7 Best Nail Guns of 2026

German power tool brand Einhell have been making quality and affordable kit since 1964. Well established as a tool manufacturer, they’ve been impressing DIYers with their new line of cordless Power X-Change 18 V for a while now. The TE-CN cordless nail gun and stapler is an impressive device that does away with power cords, air lines, and anything else you might trip over.

It’s an extremely comfortable tool to use thanks to the ergonomic grip shape and rubberised handle. I like the depth setting feature as well, it’s intuitively located on the back of the handle and means you can micro-adjust penetration levels on the fly. Load it up with 18-gauge nails or staples for all 2^nd fix work around the home or garden.

The magazine can hold up to 100 nails or staples and is held in place with a powerful magnet. This should help to keep the fixings in place for firing and mean that you can use it at all angles without misfires. For the price, this is an affordable way to get hold of a quality cordless nail gun.

One of the most respected specialist fastening brands out there, Tacwise have been making some of the best nail and staple guns for more than 50 years. This 53-13EL cordless nail and staple gun is a lightweight tool for small brad nails and staples. It’s more like a traditional stapler than a heavy duty nail gun.

This handy little cordless staple and nail gun is great for hobbies. It weighs just over 1 kg. It can still put staples or brad nails into wood without much effort at all. It’s probably the simplest little nail gun I’ve had a chance to use as well. There are no dials to fiddle with, it’s simply a case of load it up and get firing.

The internal 4V battery is strong enough for lighter stapling and nailing jobs. It’s an ideal tool for an upholsterer or if you need to put up lots of posters. It’s not designed to replace a carpenter’s nail gun and can’t take 50 mm long nails, but it certainly beats a traditional manual stapler.

Charging up the non-removable battery with a micro-USB makes this a particularly handy tool to have around. However, if it runs out of juice, you’ll have to wait around before you can start working again. It’s my only gripe against what is otherwise the best electric staple gun I’ve tried out.

The Ryobi ONE+ Airstrike 18G is probably the best battery powered nail gun for 2^nd fix you can get hold of. It’s incredibly easy to use, takes a decent range of nail lengths, and can be set to continuous fire mode.

Japanese tool experts Ryobi are well favoured for their excellent range of DIY and garden tools that make use of the ONE+ battery system. It means you can power anything from a lawn mower to a hammer drill with the same battery. This brad nailer comes as a “bare” tool, so you’ll have to use the 18V battery from your Ryobi drill or purchase one separately.

The first thing that caught my attention when testing out this nail gun is how simple it is to use. I like how quickly you can dial in the pressure using the rear selector and then fine-tune the firing with the adjuster wheel. Ryobi have made it as easy as placing the nails where you want them and choosing exactly how deep they’ll be fired in.

Clearing stuck brad nails is simple as well. The nose portion can be unclipped without using either tools or much effort. The magazine can be loaded up with a range of nail lengths and it’ll even tell you when you’re nearly out. Overall, it’s light enough at just 2.5 kg and feels good in the hand. I love it.

Producing a range of hand and power tools from cordless glue guns to leather punchers, NEU MASTER are a decent budget brand that doesn’t lack in quality. The NTC0040 electric nail and staple gun is an absolute joy to use and one of the best electric nailers out there right now.

If the idea of buying gas cartridges or an expensive air compressor setup seems unnecessary, it probably is! This electric nailer/stapler is ready to go so long as you’ve got access to mains power. And if you need to work “off-grid”, NEU MASTER also make the impressive NTC0023 cordless nail gun. It’s the same quality tool, but it takes its power from an 18V battery.

With a built-in adjustable power wheel, it’s ideal for use on a range of different materials, and the non-marring rubber nose will help to keep those surfaces clean. Another great thing about this nailer is that it can be used with a few different types of fixing. You can fit different lengths of 18-gauge brad nails, T staples, and crown staples into the magazine without special tools or any downtime. This is easily one of the best combination staple and nail guns for 2^nd fix work at this price.

Easily one of the biggest and most recognisable names in DIY is Stanley, and they’ve come up with what I think is one of the best corded electric staple and nail guns for the money.

If you’ve ever used a manual staple gun before, you’ll probably be familiar with how the TRE550 electric staple gun works. You pull back the bottom slide to load a line of staples or nails into the foot of the stapler, and off you go. Pull the trigger and effortlessly fix whatever you want.

It’s comfortable to hold and easy to use, but the feature I was surprised to see on a stapler in this price bracket was the power adjuster wheel. It gives you six levels of stapling power – a useful feature that you might only see on the best nail or staple gun.

It’s a shame that Stanley haven’t supplied even a small box of staples of brads to get you started though. But, for the money it’s hard to complain about this little workhorse of a staple gun.

British tool brand Lumberjack make a wide range of woodworking tools. I think their NS18G corded nail gun is the best nailer and stapler gun for home use, and it won’t cost you the earth.

For the price, I expected the NS18G to be a flimsy bit of kit, but it’s surprisingly well put together and robust. The rubberised overmoulded grip is one of the best I’ve held. It certainly feels like it will last well if you don’t treat it too badly.

The operation is easy as well. There’s a simple power adjustment wheel, loading the magazine doesn’t take long to figure out and pulling the trigger fires one pin or staple. There isn’t much there to go wrong. It’s not the most powerful nail gun out there, but for the price it’s one of the best budget nail guns on the market.

Japanese tool giants Makita are well respected by tradespeople and DIYers across the world. They haven’t let their fans down with the AF506 nail gun – it’s one of the best pneumatic nail guns for second fix you can get for the money.

Equipped with sequential fire mode as well as single shot, you’ll be blasting the best 18 gauge nail gun at high speed before you know it.

This is a slim and lightweight brad nail gun that operates up to a massive 120 psi. It carries up to 100 18 gauge brad nails at a time, with a handy viewing window in the magazine to see when they’re running out. It’s what you’d expect from a premium Makita product- one of the best brad nailers available right now.