Logitech Lift review: A smaller vertical wireless mouse for the masses

At a glance

Expert’s Rating

Pros

Comfortable vertical grip
Left-hand option
Highly customizable buttons
Smooth tracking
Affordable

Cons

Angle of mouse better suited for people preventing or reducing mild wrist and elbow discomfort

Our Verdict

At $70, the Logitech Lift is an excellent affordable vertical wireless mouse for folks with smaller hands. It offers a comfortable grip, highly customizable buttons, and smooth tracking, and it’s lefty-friendly too. However, it’s best for people looking to prevent severe wrist and elbow pain during mouse use, rather than those hunting for a cheaper alternative to specialized ergonomic mice.

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Ergonomic equipment can be expensive. I’ve cycled through many mice over the years—trackpads, trackballs, roller mice, vertical mice—with the price per mouse hitting over $100 for the more specialized gear. If you don’t work for a company that pays for it, taking care of your body costs a pretty penny.

The thing about ergonomic peripherals, though, is that everyone can benefit from it. Putting your body in a neutral position can save you from the kind of pain that forces you to seek out the expensive gear. It’s not just for people like me who must use funny-looking mice and keyboards (and regularly rotate through different styles, to boot) to keep from hurting.

So when Logitech announced the Lift, a $70 vertical mouse made for small-to-medium hands (with a left-hand variation available!), I was genuinely excited. These days, you can find inexpensive variations from companies like Anker, but they’re sized for people with larger hands. They also often don’t provide enough tilt to get your hand and elbow in a properly neutral position nor provide a left-hand variant. So far, the best options for a compact wireless vertical mouse have been the Evoluent VerticalMouse 4 Small Wireless ($110) or VerticalMouse D Small Wireless ($115).

Turns out, the Lift is a great balance between affordable and comfortable—but for folks like me, who already have existing issues, it can’t quite fully replace an Evoluent.

Note: This review is part of our best wireless mice roundup. Go there to learn more about the other wireless mice we’ve tested, and how this mouse compares to the competition.

Logitech Lift: The specs

Connection type: Bluetooth and wireless
Max number of connected devices: 3
Sensor type: Optical
DPI range: 400 to 4,000 DPI (adjustable)
Nominal value: 1000 dpi
Buttons: 6 total (left and right click, scroll wheel with click, middle button, and two thumb buttons)
Customizable: Yes, some buttons can be programed for different actions
Tilt: 57 degrees
Dimensions: 108 x 70 x 71 mm (4.2 x 2.7 x 2.7 in)
Weight: 124g
Battery life: 2-year battery life (1 AA)
Warranty: 1 year (USA)
Materials: Partially made of post-consumer recycled plastic (70% for graphite, 54% for rose and off-white)

For the full rundown of specs, including report rates, you can check out this Logitech Lift support page.

Logitech Lift: Design and build

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The Logitech Lift comes in a two-tone design, with a plastic front half in one color and a darker, rubberized back half in another color. You can get it in black, off-white, and rose; our review model was off-white, which had a cool-toned white front and a light gray palm grip. The plastic has a smooth but soft-touch satin finish, as opposed to slick and shiny. The effect overall is quite nice, but that’s only after just a few weeks of use. In general, I’m wary of rubberized materials—their longevity is questionable. Specific to mice, I stopped using my Evoluent VerticalMouse as often because its grip had deteriorated and become sticky to the touch.

Logitech offers six different buttons on this mouse—left and right click, plus a small round button just below those and two narrow ones on the thumb side of the mouse. The scroll wheel also serves as a button. You can customize the commands for all the buttons save the left and right click (for obvious reasons), which is done in Logitech’s Options+ software.

On the underside of the Lift is an on/off switch to preserve the mouse’s battery life, and a button to switch between connected devices (up to three total). You can connect to devices via Bluetooth or via the included 2.4GHz wireless dongle. A magnetic plate conceals access to the one AA battery that powers the mouse, as well as the 2.4GHz wireless receiver. It’s a good design choice—no plastic clips to accidentally break—but it pops off pretty easily even when the mouse drops onto carpet. (Shout-out to my jerk cat for taking it upon himself to test that repeatedly.)

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Logitech MX Vertical

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One key difference exists between the Logitech Lift and its more expensive sibling, the MX Vertical—you can only connect to devices wirelessly. Unlike the MX, you can’t use a USB-C cable to operate in a wired mode.

A hand holding a Logitech Lift mouse with a black keyboard in the background — I don’t have a particularly tiny hand (roughly 17.5mm long and 9.5mm wide), but the base on the Lift feels a smidge too large.

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The Lift’s feel in the hand is decent, with a good weight, though it borders on being being a smidge large. It flares a bit wider toward the base than feels completely comfortable. I prefer the sizing of my Evoluent vertical mouse, which has a narrower grip for curving my palm around. I also personally would prefer more of a vertical tilt—over time, I started to develop that familiar painful tightness near my elbow since the Lift doesn’t allow you to maintain a true handshake position. If you don’t have existing issues, you may not have the same complaint, but those with repetitive stress injuries and tendonitis may find the Lift won’t help with avoiding discomfort.

The button presses on this mouse feel a bit mushy—Logitech aimed for “whisper-quiet” button presses, which it achieves, but they don’t feel as good if you like crisp clicks for feedback. But the size of the buttons are a good proportion for narrower fingers.