Two arms that do not share a post
The only mount on this shelf with no shared pole — two separate gas-spring arms, each clamped on its own, so neither screen moves when the other does.
Mount-It! two separate gas-spring arms, no shared pole
Best for: A desk layout a crossbar cannot serve — two screens far apart, or one screen and a gap.
This hub’s opening argument is that independently adjustable arms beat a shared crossbar, because one screen can be angled toward a colleague or a different task without dragging the other with it. This is the only mount on the shelf that takes the argument to its conclusion: there is no shared post at all. Two arms, two separate positions on the desk.
What that buys is layout freedom nothing else here can match. Screens a long way apart, at different heights, around a corner, or with a laptop stand between them — all of which a single-column mount forbids by construction. Each arm is a gas spring with its own hex tension adjustment, so the resistance is set to the weight of the screen on that side, and each has the full range: tilt plus 90 to minus 45, swivel ±90, rotate 360, for 13 to 32 in screens on VESA 75 or 100.
The costs are honest ones. Each arm takes up to 17.6 lb, the lowest per-arm figure here. Two arms need two clear stretches of desk, which a desk with a drawer pedestal or a crossbeam may not have — and the listing does not describe the fixing at all, so neither the clamp range nor a grommet option can be checked. A stacked vertical pair, one screen above the other, is the one layout a shared post does better. At about $58 it sits between the $40 Amazon Basics and the $70 Acer and HUANUO arms.
Read on the day this page was built: $58 at the American Amazon shop.
Read from Keepa on the day this page was last revised; stock and price both move without notice.
Best for: A desk layout a crossbar cannot serve — two screens far apart, or one screen and a gap.
Prices quoted in this text were read on 2026-10-13. The live price is at the top of the page.
Everything this hub opens by discussing. On a crossbar or single-post mount, the two screens hang from the same column, so their spacing and height relationship is fixed by the hardware and moving one disturbs the other. Two independent arms can be fixed a foot apart or three feet apart, at different heights, on a corner desk, or with something between them. Mount-It! puts it plainly: "Two arms, no shared pole — each mounts independently so any desk configuration works."
For many screens, yes, but it is the lowest per-arm figure here, where most arms state 19.8 lb and the Amazon Basics and Digitus 22 lb, so a heavy 32 in curved screen is the case to check against its own spec sheet. No combined total is published; with two independent mounting points the load is split across the desk rather than concentrated on one.
The listing does not say — it describes the arms as mounting independently but gives no clamp range, grommet option or desk thickness. Check the product images or ask the seller before buying for a thick, thin or framed desk.
A full-motion dual mount that publishes both its reach and its rise — with the Acer, the only one here that does — tested to 20,000 cycles, at about $50.
Best for: Two screens up to 32 in on a deep desk, where published reach and rise matter more than a thick-desk clamp.
A mechanical-spring articulating mount with open-top VESA plates for slide-on fitting — and the only listing on this shelf to warn that the arms project beyond the back of the desk.
Best for: A desk standing clear of the wall, where a mechanical spring is preferred to a gas cylinder.
A steel desk-clamp mount for two 13 to 32 in screens at up to 8 kg (17.6 lb) each, with a 5-year guarantee — about €21 in Germany but about $58 on Amazon.com.
Best for: Two light-to-medium screens on a standard desk, for a buyer who values a long guarantee — ideally bought at the European price.
A solid North American walnut base and cradle on aluminum alloy support rods, hand-polished and wood-wax finished, arriving fully assembled — the most expensive stand in this hub.
Best for: A desk where materials and finish matter as much as function, and paying more for walnut is the point.
A clamp-on holder that flips over to work either as an under-desk hanger or an above-desk stand, adjustable between 6.5 and 10.2 in, taking desks up to 1.97 in — and the one listing in this hub that publishes a weight limit.
Best for: Anyone who does not yet know whether they want the headset above the desk or under it.
The one holder in this hub that clamps to the side of a monitor instead of a desk, with a silicone-coated cradle and a stated panel range of 0.2 to 0.7 in.
Best for: A desk with no spare edge and no spare surface, where the monitor is the only thing left to hang from.