Finally, somewhere to put your drink while you rock.
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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
Holds your tea, your 40 oz tumbler, or the baby's bottle steady — on a porch rocker's arm or a glider's pad. Built for a chair that never sits still.
Hold your drink steady — from $14.95Free shipping, porch or nursery · 90 days to try it in your own rocker · molded in Orange, California
Will it fit the arm, the rail, or the glider? A sticky note settles it — below ↓
Where things stand
A rocking chair never gives you a place to set anything down.
Porch sittin' at the end of the day, or a glider feed at 3 a.m. — the chair is supposed to make either one easy, and it's also exactly why the drink never has anywhere to go.
Ask around new-parent forums and the fix for 'somewhere to put water in the glider' is always the same: go get a cart or a nightstand. It isn't framed as a nice-to-have. It's treated as furniture you're missing.
Wood or upholstered, the arm tilts through the whole arc every push-off, because the chair — not the drink — is what's supposed to be moving. Set a sweating glass on varnished wood and the rock walks it toward the rounded edge on its own.
It looks like the flattest option in the room, which is the trap. Porch boards are built pitched so rain runs off, and the ground beside a rocker sits inside the sweep of the runners and your own push-off feet. Bending down for it mid-rock is what lurches a chair, not the drink.
Letdown, the milk-release reflex, brings a real spike in thirst — and during cluster feeding that reach for water comes back again and again for hours, right as one arm is pinned under a baby you just spent forty minutes settling.
Rocking camp chairs ship with a fabric cup pocket made for exactly this motion, and owners report it's too shallow and floppy to hold a real bottle or tumbler upright. The one holder designed for a chair that rocks still doesn't solve it.
None of this makes the chair a problem. Porch sittin' or the 3 a.m. glider feed — you already work around it without thinking, moving the drink out of the chair's way each time you sit down to rock.
The moments
Porch sittin' or the glider — you know these five rocks by heart.
Baby's finally latched in the dark glider, letdown hits, and the thirst it brings is real — but the water bottle's on the dresser, a stand-up-and-wake-them away. The one free arm is resting on padded foam that won't hold a bottle upright anyway.
Sweet tea sweats a ring onto the varnished armrest while the haint-blue ceiling overhead does nothing to cool it. Every push-off walks the glass a little closer to the rounded edge, until you give up and just hold it for the rest of the sit.
Your can goes on the boards beside the chair — the only flat-looking spot — which puts it on a floor pitched to drain rain, inside the sweep of your runners, right by your push-off heel. One good story and somebody's foot finds it.
Baby's asleep on your shoulder, feet up on the ottoman, so you keep gliding to keep them that way. Your water's on the side table you set up for exactly this — except twenty minutes of rocking has walked the chair a lean-and-a-half away from it, and leaning is the one move you can't make.
Coffee ends up on the porch rail because neither armrest is wide enough for the cup. Every sip means stopping the rock and stretching for it, and the rail's crowned to shed water, so the cup sits with a faint lean toward the yard the whole time.
The trick, explained
How it rides the arc with you.
A rocker's arm is narrow and curved; a glider's arm is padded and convex. Neither offers anything flat. The wide, low base spreads across whichever one you set it on instead of trying to balance on it.
Flexible fins hold the drink by its bottom inch, so a push-off, a rock, or a shifting nursing pillow can't walk it toward the edge.
Every push-off tilts the whole seat through its arc. The base rocks with the motion instead of fighting it, and brings the drink back level.
The desk-drawer test
The whole fit test rides along on a sticky note.
lands in here
A square sticky note: 3 inches, exactly — the same ceiling on the armrest, the rail, or your lap.
The classic square is exactly 3 inches on a side — a fact about sticky notes, and it happens to be the exact ceiling of what fits.
Stand the cup on top and look at the base, not the rim. A tapered tumbler or a flared glass will lie to you if you check the top instead of the bottom.
Base sits inside the square? It fits. Hangs over the edge? Too wide. A tiny puck lost in the middle — under 2 inches? Too narrow.
No ruler on the porch, no guessing in a dark nursery — one sticky note, one glance, with the cup you actually carry to the chair.
Sizing it up
The bottom inch decides what rides along.
The rule is one line, same as anywhere else: a container base 2 to 3 inches across settles in. Everything below follows from it — on the armrest, on the rail, or on your lap in the glider.
- 40 oz Stanley-style tumbler fits
- Insulated tumbler, sweet tea fits
- Standard 12 oz can fits
- Can in a foam koozie fits
- Slim seltzer can fits
- Water bottle, straw or flip lid fits
- Baby bottle fits
- Wine glass, stemless fits
- Coffee mug, handled handle in the way
- Camp cup, no handle fits
There's a floor as well as a ceiling — under 2 inches, the base sits too loose, same as it would anywhere else. The handled mug is the one honest no: the base is in range, but the handle sits right where a fin needs to grip.
The full fit database — Stanley, Red Bull, Yeti, and 30 more, with sourced base measurements →
From the reviews
What buyers say.
Real reviews of the Steadi — these ones mention rocking life.
OMG!!!!! YOU HAVE TO BUY THESE!!!!!! i tested it out today on an old tv tray (wood and very slippery) and put a soda in it and played like “oops i bumped my tray” (and really hard) and NADA, NOPE, NOT AN INCH OF MOVEMENT from the STEADI. everything else went flying!!! cuz dummy me didn’t remove those other items first 🙃 duh!!! and no it was not suctioned to my tray cuz it doesn’t do that. but WOW!!!!! what a great invention. wish i was thinking up this GREAT IDEA, instead of binge watching TRAITORS tv shows and SPILLING my soda as i jump with excitement/anger over the show. the plus side, while flipping thru FB (while the commercial is on) or i’m cleaning up my spilt soda 🤪….. i saw this ad and it was like angels were singing “BUY ME AND UR PRAYERS ARE ANSWERED”. so glad i did. they work great!!! i bought the 4ct from actual website and it shipped quick and packaging was perfect. all 4 colors are great!! black, white, deep terracotta (plant holder) color. very very nice color. especially during the fall. and a muted warm sage color. very nice also. FYI:: i forgot to mention, i even tested this out with a 8oz dinner cup and it worked perfectly. but put the cup in FIRST then add beverage…..LOL learn from my dumb remark of “i can get it around the cup filled to the brim and not drop a lick of this drink. well WRONG!!!! 😑 LOL!!! user error not the STEADI. buy this and trust me u won’t want to return it. oh and it is comfortable to hold. and actually, now i can set my can of soda down with a mighty slap on the table and a huff and puff in disgust, if my tv show is calling for my dark side to come out in anger, of their decision of who to banish on TRAITORS (US/UK/NZ/ and now CANDA)!! ENJOY!!!! and THANK YOU TO THE INVENTOR!!!!! i hear it’s a father of 3. 🤷♀️
rebekah q. · 2026-06-23Steadi- Just what I was looking for! I purchased these to use at our annual NASCAR race this month. They delivered beyond my expectations. Our seats are metal benches with a slight slope towards the back, making it impossible to set down any type of drink. We were able to use these for a 20oz bottle with a koozie on it as well as a slim can with an insulated Brumate on it! They worked perfect, holding our drinks on the bench & on our cooler. I highly recommend for sporting fans, boaters, outdoor adventures. Thanks for making these!
Holly J. · 2026-06-09Steadi works very well in stabilizing my drinks on soft surfaces, like the couch or by the chair I use as a nightstand.
Marie A. · 2026-07-02My Steadi order arrived just as we were packing for our annual three generation family vacation. So into the car they went. Our time away is at a rental property and preventing spills in someone else’s house seems like a good goal. Additionally, most of our time is spent outside, at the house and nearby parks. The
Haila B. · 2026-05-3198 of the 122 published reviews are for the drink base itself. The other 24 are about ordering, shipping and customer service.
Why more than one
Two glasses of sweet tea. One porch. No idea whose is whose.
Two rockers on the same porch means two glasses of sweet tea poured the same way, in the same glass, at the same golden hour — and the second the conversation gets good, nobody's tracking which one was on which armrest. It's a small daily mix-up, not a real problem, but it's the kind of thing a porch built for two people should have already settled.
Build your set
Give everyone their own.
Pick a pack, then give each one a color — so nobody has to ask which drink is theirs.
Six places, none of them flat
A rocking chair doesn't have one surface — it has six, and all of them move or slope.
This isn't about being careless. Every surface within reach of a rocker is narrow, curved, padded, pitched to drain rain, or literally in motion underneath you.
Wood on a classic front-porch rocker, upholstered on a glider — a few inches wide, curved or sloped, finished in slick paint or varnish. It tilts through an arc every push-off, because the whole chair is the moving part, and condensation turns a varnished finish into a skate with no lip to stop the walk toward the edge.
Open porch boards are built pitched — about a quarter inch per foot away from the house, so rain drains off — with gaps between the planks. A tall drink standing there bridges those gaps on a deliberate slope, inside the sweep of the runners and your own push-off feet.
Soft foam under fabric, convex, nothing flat anywhere — and occupied on one side by the baby's head for the length of a feed. A bottle sinks into the padding and lists toward whichever side the foam gives, and the glide motion finishes the job.
A blanket on the porch, a nursing pillow in the glider — soft, shifting ground that tilts with every rock and gets rearranged constantly. One knee adjustment and the drink is in the blanket.
Commonly a flat-laid 2x4 or 2x6 cap, left bare and weathered, and usually beveled or crowned so it sheds rain — meaning it's rarely flat to begin with. It sits outside the rocking arc, at full-stretch distance, so a full cup set there starts out leaning toward the yard.
It stays put. The chair doesn't — a rocker whose two runners wear even slightly unevenly will slowly 'walk' across the floor. Twenty minutes into a sit, the table you set up at your elbow is a lean-and-stretch away, and leaning out of a moving rocker is exactly how it tips.
Why a rocking chair won't hold your drink — and what actually does — the full story →
The alternatives
The fixes you've probably already tried.
| A side table | The Rocking Chair Cup Holder | |
|---|---|---|
| Within reach as the chair tilts | Set beside the chair, not on the moving part | Rides the arm through every push-off |
| Twenty minutes into a long rock | The chair drifts off; now it's a lean-and-stretch away | Moves with you, wherever you land |
| The 3 a.m. feed, one hand free | Across the room, baby pinned to one arm | On the arm or the pillow already |
| Porch tonight, nursery at 3 a.m. | Stays in one room; a second one for the other | One piece, carried wherever the rocking happens |
| Space the rocker's arc needs | Eats into the clearance the swing already claims | Sits on the arm or rail, no floor spent |
| Cost | Another piece of furniture to buy and place | One small piece, nothing to assemble |
| Holds more than a drink | Yes — a lamp, a book, the baby monitor | Just the drink |
Built for a sofa arm — one maker specs a flat surface at least about 6.7 inches wide. A rocker's arm is the opposite of that: narrow, hard, curved wood. Buyer reviews say what you'd expect — a caddy that doesn't match the arm width slips off, and the fabric pocket sags once a full cup is in it.
The one chair category that ships with a holder made for rocking motion still gets it wrong — reviewers report the mesh pocket is too shallow and floppy for a real bottle or tumbler, with tipped cans the recurring complaint.
The default advice in every porch and nursery-setup thread, and it only half-works: it eats the two feet of clearance a rocker needs beside it, sits at full stretch from a moving seat, and the chair slowly walks away from it over a long sit. It also does nothing for the glider parent whose hands are already full.
They assume a flat surface you can drill into. A classic rocker offers curved arms and turned spindles — wood nobody wants to put screws into, especially on an heirloom piece. The fixed ring is also a fit lottery, sized for a standard can and nothing bigger.
Fair questions
You're probably thinking…
The demo shows it through a full push-off arc, not a still chair; the base rocks low and wide with the chair and lets the drink settle back down instead of getting walked off the edge.
One piece of matte material in a muted decor color, no clamps or straps — it reads more like it came with the chair than something bolted onto it, porch or nursery.
Set it on the arm or the pillow ahead of time and it's already there; you need one hand to place the bottle, not your eyes, and nothing to learn or assemble.
The chair drifts across the floor over a long rock and the table doesn't — twenty minutes in, the table you set up at your elbow is a lean-and-stretch away, which is exactly what this solves instead of half-solving.
The sticky-note test settles it in five seconds with something already in the junk drawer, and the fit list names exactly what fits and admits the one honest no — the handled mug.
Ask first
Questions from the porch and the glider.
Does it actually work on a rocking chair?
That's the whole reason it's shaped this way. A narrow base can't handle a tilting armrest or a moving glider pad; the wide, low base spreads across either one instead of balancing on a point, and the fins keep the drink from walking loose as the chair rocks. Push it off level and it settles back.
I need this for the nursery at 3 a.m. — one hand, no looking.
That's the scenario it's built around. Set the base on the glider's arm, your lap, or the floor within reach ahead of time, and the drink stays where you left it. You still need one working hand to place a bottle in it, but you don't need your eyes.
Will my tumbler fit?
Measure the bottom, not the rim. A base of 2 to 3 inches across settles in — the 40 oz Stanley does. Handled mugs don't; the handle lands where a fin needs to grip.
Does it screw into the armrest or clamp onto anything?
No. Nothing screws into the wood and nothing clamps to a rail. It sits on top of the arm, the floor, or your lap, and it works the same on a hand-caned porch rocker as it does on an upholstered glider.
Does it work on the porch rail or floor too, or only the arm?
It works at least as well on hard, flat surfaces as it does on the arm — so the rail cap or a side table are fair game too. The same wide footprint and grip that handle a moving armrest keep a bumped drink from sliding on a still one.
My rocker 'walks' across the porch. Does that throw it off?
No. It sits on the chair or on you, not on a fixed table, so it travels with you instead of getting left behind — which is actually the problem it solves, since the side table stays put while the rocker doesn't.
How do I clean it?
Rinse it, wipe it down, or put it in the dishwasher. It's one piece of flexible material with nothing to come apart.
Is it going to look like a plastic gadget on my porch, or in the nursery?
It's one piece of matte material in a muted color, with no clamps or shine to it. It reads more like something that came with the chair than something bolted onto it, whichever room it's in.
Who makes it, and where do I buy one?
It's called the Steadi, molded in small runs in Orange, California by Steadi Labs — veteran-founded and patent pending. Every order ships free from steadilabs.com, with 90 days to change your mind.
Ninety days of real rocking.
Rock with it for a month — on the porch, in the glider, wherever you sit. If it doesn't do what this page says, email hello@steadilabs.com and it gets made right. No forms, no fight.
Veteran-founded · Patent pending · Made in Orange, California
Who makes it
Made within rocking distance of the shop.
The maker is Steadi Labs, a small veteran-founded company in Orange, California. Unlike the hand-caned rocker it might sit on, it's injection molded in small runs — the mold, the material, and the color runs all stay within about three and a half miles of the shop. Email hello@steadilabs.com and it's read by the people who actually made it.
Keep the rock, lose the reach.
The tea stays put through every push-off, and the water bottle is exactly where your free hand expects it — on the porch, and at 3 a.m. in the glider.
Get yours, ships freeCheckout happens at steadilabs.com — Steadi Labs is the company that makes it.