Whether you're a creative or a home-office worker, the best monitor arms and monitor mounts can help you maintain the best possible workspace. A good mount or monitor arm can massively change your working environment, granting greater versatility, better ergonomics, and even more surface area for storage and display.
So, when we test these devices, we're looking for great design, robustness, and adjustability, as well as other factors like budget, monitor size, and weight limit to ensure we've included an option for everyone. We use our personal experience as professionals as well as regular computer users to make sure these stands and arms.Flo Monitor Arm
If you're ready to really overhaul your workspace, make sure to also check out our guide to the best office chairs for back pain and the best standing desks for the most ergonomic setup possible. Note that all the options below use a standard VESA mount. If you're not sure whether your monitor supports this, check the back for a square arrangement of four screw holes.
The best monitor arms available now
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Max monitor size: N/A
Max monitor weight: 19.8lbs / 9kg
For a superior setup, look no further than Herman Miller desk-ware. The Flo monitor arm is a simple yet svelte device, offering portrait to landscape rotation, three point cable management, and is available in both single and dual-screen form factors as well as with a laptop mount.
Max monitor size: 24in
Max monitor weight: 15.5lbs / 7kg
This stylish looking monitor arm is perfect for lighter monitors (which means the vast majority). Coming in three finishes –
polished aluminium, silver with grey trim and black with black trim – the M2 offers great angles, and it's super-easy to install.
Max monitor size: 32in
Max monitor weight: 8lbs / 3.6kg
Want something robust and durable? This monitor arm offers exceptional build quality, and there's a real sturdiness to it that's comforting. Plus whether you're pulling or pushing, movement is effortless. Note there's no wall-mount option, though.
Max monitor size: 32in
Max monitor weight: 25lbs / 11.3kg
This monitor arm from AmazonBasics is a premium product that just happens to be sold at a budget price. Sturdy, lightweight and flexible, you can clamp it to any desk between 0.4 and 2.5 inches thick. The cable management system is a bit basic, but it still works fine.
Max monitor size: 27in
Max monitor weight: 22lbs / 9.97kg
If you're looking to support more than two monitors, this is a solid choice. And we do mean solid – the steel construction is impressively sturdy. Once it's all fixed in place, you can rig up dual monitors of up to 27 inches in size and 9.97kg in weight.
Max monitor size: 32in
Max monitor weight: 30lbs / 13.6kg
If you have a heavy monitor, this arm is capable of supporting screens up to 30lbs / 13.6kg. It's nicely adjustable, too, with 18.6 inches of vertical adjustment and horizontal extension up to 19.5 inches. Plus, because it's hollow, you can run cables inside it.
Max monitor size: 30in
Max monitor weight: 19.8lbs / 8.9kg
Looking for something cheap? This stand is a little basic, with chunky build quality and a paucity of cable management options, and it's no good for anyone with a larger, heavier display. But overall, it does a good job of holding a standard monitor.
Max monitor size: 24in per arm
Max monitor weight: 19.8lbs / 8.9kg per arm
Have two monitors, both on the smaller side? This can hold dual monitors up to 24in in diameter, and up to 19.8 lbs / 8.9kg of weight. It offers height adjustment of 12 inches and an arm extension of 29 inches, plus you can rotate both monitors from landscape to portrait.
Max monitor size: 24in
Max monitor weight: 20lbs / 9.1kg per arm
If you have dual monitors but don't necessarily want them side-by-side, this monitor arm gives you lots of versatility. You can have them next to each other if you want, but you can also stack them vertically, or in a completely different arrangement. Note the maximum monitor size of 24in, though.
How should I choose the best monitor arm?
There are several things we look for when choosing the best monitor arm – all factors that we've considered when making our selection above. Firstly you want a monitor arm that's going to be solid and sturdy enough to support your monitor and allow you to move it without it feeling unstable (always check the max monitor weight, which we've listed for each item). This is even more the case if you use a touchscreen monitor.
A good monitor arm should also be adjustable in terms of height, swivel and tilt in order to allow you to position it in exactly the right angle for where you'll be sitting. Finally, although not essential, it's worth looking for monitor arms with cable management systems, which help keep those cables in order and avoid clutter at the back of your desk.
How do you set up a monitor arm?
Most monitor arms are fairly simple to setup, but make sure you check the instructions that come with them. In most cases, they'll attach to to the back of your monitor with a VESA mount, which is a square arrangement of four screw holes. Different arms have different bases and mechanisms for attaching to your desk (or a wall), but in most cases the options we've chosen attach to your desk using a clamp system that doesn't require any work on the desk itself.
How did we pick the best monitor arms for our guide?
Alongside our sister sites Techradar and Tom's Guide, Creative Bloq regularly tests and reviews a wide range of tech products. In our case, we focus more specifically on hardware, software and accessories that serve for creatives. Many of our reviewers and contributors also work in the creative sectors as designers, photographers and artists and use the equipment that we review in their daily work. We also compare online reviews from the general public.
