Shark - PowerDetect UV Reveal 2-In-1 Vac & Mop - Black

I absolutely love it. Set up was easy. App easy to use. Mapped my house completely correct. Vacuum and mopping job is wonderful. Nothing like coming home to a clean home!!

I have owned over 9 robot vacuums in the last 8 years, and I currently own 4. I can say with confidence that the Shark PowerDetect UV Reveal 2-in-1 is not the best I've owned, but it is above average when you look at its core functions. When I get a new robot vacuum, these are the key areas I consider: Noise Navigation & Obstacle Avoidance Vacuum Effectiveness Mopping Effectiveness App Features & Ease of Use Maintenance Bonus Features Each item above is ranked from most important to least important. I would highly recommend reviewing these 7 characteristics whether you are looking to purchase your first robot or your 5th. Here's a breakdown of where I believe the Shark PowerDetect stands: 1) Noise - AVERAGE. The Shark is completely average in this category, both for the vacuum itself and the dock. It's far from the loudest I've owned, but this is something to keep in mind if you schedule tasks at night. It won't wake your house, but you will know it's there. 2) Navigation & Obstacle Avoidance - ABOVE AVERAGE. The obstacle avoidance on the Shark is impressive. It navigates quickly and with tons of confidence. I can send this robot out without picking up every single item in my house and feel confident it will finish with little to no issues. That said, I have noticed it occasionally lose connection or struggle with complex maneuvers, sometimes getting stuck in a loop of moving in random circles. It eventually recovers, but still something I found concerning at times. 3) Vacuum Effectiveness - AVERAGE. The Shark PowerDetect handles carpets and hardwood floors with ease. After running it for around a week with 3 kids in the house, it cleaned anything and everything I would have used a regular stick vacuum for. Keep your expectations in check though. Robot vacuums are still far from the power needed to deep clean a carpet, but they do an incredible job as a supplemental solution between breaking out your corded or cordless vacuum. 4) Mopping Effectiveness - ABOVE AVERAGE. This is genuinely the best mopping performance I've seen from a robot vacuum. On hard floors, it picks up everyday grime, light spills, and stuck on messes with no issue, and the HyperSonic scrubbing makes a real difference on dried spots that other robots just smear around. The floors come out actually clean. My one complaint is that it uses too much water at times, leaving sections wetter than I'd prefer and adding to the dry time. It's a small price to pay for the result, but worth knowing if you have pets or kids running around immediately after a cycle. 5) App Features & Ease of Use - ABOVE AVERAGE. The SharkClean app is easy to navigate and gives you solid control without burying features in submenus. Scheduling, room specific cleaning, no go zones, and adjusting suction or mop intensity are all where you'd expect. It also integrates with both Alexa and Google Home. My only gripe is that the app occasionally lags when pulling up the live map after a cleaning session, and once or twice I had to force close it to reconnect. Nothing dealbreaking, but worth mentioning. 6) Maintenance - ABOVE AVERAGE. This is where the Shark really earns its keep. The NeverTouch Pro base automatically empties the bin, refills the water tank, and washes the mop pad with hot water before drying it with heated air. The self cleaning mop pad is a feature I love and the UV Detects' design works incredibly well. That said, the dock itself is large and takes up a noticeable footprint, so plan your placement accordingly. 7) Bonus Features - ABOVE AVERAGE. I'll be honest. When I first read about UV Stain Detect, I rolled my eyes. It sounded like the kind of marketing gimmick that gets slapped on a spec sheet to justify a higher price tag. I was wrong. It actually works. The robot uses UV light to identify invisible messes like dried spills, pet residue, etc, then automatically triggers an extra mopping pass over those spots. This is the rare "bonus" feature that delivers on what it promises. Remember when I said I had 3 other robot vacuums? The UV detect found stains they had missed and cleaned them... Final Verdict: The Shark PowerDetect UV Reveal 2-in-1 isn't the absolute top of the robot vacuum food chain, but it's a well rounded machine with three genuinely standout features (the carpet and threshold lifting, the best in class mopping, and the UV stain detection) that set it apart from the pack. If you're a first time buyer or upgrading from an older model, you'll likely be very happy with it. If you're coming from a current flagship from a competitor, the improvements may feel more incremental than revolutionary, but the lift technology, mopping performance, and UV detection are worth a hard look regardless.

This has been the best purchase for our new home. It empties its self and refills itself and did not take long to map the house.

This is one of the best robot vacuums I have ever used. It includes ever feature you could possibly want in an easy to use package! I have another shark robot vacuum and it does a really good job of vacuuming/dusting. I also have a irobot vacuum that can do both mopping and vacuuming but requires you to change out dust bins for mopping or vacuuming. The irobot also doesn't know how to skip over rugs if the mop part is attached so it's all or nothing. This shark vacuum is advanced that it knows where a rug is at and not to try and mop it. Setup was honestly a breeze. I plugged in the charger base and placed the vacuum on the charging pad. Once charged it required that I create a map of my home. I was not able to use the prior map my other shark vacuum made, so a new one was required. I thought it would take an hour or more to do the map, but it took like 15 minutes. I think this is in part due to the camera and other sensors on the front of the machine. Once the map was created I was able to create different rooms on the map and also send the machine out again to find places that had carpet or rugs. With the map created I let the machine do a vacuuming. It picked up a good number of debris and only took about an hour to fully vacuum. While working the machine is pretty quiet and not an issue to have running while watching TV, talking, or working. This machine also doesn't run around like a toddler running into everything and anything. The sensors on the front are used to stop/slow down the machine before it makes contact with an item. This helped tremendously on noise the machine makes. My prior shark would sometimes startle me with how much it would smack into furniture, but this one is so good at not doing that. After the machine finishes vacuuming it will then go out and do mopping. While mopping it will uses its sensors to find dirt and debris and scrub them clean. I thought it was just a gimmick, but I watched it go over stains a few times to make sure they are fully clean. Once the machine is done mopping it will show in the app on the map the spots it detected. It's usually the same spots, front door area, dog water/food area, etc. The charging base has everything built in for clean and dirty water, and a debris bin. I have checked it a few times and I believe I could probably let this machine do its job three times a week for a month before having to intervene with emptying dirty water or debris bin. On the debris bin there is an air freshener that helps cover up any smells the machine might have. While I do like this option I'm not sure I will replace the air freshener once it dies out. The vacuum is out of sight out of mind and I'm not super worried about any smells you smell if your super close to it, plus it doesn't even smell. My old shark did get stuck in a few places or required attention, whereas this one doesn't get stuck and actually avoids obstacles to the point I forgot it even is working. Overall, I love this vacuum and my house smells and feels cleaner. My wood floors are always nice and clean without any stains or smudges. I feel like I will only need to bust out a mop when they are super dirty which is hardly ever!

The Shark - PowerDetect UV Reveal 2-In-1 is a very capable robot vacuum & mop system. To start off, I think it bears mentioning that I view these types of appliances as a maintenance product and in no way a 100% replacement for proper cleaning. Depending on traffic and cleanliness of one's environment, I still believe a good periodic deep-cleaning is essential to a clean home – done by hand. What any of these robots provide (some obviously better than others...) is an excellent, automated way to maintain an above-average level of cleanliness in a home but with compromise. No matter how often the system contends to "refresh" its own cleaning pads or re-run focused cleaning in detected areas, they do inherently push around a small amount of dirt, grime and what-have-you - trapped in the pads or brushes. That said, a system like the Shark - PowerDetect UV Reveal 2-In-1 will maintain a relatively clean floor which is MUCH better than a floor allowed to build up a higher degree of contamination, due to procrastination and/or neglect. Unboxing & Setup: The PowerDetect UV Reveal 2-In-1 is well packaged and comes with boldly printed quick setup instructions at the top of its box. The instructions are clear, concise and easy to follow. Other than peeling some protective film, attaching one of the corner brushes and inserting the dock ramp plate - there really isn't any major assembly required. Should be manageable for everyone. It pays to already have the SharkClean app installed on your mobile device, by the way. Access to the two reservoirs, one for clean water & cleaning solution... and one for dirty or "gray" water, is right at the top and below an easy to flip-up door. Those two bins have nicely engineered handles. There's also a freshener (odor neutralizer) puck that needs to be twisted into place on the top of the dock, that has a dial for intensity. All clearly marked and simple to engage. The App guidance is about as good as it gets, especially in conjunction with the included printed, setup instructions - again - inside the top of the box. Pairing with my mobile device went smoothly, for the most part, but did seem to take an inordinate amount of time - seemingly during what appeared to have been a firmware update - with no indication of what it actually was doing. I'd say that other brands are better at being verbose about what is going on, but I won't ding Shark any rating for the additional wait time. It wasn't frustratingly long... In Operation: Running the UV Reveal 2-In-1 Vac & Mop is pretty straight forward. With the initial setup, you have to let the robot map your room(s) or whole house - depending on the extent you intend to use it. For us, maintaining a moderately large, kitchen and dining area floor, with one rug but otherwise tiled throughout, was the logical choice. We want a system that has its cleaning solution and workload focused on/in an area that is prone to getting dirty fast due to the kitchen being a major "hub" in the house. Pets add to it too! Protip: Make sure to check the dimensions of the unit vs. where you plan on having it placed in your home; this thing takes up a good chunk of floor space and it's tall as well. The system is moderately loud and has good onboard, voice announcements. Following the initial mapping run, the UV Reveal 2-In-1 will proceed to vacuum the entire zone and then return to the base to prep the pads - and then begin mopping. We enabled the UV Detect function and it seems to add some unexpected twists & turns to the cleaning routine. From the limited time we've been running this robot, what we've noticed is that it keeps track of problem areas and intentionally revisits those areas on subsequent runs, to check for the return of messes. This is clever but adds significant time to the run cycle. What was most important to us was that the area became mapped correctly during both dry & wet runs, that the mapped area was completely covered or tracked out during cleaning excursions and that it didn't leave any puddles. On balance, the system met those basic expectations. Here's a small criticism: The way the SharkClean app displays/depicts the location of detected "hot spots" and its current location within the map (or room) - is both lagged by a good 20 to 30 seconds (so not real time by any stretch of the imagination...) and the depictions are oddly proportionally off, but just enough, to look semi-OK onscreen. It's sort of a nit but I figured it's worth mentioning - for completeness. Personally, I like the SharkClean app better than most the competitors I've tried or used - because it does provide all the Key functions one would expect, including stuff like a Do Not Disturb function and a logical Spot Cleaning option, that are easy to see and not buried or in odd places. But the reports this system generates and pushes out seem to be saved in a one-deep format and I think it would be better to have 5 or 10 "runs" worth of reports to be able to go back to, and review. I also think the logic behind some of the functions, deeper in the App, could be explained better - but I don't want to chase down that rabbit hole in this review. Suffice it to say, SharkClean needs some tendering loving care and tightening up - like most apps do! There are three levels of vacuum strength; Eco - Normal - Max and the same goes for the mopping. Max mopping leaves the floors noticeably wetter and adds to the dry time. It should also be noted that mopping has three levels of cleaning strength as well as three levels of suction - labeled the same. In Summary: The Shark - PowerDetect UV Reveal 2-In-1 Vac & Mop robot does an admirable job of cleaning, to the areas nearest the baseboards, pretty darn good into the corners and is smart enough to return to problem areas and put in a little extra elbow grease (robotically speaking ofc...) – where needed. At times it sort of appears to be lost but actually it’s just taking short cuts – is my best guess. My hope is this system really learns it’s assigned “zone” and moves within it more precisely, as the weeks & months progress. Pros: Easy to setup and pair to the SharkClean app Good depth of settings to customize both the operation & saved cleaning routines Not too terribly loud in operation apart from the voice announcements - which could benefit from a volume slide control - inside the App. Max suction is quieter than competing models with similar price points. Bagless design -- which is a plus! The fluid reservoirs are ample in size, for our intended use. Expect to be refilling/emptying these frequently if you're trying to conquer your entire home with one device and your square footage is on the larger side The Shark branded cleaning solution is competitively priced per fluid ounce. Overall, I’d say that the build quality is reflective of the price point and generally up to Shark/Ninja standards. Shark/Ninja is a brand we trust. Cons: The mapping function seems a touch imprecise. Perhaps that will naturally get dialed-in over time. Can't' say for sure considering the short time of ownership. Because of this level of inaccuracy, the edges of the rug in our kitchen did get a little bit wet. Not sopping wet but just enough to notice that the mopping zone was off a bit, after multiple "calibration" runs performed by the unit. We’re going to keep an eye on that!