Customer Ratings & Reviews

We really like the HomePod, it has great sound and works easily with Apple Music and Siri, as well as our HomeKit-enables devices. The only thing we wish is that it would recognize multiple accounts like the Google Home devices do. As it currently stands, it’s tied just to my AppleID, with no way to recognize my families music playlists, notes and reminders, or Contacts/phone calls. That’s why I had to remove a star.

Great easy to use and loud speaker would recommend

Sound is great. Setup is easy. Multi-user is easy to setup, just verify first that family members and ipod mini are using the same WIFI network.

I like it so much I’m thinking about adding another unit for another room.

Way smaller irl than it appears in the pics and videos I’ve watched but big sound.

Small but mighty sound! Excellent if you are in the Apple Music echo system!

Great Speaker Excellent Packaging & Shipping Nice Color

Great Apple did a great job can be used as tv speakers

Pretty good for price. Sound quality is great. Would lime more bass

Omg!!!!! This little speaker is so amazing music sounds like I’m at an intimate live concert

Fast and easy to use. Easy voice commands. Will purchase additional ones for other rooms.

If you buy it to use as a good sounding speaker you will be very happy. Siri is Siri, but she hears you incredibly well even over music. Pair a second one with it for stereo sound and it is incredible. My only gripe is that I ordered Space Gray and received White. It worked out so I'm not going to cause a stink about it.

I really enjoy the sound quality of the mini pod. This speaker blow the competition away.

Use both my home pods with appleTv as surround sound. Works great with good sound.

Love these Homepods, I have 4 of them now. each setup as stereo pairs. One is in my bedroom attached to last gen's 4k apple tv. and the other i have in the living room for music. I have the mini's as well throughout my house. I wish they still sold these!

Great product! The sound quality is very good and easy to use

Works well. Sometimes it randomly plays what it wants when trying to use with Apple TV. Great sound quality. Intercom feature really cool.

Best sound quality in its class. Integration with apple devices is amazing.

Easy to set up and use, I will be buying more of them to use through the house.

The HomePod seems to still fly under the radar for smart speakers. People always ask about them at my house and most have never seen or heard the HomePod before. A lot of people also don’t know about HomeKit and Siri built into it. However, they are always impressed by the sound and quality of the HomePod. I purchased two HomePods awhile back from Best Buy. I snagged open box deals for both of them, considering the original introductory price was a hefty $349. That put the HomePod in the same range of top of the line smart speakers such as theGoogle Home Max, the Echo Studio and Sonos One. With the price reduction now of $199 on sale, the HomePod is more affordable than ever and is a must buy at its current reduced prices. AUDIO FEATURES While one HomePod sounds great, a stereo pair is where this speaker really shines. The soundstage is large and the audio is warm and balanced. Music has rich, deep bass accompanied by crisp, smooth highs and a balanced midrange. Out of the box, the eq settings are perfect and the microphone placements inside analyze the surrounding environment in which they are placed to automatically adjust the EQ of the speaker. As you move it throughout the house, it shines in an open setting or against a wall where it will pump out loud and clear sound without clipping. With a stereo pair (you can pair them in the Home app), the music is then sent as LEFT and RIGHT channels and the quality is unparalleled. You can even pair them with Apple TV for amazing home theatre quality mimicking surround sound or soundbar setup. Music and TV audio will fill the room perfectly. They are plenty loud in any placement and they sound just as good at a higher volume without distortion. You can also handoff audio playing on your iPhone by simply holding your iPhone next to the device. Your iphones audio will seamlessly transfer to your HomePod without interruption. You can then hold your phone next to the HomePod to have the audio transferred back to your iPhone. You can also stream any airplay capable audio to the speakers from your MacBook or other apple device by selecting the HomePod in the airplay drop down menu. SMART FEATURES The HomePod features a touchscreen on the top of the speaker that recognizes certain gestures like the Echo or Google Home devices. The HomePod has no physical buttons, but illuminated to reveal a volume up and down touchpad and a singular circle touchpad in between them that you can tap to pause, play, and skip songs. You can also accept or reject phone calls on the HomePod and utilize the HomePod to talk on the phone. The microphone quality is great - on the phone you come across extremely clear and “Hey Siri” is almost always recognized in any part of the room you say it. Of all my smart devices, this one recognizes my voice more than any other device and I don’t have to yell or repeat myself to get it to recognize me. The HomePod is integration of Siri is where the speaker leaves a lot to be desired. You can use the Siri function just as you would on your phone. You can set alarms, send texts, make calls, ask it to play music, and ask some basic questions such as metric conversions or “Who is Nicholas Cage”. If you’ve used Siri, you’ll know that it is an AI far behind Alexa and Hey Google. Complicated questions confuse it and it often can’t answer simple questions that Alexa and Google are able to answer. Apple is constantly improving Siri, but I use my Google Nest Hub far more for my everyday questions. If you are a HomeKit user, you can control your smart home with the HomePod. HomeKit, however, has far fewer applications where it useful and it is still pretty bare bones in comparison with its counterparts. For my smart home functions Philips Hue, ecobee, SimpliSafe etc, I prefer to use my google home and Alexa. The functions of HomeKit are limited and until it gets better, it is much easier to use another AI for controlling my home. Even though Apple is serious about its smart home integration with the HomePod, it just isn’t useful yet. So if you’re looking primarily for a smart device, choose something else. CONCLUSION For most people that buy the HomePod are aware of this and they buy it for it’s best quality, its speaker. It is far better than any other speaker in my house, and head to head with the Home Max and Echo Studio, it is miles above them with unparalleled sound quality. For the price, it is the best speaker you can buy and you won’t regret the absolutely amazing sound quality. As a stereo pair, it is much better than some of the top speaker brands at a fraction of the cost. Siri is great for asking it to my shuffle my playlists or play certain albums and the hands free nature of being able to ask for music is great. The design is beautiful - the minimalist look fits well in any space and the cloth covering is much more appealing than plastic or other alternatives that many speakers use. It is very much a signature Apple device that is still underrated. If you are looking for incredible sound in a small and reasonably priced device, you cannot get any better than the HomePod.