If you’ve ever compared who has the longest arms to take a group selfie or struggled to keep your smartphone stable while shooting video, a tripod and mount made specifically for phones might make your life easier. As small as a set of keys, the Square Jellyfish mount easily holds an iPhone 11 Pro Max and is stable enough to stand on its own in both vertical and horizontal orientations even without a tripod.
Best Smartphone Tripods, Stands & Mounts For iPhone & Android 2021
Video quality is also improved by the stability for obvious reasons – and you can get shots and angles you normally couldn’t without a tripod. We’ll start with the best smartphone mount attachments so you can use your phone with standard tripods, sliders, and boom arms. It’s designed to be universal and hold phones from 2.25 to 3⅝ inches wide – large enough for an iPhone 7 Plus. The Square Jellyfish mount will also work without a tripod as well if you find yourself needing to go that route.
The Saramonic SR-BSP1 comes with a removable handle and the mount comes with a cold shoe to attach a mic or light. While not the cheapest or smallest of the bunch, this will last you a long time and fit pretty much any smartphone. The extendability with the show mount will give you options without need extra gear too. The downside with using the lightning port is that you won’t be able to use an external iPhone mic at the same time or attach it to a different tripod.
The Ulanzi IRON MAN is a universal smartphone mount machined out of a solid aluminum alloy.
The mounting hole is only on the bottom, but with many of the tripods you can rotate 90 degrees, so it’s not a huge downside. I’ll just recommend a few here as this is really a topic that deserves its own post, but here are some great options that are light, flexible and capable of handling other cameras as well: This isn’t their smallest tripod, but it gives you a nice balance of size and weight capability.
It includes Joby’s signature foldable and wrappable legs, a ball head and a quick release. There is a ball head that can rotate 90 degrees and a smooth screw knob that makes it really easy to attach to a camera or smartphone mount.
I prefer the larger tripod (Hybrid model) but if you just want something small, this is still a great choice.
The tripod is not the same as the PIXI EVO mentioned above, but it will hold some fairly heavy cameras and folds up small, making it great for a travel or backup option – especially for macro (up close) photos. There’s not anything wrong with PIXI Smart, but compared to the other all-in-one options it’s limited on features for basically the same price.
Smartphone Tripods, Accessories & iPhone Holders
Manfrotto has created universal photography solutions dedicated to smartphone users who love to capture special moments shooting pictures or recording videos when they don’t have their camera with them.
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