15 Best Camera Accessories for Phones (2025): Tripods, Mics, and Lights

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• A Ring Light and Tripod

  

  Photograph: Jacob Roach

  The ShiftCam Studio Light tin get remarkably bright, and you tin easy power its brightness and adjacent the colour somesthesia if you similar a warmer code alternatively of a harsh chill white. All of this works wirelessly—you get a fewer hours of lighting from the interior battery, which you tin complaint up via USB-C.

  There's a MagSafe ringing successful the mediate of the light, which you tin rotate depending connected whether you're utilizing your phone's beforehand oregon rear camera. That does mean you'll request a MagSafe smartphone oregon immoderate Qi2 device (or a phone lawsuit with magnets). I've gotten the astir usage retired of the Studio Light arsenic a stand-alone accessory, but it comes with a tiny tripod you tin screw successful astatine the basal via the modular quarter-inch thread to prop it up connected a table. The full bundle is travel-friendly too. It's a large all-in-one solution, particularly if you often find yourself filming successful debased light.

• A Wireless Microphone

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    Photograph: Sam Kieldsen

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    Photograph: Sam Kieldsen

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    Photograph: Sam Kieldsen

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    Photograph: Sam Kieldsen

  DJI

  Mic 3 Wireless Microphone

  It was lone a fewer years agone that DJI debuted its archetypal wireless microphone, but present the company's mics are seen arsenic the standard-bearers. The latest DJI Mic 3 (8/10, WIRED Recommends) is simply a square-shaped mic with a fuzzy windscreen that you've astir apt seen successful the hands (or shirt) of your favourite vlogger. WIRED contributor Sam Kieldsen said it took “about 5 seconds” to recognize wherefore the Mic 3 was an upgrade implicit the Mic 2. Although the audio improvements are subtle, the Mic 3 comes with a fistful of caller features, including upgraded retention capableness from 8 GB to 32 GB, 2 levels of progressive sound canceling to chopped retired the inheritance noise, and enactment for timecode, allowing you to support 4 transmitters and 8 receivers successful time.

  What's bully astir DJI's strategy is that you tin prime and take what you want. If you're lone signaling yourself talking, you don't request 2 transmitters; conscionable get the basal bundle with the receiver and transmitter. Or you tin get the two-transmitter and 1 receiver combo. You tin adhd much transmitters down the road.

  You tin besides prevention immoderate currency and bargain the arsenic fantabulous DJI Mic Mini. They're a small much discreet, inactive diagnostic progressive sound canceling and large microphone quality, and there's a beauteous lawsuit that doubles arsenic a backup artillery to complaint everything connected the go. It's much cheaper, too.

• A Compact Tripod With Room to Grow

  

  Photograph: Jacob Roach

  KraftGeek

  JustTap Magnetic Phone Tripod

  Mobile tripods are a dime a dozen, but KraftGeek's JustTap tripod is unique. As the sanction suggests, you pat the tripod connected the crushed to widen the 3 legs, and you tin widen it upward for a full magnitude of 65 inches. There are adjacent 2 accommodation points astatine the apical truthful you tin space the tripod properly.

  The exemplary I'm recommending present has a magnetic ringing astatine the apical for MagSafe and Qi2 devices, but KraftGeek offers a somewhat cheaper mentation with a modular clamp. Regardless of which mentation you get, KraftGeek includes a tiny Bluetooth distant that attaches to the tripod magnetically truthful you don't person to interaction your smartphone to deed the shutter button.

• A Compact Gimbal

  

  Insta360

  Flow 2 Pro Creator Bundle

  Gimbals are often incredibly annoying to enactment with, but if you deliberation you'll payment from one, determination are 2 main mobile gimbals to consider: the Insta360 Flow 2 Pro and the DJI Omso Mobile 7P (DJI conscionable announced a Mobile 8, but I haven't tested it yet). Out of the two, I similar the Insta360. It's a choky race, but it comes with a fistful of utile extras that warrant its higher price, including a amended tracking module that works crossed apps, and overmuch much flexibility erstwhile it comes to rotating the gimbal around.

  Although DJI's controls are much intuitive for idiosyncratic coming from a due DSLR gimbal, I recovered the Insta360 Flow 2's stabilization to clasp up better, peculiarly astatine the edges of the scope of question wherever the DJI gimbal would commencement to rumble. If you're connected a budget, the Osmo Mobile 7P is simply a large option. The Insta360 Flow 2 truly shines with its Pro version, which comes with other features similar Apple DockKit enactment and infinite cookware tracking.

• Pocket-Sized Camera Lenses

  

  Photograph: Moment

  Your smartphone's camera is already great, but its cardinal shortcoming is the built-in tiny lens. A bigger lens means much elaborate and much melodramatic images. That's wherever Moment comes in. Using professional-grade optics, Moment lenses greatly grow your telephone camera's capabilities. The company's T-Series lenses regenerate the older M-Series and instrumentality vantage of the larger representation sensors successful modern phones. We've tested respective of these lenses and highly urge the 1.33X Anamorphic Lens for anyone looking to seizure cinematic video; the 10X Macro Mobile Lens for ultimate close-ups; and the 14-mm Fisheye Mobile Lens, which is plain fun.

  To usage immoderate of Moment's lenses, you volition request a Moment Phone Case (available for caller iPhones), but the designs are stylish, and they connection fantabulous all-around protection. You volition besides request to acquisition the $5 drop-in lens equine for the iPhone cases, which is however you screw the lenses into the case. iPhone owners volition privation to usage Moment's Pro Camera app, which makes it casual to power cameras and de-squeeze the footage from the anamorphic lens. If you'd like, you tin besides attach this filter to the lenses, which tin fto you chopped glare from bodies of water, sprout agelong exposures, oregon get amended photos of the sunrise oregon sunset.

  I don't urge buying these lenses if you person a Google Pixel oregon Samsung phone; Moment utilized to marque cases for those devices, but it seems to person stopped making cases for Android.

• The Last Camera Cage You'll Need

  

  Photograph: Jacob Roach

  Moment's Supercage is built similar a tank. It's a sturdy, highly flexible camera rig for your phone, but what I emotion astir astir it is the integrated USB-C hub. Attach a cablegram to your phone, and you person outputs for wired headphones, a microphone, HDMI, an SD card, and 2 further USB-C ports, which you tin leverage for outer accessories similar an SSD oregon powerfulness bank.

  The rig is built well, and Moment intelligibly thought done the applicable usage cases. A obstruction strategy runs astir each borderline for further attachments, and you'll find dozens of threads of varying sizes connected each surface, alongside acold footwear mounts. There are adjacent a fewer other cutouts for managing cables if things get retired of hand.

  The Supercage is costly astatine $200, and you'll walk adjacent much with accessories that scope from $50 to $100. But arsenic agelong arsenic phones usage USB-C, you'll beryllium capable to usage the SuperCage for years (or adjacent decades) to come. If you don't request the USB-C hub, Moment besides offers the Basecage for a batch little cash, and it offers galore of the aforesaid benefits successful presumption of attachment points.

  I besides tested the SmallRig x Brandon Li All-in-One Video Kit ($240), a coagulated iPhone-specific cage, but it's expensive. You get much accessories included successful the box, but it lacks the integrated hub that truly makes the Supercage shine.

• A Mount Adapter for Peak Design Fans

  

  Photograph: Julian Chokkattu

  The Peak Design Creator Kit is benignant of similar 1 of those useful USB-C hubs—it's the nexus betwixt your telephone and a assortment of antithetic mounting solutions. You get a magnetic locking equine that works with the Peak Design Everyday Case (available for prime iPhones, Google Pixel, and Samsung phones), and a fewer antithetic mounting options: a Peak Design Arca quick-release plate, a 1/4-inch tripod mount, and a GoPro equine adapter. That means you tin easy equine this happening connected astir immoderate tripod oregon GoPro mount. Your phone, with the lawsuit protecting it, volition easy slot into the SlimLink equine and enactment secure. It's casual to region with 1 hand, too.

  You'll get the astir retired of it if you're already successful the Peak Design ecosystem, since the Arca speedy merchandise (the sheet that mounts to the company's Capture clip and Peak Design tripods) is the prima of the show, making it ace casual to swap mounting solutions without having to unscrew a clump of things oregon get retired an Allen wrench. With the Capture clip, you tin usage the Creator Kit to equine your telephone to your body–via the strap of a backpack, a clip connected your belt, oregon adjacent a clip connected your camera container for vlogs oregon arsenic a unafraid carrying solution.

• A MagSafe SSD

  

  Photograph: Julian Chokkattu

  Dockcase

  Smart MagSafe M.2 NVMe SSD Enclosure

  The latest iPhone Pro models (15 and newer) tin grounds up to 4K astatine 60 frames per 2nd (or adjacent up to 120 frames per 2nd connected the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro) successful Apple's ProRes format. There's conscionable 1 problem—you can't grounds it natively. You request an outer SSD, and if you don't privation to put successful a lawsuit oregon person your portable SSD dangling disconnected the backmost of your phone, you'll request thing similar the Dockcase Magnetic Visual SSD enclosure.

  You'll request to bring your ain SSD—it accepts 2242 and 2230 M.2 sizes—but this enclosure allows you to grounds successful ProRes to an SSD that's attached to the backmost of your phone. It has a ocular readout truthful you tin marque definite everything's functioning properly, and it adjacent includes dual USB-C ports, allowing you to complaint your telephone portion recording.

• A Proper Probe Lens

  

  Photograph: Jacob Roach

  I could easy battalion this usher afloat of antithetic mobile lenses, but I privation to item thing unique: this probe lens from Sandmarc. If you aren't familiar, a probe lens is simply a long, bladed macro lens, built to get into choky spaces for utmost close-ups. Combined with a wide tract of view, a probe lens creates an effect that makes tiny details and objects look monolithic wrong a frame.

  I've had a ton of amusive playing astir with Sandmarc's probe lens implicit the past respective weeks. Along with an all-metal construction, Sandmarc includes a manual absorption ring—it's paramount to nail absorption with a probe lens—as good arsenic a drawstring of LED lights astir the beforehand constituent since macro photograph and video requires a batch of light.

  You'll request a lawsuit with a 17-mm thread to usage Sandmarc's probe lens. I'm a instrumentality of Sandmarc's ain Pro Leather case, but determination are cheaper options from brands similar Neewer arsenic well.

• A Grip With a Battery

  

  Photograph: ProGrip

  ShiftCam

  ProGrip Starter Kit

  Shiftcam's ProGrip comes adjacent to turning your telephone into a full-on DSLR. Once you connect your phone, the ProGrip tin brace via Bluetooth. Use its onboard buttons to power your shutter, and its included powerfulness battalion keeps your telephone charged (with wireless charging that should enactment with iPhones and Android phones). It's beauteous bulky, but hey, it's mode lighter than a DSLR.

  It's a bully prime if you're going to beryllium retired and astir shooting a batch of photos, oregon if you privation a grip that tin bash treble work arsenic a tripod equine (it tin prop your telephone vertically oregon horizontally). I've taken this connected a hike, and it was great—it makes you consciousness similar your telephone is precise unafraid erstwhile you're crossing unsmooth terrain. The other artillery beingness kept my handset live overmuch longer than usual. The starter kit includes a carrying case, a acold footwear equine to connect different camera accessory, similar a video light, and a manus strap.

• A Portable Shotgun Mic

  

  Good video is thing without bully audio. Microphones tin get costly and cumbersome, but since we're trying to support things thin here, I'd urge the Rode VideoMic Go. It's my idiosyncratic go-to erstwhile I'm shooting thing and privation to support my kit lightweight. It's ace small, and it doesn't request an outer powerfulness source; it conscionable plugs into the phone's 3.5-mm jack (or your dongle) similar a brace of headphones.

  The audio prime isn't studio-grade by immoderate means, but it's decidedly amended than the mic connected your phone, and it's susceptible of picking up cleanable dependable from a bully distance.

• A Multi-Threaded Tripod Adapter

  

  Photograph: Moment

  Moment

  Multi-Threaded Adapter

  Moment offers respective tripod mounts compatible with MagSafe phones, but my favourite is the multi-threaded mount. It's conscionable a level disc of metallic with respective holes drilled successful it, and each spread corresponds to a antithetic size of tripod screw.

  It's tiny capable to instrumentality into immoderate camera kit and versatile capable that I person yet to brushwood a tripod I can't usage it with. Once you popular your telephone onto the mount, it clings to it with a amazingly almighty magnetic grip. It's conscionable an fantabulous instrumentality to person connected hand, and I've utilized it mode much than I thought I would. It has worked for everything from stabilizing my telephone for video calls to turning my telephone into an “emergency” backup low-light scenery shooter–when I forgot to complaint my camera batteries earlier going connected a scenic locomotion connected the beach. This 1 is specifically for usage with Apple's MagSafe technology, but it should enactment conscionable good with Qi2 oregon Qi2 Ready phones.

• A Light That Fits successful Your Pocket

  

  Photograph: Jacob Roach

  KraftGeek

  HaloGlow Magnetic Phone Light

  KraftGeek's HaloGlow airy rapidly became 1 of my favourite camera accessories, mobile oregon otherwise. It's the size of a MagSafe ring, and it'll magnetically hook onto the backmost of your device. You tin flip up the airy from determination for a brushed glow, with 3 antithetic colour temperatures and brightness settings.

  You don't need to link the HaloGlow to the backmost of your phone, though. The magnetic ringing serves arsenic a stand, and you tin recharge the airy with USB-C. It's been a large small airy to person astir successful my container whenever I request a small other oomph successful my shots, and I've gotten a ton of mileage retired of it adjacent successful my DLSR photography.

• An Everyday Carry Bag

  

  Photograph: Julian Chokkattu

  Long Weekend

  Monterey Sling

  There are a batch of large camera bags floating around, but for a compact setup with your phone, it's pugnacious to bushed the Long Weekend Monterey Sling. It's tiny with conscionable a 2-liter capacity, but WIRED exertion Julian Chokkattu says that's capable abstraction to acceptable a phone, gimbal, a fewer mobile lenses, and adjacent a spare artillery successful the beforehand pocket. Outside of being functional, it besides looks fantastic. You're not going to find a container that turns heads rather similar the Monterey Sling with its unsocial retro colorways.

  Check retired our Best Camera Bags, Best Fanny Packs, and Best Messenger Bags guides if you're looking for much options.

• Portable Power

  

  Photograph: Simon Hill

  The Nimble Champ has topped our Best Power Banks guide for a while, and the latest Series 2 update cements that lead. It's lightweight and powerful, with versions ranging from a 5,200-mAh slope that tin complaint astatine up to 15 watts, up to a 20,000-mAh artillery that tin output 65 watts. The tiny mentation is astir the size of a recognition paper and weighs conscionable 6.2 ounces, contempt sporting dual USB-C ports. This is simply a accepted powerfulness bank, but we person a usher filled with MagSafe powerfulness banks arsenic well. Those volition magnetically instrumentality to the backmost of your telephone and wirelessly recharge it.