Govee Smart Air Purifier (H7121) Review - PCMag

Govee's portable and affordable Smart Air Purifier ($89.99) mostly sticks to the basics. But it does its occupation well, utilizing a three-tier filtration strategy to efficaciously and softly scrub aerial pollutants successful rooms of up to 452 quadrate feet. We similar that it supports dependable controls and IFTTT applets, too. Our main complaints are that it can't supply aerial prime readings without the company's Smart Air Monitor ($59.99) accessory and that it doesn't support humanities aerial prime reports, but those are tenable compromises for the price. If you person (a lot) much wealth to spend, the Dyson Purifier Cool TP07 ($549.99) remains our favourite smart aerial purifier due to the fact that of its wide scope of aerial prime readings and integrated oscillating operation fan. Meanwhile, the Wyze Air Purifier ($169.99) offers a built-in show and amended reporting capabilities retired of the container for astir the aforesaid terms arsenic the Govee exemplary (once you origin successful the outgo of the all-but-required add-on).

Compact and Basic

The cylindrical Govee Smart Air Purifier is disposable successful achromatic and measures 13.5 by 8.2 inches (HW). An aerial intake connected the bottommost information of the enclosure channels aerial done a three-tier filtration system. A True HEPA filter captures pollutants from smoke, favored dander, and dust; a c filter eliminates odors and volatile integrated compounds (VOCs), and a mesh prefilter catches larger particles similar hairsbreadth and lint. You tin entree the replaceable HEPA/Carbon filter by unscrewing the base.

Clean aerial exits the instrumentality via a grille astatine the top. The grille features a circular and glossy power sheet implicit with a multicolor LED ring. The sheet has buttons for power, instrumentality velocity (low, medium, high, oregon sleeping), a timer function, and a slumber mode (sets the instrumentality to its lowest velocity and dims the LEDs). Additionally, determination are buttons that toggle the nighttime light, alert you erstwhile it's clip to alteration the filter, and reconstruct mill settings.

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The broadside of the portion includes a powerfulness larboard and a container that fits a tiny aroma pad. Place a fewer drops of indispensable lipid connected the pad to adhd fragrance to cleanable aerial arsenic it returns to circulation. Govee includes 2 further aroma pads successful the box, on with a idiosyncratic guide. 

The purifier doesn't connection onboard aerial prime readings and its LEDs don't airy up to correspond with the aerial prime conditions. Both the Wyze Air Purifier and the Dyson Purifier Cool TP07 connection those features. It besides can't archer you the existent country somesthesia oregon humidity level, and indoor aerial prime (IAQ) measurements aren't disposable unless you nexus the instrumentality to a Govee Smart Air Monitor ($59.99).

Those limitations aside, the instrumentality integrates with third-party astute devices via IFTTT and works with Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant dependable commands.

Govee Smart Air Purifier App Experience

The Govee Smart Air Purifier uses the aforesaid Govee Home app (available for Android and iOS) arsenic the company's different astute devices, including the Smart Air Monitor and the Lynx Dream String Lights.

Tap the aerial purifier's dedicated sheet connected the Devices surface to spot its existent status, power betwixt the 4 instrumentality modes, and remotely powerfulness it connected oregon off. Below that, you tin set the brightness and colour of the airy via the Night Light panel. Further down, the Scheduling conception lets you make usage schedules with some nighttime airy and instrumentality velocity parameters.

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Otherwise, you tin configure the purifier to crook connected oregon disconnected aft a acceptable period, make an progressive docket for the onboard panel, presumption the filter's remaining usage life, and link the purifier with the Govee Air Quality Monitor. Tap the cogwheel icon successful the precocious close country to alteration filter alteration notifications, configure Wi-Fi settings, update the firmware, and nexus the purifier to your Alexa and Google accounts.

As mentioned, pairing the purifier to the aforementioned aerial prime show unlocks respective further capabilities, including an Auto Fan mode (which automatically adjusts the instrumentality velocity based connected the existent readings), an Energy Saving mode (which shuts the purifier down if the aerial prime has been fantabulous for 30 minutes), and a High Efficiency mode (which circulates the aerial doubly utilizing the highest instrumentality velocity and past adjusts the instrumentality velocity according to the caller PM2.5 level).

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Effective (and Relatively Quiet) Air Cleaning

To get started, I plugged successful the aerial purifier, turned it on, and tapped the positive icon successful the precocious close country of the Device surface of the app. Then, I pressed the Bluetooth icon and the app instantly discovered the device. To implicit the installation, I tapped the powerfulness fastener connected the app's cue, gave the purifier a name, and authenticated the transportation to my Wi-Fi network.

To presumption PM2.5 levels during my tests, I linked the aerial purifier to a Govee Smart Air Monitor. I placed some devices successful a 110-square-foot room, acceptable the purifier to Auto mode, and lit an incense stick. I extinguished the incense erstwhile the show displayed a PM2.5 level of 200, astatine which constituent the instrumentality revved up to the highest speed. You tin decidedly perceive the instrumentality spinning erstwhile it’s operating astatine afloat blast, but it’s inactive a spot quieter than the Smartmi P1 ($179.99).

The PM2.5 level dropped to 92 aft 3 minutes, 49 aft 6 minutes, and 30 aft 10 minutes. It required a full of 30 minutes to instrumentality to the archetypal speechmaking of 0. For comparison, the Smartmi P1 measured a level of 90 aft 3 minutes, 51 aft six minutes, 31 aft 10 minutes. After 35 minutes, the speechmaking returned to a mean level (4).

Clean Air connected a Budget

The Govee Smart Air Purifier covers basal aerial purification tasks efficaciously and supports tons of different third-party devices, each for a tenable price. It can't grounds the level of pollutants successful the aerial unless you brace it with a $59.99 add-on and it doesn't support humanities records of aerial quality, but neither of those features forestall you from breathing cleaner air. That said, if you privation onboard IAQ readings, the Wyze Air Purifier offers that capability, positive compatibility with respective types of filters for astir the aforesaid terms arsenic the Govee combination. Our Editors’ Choice winner, the Dyson Purifier Cool TP07, costs importantly more, but it offers galore IAQ readings, 10 airflow speeds, and a chill oscillating fan.