Customer Ratings & Reviews

This speaker is amazing. Sound quailty is great. Its not wireless but it is 100% worth having. I love it

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!

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.

I have the home pod and decided to get the mini and like how easy it was to set up. I can use both as speakers with my existing sound equipment and adds to our listening enjoyment.

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.

Sound quality is pretty good with impressive bass and clear sound. But the only issue is with connectivity while using with multiple devices. I used with Mac and iPhone but every time after playing from Mac it was unable to connect to iPhone so I had to reset the HomePod. Also, it only supports Apple Music.

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.

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!!!

I got a couple of these HomePod Minis as open-box/used condition. They were actually in really great near-new condition and work great. Definitely great value and worth the purchase at 1/2 price used! I've had Google Assistant as well as a couple Alexa echos. I'm mostly in the Apple eco-system and have wanted to try the homepod for a while. So, review and comparisons ensue ... Sound: Hands down these homepod minis beat both Alexa echo and dot, and Google. Not even close. Both Alexa and Google are dull with little dynamic range, flat and muddy. These have great clarity and range. Clearly too small to be really strong in low-end, but surprisingly good overall! IoT: So far the homepod wins out. I know many will disagree strongly, so let me explain. NONE of the platforms have got it perfect and none of them will work out of the box with all protocols and platforms. I lived with Alexa only for several years and at first I really liked all the skills and integrations - probably more comprehensive than the others out-of-the-box. That said, I got SOOOO sick if it crashing, failing and losing skill settings completely on a very regular basis. I spent WAAAAY too much time troubleshooting and fixing Alexa skills, often requiring deleting everything and starting over. Sooo done with that! Google isn't even worth mentioning, IMO. So, I'm giving the homepods a try as my main IoT hub and assistant. I should note that to integrate the non-homekit devices, I have deployed an RPI device running Homebridge and Scrypted. I've also toyed with HomeAssistant, but for the devices I have HomeBridge is better for me by a good margin. For my use, this setup for IoT has proven to be far more robust, flexible and responsive than Alexa ever was. Internet: Alexa wins by a good chunk. Ask Alexa a general question and she'll give you an answer straight up - ad nauseam at times! Ask the homepod the same question and more often than not she'll only suggest opening your iPhone to look it up - boo! I think Alexa is a little better with games as well (Arkinator!), but we rarely play anything. Can't comment on Google, unplugged that years ago. Listening in: I can't comment on which device may be more secure (almost certainly Apple), or which one listens-in more. What I'm referring to here is more about it waking up when you want it to ... and maybe when you don't! I think Alexa is a bit better at waking up when you call on her. The homepod seems to get lost with ambient noise more. A little frustrating at times to have to repeat commands or yell at the homepod a bit more. They both seem to wake up on false calls - like something said from the TV - at the same rate. Overall I give the homepod the win for my use. I still have my Echos plugged in, but they haven't gotten called on since I deployed the homepods.

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.

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.

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.

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 Apple HomePod mini has completely exceeded my expectations! Connecting it to my Samsung TV and Soundbar through Apple TV was an incredibly simple and intuitive process—Apple’s ecosystem just works flawlessly. The sound quality is phenomenal—rich, clear, and immersive. But the unexpected bonus? I can listen to TV shows and movies directly through the HomePod mini, keeping the audio focused near me without blasting the TV late at night. It’s a game-changer for late-night watching! If you’re looking for a compact, high-quality speaker that integrates effortlessly with Apple TV, I highly recommend the HomePod mini!

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.

nice ascetic's to these…definitely a fan of the color, orange…small speakers with surprisingly great sound..using a pair to get a surround feel…placed them here, for now…still playing with replacement…

Great buy, small takes up minimal space and sound full up the room,

This is the best sounding smart speaker on the market hands down. The sound is crisp and clean and the bass is deep but balanced to perfection. Warning...this speaker only works with iOS devices and you need an Apple Music subscription. Here are a few great features: 1. Siri works great for music searches. 2. Siri will read and reply to texts hands free. 3. Siri will give you current traffic and tell you how long to reach a destination. 4. You can use the HomePod with AirPlay to hear the audio from movies, games, or control Spotify. 5. Siri gives you weather info and sports info including current scores. Bottom line...the HomePod works as advertised with Apple devices and services. This smart speaker is for audio and not for shopping by voice or making calls like an Amazon Echo.