3D-Printed Phone Stands to Sell: Three Designs, Priced

Everyday stand

80 mm deep and 70 mm wide, the back rest at 65°, a 12 mm ledge for a phone in its case. $4.26 in PLA, $5.08 in silk PLA, $5.14 in carbon-fibre PETG. One PLA stand bills the $5.00 order minimum.

With a charger slot

The same stand with a 14 mm slot through the lip and base, so the phone charges while it stands. It uses slightly less plastic, $4.24 in PLA, and “phone stand with charger” is a search of its own.

Tablet and landscape

120 mm wide with a 20 mm lip and a 70° back, for a tablet or a phone on its side for video calls and recording. 98 g and just over two hours: $8.35 in PLA.

For comparison, a 50 g desk phone stand we priced live on our parts page in October, 1.8 print-hours, quoted at $6.36 for one and $4.83 each for 100. The extra 40 minutes of printing is most of the difference from our everyday stand.

Print it upright

Draw the side profile and extrude it across the width. Printed standing on its base, every layer is the whole profile: no supports, and a back rest that won’t snap along a layer line.

Lean back 60 to 70°

Steep enough to read the screen, shallow enough not to tip when the phone is tapped. A brace from the back rest to the base, climbing at about 60°, prints without supports.

A ledge for the case

Phones are sold in cases. A 12 mm ledge and a 15 mm lip take a phone in a typical case; say the depth in the listing.

Spend print time where it shows

Time is the cost, so trim what nobody sees: a thinner base behind the brace, open sides. Silk filament costs more per gram and prints slower, about 12% more time on our stand.

With free shipping on Etsy, an everyday PLA stand at $20 leaves $6.51, about a third of the price, after our $5.00, about $6.14 of postage and Etsy’s fees. At $25 it leaves $11.04. Postage is the biggest line, and it barely changes for a second stand in the same box, so a two-pack or a larger stand at a higher price keeps more of each sale. A tablet stand at $30 leaves $12.21.

For a market table, order a run: 25 everyday stands on one custom order come to $3.43 each, shipped to you. Etsy requires 3D-printed items to be your own design; see Etsy’s production partner rules and what you can legally sell. Stands sell next to cable management and other desk accessories, and good product photos matter more in a crowded niche than anywhere else. Every rate is on our price list.