Ikea Antilop vs Stokke Clikk - High Chair Comparison
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Whether you decide to register for one while you’re pregnant or wait until your little one is ready to start on solid foods, a high chair is on the list of necessities within the first year of having a baby. Enjoying dinner as a family is very important to my husband and me so I knew that even though my son wouldn’t be eating solids until six months old I would want to include him at the dinner table as soon as he was able to sit up independently. I also knew from babysitting my nieces and nephews that a highchair is a great resource for keeping a baby entertained while I made dinner or cleaned the kitchen. So, we decided to get our high chair before our son arrived so we would be prepared.
Katie and I were pregnant at the same time (our boys were born 7 weeks apart) so we were constantly sending baby gear suggestions back and forth. When it came to high chairs it was no exception. There are hundreds of options out there when it comes to high chairs, so we did our research on which one would work best for us and narrowed it down to the Ikea Antilop and the Stokke Clikk. Here are the things we considered when making our decision:
Functionality
The Ikea Antilop and the Stokke Clikk are both simple and traditional high chairs. The Antilop consists of three basic parts: a plastic bucket seat with a three-point harness, an attachable plastic tray that is dishwasher safe, and four steel legs. The three pieces are incredibly easy to assemble (no tools required) and once assembled this high chair takes up less room than a typical high chair. This chair is easy to assemble and also easy to disassemble if you ever need to take your high chair on the go, but in my opinion, there are much better portable high chair options. Because of the plastic seat and the hollow legs, this chair is incredibly light and makes it easy to move around the kitchen or dining room as you need. This seat is able to accommodate a child up to 3 years old or a maximum weight of 33 lbs.
The Stokke Clikk has very similar functionality vs the Antilop. The Clikk has a plastic bucket seat with a five-point harness, an attachable plastic tray that is dishwasher safe, and four wooden legs. Like the Ikea high chair, this one requires no tools to assemble and is designed to be lightweight and have a small footprint. The main functional difference is that the Clikk includes an adjustable footrest for baby. Having a footrest on a high chair not only helps baby feel more secure and comfortable but also provides support for their core and postural muscles. This seat is able to accommodate a child up to 3 years old or a maximum weight of 33 lbs.
Because both of the seats are a one-piece “bucket style” seats and made of plastic, they are both much easier to clean than a traditional high chair that has cracks and crevasses for crumbs to get into. The plastic is easily wiped off and the fact that you can put the tray directly in the dishwasher makes clean-up easy.
Design
When it comes to Antilop vs. Clikk highchair design, they are quite similar. Both offer clean, sleek lines and modern style.
The Antilop comes with a white plastic bucket seat and silver/grey steel legs. They do not offer any choices in style or color, but there is a support cushion that you can purchase to provide extra support and comfort to your little one. If you purchase the cushion, Ikea offers a few options for cushion covers that can add personality to your high chair. If you don’t see a cover that you like at Ikea there are multiple options available on Etsy or, if you have a crafty mother-in-law like Katie, you can sew covers with whichever pattern you perfer.
The Stokk Clikk offers a few more options than the Antilop. You can choose your seat and foot rest color from five options - pink, sage green, blue/grey, black, or white. All of the colors are beautiful and bring an extra bit of personality to the high chair. The legs of the Clikk are a pine-colored wood, which I prefer over the silver/metal legs of the Antilop.
Additional Features
As I listed above, the only real additional features that the Clikk provides vs the Antilop is the footrest and the 5-point safety harness vs. the 3-point safety harness. With that being said, there are many companies that now offer a foot rest that fits perfectly on the Antilop high chair to provide extra support for your little one. Neither option offer a hook for bib storage, like I have seen on other brands, but my husband simply added a command hook to the back of our seat for a cheap and functional solution.
Cost
Always one of the biggest considerations when making any purchase is the cost. With the Antilop vs Clikk high chair price, this is where you will find the biggest discrepancy.
When it comes down to it, the Ikea Antilop is one of the most, if not the number 1, most affordable high chairs on the market. The highchair with the tray included only costs $30! If you choose to purchase a support pillow it is only an additional $6, providing you a functional, easy-to-clean high chair for under $40.
Compared to the Antilop highchair, the Stokke Clikk is over 4x the cost, ringing in at $179. While you can often find sales &the lowest price I have seen recently is $135) the Clikk does sit at the high end of the price spectrum compared to most high chairs currently on the market.
THE WINNER
After considering all of the pros and cons of high chairs, Katie and I both came to the same conclusion and purchased the Ikea Antilop high chair for both of our boys. This decision was made based on the fact that these two high chairs were so similar, yet had such different price points. Neither of us could pass up a $40 price tag for a modern, functional high chair. Unfortunately, we do not have a local Ikea, so on one of my trips home to Cincinnati I stopped and picked up 4 of these high chairs! One for myself, one for Katie, one for my parent’s house, and one for my in-laws. At $40 it was worth it to me to have one at all of the houses that my son would be at most often instead of purchasing a travel chair or worrying about packing ours up every time we went over to our parent’s houses for dinner.
We have been using the Antilop high chair for over a year now and have absolutely loved it. It was incredibly easy to put together, it's easy to wipe up and it’s very lightweight so it was easy to move from the kitchen to the dining room or even outside on the patio for summer dinners outside. There are two complaints I have found with this high chair, the first being that the legs stick out at a much wider angle than expected, causing me to stub my toe more times than I can count when walking around our dining room (definitely operator error on my part.) The only other complaint that I have is that the tray is fairly difficult to remove from the high chair once it’s attached, which makes cleaning more difficult. To combat this problem I purchased a silicone placemat that fits the tray perfectly. I can easily remove it whenever I need to and rinse it in the sink or throw it in the dishwasher for particularly messy meals. Otherwise, the Antilop high chair has served us well and we highly recommend it to any looking into a high chair for their little one.
