Honeywell Air Genius 5 Air Purifier for Large Rooms up to 1200 Ft², Permanent Washable Filters, Reduces Dust, Pollen, Pet Dander, Odors, Smoke, Black, HFD320

I'm very pleased with this air cleaner. I finally bought it when allergies got the better of me, and I'm glad I did. It's helped immensely, and is great for removing kitchen odors, among other things. Easy to use, and its footprint is small enough that it's easy to find good locations for it.

Absolutely the best of the best. Could not be more pleased. It has helped with our allergies far beyond our expectations. It controls dust beyond belief. Great product and great price.

I really am trying to give this purifier 5 stars, but there's one slight problem. It has a mind of its own. A lot of times when I review products like humidifiers/purifiers it's based on models we use when remodeling houses, but this is a personal bedroom purifier. I've moved around a lot in life though I'm settling in at my current location. The climates/states I've lived in include Texas, Southern California, Arizona and Tennessee. These may not seem like extreme changes, but they are. Arizona had the brutal heat, but low humidity. SoCal was mild with average humidity. Texas was just plain hot and humid. Tennessee is actually more like Southern California except in humidity. This has caused numerous problems with my breathing and also nosebleeds. I had and used two Honeywell 50250-S purifiers for several years, but when we made our most recent and hopefully last move, my wife told me she wanted to get rid of those purifiers. She called them the R2-D2's for their bulky round size.I'm sure somewhere in Honeywell's HQ there are high-fives going around the marketing department. This AirGenius5 was obviously made for those people who wanted a sleeker purifier. It does that part well. It's also nice to have the cleanable filter without needing a replacement every year. Talking to Holmes on that one. Here's my one problem. No matter what I do. No matter what setting I put this purifier on it shuts itself off. This isn't a regular occurrence nor is there any rhyme or reason to it. The first time it did it was in the middle of the night. The noise it makes on level 3 is perfect for me to sleep since I like white noise while sleeping. When it shut off it of course woke me up since I thought our power had went out. I walked over, tapped the start screen and it came right back on. The second time was sometime while we had ran to the store. We came back, I stopped by the bathroom and noticed how quiet our room was. Sure enough, the purifier was turned off again.I've had this one about 2 months and it has turned itself off 3 times total. I don't understand why it does it. I've tried plugging it in different outlets, but the 3 shutoffs have all happened from different outlets. My wife insists it's a "smart" purifier and turns itself off when the air is perfect. I have trouble believing that and even more so when considering it has a timer on it if you want to set it to turn itself off after a selected amount of hours.I will say it works well and just for the record, these purifiers and nearly all others, cover more square footage than they say. Our bedroom is roughly 500 square feet and it covers it well. We have a hallway, office, workout room and bathroom connecting to our bedroom as well. It doesn't reach them, but it's easy enough to move around to those other areas throughout a day or for a full day in each room. It's one of those purifiers that you can "smell" working. For example, if we run it all day and night in our bedroom. When you walk out of our bathroom going towards the bedroom the air won't be as fresh or clean smelling as the bedroom. Also can be tested by going in a closed off room then walking back out into the room with the purifier in it. I trust Honeywell as much as any other brand (Whirlpool is good also). Having said all this I still don't know if I would recommend it over the Honeywell 50250-S.I've yet to buy into the permanent filter belief. These filters will last 3-5 years at best. I've been buying and using purifiers for nearly 20 years. The biggest difference I see between the Genius5 and 50250 is in design. While this Genius model is obviously designed to sit on the floor even in a tight space, the 50250 can be placed on top of a small dresser or cabinet. This Genius is a bit too tall for that style of placement. Overall, it's a good purifier that does what it says, but watch for the random turning itself off problem. If anyone is curious about this part this model really doubles as a cool air fan. It's my favorite part of it. I like to sit it adjacent to the side of the bed I sleep on. About 8-10 foot away and it works well at blowing some cool air on me while cleaning the air.

Love it

So far so good! Being able to wash and rinse a filter as opposed to buying hepa filters repeatedly and having a machine to reduce wildfire smoke in a large indoor area with full control over the device for under 200 usd? Outstanding!

I know this is long but my soapbox is that this is SO much cheaper by cost over time AND so much better it's a no brainer. If you can spend $40 more upfront ($135 cost) it will cost more than $300 less over four years (ie., it will still only cost $135 total while the other one $440. That forty bucks saves you so much money. And BESIDES that the product itself is so much better in everyway.FIrst: WAY cheaper than ANYTHING because you don't have to replace filters every six months. This one you wash somehow. The replacement on the other filters can be $50 a pop. At $130 rather than $90 for other highly rated product, just ONE replacement makes the other product more expensive. They guarantee the filter will last 4 years at least (don't know if can buy replacement then?). So if you keep the other purified for four years and use it fulltime, the cost of replacement filters if $350 more. This one: ZERO. So $135 versus $440. You do the math. A little more upfront and the total cost is more than 50% cheapter. And this handles way more air. Is quieter. And then clearly this is such a better product anyway on all the other areas besides price too. I know i sound like cheerleader but have needed filters like this for decades and always had inferior products because I didn't know there were ones that aren't inferior.It is far more sturdy than expected. It is bigger than I expected but obviously can't be smaller to do it's job at the square footage it says it covers. Physics is physics.. It handles way more square feet than the $90 one I compared it to that requires replacement hepa filters every 6 months. I think twice as much. I looked up filters on Consumer reports (which given there are so many products and they are changing name and model constantly, test a small percentage of all of them.)This was ranked in top few. The other one I considered -- forget which one -- was $90. So this is $45 more than that -- but look below. Handles way more air/square footage. WAY quieter. Way more attractive. Way better constructed. I believe this product will last 5 years, the others if you've seen genersally might last two before something goes wrong (the one I STILL have is old and something happened quickly to make it way louded by something rattling inside the fan. I doubt this will happen with this product because unlike the old filter that blue left and right I think this one blows up and down.)I got the black on eand for this kind of thing it is attractive. WAY more attractive than competitors. The touch screen on top is classy. It is SO much quieter than the (superold honeywell) purifier I already had. Of course there will be noise -- it needs to pull air through and thus needs a fan. But even loudest setting is quieter than my old filter's lowest setting. There 5 different settings for amount of air it pulls through. My old product was only low and high. They have a setting called 'germs' and another kooky one and I have no idea if they are legit. BUT the consumer reports evaluated the efficacy of the filters at different settings, and this was the only one that got Good reviews for low volume (and it has excellent for high.) The competitor products they basically said you shouldn't even use the low setting as it hardly did anything.They have an 'ambient' light button I could figure out what it was doing. There is a light sort of recesses at the bottom of the tower that glows blue. You can turn high, low or off. It strikes me as corny and unnecessary but then I thought about it as a night light. It has super efficeint rating -- says takes as much power as a light bulb. OH. Among all the things the other products don't do, IT OSCILATES. Construction seems excellent.Every company should be selling products like this. The washable filter is a million times better than paying 50 bucks every six months

The media could not be loaded. So quiet! The attached video is on the setting of 4. This is a great addition to our home.