BERIBES Headphones

The other $20 Amazon best seller, trading punches with KVIDIO at the top of the charts, and it differentiates on two features unusual at this price: six onboard EQ modes you cycle with a button (balanced, bass-boost, treble-lift variants), and claimed multipoint so it can hold your laptop and phone at once. The 500mAh battery runs the same headline 65 hours, it folds, weighs a feathery 0.38 lb, charges over USB-C, and ships with a 3.5mm cable for wired listening when the battery's flat. For $20 that's a startling feature list, and for podcasts and casual music most buyers are happy. The honesty portion: this is a very cheap headphone and sounds like a good very cheap headphone. Testing and longer-term reviews note the bass blurs and mids soften as volume climbs, call quality through the mic is grainy, and the voice prompts are famously janky. Comfort is the bigger split — the light clamp is easy on the head, but the budget leatherette pads get hot and sticky in multi-hour sessions, and build longevity is inconsistent in owner reports, which is par for Amazon-native brands. There's no ANC, no app, and no water-resistance rating. As a desk pair, travel spare, or kid's first headphone, it's arguably the most feature-dense $20 in audio; just don't expect it to sound like more than it costs.

Best for the most features $20 can buy