Best Hands-Free Lighting Roundup: Headlamps, Magnetic, & Flexible

Are you looking for a light source that you don’t have to hold? That’s right; we’re diving into the world of hands-free lighting. Here at STKR Concepts, we have created the perfect hands-free lighting solutions for all the various situations we have found ourselves in.

Below you will find all of the best hand-free lighting solutions arranged by activity-type.

Best Hands-Free Rechargeable Flashlight

Do you need a flashlight that you can count on when you need it the most?

 A rechargeable flashlight that you can hold or put on a lanyard ensures that you can use the flashlight how you need to, and you can just charge it when you’re done. 

You need a hands-free rechargeable flashlight that you can count on, there’s a couple of options that you should look into. These are the top hands-free rechargeable flashlights that you need. 

Flexit Solar

This is a flashlight in the flexit series which is made up of flexible flashlights that feature a magnetic base. It’s not only rechargeable but can be charged using two different methods: the sun and a USB cable.

The shape-lock frame of the Flexit Solar gives this flashlight the versatility of being able to wrap around just about any object that it can’t hang from or magnetically stick to.

Some of the primary features of this hands-free Flexit flashlight include:

• 500 lumens
• Integrated lithium-ion battery
• multiple mounting options: magnetic, hanging hook, shape-lok frame
• 5 light modes: high spot & high flood, high flood, low flood, red night vision, strobe
• 70 hours of runtime (on low)
• Solar panel & USB cable charging options

More Hands-free rechargeable flashlight options:

• Flexit Solar
• Mobile Task Light
• Flexit Pocket Lights
• Flexit Headlamp Pro 6.5

Best Hands-Free Reading Light

Many people love reading at night, but the problem is that maybe they’re in bed and turning the lights on would bother another person in the room.

Maybe you don’t have enough light where you like to read. In that case, you need a hands-free light that will allow you to catch up on that book you’ve been meaning to read. This section will take a close look at the best lights for reading.

Flexit 2.0

Offering only 200 lumens, this could be precisely the amount of light you need to enjoy reading in the dark. You can choose between using it as a broad floodlight, a lantern, or a focused spotlight, depending on how you shape it.

The Flexit 2.0 is a versatile option that you can use for more than just reading in the dark. This option has 4 light modes, so you can get the perfect amount of light for whatever your needs are. This light uses AA batteries.

Some great features of this light include:

• Efficient 200 true lumens
• Shape-loc frame fully flexible body
• Weather-resistant
• 4 light mode settings: low, medium, high, & hazard

Magnetic Light Mine Pro

The Magnetic Light Mines are a completely different take on the standard cylindrical flashlight. While you could hold this light in your hands and illuminate a dark space, you wouldn’t be taking full advantage of these hands-free light sources. 

Both Light Mines are spherically covered by 12 neodymium (rare earth) magnets. They’re designed to be attached to anything metallic or be set down on a table or other flat surface. Its shape looks like an underwater mine, a mostly round shape covered in large pegs at exact geometric points.

Some of the primary features of this magnetic flashlight include:

• 250 lumens
• 3 AAA batteries
• Red Light Mode
• Hand-free 360° directional lighting
• Magnetically attachable or stand-alone tripod style use

More Hands-free Reading Light Options:

• Pocket light
• Headlamp 2.5 and Headlamp PRO 6.5 
• Light Mine Pro

Best Hands-Free Work Light

Are you working on a project in your workshop and need more light than the space offers? If that’s the case, you may want to look into a hands-free light as most projects will require both of your hands.

For the best hands-free work light, this is the best option that you can consider since it offers high lumens (1,200) yet is still very portable, weighing just under a pound. And did I mention that its rechargeable?

Mobile Task Light

This is a highly innovative solution that gives you all of the light you can possibly need when working in your workshop area. Whether you have a space in your garage or basement, this rechargeable task light is exactly what any work area could need.

The Mobile task Light is an energy-efficient lighting option. It utilizes LEDs that don’t get as hot as halogen lights do, while offering bright light that outperforms every lighting standard that came before it. 

One of the things that you’ll love about this choice is that it’s super lightweight and portable, allowing you to move and adjust it wherever you need it. You can rotate the aluminum head full of LEDs to get the perfect angle, and it’s durable enough to be used for any project you are working on. 

Here is a closer look at some of the best features of this task light:

• 4 Light Modes

This light has 4 different modes that you can switch through to ensure that you get the perfect setting for your needs. These settings are high, medium, low, and strobe. You can easily cycle through to get the option that you need.

• Rotating Head

The head of this task light can rotate nearly 180 degrees, giving you the ability to move the head as you need to. 

• Rechargeable

This task light uses dual lithium-ion batteries that are rechargeable. These are powerful batteries that can ensure that you have the light that you need to work for a long time. You also have the option of using this light plugged in, just in case you are concerned about battery life. 

• Dual Beam Adjustable Lens

One of the major features of this task light is the dual-beam adjustable lens. When you use this light with the upward position lens, you get an ultra-wide floodlight. Sliding the lens into the downward position will give you a reduced spread with more distance giving you a spot-focus mode.

• Versatile Positioning

You can have this light on your workbench. Or, it has hanging hooks that allow you to hang the light up. This gives you the freedom to place this light in the best position for your needs. 

Best Hands-Free Flashlight for Dog Walking

Sometimes your dog needs to go outside, even when it’s not the easiest time to see what you are doing. Or maybe you enjoy nighttime strolls with your dog. Whatever your case may be, it’s essential to be as safe as possible. 

This means that you need to have the right lighting solution so that drivers and other people on the road can see you. Adequate lighting also gives you peace of mind that you will be safe every time you go out.

It’s important that you consider the different types of flashlights to find the best hands-free dog walking flashlight for you. These are a couple of options that you should consider:

Flexit Pocket Light Series

With their unique and small size, you can hook these flashlights to just about anything. Including your dog’s collar, leash, and/or your pocket to give excellent hands-free visibility in a super-small package. 

The Flexit Pocket Light 4.0 and 6.5 both feature multiple dimmable light modes to give you the right amount of visibility for your needs. 

They make the list because they are designed with a small rigid body to be inserted/clipped onto your pocket. Then a small flexible head coming off the body can peek out of your pock and be bent and twisted into the perfect position. Because of this, they can have so many other purposes that you are getting an incredibly handy flashlight option in an incredibly tiny package.

These are some of the top features of these pocket flashlights:

• 4 light modes: Spot, Flood, Red Night Vision
• Dimmable
• 400 / 650 lumens (Flexit Pocket Light 4.0 / 6.5)
• 2000 / 3350 mAh lithium batteries
• Pocket clip, hanging hook, magnet 
• USB type-c quick charge
• Flexible light head

Flexit Headlamp PRO 6.5

This Headlamp is a very adaptable flashlight so it shouldn’t come as a shock that it’s featured in more than one ‘best hands-free light’ category. In this section, I’ll just describe why it’s great, specifically in reference to walking a dog. You can then learn all about its specs and features in the next section. 

I don’t know about you, but when I’m out walking my dog, I usually have my hands full. Leash in one hand and poop bag in the other. The idea of trying to find his leavings in the dark with a flashlight sounds extremely cumbersome. Let’s just say it gets awkward.

The Flexit Headlamp PRO is easy to just grab and throw on right before getting your pooch leashed up for a night walk. It has three main lights across the front that all have completely customizable brightness settings, not just high, medium, and low. 

Power on the desired light, then push and hold the same power button to start a sequence of brightness options. The light will slowly cycle all the way up to 100% and then back down to 0% and keeps looping and when you see the brightness setting you prefer, just let go of the button and the sequence pauses at the current light setting. It’s very customizable and intuitive. More about this headlamp in the next section.

Best Hands-Free Headlamp

Headlamps can be such great options to have whether you are camping, working in your workshop, or practically any other reason why you need a hands-free lighting solution.

Headlamps offer excellent visibility thanks to their LED lights and are made to be durable for any situation. These lights are specifically made to see things that are directly in a targeted area and still light up your peripheral vision, something that these lights really excel at. 

Here are the best options for a hands-free headlamp.

Flexit Headlamp 2.5

This is a modest headlamp offering a lot of performance and comfort that you want for your headlamp.

The halo lighting offered by this headlamp can offer 180 degrees of lighting and a spotlight that projects impressive brightness so that you get the cone of visibility you need in those darker situations. 

All this without sacrificing comfort, as this is a lightweight and ergonomically designed headlamp.

Essential features of this headlamp include:

• 250 true lumens
• 5 light modes
• Cree LED center spotlight
• Comfort-fit foam
• Weather-resistant

Flexit Headlamp PRO 6.5

If you are looking for more power and more flexibility from your headlamp, this is the perfect solution for you. This headlamp was specifically designed for the wearer, creating a comfortable fit while offering some of the headlamps’ best and brightest visibility. 

You get 240-degree halo lighting with a Cree spotlight that gives you excellent head-on visibility. The spotlight is adjustable, allowing you to angle it as needed to get the visibility that you need at any given moment.

Additionally, this headlamp features rear hazard lighting to give you peace of mind when you are wearing this headlamp.

Some of the best features of this headlamp include:

• 650 true lumens
• Potential for up to 55hrs. runtime
• Lightweight, only 5.8 oz.
• Rechargeable
• Weather-resistant

Best Hands-Free Camping Flashlight

If you’ve done your share of camping then you’ve probably experienced all kinds of fun in the dark, sarcastically speaking of course. Who hasn’t ran behind schedule and had to put up a tent in the dark? Kids waking up in the middle of the night puking or maybe the heater stops and you have to wake up and get it working again.

Your camping flashlight has a big responsibility because how well you can see at night while camping can determine just how much fun you are having. 

You need something that can hang in a tent or in a camper so that you know exactly where it is. It needs to be easy to find in the dark so you don’t have to rustle around in everyone’s sleeping bags trying to find it. 

Flexit 4.0

The Flexit 4.0 hands-free flashlight is a great option as it’s designed to be hung from something, physically wrapped around something, or magnetically attached to something. The Other huge feature of this light is its bendable shape-lok frame that lets you design the lighting scenario you need by shaping the light head. For example, you can roll and shape the body into a cylinder to make it into a 360deg camping lantern that can light up your tent or campsite.

There are 5 different light modes on this flashlight, which allows you to get the perfect amount of light whether you use expressly for camping or want a versatile light for other tasks around the house. 

Some of the notable features of this light include:

• 400 lumens
• 5 light mode settings: high spot/flood, high flood, low flood, strobe, and red night vision.
• Up to 70hrs. runtime
• Weather-resistant, so you can use it anywhere that you go.
• Center CREE LED spotlight
• Fully flexible body
• Part of a full line of flexible flashlights including a solar option.

Illumidome

The Illumidome is a mini waterproof lantern that can adapt from the traditional floodlight of a lantern to the spotlighting of a flashlight. It has a velcro strap on top and retractable metal hooks on the bottom that make hanging it up in a tent easy. This light is also great for camping activities like kayaking and night fishing as its waterproof and it floats.

Some of the notable features of this light include:

• 220 True Lumens
• 4 light mode settings: low, medium, high, & strobe.
• Up to 100hrs. runtime
• IPX6 Weather-resistant, so you can use it anywhere that you go.
• Dual light array options with removable reflector

More Hands-Free Camping Flashlight Options:

• Pocket light
• The Flexit Headlamp Series
• Mobile Task Light

Understanding Lumens

What are lumens? How much do you need for a work light? Whatever task you are doing, you need to be sure that you have a light that is effective for your purposes. This is why it’s so important that you understand everything that you need to know about lumens, allowing you to pick the perfect solution for you. 

There are a lot of things to consider when you are looking at how many lumens would be most effective for your needs. These considerations include the location, environment, and the size of your location. For the most part, you are looking for something between 100 and 5,000 lumens.

The first thing that we will look at is what lumens are. In simple terms, the term lumens refer to how bright the lights are. When you typically think of lights, you judge them based on watts.

However, wattage doesn’t describe the brightness of the light, rather this is the measurement for the energy that the light bulbs use. Prior to LED lightbulbs, you could use watts to determine brightness but now that’s not an accurate measure. 

So how many lumens do you need? Well, that depends on the task or project as well as various other factors as previously mentioned. If you are working in a large space or running/walking in a very dark area, then you are going to need more lumens than someone who is reading in bed at night. 

If you are going to be working in a larger area using these hands-free lighting solutions and it’s very dark, you will need higher lumens. You can try calculating the square footage of the space to get an idea of how many lumens will work for your needs.

Now that you understand what lumens are and how many you need; you have the information that you need for whatever your tasks or projects are. This allows you to better pick the right hands-free lighting solution for whatever you need it for.

Final Thoughts

Hands-free lighting solutions are exactly what you need for a variety of different situations. Whether you want to be safe while out for a run or walking the dog or just want to be able to work on your DIY projects better, the right hands-free lighting solutions can be exactly what you need. 

You can feel safer and know that you are being more accurate when it comes to whatever you are working on. This roundup will help you see which lights are the best solutions for whatever your specific needs are.