Customer Ratings & Reviews

I do want to start my review by saying that we are an Apple household! Macs, iPhones, Apple TV, and now the HomePod! What I would like to share will all who read this is that this Pod is NOT only compatible with your free 3 month subscription of Apple Music! We did not even have that service until we purchased this HomePod! What we do have is a library of both downloaded and purchased music consisting of approximately 9,675 songs. This HomePod was able to access those songs and play them back to us along side our home music system. I honestly have to say we were BLOWN AWAY at the Depth of the sound quality!!! Crystal Clear Highs, and Billowing Lows! Just completely unexpected quality for such a small unit! One can also run their TV sound system, as well as their Laptop and Home Computer System through the HomePod!!! One of the Best Apple Purchases that we have ever made!

Great sound quality really nice. Going to buy four more to put in each room.

I have been firmly entrenched in the Apple environment, including Apple Music. That said, I was blown away with how good the Homepod sounded in my family room. It is not the equivalent of the several thousand dollar surround sound system in my media room, but it is not far away. I immediately went out and bought a second one for my study. I can now play them individually or play music on them simultaneously using Airplay 2. I could care less about Siri. Buy it for the sound. The Homepod is truly in a class by itself and a steal for the price.

Amazing speaker. Fills the room with incredibly rich music. Excellent base. There is no dead zone, place anywhere and it just kicks. Will buy second once Airplay 2 is release for stereo.

One of my old roommates had an Alexa smart speaker. When we moved apart, I decided to get my own smart speaker. I decided to go with the HomePod for a few reasons: 1. I am a user of Apple Music 2. Sound quality is extremely important, and this is my primary speaker 3. Apple's data privacy is second to none (not the case with Amazon or Google) Overall, I am happy with my purchase. The sound is incredible, and I feel I constantly "rediscover" old albums due to the sound quality. But the smart features are..... lacking is almost too generous. This is essentially a speaker/alarm, and not much else. Hopefully Apple continues to improve the software and voice recognition features of this device.

I purchased this so that it could work with a Schlage smart lock so my family can use their phone or watch to access the house

This is an amazing speaker and produces crystal clear sound. Finally, a smart speaker that gets the whole audio part right! Siri handles all of the normal requests perfectly— weather, traffic, questions about music/artists, plus a great DJ so you don’t always have to reach for your phone/ipad. My previous speaker of choice was a Sonos Play 5– Homepod has since replaced that and the Sonos has been moved to a different location in my house. There really is no comparison between the google/amazon products in terms of sound quality— Homepod blows them out of the water and you actually enjoy what you’re listening to... Makes music fun again!

If you're a music lover - this is absolutely fantastic, and it's a slam dunk in terms of set-up and ease of use. Nerds may not like it, but for the rest of us we get amazing sound quality and really great looking product to boot.

I used it a day and realize it wasn’t worth it. Compatibility isn’t nearly close to Alexa. You need more and more components and adapters to create a connected environment at home. Apple music is not good. Sound and quality is top notch. Very inconvenient regardless

The speaker sounds awesome with clarity and great bass. Pair it with another homepod and it sounds even great. Its nowhere near Google with respect to smartness, the speaker is very dumb. Also be ready to pay $$ for Apple music as it doesnt work with any other music services.

The HomePod Mini is nice for adding Siri and intercom functionality to rooms where you don't spend a lot of time. The audio quality is a big step down from the big HomePods, though, which I regret were discontinued. A pair of the Minis with an Apple TV makes a very nice bedroom TV system, though.

I’ve been blown away by the quality of the sound from this pint sized speaker. The level of engineering it took to extract the audiophile grade sound from this speaker is remarkable. I”m a musician who listens to a very broad spectrum of genres, and this speaker handles them all flawlessly. Music is once again painting a beautiful hue of colors in our household on a daily basis thanks to the HomePod. The sound is very reminiscent of the days of old when I would listen to records on my friends record player through Cerwin Vega speakers. Very warm, clean and pristine sound.

I first awarded this product four stars, but realized I was holding the product to Apple standards, and were it made by someone else I would've given it five, so I changed it to five. Awesome sound with one caveat I'll mention at the end. Very accurate with voice recognition, the whole package. Wish the software update was out to make a second HomePod stereo. The one sound caveat previously mentioned is that on certain songs the sound is so bass heavy that the bass sounds unnatural and the mids are masked a bit; overall it misrepresents the song. That problem is precisely why I don't own the even more problematic bass leaning Beats Headphones. Overall highly satisfied with the HomePod.

I just purchased a HP Mini to try out, and it looks like its “computational audio” is going to be a deal breaker for me–at least until they supply them with some form of tone control or EQ. I want to use it primarily as an intelligent radio for my kitchen, but its reproduction of NPR’s male speaking voices is to my ears very unpleasant, chesty and boomy. At first I thought I might be dealing with boundary effect, but it’s the same no matter where I put it (or my head). I suspect it’s too smart for that sort of tactic and that whatever “bass extension” algorithm they’re using to make (pop) music sound (fairly) good wherever you put it is somehow overemphasizing the 125kHz octave. Too bad, I guess I’ll be returning it.

I wanted to give this time four stars but could not. Although it plays clearly and loud, I do not like that it is not wireless and it cannot be used with other devices other than Apple. It takes some time to figure out but overall good product.

I told myself I was not going to splurge on this little new device from Apple, but since I have an Apple Music subscription and love listening to music, I couldn’t resist. I’m very glad that I did! The sound is as good as the critics say. My impression is that the HomePod separates each ‘layer’ of the song into vocals and invdividual instruments, making each sound its absolute best. I have a BOSE speaker that just doesn’t come close in terms of sound quality without distortion when increasing volume. Overall, I’m highly pleased with the purchase. I personally do not mind the limitations with Siri; I knew that Siri still needs work when I made the purchase.

I bought this for my desk to listen to podcasts and a little music from my iPhone, and there are always issues whenever skipping at all. For example, whenever an ad comes on, I click the 15 second skip a few times and then the HomePod completely stops playing, and the only way to resume it is by killing the app (doesn't matter if it's youtube, podcasts app, spotify, etc.) and restarting the audio or by disconnecting your phone from the homepod and reconnecting it. If you're buying this to use as an external speaker for your computer. there's a noticeable lag with the audio of about a second when you pause and play. So when you pause the audio, you have to wait a second or two before it actually stops. There are also a lot of issues with Siri - when you need to use it, either both your phone and the homepod go off and conflict with each other and it ends up not working, or the homepod listens and says it completed the request but then it actually did nothing. The only good things I can say about this is it looks good, it's compact, the audio quality is good, and the tap to transfer audio is convenient (doesn't always work on the first try but it does about 75% of the time).

Tried using as a speaker for my desk. Sound wasn't that great and the connection kept getting interrupted. Most importantly, it doesn't support spotify natively. Returned and got an Echo instead which sounds way better and supports spotify for 30% less.

Still trying to decide where to put this since I like it and have 2 places but only one mini.

I love Apple products!!! But, I’ve done a comparison side by side of the Home Pod and the Bose Soundlink Resolve Plus, as well as the Bose Soundlink Mini II. Both of the Bose portable speakers easily outperformed the Apple Home Pod. The Home Pod bass sounded “boomy” while the Bose products sound deep and no boominess. The Bose speakers had more volume and cleaner crisper sound. And they are cheaper than Home Pod. Home Pod is designed to work only with Apple Music. However, Apple Music works with the Bose Speakers just as well, and Siri commands work well with Bose, using your Apple devices linked to the Bose speakers via Bluetooth. Home Pod is overpriced for the quality you get. You are better off to use your Apple device (iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Mac Book, etc) paired with the Bose Soundlink Resolve or Bose Soundlink Mini II. And the Bose speakers are wireless and play for 12 to 16 hours before needing recharged. The Home Pod is not portable. It operates via a 110V power cord. I’d wait for a future version of Home Pod that’s wireless and with improved sound quality.