under 18 lbs.
