Ohsnap! Snap 4 Luxe: Reinventing the rear-mounted phone grip

The Ohsnap! Snap 4 Luxe is a phone grip, like any other, with an impossibly beautiful design and a stupid thin profile. With a lot of functionality, it aims to change how you interact with and see the average phone grip. Frankly, while it’s cliche to say, you need to see it to believe it.

Ah, the ever simple, but ever functional phone grip. You know what I’m talking about. Those little sticky doohickeys that mount to the back of your phone and make them easier to hold on to while you’re doing other crazy activities. These days, they’re usually incorporated into cases and you don’t use them separately. Well, the mobile-focused brand Ohsnap! is reinventing that little device by making it more multi-functional than ever before. Allow me to explain. The Snap 4 Luxe — or Snap Grip Luxe — is an elite design wonder made out of aerospace-grade aluminum to match the look and feel of high-end smartphones. It’s a grip, rear-mounted, thinner than the average camera bump on phones, measuring just 2.5mm thick. It works with all phones, snaps to the back, and incorporates MagSafe functionality for wireless charging. But what else does it do?

It’s secure, allowing you to hold on to the phone easier with a couple of fingers or whatever you prefer to use. More importantly, perhaps most importantly, it acts as a kickstand, and is fidget-able to help distract yourself when you need it. Plus, the stupid thin design means it won’t snag on your pocket or bag liner when you go to take out your phone. Personally, I’m just impressed with the tagline they use on the product page: “Impossible, innit? Naw. Blood. Sweat. Tears. Science. We did it.” Pure genius.

Why would anyone want the Snap 4 Luxe phone grip?

Inside the Snap 4 Luxe phone grip are four spider-like and collapsible legs. They fold up, like a scissor-lift, adhering to the ultra-thin profile that Ohsnap wants to achieve. Adorable, tiny little magnets also rest inside to help hold the grip closed. I know this may seem odd, but altogether that design makes the Snap 4 Luxe extremely satisfying to open and close when you need to call upon its powers. They also add to the streamlined design. This particular grip is explicitly crafted to combat some of the issues and cons with other, comparable grips. It won’t dent or damage the back of your phone and you’re not likely to see any cracked screens because of it. Yes, that’s something that can and does happen with alternatives.

But because it’s magnetic, it can be used to mount your phone to nearly any metal surface. For example, you can snap your phone to a magnetic desktop stand, vehicle mount, or, hell, even stick it to your refrigerator. Why mount it to the fridge? So, you can put on some cooking, recipe or how-to videos and keep your hands free to do all the work. You could do the same for workouts at the gym, while watching videos in bed — if you have something magnetic nearby — and so much more. There is also an auto-aligning accessory called the Snapmount which makes it easy to mount your device — and it automatically levels out, in case you didn’t catch that. Plus, it comes in a bunch of styles like Stone, Obsidian Black, Hot Orange, Dusty Rose, or Midnight Blue.

Ohsnap Snap 4 Luxe phone grip magnets and legs extended

Ohsnap Snap 4 Luxe side by side comparison

Who is it for?

Anyone that wants a reliable, multi-functional phone grip that adds to the beautiful design of their high-end phone, rather than taking away from it. The Ohsnap Snap 4 Luxe is beautiful, impossibly thin and downright awesome.