About YEELIGHT
Yeelight is a smart lighting company founded in 2012 by Daping Liu and Eric Jiang and headquartered in Qingdao, China. It launched its first crowdfunded LED smart bulb in 2013, joined the Xiaomi ecosystem in 2014, and became a market leader in smart bedside lighting the following year. The company has since shipped more than 11 million smart lighting products to over 100 countries, with a catalog that spans Wi-Fi and Bluetooth smart bulbs, RGBIC light strips, ceiling lights, bedside and desk lamps, and — the line that matters most for a desk setup — eye-care monitor light bars.
Yeelight's design work has picked up recognition well beyond any single product listing: the company states it holds 20 international design awards, including the iF Design Award, the reddot Design Award, IDEA, and the Good Design Award. In our own testing, its monitor light bar stands out for using a genuine full-metal aluminum body at a price point where nearly every competitor ships plastic, paired with an RG0 blue-light safety rating and a color range wide enough for real desk work rather than a couple of fixed presets.
Brand website: yeelight.com
What YEELIGHT makes
YEELIGHT's range runs wider than the products we review. The lines we know best from our own testing are marked with a star:
Monitor light bars
eye-care LED screen bars with asymmetric no-glare optics for desk and gaming monitors — featured on DeskRated
Smart LED bulbs
Wi-Fi and Bluetooth bulbs with tunable white and RGB color, controllable from the Yeelight app
Light strips
flexible RGBIC strips for ambient, gaming, and entertainment-center setups
Ceiling lights
smart ceiling lamps with app and voice-assistant control
Bedside and desk lamps
the category where Yeelight first became a market leader in smart bedside lighting
Smart switches and plugs
Wi-Fi wall switches and outlets for whole-room lighting control
Why we recognized YEELIGHT
The DeskRated Top Brand recognition isn't paid for and can't be applied for. We award it to the brands whose products consistently stand out in our hands-on category reviews. YEELIGHT earned it on the strength of the products below, evaluated the same way every product on this site is: bought, used at a real desk, and judged on merit.
YEELIGHT products we rated highly
YEELIGHT Monitor Light Bar, Eye-Care LED Screen Bar
A full-metal aluminum body at a budget price, where nearly every rival this cheap ships plastic instead. It carries an RG0 blue-light safety rating, the safest photobiological classification, backed by Ra95 color rendering and a genuinely wide 2700K-6500K adjustable range that budget bars usually restrict to a few fixed steps. Its low-profile design clears webcams and works on both flat and curved panels.
Read the 10 Best Monitor Light Bars of 2026 guide →What earned YEELIGHT the recognition
- A real all-metal aluminum build at a budget price point, where most competitors this cheap use plastic housings.
- An RG0 blue-light safety classification, the safest photobiological rating available, paired with Ra95 color rendering for accurate desk work.
- A 2700K-6500K adjustable color range at a price tier that typically limits buyers to a handful of fixed presets.
- Design recognition across 20 international awards, including the iF Design Award, the reddot Design Award, IDEA, and the Good Design Award.
- Manufacturing scale from the Xiaomi ecosystem since 2014, with more than 11 million smart lighting products shipped to over 100 countries.