The 5 Best Touchscreen Winter Gloves of 2025

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These unisex fleece glove liners—available in a wide range of sizes—are stretchy and fit great, making them well suited for outdoor activities as well as typing. But though they’re effective at blocking wind, they’re only warm enough to wear just on their own in milder temps.

The unisex Black Diamond HeavyWeight ScreenTap Gloves have a stretchy second-skin fit that hugs your hand, making it easy to type. Since they’re liners, they’re not the warmest, but their fleece material does block out wind better than traditional knit fabrics. They work best at keeping you warm if you pair them with an outer glove or if you wear them solo when you’re being active. Of all the gloves we tested, the Black Diamond HeavyWeight ScreenTap Gloves—available in unisex sizes XS to XL—fit the most hand shapes and sizes.

In our typing tests, these Black Diamond gloves were among the most accurate. (The difference in accuracy between the Black Diamond gloves and our Moshi Digit Touchscreen Gloves pick was negligible.) The stretchy fleece material covers your hand nicely and offers good dexterity. All of the fingers on the gloves are conductive, though it’s easiest to type with your index fingers because the fit there is the best; the gloves’ thumbs were either too long or a little too tight on our testers.

Most of the typing mistakes we made with the Black Diamond gloves were due to the seam placement on our fingers, which some panelists felt made typing uncomfortable and less accurate, but most didn’t notice.

The Black Diamond gloves won’t keep your hands very warm in extreme cold or snow. They’re part of Black Diamond’s liner series—meaning you can wear them underneath an outer glove—and are only recommended solo for temperatures from 25 °F to 40 °F.

In our walk-in fridge testing, they received mixed reviews: Our panelists thought the elastic cuffs did a pretty good job of preventing the 30 °F air from seeping into the gloves, but their fingertips still got cold. When it came to real-world testing, these gloves kept our hands warm enough for a short dog walk in mid-30 °F temps. But we don’t recommend them if you’re, say, stuck outside your friend’s Bushwick apartment at 9 p.m. in 10 °F weather.

The manufacturer notes that these gloves fight off the cold better when you’re active rather than standing still, stating they’re “ideal for skiing, trail running, or hiking with your smartphone.” This is a point commonly made about soft-shell gear: It keeps you warm enough while you’re active, but you need something substantially warmer if you’re standing still.

If you get splashed by a passing vehicle during your morning commute, these gloves will dry out by lunchtime. When we melted crushed ice on the Black Diamond gloves, it took just two hours to air-dry them, thanks to their DWR (durable water repellent) coating.

The Black Diamond gloves are available in unisex sizes XS to XL, a wide range that offers many people the opportunity to find the right fit. The Black Diamond gloves’ stretchy fleece shell offers just enough give that they were never too loose in the palms, nor too snug in the fingers. The stretchiness also made it easy for our testers with long fingernails to move up a size without compromising the overall fit.

These gloves are all about function, not fashion. Whereas the soft and fluffy gray Moshi gloves are practically cuddle-worthy, the Black Diamond gloves are available only in black, and the stretch-knit fleece design reminded one panelist of what thieves wear in heist films. The only branding is a small Black Diamond logo on the back of the hand. A large patch of black leather on the palm makes it easy to grip slippery phones and metal railings. You can also connect the two gloves with a tiny clasp to keep them together at the bottom of your bag.

If the Black Diamond gloves are out of stock—not unusual when it comes to good and popular touchscreen gloves—LightWeight and MidWeight models are also available in the same design. Just note that both of these models are thinner and less warm than the HeavyWeights, which aren’t that warm to begin with.

Sizes: XS to XL (unisex)
Color: black
Materials: fleece shell, goat leather, nylon, polyester