Smooth 5S - Smartphone Gimbal - Combo - Open Box

Zhiyun Smooth 5S Combo — a built-in light kit for vlogging after dark

The gist: A smartphone gimbal with a genuinely bright built-in fill light plus two magnetic add-on lights, so you can shoot smooth, well-lit travel vlogs in dim streets, bars, or night markets without packing separate lighting.

• 650 lux built-in fill light (5000K, 95 CRI) on the tilt axis, expandable to roughly 2,040 lux combined with the two magnetic lights included in this Combo kit.
• Wider clamp and axis spacing built to handle bulky phones in thick cases or with add-on lenses — reviewers report the motors "never had the slightest trouble" with a large iPhone.
• Well-made and easy to set up out of the box, with fast charging that gets you back to roughly 2 hours 40 minutes for a full charge.
• Up to 24-hour standby so it doesn't need charging between short shooting sessions on a trip.

Digital Camera World's Rod Lawton, testing the Smooth 5S, called it "hard to fault" on stabilization performance, but flagged that the tilt motor completely covers the phone's mic port, making an external microphone "next to impossible" for horizontal filming.

Best for: travel vloggers who shoot a lot of low-light footage and want built-in lighting without extra gear. Skip it if: you rely on a clip-on external mic for horizontal video — the port gets blocked. Runs ~$127 — check the current price before buying.