Best String Trimmer Line of 2026

If most of your trimming is really edging, this is the line that shows it. The twisted square edge leaves a crisp border along a sidewalk, goes through thick stems and snakelike roots without stalling the head, and it is the most aggressive cutter in this group — which is what the higher price buys.

Echo rates it for medium to heavy weeds and builds in resistance to welding and high heat, and 253 feet makes it one of the bigger rolls here, so a normal suburban yard is not reordering in the middle of the season. It also leaves the tidiest edge on a drive, the kind of detail you notice once and then cannot unsee.

It is the roll for a trimmer with an open, forgiving head and a property with a lot of edge to it — driveway, sidewalk, chain-link, the places where a square edge earns its keep. For general mowing-duty string trimming, our top pick is the safer and cheaper choice.

Loading a trimmer is the chore nobody budgets for, and EGO's pre-cut pack deletes most of it: five 14-foot lengths, each already the right size for the Power+ head, so there is no measuring, no guessing and no half-wound spool to unwind in the grass.

For an EGO owner this is the reload we recommend keeping on the shelf. The fit is exact for the 56-volt 15-inch trimmer and the STA1500 attachment, the line matches the 0.095 twisted profile the trimmer ships with, and a swap takes minutes rather than an evening.

Two things to know before you commit. Seventy feet total does not go far if you have a lot of chain-link fence, and the segments can break early in heavy growth — this is convenience line, not the toughest stock here. If you want to buy in bulk instead, check that your head feeds non-EGO line before you order, because not every EGO head takes it happily.

There is nothing to wind here, and that is the entire product: three factory-wound spools that clip straight into a Black+Decker auto-feed head. Anyone who has hand-wound a spool in the wrong direction will see the appeal immediately.

For a Black+Decker trimmer, we have not found a simpler reload. The fit is right for most auto-feed heads in the range, the swap takes seconds, and three spools mean one on the trimmer, one in the shed and one you have not lost yet. The 0.065 line suits grass and light weeds around a normal suburban yard.

The system's weakness is that the spool is the feed mechanism. A spool wound badly at the factory will not auto-feed, and there is nothing you can do in the yard to rescue it — you swap it out and try the next one. That is the argument for genuine spools over a hand-wound refill, even though the refill is cheaper per foot.

Round, dimpled line is unusual in a category that keeps chasing sharper edges, and the shape is the whole argument: the undulating surface is what Husqvarna credits for cutting noise roughly in half, and it is also why the line feeds past an eyelet without snagging.

Durability is where it earns its place. It does not wear fast, it takes a lot to snap, and it stands up to acreage rather than a suburban lot. The co-extruded copolymer is made in the USA, and at 0.095 it fits the same heads as our top pick. What it does not shrug off is heat — run it flat out against a concrete drive and it can weld to itself and break off at the head. That is true of most line this diameter; easing off the throttle at the curb saves more line than any product choice.

The catch is quantity. At 140 feet, this is the shortest of the full-size rolls we recommend, so it is the pick for someone who wants a quieter trimmer and a smooth feed more than the biggest stockpile. A yard with close neighbors, or a head that is fussy about square line, is exactly the case for it.

Five pounds is a supply decision rather than a restock. At 1,280 feet, this roll carries more than six times the line in the 200-foot rolls here, which puts it in a different category of purchase — closer to buying a coil of fence wire than a pack of trimmer string.

The line itself is a four-edge square in hi-vis orange, extruded from nylon 66 copolymer, and it slices through thistles, blackberries and the dense growth that stalls round line. The bright color matters more than it should: a dropped coil is easy to find in tall grass.

Fit is the part to check. This line tends to sit at the top of the 0.095 spec, and heads already tight on 0.095 — some Stihl and EGO models among them — can refuse to feed it. Run a couple of feet through your head before you commit the whole roll.

If you trim an acre or more, split a roll with a neighbor, or simply hate reordering, this is the bulk buy we point people to. It is the lowest cost per foot in this group and the cutting is as good as anything here; just buy it for volume, not as the toughest line on the page.

Three hundred and thirty feet of square 0.095 line for less than the mid-priced rolls here is a straightforward deal, and on a plain bump-feed trimmer it is a cheap way to keep cutting all season. What it is not is the most consistent line in this group.

The square profile does real work: sharp edges shear through grass along sidewalks and fence lines and leave a cleaner border than round line in the same head. It is polyamide, it is orange, and it winds on without fuss as long as you keep tension on the spool.

Fit is the thing to check before you buy. Not every auto-feed head takes 0.095 happily, and some EGO trimmers will not feed this line at all. On a standard bump head it loads and runs normally, which is where this roll makes sense.

Seven refills and a cutting tool for less than any other roll here is the pitch, and we think it is a fair one for a light-duty trimmer. Nothing about this pack pretends to be commercial stock.

The 0.080 diameter is the sensible middle for a battery trimmer: thick enough for grass and light weeds, thin enough that a 20-volt motor does not bog. The refills come as separate coils rather than one big spool, so one can live on the shelf and one in the garage, and the little cutter is genuinely useful for trimming a fresh length cleanly instead of chewing it apart.

What it is not is heavy-growth line. 0.080 handles a lawn and a tidy border; take it along a fence line of mature weeds and it is overmatched, which turns a cheap pack into an expensive afternoon spent reloading.

For a small yard and a light electric trimmer it is a sensible restock: the low cost and the included cutter are the whole point, and a spare coil in the garage means the next reload is not a shopping trip. If your property runs to fence lines and blackberries, the top pick is the roll to carry instead.