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Best Monitor Light Bars for a Desk (Plus LED Reading Lamps)
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items A monitor light bar lights the desk without a lamp base or a glare stripe on the screen. This roundup ranks BenQ bars, lower-cost challengers, and LED reading lamps for when the light should hit a page instead of a keyboard. Picks come from Amazon li...
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The BenQ Bars
Cheaper Bars That Still Clip On
LED Reading Lamps Instead
The BenQ Bars
Halo, Halo 2, Pro, and the original. Start here if the budget allows a BenQ bar.
The Halo 2 is the current BenQ bar with a backlight and a motion sensor.
It clamps on the monitor, lights the desk from an anti-glare angle, and adds a rear glow so the wall behind the screen is not a cave. The wireless dial sets brightness and color...
BenQ ScreenBar Halo 2
The Halo is the BenQ bar people mean when they say Halo: front light, rear backlight, wireless controller, USB power.
Amazon shows it around $150 to $180, with a rating near 4.6 to 4.7. The clip is weighted. Flat monitors up to about 2.36 inches thic...
BenQ ScreenBar Halo
The Pro is the wide BenQ bar, not the one with a rear glow.
Amazon lists it near $139, about 4.8 from roughly 1,280 ratings. The claim is a very wide pool of light, a motion sensor, and USB-C power, including on curved monitors.
Pick it for an ultraw...
BenQ ScreenBar Pro
The original ScreenBar is the basic BenQ: a bar on the monitor, USB power, controls on the bar itself.
No wireless dial and no backlight. It is the plain version of the same clip idea.
Buy it if you want the BenQ mount and do not want to pay for a re...
BenQ ScreenBar
Cheaper Bars That Still Clip On
Quntis and Xiaomi. Check your monitor thickness before you buy.
The Quntis PRO+ is the main cheaper bar with a remote.
It has a wireless dial, auto-dimming, 3000K to 6500K, and a weighted clip aimed at curved and flat monitors. Amazon ratings sit around 4.4 to 4.5 across thousands of reviews, often near $70.
The ...
Quntis Monitor Light Bar PRO+
The basic Quntis is the bar under $45.
The listing checked here was an Amazon's Choice, with auto-dimming toward 900 lux, touch control on the bar, and asymmetrical light so the beam hits the desk. About $40.
No wireless dial. You touch the bar.
That...
Quntis ScreenLinear
Xiaomi's bar is the metal one with a small remote, often around $65 to $70.
About 4.4 from more than 6,000 ratings. Asymmetric light, high color rendering, USB-C, and it can turn on with the computer.
Owners report remotes that die and units that fai...
Xiaomi Mi Computer Monitor Light Bar
The Glow is Quntis's front-and-back bar, closer to a Halo than the basic stick.
It has a remote, auto-dim, and a timer. The listing checked was about $56, with about 4.5 from a little over 100 ratings.
The backlight is the point. The review count is ...
Quntis Monitor Light Bar Glow
LED Reading Lamps Instead
Neck and clip lights for a book or your lap. They do not mount on a monitor.
A screen bar never lights a book in bed.
The Glocusent neck light sits on your shoulders and aims LEDs at a page, knitting, or a small repair. About 4.7 from well over 100,000 ratings, near $24. Three colors, including an amber around 1800K, three br...
Glocusent LED Neck Reading Light
A clip light is another way to light a page when you do not want a bar on the monitor.
This Vekkia clips to a book or stands on a table. 14 LEDs, three color temperatures, USB-C, about 2.7 oz, clamp opening about 2.1 inches. About 4.7 from more than ...
Vekkia 14 LED Book Light