Best iPad Holder for Cars: Buyers Guide

This is an articulated type design which allows for a range of motion not possible with fixed holders. Great for multiple passengers to watch movies during road trips, which can maintain devices eye level to avoid neck and arm strain for more comfortable viewing experience. It’s also dirt cheap.

A multi-angle rotation allows for a wide range of different positions to adjust for the best viewing angle. Its single-arm mechanical design fits most car headrests, meaning one needn’t adjust the length to fit the distance between the two headrest supports. Of course, owners of cars with single piece seats are out of luck but, generally, if you’re rocking a Porsche Panamera you’ve probably popped for the in-car entertainment system anyway. For the rest of us, this is great.

Let’s get one thing clear – your author dearly enjoys cup-holder-mounted car accessories. In a market where there are many more places for drinks than passengers, it only makes sense to make the best use out of available space. This product is available with two different lengths of gooseneck – eight and twelve inches. Pro tip: go for the bigger one for greater range of motion.

Designed to effectively be inserted into a standard cup holder, it makes a great backseat companion and keeps front-seat users hands-free and legal (think Uber or delivery drivers). It goes without saying that drivers need to keep their eyes on the road and not on their tablet. That gooseneck actually goes screwed into the cup-holder insert, so it should not wobble like a drunken college student.

This little tablet holder comes with two different mounting methods. The first, and likely to be most widely used, is a bar-type holder that spans the uprights which appear when one extends a front seat headrest. The other? A handy air vent mount if you’re planning to use this thing for smaller smartphones.

The headrest mount is clear but you’ll have to make sure the headrest posts are between 4.5 inches and 9 inches apart in order for this thing to work. Think of it like a telescoping Club anti-theft device and you’ve got the general idea. Also, it obviously won’t work on cars with integrated headrests or those with high-backed seats.

This one touts itself as a universal mount, two words that generally mean the product ends up being anything but. In this case, however, the phrase seems to hold water. Its mounting system essentially wraps around a headrest with no protruding parts, meaning kiddos can vacate the car with tablet in hand and not leave a plastic extended arm behind.

Its seller says this unit works with or without a case on the tablet, citing brands such as the popular Otterbox as playing well with its clamping system. Customers report the velcro straps used for mounting the thing onto a headrest is quite grippy and strong, lessening the chance of the tablet coming loose and bopping someone on the nose.

We told you this list would have ideas for people tasked with delivery duties. With just about every transportation company deploying a digital system for route instructions, a hefty aftermarket tablet holder is an essential tool. This unit can be mounted onto a seat rail or directly onto the floor, so tools are definitely required for its installation.

Great for fleets, this mount has a 22-inch flexible gooseneck which should give plenty of articulation in the truck cab for easy viewing of the tablet screen. The slim clamping system is said to accept tablets up to a yawning 18 inches in size. Your author’s childhood Zenith television wasn’t that big. The support legs are apparently customizable and adjustable for many different applications.

More than a simple tablet holder, this product serves up an entire seatback full of storage places and organization tools. Mesh bags on both sides store drinks, while a zipped bottom pocket stands ready to accept whatever detritus the young’uns have brought back from the beach.

Since this post is about tablet holders, it is worth noting that this backseat organizer is built with a clear pocket designed to accept devices up to 10  inches in measure. A handy flap is said to be provided for threading headphone and charging wires. A strangely specific note states it will not fit a “2010 Yukon XL”, despite that model sharing seats with a lot of other machines in the GM lineup. Make sure this thing doesn’t interfere with your car’s side airbags.

If you’re basing a purchase solely on the entertainment value of the product’s brand name, this thing is a sure-fire winner. NEARPOW! If fun-to-say isn’t the most superfluous of reasons to buy something, I don’t know what is. As for the product itself, it’ll hold tablets up to 12.9 inches in measure, handily accommodating some of the biggest offerings from Apple and Android.

It’s angle adjustable so the tablet can be viewed by people of different heights, along with a 360-degree rotation in case you suddenly want to view everything in portrait mode. It is designed with a ‘charging entrance’ which sounds like big fun until you realize that just means there’s a space through which one can snake a power cord.

You’ve completely switched to digital music now, right? Many – but not all – drivers have felt physical media back in the ’90s and 2000s, leaving the CD player slot as a useless hole in the dashboard. The folks at this company now think they have a use for that place … as a mount for tablet holders.

It’s a bit of ingenuity, to be sure, and the reviews aren’t bad. The screw-lock base design is intended to grip the tablet securely while a flat plastic blade uses the CD player slot for a mounting place. In fact, one can still apparently play CDs while this thing is in use since the lip doesn’t stick into the player far enough to interfere with music playback.