Germ Guardian Air Purifier: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Voice Control for Smart Homes

Carolyn Casey: I went to Lasko.com (the manufacturer) and got 2 units for $250 with free shipping. It won't get to me as fast, but it's worth waiting for. I already have two of these units. They work very well.

United States on Jun 09, 2023

Orumus: Had this for a few months now. No complaints.
It is quite even on high you can barely hear it at 20 feet in a silent room. On Auto even with the office window open it maintains the air quality at 6ppm or less at low setting meaning it is completely silent unless you put your ear to it. The wireless functionality and app make it even more convenient and useful.

United States on Apr 16, 2023

Minh: It's a hit or miss with these air purifier from Germ Guardian. It's either you get a normal working one without the loud buzzing sound even on lowest setting or you get one that with a loud annoying humming buzzing sound even at the lowest setting. This tells me they have QC issues and don't test to make sure it's actually quiet.

Besides that, it does what it does. Cleans the air pretty well. Smells fresh from what I gathered especially in a carpeted room. PPM count? I don't trust it but it always starts up high then lowers to 3. My second one is around 7. Just set a fan speed with what you want and you're good.

United States on Mar 12, 2023

Erik Steffl: I used to wake up with slight allergy symptoms (I have dust mites allergy and carpet at the moment). Since I got this air purifier I wake up with no allergy symptoms. Didn't actually measure how well it cleans but lack of allergy symptoms seems to be fairly good indicator of what it does. I just keep it on auto, most of the time that means it running on lowest setting which is totally quiet.

In the beginning the connection failed few times but seems that since then it's working fairly well so I can control it via app, however since it's just running on auto I don't use that functionality very often (almost never).

The only feature that's missing is ability to set schedule (e.g. run at setting 3 between 5pm - 6pm, auto otherwise). I don't really need it but I can see that might be useful for some people. It has sleep feature but that's not the same (you cannot program sleep up front and at the end of sleep it just turns off).

United States on Aug 08, 2020

Steven Fishman: Works great for my allergies, air feels fresher. On mid speed is very quiet and doesn't interfere with sleep. Easy to setup and wifi controls work well. Have bought 5 for family and friends.

Canada on Aug 01, 2020

Michael Lee: Works great! Have a Dyson HP04 in the same room and a coral fish tank. The ppm count seems to over estimate by a tad. Like we are talking 3ppm differential. Could just be airflow too. Mostly accurate. Usually have mild allergies, now zero. Have other models throughout the house they work well. Just would note at the highest(level 5) can get a tad loud. On “auto” you barely notice any noise, the lower levels especially. Sweet spot seems to be level 3 for my allergies and noise. Haven’t ran into the WiFi issues. Would be cool if they expanded the app to more functionality. Can’t speak to the Alexa “issues” then again I have a newer router with decent WiFi and appropriate boosters, I digress. Works great on smells. Can’t even tell I have a coral fish tank minus the sweet views. Huge fan of this company and the product. Quality buy. Also note Bigger/lesser models work as advertised as I have them throughout the house. I never write these but I felt the urge due to how awesome this product works. Cheers!

United States on Apr 19, 2020

Joary GalvanJoary Galvan: Muy feliz trabaja excelente y muy fácil de usar

Mexico on Jan 30, 2020

Ottawa Guy: Very quiet, extremely good at cleaning the air. We have a slight mold issue on our basement and this unit has helped the smell disappear.

Canada on Oct 21, 2018

Chantal: Truly an awful app. I may be returning the entire device due to the "smart" experience. Very shady attempts at collecting everyone's data. Ads in the app for a paid product. And lack of compatibility and automation. Inexcusable.

>Must have internet access to work - Why? I should be able to control it within my own network, from app, from Google Home, and from IFTTT. This device and app should not have any connection to the company's servers.
>Forced to create account - Should not be needed for such a simple product.
>Requires location services - What? Don't force this on people. It isn't needed for the job.

To top it off, the app doesn't even work or stay connected after that! Amazing how hard they dropped the ball on this one.

Canada on Oct 14, 2018

TC: Delivery:
The Air Cleaners were delivered on time.

Air Cleaner:
I like the product, I like the multi-colour light sensor, auto-fan increase when air is "dirtier" and it does seem to do a good job of cleaning the air in the 2 rooms that we have our 2 units. For example, the air fan increases when vacuuming and dusting. It also increase recently when we had some forest wild-fire smoke in the area. The auto-air quality sensor works very well. On automatic, the fan speeds up, cleans the air and then goes back to quiet mode.

Smart app:
The app has good basic features matching what is available on the display.
I was really hoping for more options with the smartphone app including being able to set a schedule when the air cleaner is on but maybe in the future. Also, having a graph of showing the air quality over time would be very useful.

Privacy policy for registration/userid:
I am also only using it in bluetooth mode to access the smartphone app as I did not like the privacy statement that appears to provide a lot of potential access to 3rd party partners to my computer and smartphone.

I have not signed up for the wifi access...

Canada on Jul 13, 2018