The best smartphone gimbals for iPhones and Android phones in 2024

Best smartphone gimbals:
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The best smartphone gimbals can do things that your camera's image stabilization can't. Stabilizers can take out the worse of your wobbles, but a gimbal controls the movement of the phone itself, creating smooth panning and sweeping movements and even following subjects around the frame. With your smartphone on a gimbal, you can capture professional-looking sequences without any complex, heavy gear.

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Rod Lawton
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Rod is an independent photography journalist and editor, and a long-standing Digital Camera World contributor, having previously worked as DCW's Group Reviews editor. Before that he has been technique editor on N-Photo, Head of Testing for the photography division and Camera Channel editor on TechRadar, as well as contributing to many other publications. He has been writing about photography technique, photo editing and digital cameras since they first appeared, and before that began his career writing about film photography. He has used and reviewed practically every interchangeable lens camera launched in the past 20 years, from entry-level DSLRs to medium format cameras, together with lenses, tripods, gimbals, light meters, camera bags and more. Rod has his own camera gear blog at fotovolo.com but also writes about photo-editing applications and techniques at lifeafterphotoshop.com