For the chair that never came with one
Your lift chair has an arm. That’s all it needs.
A low, wide base that holds a can, a glass or a tumbler steady right on the armrest. Nothing clamps to the chair. Nothing bolts on. Nothing stands on the floor beside it.
122 reviews · 4.9 average · 98 verified purchases
Ships from Orange, California. 90 days to change your mind, used or not.
Steadi Labs LLC — Scott Rodriguez, founder. Veteran founded.
3419 E Chapman Ave #411, Orange, California · hello@steadilabs.com
“First time I have ever ordered from Facebook feed. Very easy. Happy with product.”Steve Butler · 8 August 2026
—The arm you already own
A lift chair arm is wide, padded and slightly crowned. Everything slides off it.
That arm was built for an elbow, not a drink. It is soft enough to swallow a narrow base and sloped enough to walk a glass toward the edge over an afternoon. So the drink ends up on a side table just out of reach, on the floor, or balanced on a tray across a lap.
And the chair itself is a machine. It rises, it reclines, it moves — which is why the things people attach to it keep losing.
Everything in this aisle is furniture. A tray that clamps on. A table that stands on the floor. A whole new chair. This is not furniture — it is a base that sits on the arm you already own.
—What people try first
Three things that already didn’t work.
These are not our words. They are from one thread of caregivers working the same problem out loud.
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He is balancing a light weight tray from his lap to the arm of the chair but that is not working.
The question that started the threadA tray turns one problem into two: now the drink can slide, and the tray can too.
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He hated it and it was not real stable.
On the heavier tray with sidesWeight buys stability and costs independence. Anything he cannot move himself, he resents.
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He forgot to check its position one time when he was lifting the chair and it cracked the table.
On the swing-away tableThe chair wins. It always wins. Anything parked in its path eventually meets it.
—Does it actually work
It wobbles. Then it settles.
Sit down beside it, knock the arm, let somebody lean on the chair. The base is wide and low, and the drink comes back level.
Filmed on a couch cushion rather than a lift-chair arm — a soft, unpredictable surface, which is the harder case.
—How it holds on a soft arm
Three things, and none of them is a clamp.
A wider edge to cross
The 5.2-inch base moves the edge the drink would have to tip over much farther out. The whole thing has to lean much farther before it goes over than the drink does on its own.
Six fins on the bottom inch
Cans and bottles slide on; cups and tumblers drop in. Drink and base then rock as one piece and settle upright instead of separating.
Grip, then a clean lift
The TPU plants the base where it is set and lifts away clean. It marks nothing — not upholstery, not the wood arm caps.
On upholstery, you can choose how it behaves.
Seat the container high, so only the Steadi touches the arm, and the grippy TPU is what meets the fabric — it stays planted. Let the container ride low enough that its own base reaches through to the arm, and the assembly will slide before it tips. On a chair that gets bumped, sliding is the better outcome. Both are correct; you pick.
—The object, plainly
One piece of rubber. No hinges, no springs, no hardware.
There is nothing to assemble, nothing to tighten and nothing to lose. You set it on the arm. That is the whole installation.
- Base5.2″ — fixed
- Height2.8″
- Opening at rest1.64″
- Fins6, from 0.92″ up, flexing to 3.15″
- MaterialShore 85A TPU
- InstallationSet it down
- CleaningRinse, wipe, or dishwasher
—Will it fit what he drinks
Start with the hard one: a mug does not fit.
The honest no. A handled mug does not seat. The handle lands exactly where the fins need to grip, so it will perch instead of settle. If coffee or tea in a mug is the all-day drink in that chair, this is not the product for that cup — and we would rather you knew now than after it arrived. A lidded travel mug without a handle, or a tumbler, seats fine.
Containers are physical truth; drink names are aliases for them.
No tape measure? Use a sticky note.
A standard sticky note is 3 inches square. Stand the cup on one. If the base sits inside the paper, it seats.
If it overhangs, measure it properly or email us — hello@steadilabs.com — and we will give you an honest answer either way, including a no.
—Where they end up
One for the chair. Then one wherever the drink goes next.
Give each one its own colour and nobody has to ask whose drink is whose — which matters more than it sounds in a house where two people sit in the same room all afternoon.
The chair is where it starts. The second one tends to end up wherever the drink goes next: the bedside, the kitchen table, the chair on the porch.
—What the alternatives cost
Every other answer in this aisle is a piece of furniture.
Prices below were looked up, not estimated. Each of these solves a real problem — mostly eating, and standing up. None of them is a place to put a drink on the arm.
| The fix | Price | Why people still ask |
|---|---|---|
| Stander Assist-A-Tray | $249.99 | Swing-arm table with a stand-assist handle. Excellent at meals. It stands on the floor, in the chair’s path. |
| Able Life swivel tray table | ~$100–150 | Same class, same footprint. Still a table. |
| Clamp-on arm caddy | $11–170 | Sized for a sofa arm. A lift chair arm is wider, softer and moving. |
| A chair with holders built in | $900+ | The holder is in the chair, so you have to buy the chair. |
| The Lift Chair Cup Holder | $24.95 — $12.48 each | Goes on the arm you already own. Nothing to install, nothing in the chair’s way. |
—Get one for the chair
How many, and what colour is whose.
One is enough for the chair. Most households want a second, because the drink does not stay in one room. Free shipping on all three.
Checkout is handled by Steadi Labs — the company that makes The Lift Chair Cup Holder. Secure checkout at steadilabs.com. Free shipping on every order, and 90 days to change your mind, used or not.
—From people who bought one
Verbatim and unedited.
Nobody here reviewed this from a lift chair. So we are not going to show you reviews dressed up as if they had. These are here because they describe the armrest and the set-down.
★★★★★
Love my Steadis! This is one of those products that you don’t know you’re missing in your life until you use it. I’ve been using these to stabilize our drinks on the couch. This way I can put it right by me rather than a few feet away on the coffee table. It’s like a cupholder that goes with your drink. Highly recommend, great value for what it does!
carlo vescovi · 2026-05-10Photo from the buyerPhoto from the buyerPhoto from the buyerPhoto from the buyerPhoto from the buyerPhoto from the buyerPhoto from the buyer
★★★★★
Steadi works very well in stabilizing my drinks on soft surfaces, like the couch or by the chair I use as a nightstand.
Marie Adams · July 2026
★★★★★
Love these! We have a huge sectional, so we can’t always reach an end table but now we don’t need to. Even we the dogs jump on the couch nothing spills.
JANE LEWIS · July 2026
★★★★★
Very pleased with this. Feels premium and sturdy, and nice to look at when in use. As someone who once spilled a can of cola on the bed, I now confidently place my soda can on the bed without worry!
Michael Mendoza · May 2026
18 more, photographed by the people who bought them
Sent in with their reviews. Tap any one to read it. Different rooms, different drinks, different colours — none of them staged by us. Some of these buyers were offered a small store credit for sending a photo; nothing was offered for what the review said, and none of them were shown to us before they posted.
—What it does not do
The limits, before you buy rather than after.
- A handled mug does not seat. Said again here because it is the one most likely to matter in this chair. The handle lands where the fins grip.
- It is not spill-proof — nothing is. It resists tipping. It does not defy physics, and a hard enough knock moves anything.
- It does not attach to the chair. That is the point, but it also means it is not anchored. It sits where it is set.
- It does not insulate, and it does not float. It is one dense piece of rubber.
- We make no claim about the chair. We do not know your chair, its mechanism, or its manual. This is a cup holder that sits on an arm.
—If it is wrong for the chair
Ninety days. Used is fine. You do not ship it back.
Set it on the arm and live with it. If it is not right, email hello@steadilabs.com and you get your money back — no form, no restocking fee, no questions about its condition. A used one refunds the same as a new one.
- You order. Free shipping, every order, always.
- It leaves Orange, California within one business day.
- USPS, 2–5 days, tracked.
—Who makes it
Steadi Labs, in Orange, California.
Scott Rodriguez started this after a full drink went over on a soft cushion with three kids under three in the house and nothing on the market that helped. His conclusion was that he was not the only one with the problem. The first strangers to test it were at a boat show, shoving a full drink across a table all day to watch it settle.
It is injection molded in small runs a few miles from his desk, and every order ships from the same zip code it was made in. Patent pending. Email reaches a person: hello@steadilabs.com.
— Scott, Steadi Labs
—Questions people ask first
Straight answers.
Will it sink into a padded armrest?
It sits on top. The base is 5.2 inches across and rigid — it does not fold or narrow — so its weight spreads across a wide patch of upholstery instead of pressing in on a small one. On a deeply quilted or heavily crowned arm, put it on the flattest part of the arm, which is usually just ahead of the elbow.
Will it interfere with the lift mechanism?
Nothing attaches to the chair — no clamp through the upholstery, no bracket on the frame, no leg standing on the floor. So there is nothing bolted into the path of something that moves, and nothing to catch. When you get up, the drink comes with you and the holder comes with the drink; that is the whole idea of the thing. We will not tell you it is safe around your particular chair’s mechanism, because we have not seen your chair — but there is nothing here to get caught on anything.
He drinks coffee from a mug all day. Is this useless?
For that mug, yes — the handle blocks a fin, so it perches instead of seating. A lidded travel mug with no handle works, and so does a tumbler. If the mug is the whole story, we would rather you spent nothing here.
Does the 40 oz tumbler fit?
Snug. The Stanley Quencher 40 oz measures 3.1 inches at the base, founder-measured, and the fins flex to 3.15. It seats with a push and holds. Anything past 3.15 inches will not go in.
How do you clean it?
A rinse under the tap or a wipe with a damp cloth handles most of it, and it is dishwasher safe if you would rather. It marks nothing and lifts clean.
Why does this site only sell one thing?
Because it is one thing. The Lift Chair Cup Holder is a Steadi, made by Steadi Labs in Orange, California, and checkout completes at steadilabs.com where the company lives. This page exists because “where does the drink go” is a specific enough problem in this specific chair to deserve its own straight answer.
—Still wondering
It is $14.95 for a piece of rubber.
It is. The nearest thing that solves this costs $249.99 and stands on the floor. If it is not worth it in ninety days, we send the money back.
He will just lose it.
It stays on the arm because it has no reason to move. And at $12.48 each in a two-pack, the second one is the answer to the first one going missing.
Is it going to look like a hospital gadget?
It is a matte rubber base in twelve colours, one of which will match the chair. It reads as an object in the room, not as equipment.
I am buying this for someone else.
Then pick the colour that matches their room, not ours. And if they hate it, the ninety days is yours to use — email us, keep the Steadi, get the money.
Stop balancing it.
The drink goes on the arm, it stays where it is put, and the afternoon stops being about the drink.
Choose your pack — from $14.95
Free shipping on every order · 90-day guarantee, used is fine · Made in Orange, California