Reviews for Twelve South HoverBar Stand for iPad

Not worth it. The arm is not stiff enough to hold the iPad 2 the way it is shown in the pictures on their site. After a few minutes the weight brings the ipad down to my desk.

Don't buy the case for the iPad 1. It has a very weak tabbed mounting point between the iPad & the HoverBar and breaks far too easily. I didn't even get it mounted before it broke.

Not the same as the case for the newer iPads which works very well and are far less intricate.

And the HoverBar itself is VERY sturdy with an attractive and flexible attaching mechanism. Beautiful Apple-worthy packaging.

This is a very very well built product!!! I want to see them adapt it to the car! I Love It!
I am going to have one next to the bed, the coffee table, and hopefully the car!

This performed perfectly as a stand for our iPad in the car. The stand is a solid mechanical assembly adjusted with an allen key and locks the silicone covered metal clamp into place. The adjustable cable is rigid enough to stay in place through bumps and bounces and can be moved out of the way as required. It held the iPad in place for an 11 hour vacation drive through eastern Canada - you can clamp this anywhere a flat surface exists (or can be made).

Well worth the price.

This is the first Twelve South product I've bought, and I have to say I love it! This is a great product, and when I had inadvertently broke the black locking piece that connects the clamp to the arm, I was able to contact them and they shipped out a new part for me. Very nice!

I tried numerous angles and made sure everything was attached correctly, but the extensible arm kept collapsing downwards and not holding the iPad up at all. Perhaps I got a faulty model.

Despite it's simple structure, it's probably one of the most useful products out there! It may be on the expensive side, but its definitely worth the investment if you're looking for a cluster free desk setup and save cost on buying a secondary monitor! The material of the gooseneck bar is mind blowing! Sturdy and it won't be budging once you set it in place The clamp has that brush metal feel to it, and does have some weight to it, besides, it's by TwelveSouth, don't be expecting any cheap feeling products from them! The only hard part trying to find a 'sweet spot' to clamp the HoverBar! Overall, fantastic product and I highly recommend it!

Price is a little high but great accessory if you do alot writing, movies, music videos etc. Heavy duty and well made so price is ballpark.

Rock solid construction, I have my iPad now floating on the same eye-level to the screen of my MacBook, which itself is raised up off the desk on a stand to be more ergonomic. Didn't experience what other reviewers say as too flexible and not tight enough--perhaps the angle of my setup is a bit different as I have it mounted from the back ledge of my desk. I can freely rotate and adjust my iPad to any infinitesimal variation of angle I want, and I simply tightened the ball-and-socket joint enough to the resistance/pressure level I wanted. When mounted, I keep my iPad plugged in and turned off auto-lock so the screen is always-on. And I love how they included these small cable clips to neatly tuck away the charging cable out of sight behind my iPad. Overall, a well thought out product. My coworkers are all envious of my "Minority Report" style setup.

I own six twelve south products and have been delighted with the quality of manufacture, design and utility of all of them. The HoverBar is the first time Twelve South missed the mark and violated their own design and quality standards. The HoverBar is crudely designed and an actual eye-sore. Putting the aesthetics aside, it is rigid to a fault with a very limited range of motion near the clamp. In turn, the engineering of the flexible arm at the joint with the clamp allows the arm to push backward when touching the ipad - even after strenuous tightening. Finally the iPad bracket is cheaply constructed with a ball-in-socket union that is not rigid enough resulting in the ipad "spinning".

The concept was good but TwelveSouth compromised their reputation releasing this. Its low quality on all levels - definitely not TwelveSouth quality.