Customer Ratings & Reviews

"The Apple HomePod Mini is a great addition to any home, offering high-quality sound in a compact and affordable package. Its seamless integration with other Apple products makes it a no-brainer for Apple users looking to expand their smart home setup. The device's voice recognition is incredibly accurate, allowing for easy control through Siri, and the convenience of being able to ask Siri anything makes it an excellent companion for daily tasks. Overall, I highly recommend the Apple HomePod Mini for anyone looking for a powerful and compact smart speaker.

I first bought a HomePod when they came out back in February. I ended up returning it due to lack of justification of cost for yet another speaker in the house. I am not concerned about the smart features as much as sound quality. I was amazed at the sq then as I am today. I just bought one again because I found myself missing it a lot, and also had a hefty trade in value to gift card from an iPhone. The size and sound, convenience of playing my Apple Music subscription through it is great. The house is full of Apple products so that’s no issue and I love airplay2 and seems reliable. If sound quality and Apple Music are your thing, I highly recommend.

A little background here, I have done tracking, mixing, some mastering and music production. And have some very accurate main monitors. Is the HomePod on that level? Well no, but they Do sound very good, I am impressed, the size, the fact of the great sale price at Best Buy, and that it was delivered the day after I ordered. Siri makes all this a blast, and sets it apart from my studio mains, still getting the hang of talking to a speaker! Have no issues with Siri understanding me the way some do.. I have yet to add HomeKit stuff. I can see how it will all be useful. Zero issues with setup, copied what it needed off of iPhone , network, was auto setup..pretty cool. Sound quality is very Very good for its size. Build quality is typical apple, that’s a good thing. The home automation, having Siri, to set alarms or sleep timers, and current sale price make this a great value. Got a second for a stereo set up. Hats off to Best Buy, and apple on this one. Recommend!

This is the first one of these we have bought. The set up was easy and works great with iPhone. Automatically sync your settings from iPhone and works great with Siri. It allows multiple user to sync with it and recognizes when that user is near. I plan on purchasing more of these to set up in other areas of the house, so that when we move around it will follow us. It even works as an intercom to talk to other users in other parts of the house. I did purchase this one from Best Buy and then found out that they no longer give reward points for Apple products, so I will purchase all my Apple devises directly from Apple. If you have a Apple credit card and put your purchase on it you get 6% back unless you do a 0% payment plan, then you only get 3% back. Still a pretty good deal.

I really like this speaker. The sound is as good as anything else at this price point and is as strong as any for a smart speaker. Set up is easy using an iPhone (more on that in a second), and it does what you need it to do. It also has a small profile. I would recommend getting two of these as opposed to one of the main HomePod, as these can go anywhere and provide great sound. The one downside I've experienced so far is that Siri takes longer to fulfill requests and commands on my home network. Other smart speakers are snappy and quick but the HomePod will often tell me to "hang on." Again as other smart speakers on my network respond better it's probably with the unit but hopefully this will be addressed on a future software upgrade. The other thing is that buying this speaker will cement users further in the Apple ecosystem. I would not recommend anyone use this with an Android or non-iOS device. That said if you are an iOS fan, by all means. As time goes on I am sure I will discover other uses for this but for now it's a very good and promising unit.

The unit is small and easy to sit in small places. The sound quality is good for its size and the ease of use is excellent. I have it located in a nice sized kitchen and it fills the room pretty good. If you need a little more room filling sound, you may want to buy the higher tiered model. I wish it was completely wireless by using a rechargeable battery instead of using a wired power adapter. A totally wireless speaker makes it easier to use anywhere without the need of an electrical outlet.

This was a birthday gift I got and I absolutely love it!! I love telling Siri to play a playlist podcast or song asking her to play something for me and being able to control the lights and tv in my room also love that I can set an alarm and have it play my playlist so I wake up listening to my favorite music! You can also set the alarm to play podcasts too! I love that it acts as a hub so I can control my HomeKit devices away from home if I accidentally leave the tv on or lights on or even the HomePod on playing music! It’s got amazing sound quality and the volume is great I can hear it from afar if I have it up loud and I love that I can tell Siri to lower or raise the volume! The bass and everything is just amazing!!!

Love it great sound small package pair well with iOS home system

This little speaker looks cool and sounds amazingly rich—punching way above its weight. The speakerphone function works seamlessly, delivering far more utility than I expected.

The HomePod Mini sounds excellent, but because of its size is has less bass than the original HomePod. The Mini is perfect for small rooms, and the ability to pair two of them together to make a stereo pair for Apple TV is fantastic. If you have multiple HomePods and HomePod Minis in your house, you can AirPlay music to all of them. If you have a HomePod in all your rooms, the intercom feature is excellent to send voice messages to your whole household or specific HomePods. If you're into Apple’s HomeKit ecosystem, the HomePod Mini is in a great smart hub to manage your HomeKit compatible devices. It is future-proof since Apple added the new Thread network protocol, which is yet to roll out in new smart home devices.

I have one in every riom in my house!! Works seamlessly with my Apple ecosystem. Easy set up. Big sound. Perfect for my smart home

Great sound for such a small speaker. Perfect for small rooms like restroom or small bedrooms. The sound is pushed to the bottom and bounces off the surface to create full sound. Sometimes it does feel a bit too bass-y, / heavier on the lows and wish it had slightly clearer sound. It never distorts but it’s more comfortable to listen within the 50 to 75% volume range. Maybe that’s because I live in an apartment and I’m too scared to get too loud. The cloth covering on the white one seems to show slight imperfections around the top and where the cloth is stitched right where the cable is. Wouldn’t say it’s a dealbreaker, but feel like it’s probably less noticeable on the black one.

I already had a HomePod for my main living area. I bought this one to use in my bedroom. I enjoy how I can choose different music for each HomePod directly from your iphone. I verbally speak to Siri to play my playlist. This small speaker surprisingly has a lot of bass. I can ask Siri the temperature and or to set my alarm. I didn't buy the Amazon echo to prevent myself from over spending on ordering items. I don't like the cord. It does pair easily via bluetooth to my phone, laptop, ipad, and etc. I use my HomePod daily to listen to podcasts as well. I like this mini speaker, because I didn't want to buy two large HomePod. Visually it is aesthetic and cost efficient.

Setup was straight-forward to use the HomePod Mini to stream YouTube Music. The sound is far richer and fills the space far more than you'd ever imagine something this compact would produce.

I was really impressed with these the first time I turned the music on in my house. I got one for the kitchen and one for the bathroom. They’re perfect for these spots because they take up so little space. In a small space like an average sized bathroom in hey really shine because of the room gain you get with the bass. But the sound really blew me away when I went upstairs and was directly above our downstairs bathroom and could actually hear and feel the tiny speaker through the floor. The intercom function is useful and Siri really does seem to be more well tuned on this than even my iPhone. If you’re in the Apple ecosystem these things are a no brainer at the price.

The HomePod mini is a fantastic addition to my home ecosystem. For its compact size, the sound quality is great—it easily fills the room and handles daily music playback beautifully. I use it daily and have successfully integrated it into my smart home, including setting up an automation to use music as my morning alarm, which works flawlessly. The seamless setup and powerful integration with Apple HomeKit are huge wins for the device. However, Siri definitely needs work. While basic commands are fine, the voice assistant frequently struggles with more complex requests or understanding context. I sincerely hope future software updates bring better, more responsive functionality to Siri to truly unlock the potential of the HomePod mini. Overall, it's a solid smart speaker and a great smart home hub.

Full Disclosure - I did end up returning this HomePod. I just don't think the concept is for me. That said, I was really impressed by this little speaker. The amount and quality of the sound that came out of this little orb was nothing short of incredible! The main reason why I bought this speaker is because it can be an Apple Home Hub with Matter support, which is very important for smart homes. However, the Apple TV can also provide the same experience, and I don't really use speakers, so the Apple TV made more sense for me. Still, this speaker was really impressive in it's quality, was simple to use, and I LOVED the blue color that I purchased. If I listened to more media out loud, rather than with my AirPods, this would have been a no-brainer.

Sounds surprisingly good for something this small. If you’re in the “Apple Ecosystem” then I’d highly recommend. Being able to play music without tying up your phone is huge. We use it to play calming music for the dogs when we’re gone during the day. I plan on getting more. I do wish it was closer to $75 vs $100

I've tried all of the smart speakers, and really think Apple has the best. I've bought full Alexa and Google Home setups, and ended up returning them. They will advertise they do all of these things, but you may be able to get it to work once, then you're just out of luck. Nothing but constant problems. Automations never worked. Anything even mildly complex beyond "Alexa, turn this on", they just struggle with. Third-party skills are usually incredibly poorly developed and barely function. I thought Google Home was a lot better than Alexa, but both of them had non-stop problems. Amazon devices seem to be incredibly cheaply made, mainly software. I've been over at family members houses and randomly their echo speaker will start playing someone else's recordings. Just all around really terrible frustrating experiences. I've been getting into the Apple ecosystem lately, and decided to give HomePods a try. Most Apple smart home devices are quite a bit more expensive than their Amazon/Google counterpart (although Google's prices have been coming up, hopefully means better quality), but with Apple you really get what you pay for. Never really had any problems with HomePods. I really like streaming audio all throughout my home, it has worked nearly flawlessly. I bought some more expensive Phillips Hue lights. Before, with smart lights, they would randomly disconnect and you'd have to re-set them up, it was ridiculous, with Apple HomeKit and these Hue lights they never have any issues. Audio quality on HomePod minis is also a whole lot better than echo or google home speakers. The downside to Apple smart home devices is they don't have as much functionality. I think mainly in terms of third-party support. For example, I have a Shark smart vacuum that with the Amazon and Google speakers, in theory, you should be able to tell it to clean a room. In practice it almost never worked. Even with an Xbox you're supposed to be able to tell it to turn on your xbox or load a specific game, or to show your security cameras. This really never worked right for me either. So, with Apple it doesn't have as much functionality from third-parties, but from my experience what it's missing really didn't work for the most part on their competitors platforms, so it's really not missing out on much. But like with other Apple products, they don't sell you something that doesn't work. It's very high quality, music sounds amazing, the microphone does a great job of picking up on your voice. I do wish they'd add a few things though, like being able to tell Siri to play an audiobook rather than having to airplay it, it would be cool if you could get notifications from your phone on these, and I think integration with Apple TV could be better, although I think the recent updates were supposed to add on that.

Overall, the Apple HomePod mini has exceeded my expectations. It combines excellent sound quality, smart home integration, and a sleek design into a compact package. I highly recommend it to anyone in the Apple ecosystem or anyone looking for a reliable and stylish smart speaker.