Finally, somewhere to put your drink at the tailgate.
4.9 from 119 Steadi reviewsA flexible-finned base that holds your can, cup, or 40 oz tumbler steady — on the gate, the cooler lid, or the grass by the boards.
Get yours before kickoff — from $14.95Free shipping · Fits the 40 oz Stanley · 90 days to send it back
Will the 40-ouncer fit on the gate? A sticky note answers it — the test is below ↓
You know the moment
You already know these Saturdays.
The gate drops and becomes the bar. The coffee that rode down in the console now stands on ribbed steel between the crockpot and the buns, catching a nudge from every tray that lands.
Both hands full of bags, so the drink goes down in the grass beside the board. Four throws of glancing at your feet to make sure your own heel hasn't found it yet.
Your drink settled on the cooler lid ten minutes ago. Now somebody wants a cold one, the lid swings, and it's homeless again — the fourth eviction since you parked.
You drop into the quad chair and go to park the 40-ouncer in the armrest mesh. It perches on top of the pocket like it's posing for a photo. So you hold it. You always end up holding it.
Fit, the easy way
The fit test is a sticky note. Run it before Saturday.
lands in here
A square sticky note: 3 inches, exactly — same ceiling as what fits on the gate.
The classic square measures exactly 3 inches on each 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 — the big steel tumblers taper hard, and a rim flares wider than the cup ever is at the floor. The base is the only measurement that matters.
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 ruler, no guessing in the lot. One sticky note on the kitchen counter, with the exact cup that rides to the game.
Will mine fit
The bottom inch decides what stands on the gate.
The whole spec is one line: a container base 2 to 3 inches across settles in. Every verdict below is just that rule applied.
- Stanley 40 oz H2.0 FlowState Quencher fits
- Yeti Rambler 30 oz fits
- 16 oz party cup fits
- Standard 12 oz can fits
- Slim seltzer can fits
- 16 oz tallboy fits
- Longneck bottle fits
- Lidded water bottle fits
- Sports-drink bottle fits
- Camp mug, no handle fits
- Coffee mug, handled handle in the way
- 64 oz growler too wide
The floor matters as much as the ceiling — under 2 inches the base sits too loose. The handled mug is the honest exception: its base fits, but the handle lands exactly where a fin needs to grip. And the growler was never close.
The full fit database — Stanley, Red Bull, Yeti, and 30 more, with sourced base measurements →
Why more than one
Two identical Stanleys. Whose is whose?
Half the crew shows up with the same 40 oz tumbler in the same popular colorway, because everyone bought the same one. Set two side by side on the gate and there's no telling them apart until somebody takes a sip from the wrong one. A crew that color-codes its bases never runs into that.
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.
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The goods
Three reasons it earns a spot on the spread.
Holds steady on ribbed steel and lumpy grass
The wide, low base bridges the tailgate's corrugations and rides the ground's ruts instead of balancing on a high point. Bump the gate, drop the next tray, take your throw — the drink settles back down.
Takes the cups the lot actually drinks from
The can, the party cup, the lidded bottle, the 40 oz tumbler that outgrew the mesh-pocket era. Cans and bottles slide on; cups and tumblers drop in through the fins and get gripped by the bottom inch.
Packs like the rest of the kit
One piece of matte flexible material — no magnets to shake loose, no clamps, no assembly. It rides in the bin with the koozies, shrugs off ice water and ketchup, rinses clean with the hose, and doesn't care which truck dropped the gate.
How it holds
Built for surfaces that were never meant to be tables.
Ribbed steel and rutted grass never offer a cup a full footprint — narrow bases teeter on whatever high point they land on. The wide, low base bridges the ribs and lumps instead of balancing across them.
Flexible fins hold the drink from the sides by its bottom inch, so a slammed gate or a dropped tray can't rattle it loose.
Someone leans on the gate, a tray slides, the cooler gets dragged a foot — the wide base keeps its weight low, so it rocks instead of tipping, and brings the drink back level.
Versus the fixes
Compared to what's already rattling around the bed.
| The camp chair's armrest cupholder | The Tailgate Cup Holder | |
|---|---|---|
| Holds the 40-ounce tumbler | Perches on top of the mesh — ends up in your hand | The 40 oz Stanley fits |
| A camp mug or a wide bottle | Camp mugs and wide bottles don't go in | Settles in, camp mug included |
| Grips through a bump or a lean | A fabric sling, no rigid grip to offer | Fins grip the bottom inch, resists tipping |
| Follows the drink from gate to cooler to grass | Sewn to one chair, stays behind when you move | Same base rides the gate, the lid, the ground |
| Hands full during a game of bags | Chair's back at the tailgate, drink's on the ground anyway | Sets down beside the board, holds steady |
| For the friend without a chair | No pocket if you're not sitting in one | Works standing at the boards, sitting, or anywhere |
| Cost | Comes free with the chair you already brought | One small piece, extra to buy |
Sized for a bare can, back when that's all anyone brought. Buyers keep reporting that camp mugs, wide bottles, and wine tumblers simply don't go in, gear testers find mesh can't secure wider bottles, and the fabric offers no rigid grip. Everything about it predates the 40-ouncer.
Lives or dies on magnet strength against painted, textured steel — and buyers report holders that vibrate loose and drop, with one owner bolting on extra six-pound magnets just to make it do its one job. On spray-in texture or an aluminum bed, the premise breaks entirely.
A tabletop cantilevered off a single 2-inch tongue. Buyers concede the wobble as simply expected, and one owner reports the rattle as constant — it adds flat area, not stable area, and it ties up the hitch all season.
A ring meant to marry the big tumbler to a small holder — and a reviewed one left a quarter inch of daylight between ring and cup, so the tumbler wobbled anyway. It's a shim on a mismatch, not a fix.
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.
Before you buy
Asked in the lot, answered here.
Does it really hold on a ribbed steel tailgate?
Yes — hard, uneven surfaces are well inside its range. The wide, low base bridges the gate's corrugations instead of teetering across them, and the fins grip the cup by its bottom inch, so a slammed door or a leaning elbow doesn't rattle it loose. Knock it sideways and it settles back down.
What about the grass by the cornhole boards?
Soft, lumpy, sloped ground is this base's home turf. It lies wide across the ruts and holds the drink steady at ankle height, the weight low enough that a lump rocks it instead of tipping it — standing upright beside the board instead of balancing on its edge between throws.
The whole camp moves all day — gate slams, cooler runs, people leaning on everything.
That churn is what the shape is for. The base rides whatever it's sitting on — gate, cooler lid, or ground — and brings the drink back level when the surface shifts underneath. It resists tipping, not everything: a cornhole bag sailing wide into it still wins. But the ordinary all-day jostle of a working lot is the job it was molded for.
Will the 40-ouncer fit? Nothing else out here takes it.
Go by the bottom, not the rim. A container base 2 to 3 inches across fits — the 40 oz Stanley does, and so do cans, party cups, and lidded bottles. Handled mugs don't: the handle lands where a fin needs to grip.
Does it attach to the truck?
No — and that's deliberate. No magnets fighting painted or spray-in-textured steel, no clamp sized for somebody else's bed rail, nothing plugged into the hitch. It sits on top of whatever surface the party is using and picks up in a second.
Can I keep it on the cooler lid?
Yes — the wide base spreads the drink's weight across a flexing lid instead of pressing a point into it. And when the lid has to swing for the next cold one, nothing is attached: lift, swing, set it back down.
It's going to meet ice water, ketchup, and a parking lot. How do I clean it?
Hose it off or wipe it down, or put it in the dishwasher. It's one piece of flexible molded material with nothing to come apart, and a soaking doesn't bother it.
Does it care which truck I have?
It never touches the truck in a way that matters — drop-in liner or spray-in, work-surface gate or plain steel, full-size pickup or the buddy's SUV hatch. Nothing has to line up, because nothing attaches. It works just as well on the folding table and the ground, too.
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.
From
Molded a short drive from where it ships.
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 first cooler gets loaded.
Ninety days, however many Saturdays that is.
Run it for a month — on the gate, on the cooler lid, in the grass beside the boards. 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
Keep your drink standing till kickoff.
The drink stands where the party is — on the gate, on the cooler lid, in the grass beside the board — and nobody's follow-through finds it.
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