Finally, somewhere to put your drink, lot or living room.
4.9 from 119 Steadi reviewsA flexible-finned base that holds your can, Solo cup, or 40 oz tumbler steady — on the grass by the boards, the tailgate, or the couch cushion under you.
Get yours before kickoff — from $14.95Free shipping · 90 days, about four Sundays, to send it back · Molded in Orange, California
Will your tallboy fit? A sticky note answers it — the test is below ↓
How it goes
Every flat surface on game day already has a different job.
Between the lot in the morning and the couch by kickoff, the day never runs short on drinks — it runs short on somewhere flat, still, and reachable to set one down.
Cornhole claims the nearest strip of turf the moment the boards go down — two targets twenty-seven feet apart with drinks lining up along both foul lines, parked at exactly the ankle height a follow-through swings through.
The sewn-in mesh sleeve was sized for a bare can years ago. A tallboy shares that can's footprint but stands taller and top-heavier, so it rides proud of the sleeve and levers loose on the first big lean.
The dropped gate is the morning's counter and the bed is its buffet, but the liner underneath is ribbed for grip, not for flat, and the whole panel bounces the second somebody sits on the edge to build a plate.
Foam dips toward whoever's sitting heaviest and re-angles itself with each sit and stand — and on the play the whole room's been waiting for, the entire row stands at once, cushion and all.
Once the couch runs out of laps and armrests, the overflow goes to the floor — right in the walking lane between the couch, the kitchen, and the TV, invisible from standing height until somebody's sock finds it.
The lot at nine and the couch by kickoff are the same problem twice — solved without comment, a dozen times over, before halftime.
Sound familiar
A Sunday like this always plays out the same five ways.
The boards go down for the first game of bags. Every drink gets set in the grass beside the pitcher's box, and it only takes a few throws before somebody's follow-through finds one and it's pouring into the turf.
Your can rides the ribbed bed liner while you build a plate. A buddy hops up onto the open gate to sit, the whole panel bounces, and the can has walked itself to the edge before you notice.
Your drink stayed on the carpet by the couch leg where you left it — invisible from standing height in a dim room. You come back through with a loaded plate and your foot finds it before your eyes do.
The go-ahead score, and the whole couch is up in the same half-second. The cushion your drink was riding tilts under the launch, and it goes into the seam — or onto the carpet.
The 40 oz tumbler never fit the chair's sagging mesh sleeve to begin with, so it's spent the whole night wedged between your knees instead.
The 3-inch question
The whole fit test fits on a sticky note. Run it before the lot opens.
lands in here
A square sticky note: 3 inches, exactly — same ceiling, lot or living room.
The classic square measures exactly 3 inches on a side. That's a fact about sticky notes — and it happens to be precisely the ceiling of what fits.
Judge the bottom, not the rim — a Solo cup flares from a narrow base to a wide rim, and a big steel tumbler tapers the same way. The base is the only measurement that counts.
Base lands inside the square: it fits. Hangs past the edges: too wide. Looks like a poker chip lost in the middle — under 2 inches: too narrow.
No tape measure in the parking lot, no guessing at the tailgate. One sticky note on the counter before the cooler gets loaded, with the cup that's actually riding along.
Will it fit my cup
The bottom inch decides what stays in the game.
One rule covers the whole slate: a container base 2 to 3 inches across settles in. Every verdict below follows from it.
- Standard 12 oz can fits
- 16 oz tallboy fits
- Slim hard-seltzer can fits
- Red Solo cup fits
- 40 oz Stanley-style tumbler fits
- 20-30 oz insulated tumbler fits
- 12 oz longneck bottle fits
- 2-liter soda bottle too wide
- Coffee mug, handled handle in the way
There's a floor as well as a ceiling — under 2 inches, a base sits too loose. The handled mug is the honest exception on this list: the base fits, but the handle lands right where a fin needs to grip. The 2-liter never had a chance — its base runs wider than the range.
The full fit database — Stanley, Red Bull, Yeti, and 30 more, with sourced base measurements →
The alternatives
Compared to what's already in the bin or wedged in the cushions.
| The camp chair's mesh cup holder | The Game Day Cup Holder | |
|---|---|---|
| Cost | Came free with the chair | Another purchase to justify |
| A tallboy or 40 oz tumbler | Rides high, levers loose in the shallow mesh | Settles in the same as a standard can |
| When the whole room jumps up | Testers found it doesn't stay upright once you're up | Holds steady through the lurch |
| Away from the chair | Only works sewn to that one armrest | Sits on the tailgate, the grass, the cooler lid |
| Lot in the morning, couch by kickoff | One seat, one setting | Comes inside when the chair doesn't |
| Every ordinary flex of the armrest | Travels straight into the drink it's holding | Sits on its own, not the chair's wobble |
Independent testers describe them the same way across brands — tippy, shallow, and not built to keep a drink upright once the sitter gets up. Sized for a bare can, the mesh struggles with a wider bottle or a tall tumbler, and every flex of the armrest travels straight to whatever's riding in it.
It only works where a spike can actually go into the ground — useless on the asphalt half of the lot, and shaky in dirt that's either baked hard or gone soft. One drink per stake, and it's one more pointy thing to carry, plant, and remember to pull.
A long-term reviewer reports the same problem on the arms most couches actually have: it creeps and slides on anything rounded or pillow-topped, needs weight in the pockets just to stay put, and still isn't trusted with a full or hot drink.
The most-owned accessory of the whole day, and it solves temperature, not placement. Same footprint, same tipping risk — the foam sleeve does nothing once the can's actually sitting on grass, a cushion, or a ribbed truck bed.
Why this
Three reasons it earns a spot in the cooler bag.
Settles on cushions and lot ground alike
The wide base spreads across a couch cushion or a stretch of grass instead of pressing a point into either. A knee shifts, a foot lands nearby, the whole row stands on a big play — its low, wide weight rocks with whatever's under it and the drink settles back.
Takes what actually gets carried around on game day
The can, the Solo cup, the tallboy, the 40 oz tumbler the mesh sleeve never fit. Cans and bottles slide on; cups and tumblers drop in through the fins and get gripped by the bottom inch.
Rides in the cooler bag, sits by the couch
One piece of matte flexible material — nothing to clamp, clip, or forget how to fold. It goes out to the lot in the morning and comes back inside for the evening game without changing what it is.
The trick, explained
Built for grass, gates, and game-day jumps.
A cushion or a patch of lot grass never gives a drink a flat, even footing — narrow bases tip on whatever high point they land on. The wide, low base lies across the terrain instead of balancing on it.
Flexible fins hold the drink from the sides by its bottom inch, so a hopped-on tailgate or a leap off the couch can't rattle it loose.
A boot lands nearby, the cushion re-angles, the gate takes a bump — the wide base keeps its weight low, so it rocks instead of tipping, and brings the drink back level.
From the reviews
What buyers say.
Recent reviews of the Steadi, from every room and rig it lives in.
I have a tendency to spill my drinks and have two cats. This is one of the best things I’ve ever impulse bought. It works. It actually works. It’s a heavy, wide enough base that it is actually stable. My “spot” in the living room is near a somewhat-cushioned fabric ottoman, which is where I usually put my drinks. It’s
Dixie · 2026-08-30I love mine. I just wish the price was more appropriate. $15 seems a lot for a small plastic item. Reduce it to $9.99 and free shipping and I'll buy a few more!
Carolyn G. · 2026-08-27Excellent!
Brian S. · 2026-08-27Thank you for your service!
Brian S. · 2026-08-27It’s great love it
gilbert a. · 2026-08-24I never knock over my water at night anymore!
Customer · 2026-08-21All 119 reviews are for the drink base itself, collected across every place people use it.
Why more than one
Two identical Stanleys. Whose is whose?
By the time the cooler's half gone, half the tailgate is carrying the same 40 oz tumbler in the same color. Set two down side by side on the gate and there's no telling them apart until somebody takes a guess mid-conversation and drinks from the wrong one.
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.
Fair questions
You're probably thinking…
No spinning product shot, no white background — it's shown sitting in real grass beside the boards and wedged into an actual couch cushion, with base measurements stated plainly instead of hype. It resists tipping, and there's a 90-day guarantee, about four Sundays, if it doesn't hold up on your gear.
The chair's mesh sleeve was sized for a bare can; a tallboy or a 40 oz tumbler rides taller and top-heavier than that sleeve was built for, so it goes shallow and tippy. A koozie fixes temperature, not tipping — same footprint, same fall. This is a wider, flexible-finned base that holds the bottom inch steady, on the chair or off it.
Run the sticky-note test at the kitchen counter — a classic square measures exactly 3 inches, the same ceiling this base covers. The Stanley 40 oz, the tallboy, and the Solo cup all measure inside the 2-to-3-inch range and settle in; a 2-liter runs wider than that range and doesn't.
It's one piece of molded material — nothing to clamp, clip, or wear out. Rinse it or hose it off, or put it in the dishwasher. Ninety days, about four Sundays, is the window to put it through real Sundays and send it back if it doesn't hold up.
Count it per drink in play across a tailgate crew or a packed couch, not as one purchase — the 4-pack and 8-pack bring it under $9 a unit, and shipping's free either way.
Worth knowing
Asked before kickoff, answered here.
Does it work on a couch cushion?
That's the job it's shaped for. Compressible foam swallows a narrow base and lets the drink heel over; the wide, low base spreads across the cushion instead of sinking a point into it, and the fins keep the drink from rattling loose when the row jumps up. Push it off level and it settles back.
What about the grass in the lot?
Yes — soft, sloped, lumpy ground is exactly where this shape does its best work. It spreads wide over the humps beside the cornhole boards and keeps the drink's weight low, holding it upright at ankle height instead of leaning until it pours.
My chair's cup holder is basically decorative. Does this fix it?
It replaces it. Set the base on the ground beside the chair instead of trusting the sagging mesh sleeve — no diameter to match, no shape it has to be sized for, and no armrest flex for it to ride along with.
Everyone jumps up at once on a big play. Does that end it?
That's the whole design brief. The base's low, wide weight rocks with the cushion and brings the drink back level when the surface shifts underneath it. It resists tipping — not everything: a foot landing square on it still wins. But the ordinary lurch of a room standing up on third-and-goal is exactly what it's built to shrug off.
Will my tallboy or tumbler fit?
Go by the base, not the rim. A container base 2 to 3 inches across fits — a standard can, a tallboy, and the 40 oz Stanley all measure in range. A 2-liter soda bottle doesn't; its base runs wider than the ceiling. Handled mugs don't either — the handle lands where a fin needs to grip.
Does it attach to the chair, the gate, or the couch?
No — nothing clips, clamps, or bolts on. It sits on top of whatever surface the day puts in front of it and moves with you from the tailgate to the living room in one motion.
Can I use it on the tailgate or the cooler lid too?
Yes — it holds at least as well on hard, flat surfaces. The wide base and the grip keep a bumped drink from sliding off a ribbed liner or a flexing cooler lid, which matters just as much as the grass does.
Beer, ketchup, grass stains — how do I clean it?
Rinse it, hose it off, or wipe it down, or put it in the dishwasher. It's one piece of flexible material with nothing to come apart, and a soaking doesn't bother it.
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, about four Sundays.
Run it through a month of game days — the lot, the couch, whichever gets more use. 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
The shop
Home turf: about three and a half miles.
The maker is Steadi Labs, a small veteran-founded company in Orange, California. It's injection molded in small runs, and nothing about it travels far — the mold, the material, and the color runs all sit within about three and a half miles of the shop. The people who make it read hello@steadilabs.com themselves, usually before kickoff.
Keep it standing from the lot to the living room.
Grass at nine, cushion by kickoff, gate or carpet whenever the day calls for it — the drink stays up through every reason the room had to jump.
Get one for the lot, one for the couch — ships freeCheckout is on steadilabs.com — Steadi Labs is the company that makes it.