Customer Ratings & Reviews

My son uses hos Apple HomePod mini all of the time. We love the sound and the sleek design. It paired easily and works great! He has it connected in his room.

Got this for me ole mum. She loves it! Thank you Best Buy.

If you are an Apple person than this will be a great purchase. The sound is incredible for the size of this little speaker. The color and shape blends in any room. So far, I love it!

[Employee of bestbuy] 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.

Works well for the size. Good sound but mediocre bass as expected with its size. I purchased two to try out the stereo pairing. It worked well but would occasionally get out of sync with each other. Otherwise, great speakers for the price range.

Great sound from such a small speaker. I was pleasantly Surprised by the amount of bass it puts out. Anybody looking for an affordable smart speaker I would highly recommend.

I’m enjoying my HomePod! My daughter enjoys it also. Wife couldn’t care less. Haha. Great sound in such a portable design - sounds great and fills the room. I do not plan on using it for home security, lights, etc. Just using mainly as a Bluetooth speaker/music player, to check current/future weather...it’s essentially unnecessary for me but there may be more options for usage in the future. I bought it on a whim while already belonging to the Apple eco so it felt like it made sense. I almost gave it 3 stars. 1 less star because it isn’t very “special” to me (yet) and 1 less star for no battery option. I’d like for it to be portable. I almost did not purchase it because of the “no battery” option. BUT...I’ll go 4. It’s a weak 4; more like a strong 3.5 or 3.7. Do you think Best Buy will sell the Apple EV in a few years? Lol

I LOVE THIS SPEAKER! It’s so easy to set up and use not had a single problem, handy when I don’t have my phone and need the weather or timer app!

Great little unit and works well with the apple ecosystem we have in the house. Alot better sound than our Amazon echo units

I 100% love this product it has excellent sound quality, good bass and really shines in the high tones. I bought this product because of the privacy and sound quality. Here are my pros and cons of the product, Pros Great audio Respects your privacy Works with all things apple Great design Cons Expensive White color attracts dirt quickly Requires HomeKit devices for smart home Requires iPhone for setup Overall a great device!

I purchased this item as a gift and it did not disappoint. This is a great product and the sound is great. Its small so easily can be moved from place to place. Highly recommend.

Works great, decent sound quality. Sometimes Siri doesn't hear me if it's a loud room.

I bought this as a way to use a conference call device with AIrPods ease of connection with my iPhone during Covid Work From Home. Its fine w /that respects but the audio quality on my ThinkPad work PC is still superior. But it works as a nice peripheral for Macbooks. Sound quality is solid, but you can probably find better audio quality on other devices at this price point. It lacks the clarity or richness of a Sonos One (which was weirdly the expectation I had for this device) The advantage of this would be the stereo matching of another HomePod but I'm reluctant to spend another $99 for this, especially with Siri still far behind than the range of Alexa or the depth of Google search within Google Home. If Apple were to adjust down to $79, they'd move much more of these.

This smaller HomePod puts out excellent sound. I have not tried pairing two of them to enable the stereo sound. However one by itself in a room sounds amazing. With that being said it’s sound is not on the same level as the larger HomePod. If you want something you can crank up and have bass come from, then you’ll want the regular HomePod. I have two regular ones so I decided to get these in order to add to my Apple ecosystem and have more speakers throughout the house to play music from as I move about. Or have a way to control Apple enabled devices throughout my home, if my phone wasn’t nearby. Overall I would recommend this speaker.

Great product, great sound, easy to use if u have good WiFi. 4 year old daughter knows how to use it as well. I recommend everyone purchase. Love love love. Thanks apple

Now, I've used many wireless digital assistants and speakers. We've used Google home, Alexa, etc. Bought one of these, as it was on a good sale at Christmas, and decided to use it in my office. Digital assistant is a great feature, but the sound quality is what really stands out. Plenty of bass, even at low volumes. Easy to pause/play by tapping the top. Adds music to the office without being boomy or harsh sounding. Would love to have two to pair together!

Have 2 of them paired. They sound amazing. Also i love that they are a backup home hub

Was on the fence in buying this. Came home hooked it up. Works great, placed it in my kitchen I can hear it all the way upstairs. The volume is wonderful.

Surprising sound from a small package. Works great for single room sound, or for the whole house when you have more spread throughout.

The main selling point of this speaker is two things, the ease of use being a speaker made from apply and being in that ecosystem, and the small form factor of the speaker. Both of which were the two things that let me down about this speaker. The first point I will dive into isn't mainly about this speaker but Siri in general and that is to say it sucks. The wait time to get Siri to reply, or do a simple task like stopping my alarm in the morning is more dreadful than just reaching over to my phone and doing it manually. Combining a terrible AI from Apple with a speaker that is supposed to be the hardware version of Siri, it sucks to say that this device failed due to Apple's poor AI. The second portion of this review and the second biggest selling point to the speaker is the form factor which I can say is very small and blends into the background. However due to the small form factor, the speakers suffer greatly, and I am not new to the small form factor speakers as I am coming from products made by UE, Marshall, and Sony to name a few. This product lacks the "umph" that is needed in the small form factor and it unfortunately doesn't have the feature set to justify the Apple price tag.