The 5 Best Car Phone Mounts of 2025

Dash and windshield mounts

The iOttie iTap 3 Magnetic Flush Mount has the same strong magnets as the rest of the iTap 3 line, but like most flush mounts, it works best on flat surfaces and can only be applied once.

The iOttie Easy One Touch 5 is similar to the iOttie Auto Sense mount but doesn’t offer wireless charging.

Scosche’s MagicMount Charge mount checks off many boxes with fast charging, a MagSafe-like ring for Android phones, and strong suction for dashboard or windshield mounting. However, its MagSafe magnet isn’t strong enough—our phone easily disconnected from its mount when we tried to pivot it into a landscape orientation.

The Loncaster Silicone Car Phone Holder is a horizontal silicone mold that you can drop your phone into. It does a good job of holding your phone in place and attaches easily to your dash, but it looks cheap, the phone holder covers parts of your screen, and the silicone mold gets dirty quickly.

The ESR HaloLock Dashboard Wireless Charger with Low-Profile Mounting Arm and the Qifutan Car Phone Mount Long Arm have great grip and a sturdy yet flexible long arm, but they have too much bounce when driving.

The ZeeHoo 15W Wireless Car Charger is a functional budget mount but lacks the necessary 12-volt lighter charger to power it.

Air vent mounts

Mophie’s Magnetic and wireless charging vent mounts are similar to our pick, with simple installation and strong magnets, but their built-in vent attachments don’t fit safely in some vents, while our picks do.

Belkin’s BoostCharge has a great magnetic/MagSafe mount, but it doesn’t sit securely on the vent with larger phones like the iPhone 14 Plus, iPhone 15 Plus, or Pixel 7 Pro.

The Kenu Airframe Magnetic has a strong magnet to hold your phone, but its clamp doesn’t stay secure once mounted, which can cause your phone to shake while in motion.

Scosche’s MagicMount Pro2 4-in-1 Phone Mount has a strong magnet and is easy to install, but it didn’t hold our phone steady while driving.

CD slot mounts

The Scosche MagicMount CD is comparable to our CD-slot-mounted pick, the iOttie iTap 2 Magnetic CD Slot Mount, but the overall design of the iOttie mount is more appealing and easier to install.

Ticilfo’s CD-slot mount is a simple plastic model that allows you to mount and remove your phone with one hand, but it can shake a bit when you’re driving over bumps.

The Apps2Car Universal Magnetic CD Slot Car Phone Mount does a good job of holding a phone in place, but it uses a screw and washer nut to tighten the mount in place in your CD slot, which is strange.

The iOttie Easy One Touch 5 is a great CD mount that allows you to attach and remove your phone with one hand, but the iOttie iTap Magnetic 2 CD Slot Mount takes up less space and offers the same secure hold.

MagSafe mounts for iPhone

The iOttie Velox Mini Qi2 Dashboard mount provides an easy setup process with an adjustable, telescoping arm to suit your preferred angle. However, its charging speeds weren’t as fast as our pick. The vent version has strong magnets, but we found it to be too stiff for adjustments—no matter how much I loosened its ball joint.

Peak Design’s Qi2 vent mount has a premium aluminum build and offers one of the fastest charging speeds among the mounts we’ve tested. However, its expensive price and installation process are more complex than its competitors. The dashboard version also had trouble sticking and staying on my dashboard when testing.

The Pitaka MagEz Pro 2 Qi2 vent mount offers a sturdier ball-head setup than other mounts we’ve tested. However, it also provided the slowest charging speeds among our Qi2 mounts.

The GloPlum Magnetic is a MagSafe air-vent mount with a strong magnet, plus up to 15 W charging speeds. But it doesn’t have much support or a long warranty.

The iOttie Easy One Touch Wireless 2 was our previous MagSafe-mount pick. While it’s still a great choice, our picks offer the same features and take up less space.

The iOttie Velox Mini has a built-in ventilation system that keeps your iPhone cool. It has one of the strongest magnets on a car mount that we’ve tested thus far. But the ball joint that allows it to rotate is a little stiff to adjust compared with our picks.

The expensive Belkin BoostCharge Pro’s only advantage is its fast charging speeds. Our picks held and adjusted the iPhone better.

The Scosche MagicMount Pro has the smallest footprint for a car mount, but it didn’t prevent my iPhone from tilting face down when driving over bumps or uneven pavement.

The Spigen OneTap Pro lets you use the vent clip by itself or the vent clip and swing arm in tandem, which gives you more flexibility for positioning your iPhone. However, the swing-arm setup did move a bit when driving over bumps. Our picks performed better in terms of stability and magnet strength.

This article was edited by Signe Brewster and Caitlin McGarry. Nick Guy contributed additional reporting to this guide.