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Whether you’re new to the pull-up game or looking to improve upon your existing home gym with some more exercise equipment, a pull-up bar is a valuable piece of equipment to help you get into shape. Depending on what you’re looking for, a pull-up bar can serve multiple purposes—for instance, many make great attachment points for suspension trainers, while others are designed to accommodate additional bodyweight exercises, like dips and push-ups.

This guide will help you find the perfect pull-up bar and pull-up bar style for your needs, whether you have a one-bedroom apartment or a full-size exercise room in your house or garage.

There are hundreds of different pull-up bar options on the market and many of them resemble each other. However, there are some standout features you should consider when choosing a pull-up bar.

The most obvious consideration you'll need to make is how much space you have to accommodate a pull-up bar. If you have little space to spare, consider a door-mounted pull-up bar. If you have more space available, you may want a wall- or ceiling-mounted pull-up bar, or even a freestanding pull-up bar or tower.

Door-mounted pull-up bars mount either via pressure or screws. Pressure-mounted bars wedge against your doorframe to stay in place and are less likely to cause any damage to the doorframe or wall. Screw-mounted pull-up bars for doorframes are mounted into each side of the frame.

Mounted pull-up bars take up more space and are secured to a wall or ceiling with bolts or screws. For these types of pull-up bars, you’ll want to make sure you’re mounting them into a surface that can handle the weight and force of pull-ups and other exercises.

Freestanding pull-up bars and towers take up the most space, since the base extends outward to make sure the tower stands upright. They are frequently multifunctional pieces of equipment that allow you to do dips, push-ups, and other exercises.

Hand positioning is another factor to consider when selecting a pull-up bar. A basic pull-up bar will allow for just one or two hand positions. Others will allow for narrow, wide, sideways, or even angled hand positions. Some have foam that make it easier to grip, while others don’t. The foam makes a bar easier for large hands to grip, but some people don’t like the feel of the extra padding. On the other hand, foam grips are often easier to use for people just getting into pull-ups and are less likely to cause blisters.

With hundreds of models of pull-up bars on the market—and many of them very similar in nature—we looked for durable, high-quality bars, particularly those with standout features. The models you'll find below are not only popular among professional reviewers, but beloved among customers as well, with each boasting an average customer rating of 4 out of 5 stars or higher.

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The Ally Peaks Pull Up Bar for doorways is a great kit for those starting to build their home gym. The pull-up bar fits a wide variety of doorframes and wedges in easily on the back and front of the frame.

As a bonus, the bar comes with two handles and resistance bands, as well as a door anchor. This gives users opportunities to use it for exercises other than just pull-ups, like seated rows and tricep exercises.

The Perfect Fitness Pullup Bar looks pretty basic but it has a neat trick up its sleeve: the ability to swing down and out so it can be used at a lower height. This allows users to go through a range of exercises in addition to pull-ups, including standing rows and Australian pull-ups, before locking it in the upright position for more traditional chin-ups and pull-ups.

While users say the overall assembly on this piece is minimal, this bar must be screwed into a doorframe in multiple places to ensure it’s solidly anchored.

The Iron Age Pull Up Bar For Doorways is a foldable, wedge-style pull-up bar that comes preassembled. All you need to do is take it out of the box and rotate the wedge arms to 90 degrees before wedging them on the other side of the doorframe. With silicone pads on the arms and foam pads on the lower bar, this bar is designed to minimize any damage to the doorframe while staying securely in place.

The pull-up bar has multiple foam handgrips, including angled shoulder pull-up grips. When you’re done, it’s easy to remove and packs flat for storage.

As a bonus, the pull-up bar comes with suspension straps to add versatility to workouts. It also fits narrower doorframes than other options.

If you have a dedicated gym space in your house or garage, the Titan Wall-Mounted Heavy-Duty Pull Up Bar is an ideal option. With a depth of 32 inches, it's great for performing hanging knee lifts. It’s also easy to use with suspension straps or rings wrapped around the bar. When mounting on a wall, make sure to properly anchor pull-up bar in wood studs or in concrete or block.

Most, but not all, interior doorways are just under 5 inches thick, although some are up to 7 inches thick with trim. If your doorframe is on the thicker side, this Armpow Pull Up Bar could be a great choice: not only is it easy to adjust, it can accommodate slightly thicker doorframes of over 8 inches thick. The stabilizing arms are easily assembled, adjusted, and taken out, making it easy to store when not in use.

In addition to many of the normal pull-up bar handgrips, it has more pronounced, angled side grips for moves like hanging knee lifts. It also comes with two suspension straps for additional exercises.

The Duonaumic Eleviia is a different type of pull-up bar—and one that shares some of the micro motor muscle activations that suspension trainers are known for. That’s thanks to the corded handles that can move slightly while you're using it. While this system only offers two hand positions, you can easily choose the width of the pull-up handles by moving the clamp-on units closer or farther apart from each other.

The GoFit Elevated Chin Up Station isn't your average door-mounted chin-up bar. Its main chin-up bar is elevated higher than most and the hand mounts are angled, with a more ergonomic design than you'll find on many comparable models. While you can mount this chin-up station in a doorway, the device also designed to be used on the floor for push-ups and as a brace for sit-ups.

If you have enough space in your home gym, the Sportsroyals Power Tower is an ideal pull-up bar station. It adjusts from 64.56 inches to 88.18 inches high, making it short enough for young adults to do pull-ups and tall enough for people over 7 feet tall to keep their feet off the ground.

We like that this tower has extra stabilizing feet and that the armrests are adjustable for ergonomics. The tower also has handles for dips, push-ups, and knee lifts.

The Garren Fitness Maximiza Plus Pull Up Bar is a simple, screw-mounted, extendable pull-up bar. The bar fits hallways and doorframes up to 50 inches wide—which is wider than most—and can support up to 330 pounds of weight. It has foam grips for comfort and security and comes with multiple mounting cups.

This pull-up bar from Hakeno is a no-screw, pressure-mounted bar that expands to fit most doorframes, wedging and locking into place and supporting up to 500 pounds of weight once secured. This allows users to adjust its height to their needs and gives it a little more versatility than most other straight doorway pull-up bars.