The official ErGear catalogue
Forty-eight desks, frames, monitor mounts, chairs and carts, listed with the four or five figures that actually decide whether a thing fits your room, your desktop and your body. Then two calculators that do the arithmetic for you.
The range
Almost everything here shares one electric column and one height range. What changes between sections is the surface on top of it, or whether there is a surface at all. One from each section below: not a recommendation and not a ranking, simply the item in that section with the most customer reviews behind it. The rest of each section is one click away.
The plain 48 by 24 inch electric desk in black: one column, four saved heights, nothing to learn.
A 44 by 24 inch desk with a pull-out keyboard tray, the compact way to get the keyboard off the top.
The single-motor frame on its own, black, sized for tops between 39.4 and 63.3 inches.
The most reviewed mount in the range: a dual stand for two 32 inch screens at 17.6 lbs each.
The drafting chair in khaki, the warm neutral for a room where black furniture would dominate.
An under-desk footrest with three height settings and a 30 degree tilt range.
Enter your height. The figures below are the usual ergonomic proportions of standing elbow, seated elbow, knee and seated eye height, and they are a starting point for the first hour rather than a prescription.
Four answers narrow 18 mounts to the ones that will actually hold your screens. Panel weight is the figure without the factory stand.
At a glance
| Section | Items | Price | What actually decides it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standing Desks | 8 | $104.99 to $265.99 | The size of the top, because the column is the same on all eight |
| Desks with Storage | 11 | $129.99 to $169.99 | Drawers or a keyboard tray, then the size of the top |
| Desk Frames | 5 | $99.98 to $199.99 | The weight of the desktop you already own |
| Monitor Mounts | 18 | $19.98 to $89.99 | Screen count, then weight per arm, then the VESA pattern |
| Drafting Chairs | 3 | $98.99 to $114.99 | Nothing but the colour |
| Mobile and Under-Desk | 3 | $28.99 to $69.99 | Whether you need a surface that rolls or a floor that rises |
Prices are the figures published by the retail partner at the last update of this catalogue and move without notice; the price on the product page is the one that counts.
What you are actually buying
Every row below is a figure counted off the 48 products on this site, not a claim off a box. Where a number would have to be invented to fill a row, the row is not here.
| What the range gives you | How much of it | What that changes |
|---|---|---|
| One column, 28.35 to 46.46 in | 12 desks and frames | The same travel under every top in the range. The bottom of it is a seated height for someone around five feet tall, the top is a standing height for someone around six foot four, and nothing in between needs a different mechanism. |
| 4 memory heights | 18 models | Sitting and standing become one button each instead of a number you hunt for on a display, which is the difference between a desk that gets raised and one that quietly stops moving after a fortnight. |
| 22 to 264 lb of lift | 26 models | The rating covers the desktop and everything bolted to it. A monitor arm, two screens, a laptop dock and a printer come to well under the lowest figure here, so the ceiling is shelf space rather than weight. |
| Dual-motor option | 2 frames | Two motors raise a wide top faster and hold it steadier at full extension, and they carry 264 lb rather than 22. In this catalogue they appear on the bare frames only. |
| Screens 13 to 49 in, 1 to 3 at a time | 18 mounts | One range covers a single 13 inch panel and a 49 inch ultrawide, and the finder on this site narrows it to the ones that take your diagonal and your weight rather than leaving you to read eighteen tables. |
| VESA 75 and 100 on the same plate | 14 of 18 mounts | Both common bolt patterns fit without an adapter. The rest take one pattern only, which is the single most common reason a mount goes back, so it is printed on every product page here rather than buried. |
| Free-standing option, nothing drilled | 2 mounts | A weighted base instead of a clamp, for a glass top, a rented desk or a surface too thick to grip. No hole, no clamp mark, and it moves to another desk in one lift. |
| Storage fitted in the factory | 11 desks | Drawers or a pull-out keyboard tray arrive attached rather than as a separate purchase that may or may not line up with the frame. A tray also drops the keyboard roughly two and a half inches below the top, which lets a desk sit lower than its own minimum height. |
Counts refresh whenever this catalogue is rebuilt, so they match the products actually listed rather than a number typed in once.
How this catalogue works
Height-adjustable furniture is unusually easy to describe badly. Every desk in this category is quiet, sturdy and easy to assemble according to its own box, and none of that helps anyone decide between a 48 inch top and a 55 inch one. So this catalogue leads with numbers: the top size, the height range, the load rating, the screen diagonal, the weight per arm, the bolt pattern. Where a figure is not published, that is said rather than filled in with something plausible.
Each product page carries two blocks that most catalogues leave out. One describes what assembly or installation actually involves, because with furniture that is half the experience of owning it. The other lists what to check before ordering, and it is deliberately unflattering: a bolt pattern that fits only half the monitors on the market, a children's desk that will not grow with a teenager, a frame that arrives without the desktop people assume is in the box.
Of the 48 items here, 26 adjust in height, and the surprise is how little that range varies. Every adult model in the catalogue starts at either 28.3 or 28.35 inches and stops between 46.1 and 46.5 inches. That is one column, shared across desks, frames and carts, and it means the height range is almost never the thing that separates two models here. What separates them is the surface bolted on top of it. The one exception is the children's desk, which runs 18.9 to 28.3 inches: it stops roughly where every other model starts, which is the point of it and also the reason it will not follow a child into their teens.
Of the two figures, the top one gets read first and is almost always the wrong one to worry about. Standing height has a generous margin, because a desk reaching 46.5 inches suits people well past six feet and standing a little higher than your elbows costs you nothing but a shrug. The bottom has no margin at all. If your seated elbow height comes out below 28.3 inches, no adult desk in this range will meet it, and the remedies are all bought separately: a chair that raises you to the desk instead, a footrest so your feet still land somewhere, or a model with a tray that hangs the keyboard below the top.
That is why the calculator on this page prints the seated figure alongside the standing one, and why it checks both against every adjustable model rather than quoting the range and leaving the arithmetic to you. It is also why drafting chairs and a footrest sit in a desk catalogue at all: they are what fixes a desk whose floor is too high for you, and a shopping list that stops at the desk tends to find that out a month later.
A weight rating is published by 29 of the 48 items here, and the figures run from 22 to 300 pounds. The figure is a static one: what the thing will hold standing still, and on the desks and frames it is also what the motor will lift. It is not a promise about leaning on the edge, sitting on the top or shoving a loaded desk sideways across a carpet, and no manufacturer in this category means it that way.
In practice the rating stops being interesting quickly. Two monitors, a laptop, a dock and a lamp come to perhaps forty pounds, so every desk and frame in this range clears a normal setup several times over. The rating starts to matter when the top is deep and heavily loaded at the far edge, when a rack or a printer lives on the desk permanently, or when the desk is used for something other than office work. That is the case the two dual-motor frames are for: the second motor buys lifting margin and a steadier top, not speed you would notice.
The single most common disappointment in this category is a bare frame arriving without a desktop. It is not a mistake on anyone's part; frames are sold that way on purpose, because people who buy them usually already own a top they like, or want a butcher block or a door slab that no furniture company would ship. There are five frames in this catalogue, and every one of them is a frame only. What each will carry, and the range of top sizes it is built for, is on its page.
Where a top is included, its two figures are the ones to measure against your room before anything else. Straight tops here run from 25.59 to 70.9 inches wide and 15.75 to 29.5 inches deep. Depth is the figure people skip and then regret: a 24 inch top puts a 27 inch monitor closer to your face than most people want it, and the fix is a monitor arm that pushes the screen back over the rear edge rather than a different desk.
Under the top, six of the desks here carry drawers and five carry a pull-out keyboard tray. The tray is worth a second thought before you buy a separate one, because it changes the arithmetic: a keyboard hanging below the desktop sits about two and a half inches lower than one on it, so the desk itself has to be set that much higher to put your elbows in the right place. The calculator on this page has an option for it and adjusts both desk figures accordingly.
The bolt pattern on the back of your screen is the only specification in this catalogue that cannot be worked around after the box is open. Of the 18 mounts here, 14 take both of the common patterns, 75 by 75 and 100 by 100 millimetres, and fit almost anything sold as a monitor. The rest take one pattern only, which is stated on their pages, and a screen with the other one simply will not attach.
After that come three figures that are easy to misread. Weight is quoted per arm and not per mount, so a dual arm rated at twenty pounds carries two twenty pound screens rather than one forty pound screen; across this section the per-arm ratings run from 17.6 to 37.4 pounds, and the weight that counts is the panel without its factory stand, which is often a third lighter than the box weight. Diagonal is a ceiling and not a target. And attachment decides whether the mount is usable in your room at all: most of these clamp to the back edge, six of them clamp and nothing else, and two are free-standing stands that need no fixing at all, which is the only answer on a glass top or a desk you are not allowed to drill. The mount finder above filters on all four at once.
The range uses nine finish names in total: Black, Natural, Vintage Brown, Light Vintage Brown, White, Grey, Khaki, Blue and Light Walnut. They are not a palette that runs across the whole catalogue. A wood tone offered on a desktop has no counterpart on a steel frame or a monitor arm, and two wood names that sound close are two different laminates rather than two shades of one. Where a model comes in more than one finish, each is listed here as its own item with its own price, because they often do not cost the same and one is frequently out of stock while another is not.
Every product page shows the star rating and the number of reviews behind it, taken from the retail partner at the last update of this catalogue. Across the range that comes to 56,939 reviews and an average of 4.5 stars, and the honest reading of that is narrow. A four-and-a-half star average on a desk tells you it arrives intact and works, which is worth knowing and is roughly true of everything here. It does not tell you whether the desk is the right width for your room or whether its lowest setting reaches your elbows, and no volume of reviews will, because the people writing them are not sitting where you are.
Review counts are used in one place on this site and used plainly: the item shown for each section on this page is simply the one with the most reviews in that section, which makes it the most familiar rather than the best. The comparisons that do rank things sit on the product pages, and they rank on published figures only.
If you know what you are looking for, the sections in the header hold the full 48 items, sorted cheapest first, with the deciding figures on the cards so you rarely have to open a page to rule something out. If you do not, start with the height calculator: one measurement gives you a seated and a standing figure and narrows the adjustable models to the ones that actually reach both. For screens, the mount finder does the same job with four answers. Prices here run from $19.98 to $265.99, and every section spans enough of that to be worth reading past the cheapest entry.
Prices, stock and delivery dates shown here are copied at the last update of this catalogue and can change between the moment this page was built and the moment you read it, so the figure at checkout is the one that counts.
