Finally, somewhere to put your drink at the pool.
122 reviews · 4.9 average · 98 verified purchases
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
One honest thing first: it doesn't float. Built to live on the deck, the chaise, or right at the water's edge, where a flexible-finned base grips your can, seltzer, or tumbler through the wobble, the splash, and the wet-handed reach.
Get one for the deck — from $14.95Free shipping, 90 days to send it back — not another pool gadget that's dead by August.
Will it fit before it ever gets wet? A sticky note answers that — the test is below ↓
The current arrangement
Nowhere at the pool was actually built to hold a drink.
Every lounger, every ledge, every wet inch of concrete gets asked to double as a drink table for an afternoon, and none of them were designed for the job.
Bare concrete in direct sun runs somewhere around 140 to 160°F on a hot day and stays that hot for hours. A drink parked there is a full reach down from a reclined chaise, warming from the bottom up while the condensation ring glues deck grit to the can.
A standard pool lounger runs about 78 inches long with a seat only 13 inches off the deck, built from flexing vinyl straps or sling mesh — no flat surface anywhere on it. When there's an arm at all it's narrow, curved, and slick, and a zero-gravity recline tilts whatever was balanced there.
The rounded bullnose edge that caps the pool wall is the obvious shelf, permanently wet from swimmers pushing off it and inches from every cannonball's wake. And glass isn't allowed there in the first place — most pools ban it outright.
The shallow shelf everyone camps on runs 6 to 18 inches of water, moving constantly from splashes and kids. Anything light enough to set down there is also light enough to float off the second nobody's watching it.
It doesn't ruin the afternoon. It's just the same small relocation, over and over — off the towel, onto the deck, into your hand, down again somewhere else — until you've stopped clocking that you're doing it.
Scenes you'll recognize
The same five minutes, every pool day.
You settle into the zero-gravity chair, can in the clip-on holder, and lean back. The chair's geometry rotates; the holder doesn't. The drink pours down the frame and onto the deck before you've finished reclining.
Your can is balanced on the coping while you stand in the shallow end. Someone calls a cannonball. The edge is rounded and wet, and the can goes over — onto the deck if you're lucky, into the pool if you're not.
The inflatable flamingo holding your seltzer catches the wind and starts walking. You look up from your phone and it's at the far wall — the slow wade across the deep end every pool owner already knows.
Dripping, hands pruned, you reach for the can that's been sitting on the hot concrete. It's warm from the bottom up, wearing a ring of deck grit, and it nearly squirts out of your wet grip.
The can's been open and unattended by the chaise for a while. You do the check everyone here eventually learns — tap it, listen, look inside — because a yellow jacket finding a sweet open can is a story someone at this pool already has.
Quick check
One dry sticky note beats guessing with a dripping hand.
lands in here
A square sticky note: 3 inches, exactly — check it dry, before the cooler gets packed.
The classic square is exactly 3 inches on a side — a fact about sticky notes, and it happens to be the ceiling of what fits.
Do it inside, dry hands, before the sunscreen. A slim seltzer can looks skinny in the hand but measures its base, not its label — check that, not how it looks from the top.
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 at the pool, no guessing with a dripping arm. One sticky note, checked before you load the cooler, with whatever you're actually bringing out.
The fit list
The bottom inch decides what fits — wet or dry.
One line covers it: a container base 2 to 3 inches across settles in and holds. Every verdict below follows from that.
- Standard 12 oz can fits
- Slim seltzer can (White Claw, Truly) fits
- Can in a foam koozie fits
- Stainless can cooler fits
- 40 oz Stanley-style tumbler fits
- Lidded plastic wine tumbler fits
- Disposable water bottle fits
- Kids' sippy cup fits
- Juice pouch too irregular
- Coffee mug, handled handle in the way
- Espresso cup too narrow
There's a floor as well as a ceiling — under 2 inches the base sits too loose, which is where the espresso cup lands. The handled mug is the honest exception: the base fits fine, but the handle sits exactly where a fin needs to grip.
The full fit database — Stanley, Red Bull, Yeti, and 30 more, with sourced base measurements →
How it works
How it grips when your hands don't.
Vinyl straps flex, pavers sit uneven, coping curves away underneath — a narrow can or a rigid clip finds no footing on any of it. The wide, low base lies across the surface instead of balancing on a point of it.
Flexible fins hold the can, koozie, or tumbler by its bottom inch, so a bump, a splash, or a wet-handed reach doesn't send it sliding.
A chaise reclines, a wake rolls across the deck, a towel gets yanked out from under it — the wide base keeps its weight low, so it rocks instead of tipping with it, and brings the drink back level.
The short version
Three reasons it earns a spot on the deck.
Holds steady on whatever's actually there
Flexing vinyl straps, uneven pavers, a curved coping lip — the wide, low base finds footing where a rigid clip or a narrow can can't. Shift in the chaise, and the drink settles back instead of going with you.
Built for wet, not just for level
A cold can sweats, hands are pool-wet, and the deck is gritty — none of that changes the grip. The base holds the drink from the sides, low, so a slick can in a slick hand doesn't slide loose the way it does balanced on an arm or a ledge.
Doesn't ask anything of your chaise
No clip to fit to a specific frame, no clamp to fight a reclining chaise, nothing that has to match your model. Set it on the deck, the chaise, or beside the tanning ledge and pick it back up when the towel comes with you.
Instead of what you do now
Compared to what's already floating around the pool.
| A flamingo drink float | The Poolside Cup Holder | |
|---|---|---|
| In a stiff breeze | Walks across the water — nothing tethering it | Nothing for the wind to grab, so it stays put |
| What it needs to work at all | Open water — nowhere else | Deck, chaise, coping, or ledge — one base handles all of it |
| Once you're back on the chaise | Stays behind — done once you leave the water | Comes right along, towel or deck or chaise |
| What actually fits in it | Cut for one width of can | A slim seltzer can up through a 40 oz tumbler |
| Out of the box, a season later | Duds and slow leaks, by report | One molded piece — nothing to spring a leak |
| Floating in the water itself | Exactly what it's built for | Doesn't float — built for the deck and chaise, not the water |
| Cost | A multi-pack you keep dipping into as they fail | One piece, bought once |
Budget multi-packs routinely arrive with a few duds — pinholes or bad valves — and even good ones develop leaks within weeks. The cup holes are cut for a standard can; tumblers don't fit, tall cups tip, and untethered, they drift wherever the breeze sends them.
Rigid clips can't hold on sling and strap chaises that flex, proprietary lounger frames defeat universal clips entirely, and on a zero-gravity recliner the holder stays fixed while the chair rotates — reclining pours the drink out.
Review roundups flag models that wobble or tip once actually loaded, and call the bigger trays impractical for smaller pools. They still drift, and they only solve the in-water moment — the drink is homeless again the second you're back on the chaise.
The openings hold only a couple of standard cans and nothing wider fits through them. They need to be tied off to stay put near you, and the rope is usually sold separately.
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 · 2026-08-30Excellent!
Brian S. · 2026-08-27It’s great love it
gilbert a. · 2026-08-24I never knock over my water at night anymore!
Steadi customer · 2026-08-2198 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 identical seltzers. Whose is whose?
At a crowded pool day, everyone's cooler holds the same six-pack, and two identical cans end up sweating side by side on the same stretch of coping. Somebody always grabs the wrong one, or leaves theirs hunting for it, warm, an hour later. Two different colors on the deck settles the question before it's asked.
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.
Straight answers
Asked poolside, answered here.
Does it float?
No — worth saying plainly before anything else: send it into the water off the coping and it sinks straight to the bottom, no float built in. Fish it out and rinse it off and it works exactly the same; the material doesn't mind soaking. It's built to sit at the water's edge, not on it.
Will my can or tumbler fit?
Measure the base, not the label. A base 2 to 3 inches across settles in — a standard can, a slim seltzer, and the 40 oz Stanley all land in that range. A handled mug doesn't; the handle sits right where a fin needs to close.
What about glass?
That call belongs to your pool, not this product — glass is banned at essentially every pool because a break underwater is close to invisible and everyone's barefoot. This is built for what the no-glass rule leaves you: cans, pouches, and plastic tumblers, which is most of what actually comes out to the deck anyway.
Does it work on a chaise with no arm at all?
Yes — that's most of what it's built for. Vinyl straps and sling mesh flex under a narrow can or a rigid clip with nothing to hold onto; the wide, low base rides that give instead of needing a flat spot to sit on.
Does it work on hard, flat surfaces too — the deck, a table by the pool?
Yes, at least as well as it works on the soft and uneven stuff. The wide base and the grip on the drink itself hold just as well on concrete, pavers, or a patio table as they do on a strap chaise or a curved coping edge.
Can I set it on the tanning ledge, in the water?
It resists tipping and settles back through the ordinary chop of splashing kids and a bubbler, so plenty of people do. Just remember it isn't a float — if it goes over on its own and drifts into deeper water, it goes to the bottom, same as it would off the coping.
Does the wind knock it over the way it does the inflatable holders?
It isn't inflatable and it isn't buoyant, so there's nothing for the wind to grab and walk across the deck the way it does a flamingo float. The wide base and the grip on the drink are what a floating holder has neither of.
How do I clean it?
Rinse it under the hose or wipe it down — one piece of flexible material, nothing to unclip and nothing that comes apart. the dishwasher is fine;
Who makes it, and where do I buy one?
The product is called the Steadi. It's molded in small runs in Orange, California by Steadi Labs — veteran-founded, patent pending — and every order ships free from steadilabs.com, with 90 days to send it back.
Made by
A short drive from the mold to your deck.
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 the pool towels are dry.
Ninety days of pool days to decide.
Take it through a month of real pool days — the wet hands, the drips, the direct sun on the deck. 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
Give the drink somewhere better than the deck.
Your drink stays put — on the chaise, on the deck, at the edge of the ledge — and the only thing that goes in the water is you.
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