The Ergotron LX is a sturdy, sensible monitor arm that may deal with most screens. It’s straightforward to arrange, straightforward to make use of, and (when bought in its white or polished aluminum colorway) engaging.

Ergotron positions the LX as an entry-level monitor arm, however the firm’s definition of “entry stage” exceeds most opponents. The arm is primarily constructed from steel, with some plastic cladding, and might help screens that weigh as much as 25 kilos. Ergotron recommends sticking to screens 34 inches huge or smaller. The monitor arm is backed by a 10-year guarantee.

The arm has a wholesome vary of adjustment that features 13 inches of carry, 75 levels of tilt, 360 levels of rotation, and 360 levels of pan (or swivel). Whereas not as clean because the Herman Miller Flo, I used to be in a position to alter the monitor arm left, proper, ahead, and again with out standing.

Setup is easy. The monitor has an included clamp and grommet mount. Set up is generally dealt with with a bundled Allen wrench, although you’ll nonetheless want a Philips head screwdriver to connect your monitor to the VESA mount. Most house owners will be capable of set up smaller screens (24 to 27 inches) alone, however assistance is beneficial for bigger shows.

Ergotron additionally avoids any severe flaws. I’ve just a few nitpicks, positive. I believe the clamp might be smaller. The white colorway doesn’t have a colour coordinated VESA mount. And the arm’s general design seems to be a bit industrial. Nonetheless, it is a bomb-proof mount, and it’s out there below $200.  

The Workstream by Monoprice single monitor arm is a no-frills resolution that delivers fundamental monitor arm options at an exceptionally low worth.

The monitor arm has an all-metal building that in some methods feels sturdier than the Ergotron LX, because the Workstream doesn’t embrace as a lot plastic cladding. It’s not solely a win, although, because the plastic that exists feels frail (and I even broke a small, although unnoticeable, bit whereas adjusting the monitor).

It offers a superb vary of adjustment, with 13.2 inches of peak and 90 levels of tilt, swivel, and rotation. The arm’s peak and tilt adjustment are similar to others on this listing, however it could possibly’t swivel in a full circle, which can show annoying for those who continuously transfer a monitor arm to share your display screen with colleagues.

The Workstream’s slim price range is felt in its troublesome setup and stiff operation. Customers might want to set up a number of screws for a clamp or gromet mount. Extra screws might have to be adjusted as soon as the arm is in place, as its default stress proved insufficient for supporting a 32-inch monitor.

Monoprice lists the monitor as able to supporting 20 kilos, however I felt the 32-inch monitor (which weighed 15 kilos) was pushing the Workstream to its limits. Monoprice additionally skimps on the guarantee, providing only one 12 months of protection.

These flaws are simply excused by the Workstream’s $60 price ticket. It’s clearly much less succesful, much less engaging, and tougher to make use of than Ergotron’s LX, nevertheless it gives a superb vary of adjustment and sturdy building for lower than half the worth. It’s a great alternative for consumers on a good price range, in addition to those that plan to put in a small, gentle 24-inch or 27-inch monitor.

The Huanuo HNSS6 Single Monitor Arm is definitely our go-to advice for consumers seeking to purchase the least costly monitor arm that may nonetheless fulfill its job.

The arm is available in two items: The decrease portion swivels whereas the higher portion permits for peak, tilt, and rotation changes. A gasoline spring offers stress to maintain screens aloft, which is an improve from the clips and screws utilized by the least costly arms. Nonetheless, it’s price noting that gasoline springs can lose their efficiency over time. These options are typical for the worth: Most opponents are related in design and use a gasoline cylinder.

What makes the Huanuo a winner is its general high quality and ease of set up. Setup required set up of simply three screws (and adjustment to some extra). The clamp used to mount the arm to the desk was intuitive in comparison with rivals just like the MountUp Single Monitor Arm, because the spacing of the clamp is adjustable with out eradicating and re-installing screws to safe it. The arm claims to carry 32-inch shows as much as 20 kilos, which is sufficient to maintain most screens. We examined it with panels as much as 32 inches weighing as much as 12 kilos, and it supported these with ease.

One notable draw back is cable administration. The plastic covers offered are finicky and received’t maintain many wires, so if you wish to add USB cables along with a video connection and energy, you’re in all probability out of luck. To be truthful, although, the identical is true of most cheap arms.

The Huanuo wasn’t as straightforward to arrange or alter because the Ergotron LX, our favourite general choose, and it’s not as sturdy because the Monoprice Single Monitor Arm, which usually sells for $60. Nonetheless, the Huanuo will get the job achieved.

Desire a monitor arm that will get the job achieved and appears good doing it? The Herman Miller Flo is for you.

The Flo’s design units it other than the pack. Herman Miller ditches the angular, industrial design of many opponents for a clean, pure look. Whereas clearly designed for a company workplace, it additionally matches in with a house workplace setup, the place its pleasant, approachable look helps it mix in with its environment. The Flo is backed by a 12-year guarantee and gives 24/7 customer support.

It’s straightforward to arrange and use. The monitor’s clamp works equally to different monitor arms I examined, nevertheless it’s extra refined and requires fewer screws (a grommet can be out there). The VESA mount can be glorious, offering a easy clip design that’s safe and might be simply pre-mounted to a monitor for easy set up. The way in which this mount works accommodates screens which have a barely recessed mount place, which can trigger issues for different monitor arms.

The monitor’s vary of adjustment isn’t a lot completely different from different high-end monitor arms. It gives 13.3 inches of vertical adjustment, 80 levels of tilt, and 360 levels of swivel and rotation. That’s primarily similar to the inexpensive Ergotron LX. The Flo’s operation is smoother, nonetheless: I discovered I might alter a monitor’s peak with a mere nudge.

Surprisingly, the Flo has a listed weight restrict of 20 kilos and recommends use with screens weighing at the very least 7 kilos. Most screens match inside this vary, however some heavier fashions received’t be appropriate with the Flo.

Herman Miller lists the Flo at $295, which is so much to ask for a single-monitor arm. The Ergotron LX gives related options at a a lot lower cost. Nonetheless, the Flo is a smoother, extra interesting monitor arm, and well worth the improve if you need type together with your operate.

It’s pure, given the one slight distinction in title, to suppose the Ergotron HX is merely an uprated model of the Ergotron LX. That’s not the case. That is a wholly completely different monitor arm which pairs its elevated capability with improved construct high quality and a extra skilled look.

First, let’s discuss weight. The Ergotron HX is rated to carry screens that weigh as much as 42 kilos and display screen sizes as much as 49 inches. That’s an awfully excessive weight restrict—I haven’t reviewed a single monitor in 2023 that exceeds it. I hooked up each a 32-inch widescreen and 38-inch ultrawide monitor, which weighed roughly 15 and 20 kilos, respectively, and the HX simply dealt with each.

Using plastic is minimal and reserved for small parts of cladding that seem used just for cable routing. The arm’s transferring elements embrace bigger, sturdier mechanisms, and felt extraordinarily clean in my use. Ergotron backs the arm with a 10-year guarantee.

The screens vary of adjustment is a bit restricted in comparison with the LX. It gives 11.5 inches of peak, 75 levels of tilt, 180 levels of swivel, and 360 levels of rotation. Nonetheless, a considerably extra restricted peak adjustment is typical on this class as a result of measurement of screens these stands are anticipated to hold.

The monitor arm’s spectacular design additionally offers a extra sturdy look. This might be a con for some, nonetheless, because the arm can appear a bit…a lot in a house workplace setup. It’s an costly arm, as effectively. Count on to pay about $350.

The Ergotron HX is an apparent alternative if you wish to mount an ultrawide, super-ultrawide, or giant format widescreen monitor in your desk.

The Humanscale M2.1 with M/Join laptop computer docking station is a gorgeous, sturdy, and fashionable monitor arm that may develop your laptop computer’s connectivity with out taking on extra house in your desktop.

Humanscale’s entry-level M2.1 doesn’t embrace a laptop computer dock, nevertheless it’s designed to accommodate the M/Join 3, which nestles snuggly into the bottom of the arm. Most dwelling workplace consumers will probably select the M/Join 3 USB Information Hub, which at the moment retails for $253 (on high of the M2.1’s base worth of $356). The hub provides three USB-C ports and two USB-A ports. In order for you much more ports, the $600 M/Join 3 Professional Dock provides two extra USB-A ports, two extra USB-C, Ethernet, and two DisplayPort ports.

The M/Join 3’s added connectivity is a superb technique to develop the ports on a laptop computer. Its central location makes the ports straightforward to entry and retains them firmly situated in a set place in your desk (versus freestanding hubs and adapters, which are inclined to get shoved round, or off, a desk). It’s additionally a superb various to a USB-C monitor. We like USB-C screens, however packing connectivity into the monitor could make it troublesome to entry some ports, as most are situated on the rear of the show.

Connectivity apart, the Humanscale M2.1 is a sturdy, if standard, monitor arm. It could actually deal with screens between 5 and 15 kilos, which is sufficient to help the overwhelming majority of widescreen screens below 32 inches in measurement. It additionally has a “sensible cease” characteristic, which lets customers customise the quantity of rotation the arm permits, and easy-to-use fast launch joints which are useful when disassembling or transferring the arm. The arm isn’t as clean in operation because the Herman Miller Flo, nevertheless it stays straightforward sufficient to regulate.

Two screens are all the time higher than one, and the identical goes for monitor arms. It’s no shock, then, that Ergotron’s LX Aspect-by-Aspect ranks as our greatest twin monitor arm. The Ergotron LX Aspect-by-Aspect pairs two LX monitor arms collectively on one mount. The look, really feel, and specs of every arm are near its standalone sibling.

Monitor measurement is one exception: Whereas the usual LX is rated for screens as much as 34 inches, the Aspect-by-Aspect’s arm is barely rated for screens as much as 27 inches. The monitor arms aren’t lengthy sufficient to suit two 32-inch or 34-inch screens side-by-side. Vertical preparations are additionally supported, although provided that one of many two screens is small (lower than 23 inches diagonal).

Feel and appear is in any other case just like the usual Ergotron LX, and that’s why the twin monitor arm additionally earns a advice. The twin-monitor arm offers the identical successful steadiness of construct high quality, adjustability, and clean operation, and it’s backed by the identical 10-year guarantee.  Pricing is a bit greater at $330, which is a slight financial savings in comparison with shopping for two LX arms individually.

The identical logic that applies to our favourite twin monitor arm additionally to the price range mannequin, giving Monoprice’s Workstream Twin Monitor Arm a transparent path to victory.

In truth, the twin arm’s pricing is much more spectacular. The Workstream Twin Monitor is 4 instances inexpensive than the Ergotron LX Aspect-by-Aspect. I’m a bit shocked by the standard Monoprice can provide at a $100 worth level. Ergotron’s various is extra engaging and simpler to make use of, however is it 4 instances higher? That’s a tricky name.

The Workstream’s downsides are similar to straightforward mannequin. Construct high quality is spectacular for the worth, however the arm is troublesome to arrange and never as clean in operation. I’m additionally uncertain the arm is able to dealing with two 20-pound screens, as its spec sheets declare. Luckily, 27-inch screens (the biggest this arm can deal with side-by-side) often weigh lower than 10 kilos, so weight capability shouldn’t be a difficulty.

The Huanuo HNDS12 represents a center floor for consumers who need an improve in high quality however must respect their price range.

Every monitor arm is nearly all steel with solely a small piece of plastic to supply cable routing. The arm additionally has gasoline springs able to lifting as much as 26 kilos of weight, which is sufficient to deal with 32-inch widescreen and 34-inch ultrawide screens.

There’s one uncommon characteristic: a USB hub. This consists of two USB ports which are positioned on the entrance of the arm base. Every of those might want to plug in to your pc, which could be an issue you probably have a laptop computer with just some ports, nevertheless it’s a practical bonus.

The Huanuo HNDS12, just like the HNDS6 (beneath), is a bit fiddly to arrange. It has two clamps that have to be adjusted and roughly a dozen screws that have to be put in. The gasoline springs additionally require a little bit of adjustment to scale back the pressure present, at the very least when used with a 24-inch or 27-inch monitor. 

Nonetheless, the HNDS12 is an effective choose at its common retail worth of $140, which frequently drops as little as $110 when on sale. It seems to be engaging and gives loads of pressure for holding bigger screens.

The MountUp MU0004 Single Monitor Arm looks like an much more inexpensive various to the Huanuo HNSS6. They give the impression of being related in pictures, and every has a gasoline spring. Nonetheless, the MountUp’s lower cost — often $5 to $10 lower than the Huanuo — comes with some compromises.

The MountUp arm was tougher to put in. That is as a result of clamp, which has a two-piece design that requires screws be eliminated and re-installed when adjusting the clamp’s measurement. Adjustment of the clamp was additionally a bit tougher, as turning the knob required extra pressure, and the clamp lacks a rubberized pad to stop it from marking the underside of your desk.  We additionally didn’t just like the MountUp’s match and end. It had a rough, matte really feel that appeared extra industrial than the Huanuo, and miles behind the Ergotron LX.

It’s not all dangerous information. MonutUp says the monitor arm can help 32-inch shows as much as 17 kilos. That’s slightly heavy for a contemporary monitor, and it simply dealt with a 32-inch show weighing 12 kilos. Whereas inferior to the Huanuo, the MonutUp might work for those who don’t thoughts twiddling with just a few extra screws throughout set up and might overlooks is lackluster construct high quality.

Nonetheless, it’s arduous to justifying paying $30 for the MonutUp for those who can bug the Huanuo for $40 (and even $50). A monitor arm can final for years, so spending just a few further bucks for a greater expertise is sensible.    

On the time we purchased it for testing, the Vivo STAND-V002 was ranked because the second best-selling monitor arm on Amazon. That’s a disgrace, as a result of it’s simply the worst arm we’ve examined up to now.

To be truthful, it’s additionally the least costly. The STAND-V002 is usually offered beneath $30. That’s lower than many top-selling single monitor arms! Vivo achieves that by reducing the arm’s options to the bone.

Adjustability is minimal, a lot in order that Vivo (principally) advertises the STAND-V002 as a “desk mount” or “stand” as a substitute of an arm. It has a clamp, a pole, and two jointed arms that connect to the pole at a single level. You may alter the screens for peak, however solely collectively: One can’t be greater than the opposite. The arms, in the meantime, have joints that permit swivel and adjustment side-to-side, in addition to tilt up and down. You may’t alter these on-the-fly, although, as a result of every little thing is tensioned by screws that have to be loosened with a instrument, adjusted, after which re-tightened to maintain the screens in place. 

Construct high quality is poor. Vivo claims the arms can maintain two screens as much as 22 kilos every, however we seen a slight deflection downward even when attaching a 27-inch show weighing 10 kilos. Cable administration is offered by plastic clips which are barely enough to the duty and have a tendency to fall off when jostled. The clamp is small and lacks a rubber pad, so it might mark softer woods and supplies.

We suppose the Vivo might work for those who plan to mount a pair 24-inch screens and don’t care about adjusting them as soon as in place, nevertheless it’s in any other case not price $30. It’s low cost, positive — however in our expertise, monitor arms this low cost are inclined to disintegrate after a pair years (or much less).

Humanscale is synonymous with high-end workplace furnishings: The Freedom chair is one thing of an icon in government places of work throughout the globe. However Humanscale’s high-end workplace {hardware} is at instances an ungainly match for a house workplace, because the M8.1 demonstrates.

The Humanscale M8.1 seems to be just like the M2.1, nevertheless it’s upgraded to deal with screens between 6 and 28 kilos (nearly double the M2.1 in our listing above). That’s sufficient to deal with almost any monitor out there at present, together with giant ultrawides just like the Dell Ultrasharp U4025QW. The arm also can deal with two screens of the suitable mixed weight and gives a “crossbar” to help them each on a single arm.

That’s good, and helpful, however pricing is an impediment. The arm begins at $545, however the crossbar (required to make use of two screens) ups the worth to $686. The M/Join 3 laptop computer dock can be out there to the M8.1 however, in fact, provides much more to the worth. That’s a bit arduous to just accept when the Ergotron HX, which helps screens as much as 42 kilos, begins at $350, or $585 for the dual-monitor crossbar model. Ergotron’s various feels as sturdy, helps even bigger and heavier shows, and is inexpensive.

The Humanscale M8.1 has options you received’t discover on the Ergotron, equivalent to an elective laptop computer dock and customizable arm rotation, and it’s a positive choice if worth isn’t any impediment. Normally, although, the M8.1’s worth shall be arduous to justify.

Huanuo’s HNDS6 is a price range dual-monitor arm that’s common on Amazon (the truth is, it’s listed because the best-seller in Laptop Monitor Arms). It offers an inexpensive stage of high quality at a low worth however fails to unseat the Workspace by Monoprice Twin Monitor Arm on our listing.

We’ll start with the positives, which, to be clear, outweigh the issues. The Huanuo HNDS6 fastidiously walks the worth tightrope to ship an honest dual-monitor arm at a typical worth of $60 (which may dip beneath $50 on sale). The arm’s steel building feels inflexible and appears sturdy.

Every arm is rated to carry between 4.4 and 14.3 kilos. That’s not so much: The Workstream by Monoprice arm is rated as much as 20 kilos. Nonetheless, it’s sufficient to deal with an enormous majority of 24- and 27-inch screens, and the monitor arms offered loads of carry in our testing.

We’re not a fan of the arm’s set up. It has two clamps as a substitute of 1 unified clamp, which is unusual, as a result of the bottom of the monitor arm is one stable piece. There are roughly a dozen screws to put in. And the included cable routing can show arduous to tighten as soon as a number of cables are held inside the routing.

The Huanuo HNDS6 is an honest dual-monitor arm for the worth and worthwhile on a reduction (it was as soon as offered for simply $38). Normally, although, we predict the Monoprice Workstream Twin Monitor Arm offers extra for the same worth.