Customer Ratings & Reviews

The Apple HomePod sounds amazing! It’s hard to imagine such a superb sound comes from such a small device. Hands down the best sounding smart speaker there is on the market! Hey Siri feature can use improvement and better integration on the HomeKit. But if you subscribe to Apple Music this is a great addition to buy. Got it on sale and it was worth the sale price.

Added this HomePod with another in the same room for a stereo pair. Wow...brings my Apple Music to a new level all together. Was very surprised as to how good this set-up sounds. Some what on the expensive side but ended up to be well worth the investment for me.

The HomePod impressed me with it's audio quality, no set up needed. It can be placed anywhere, I can hear good bass but not over powering, the voices and instruments are clear even at low volume. The main thing that I don't like is Siri's too loud. It will be nice if she can be softer, that her volume can be turned down without affecting the loudness of the music. This is a nice addition for people who are already lock into Apple eco system. I have tried Alexa before and it just ended up being a paper weight.

Christmas present to myself. I mostly wanted it for music, possibly more Home kit stuff in the future. works well for me. I use lots of Apple products and services so I find it easy to use and convenient. I got my first one from BB for $200 - new on sale. (Probably would not have paid the regular price of $299.) I liked it so much I went back and bought a second one to setup a stereo pair in my living room. Sounds very nice for that listening space. A good wifi internet connection in the room where you place it is needed otherwise you are unlikely to find it useful. Mine occasionally looses the internet and needs to be reset (I unplug the unit wait a few seconds and plug it back in. Open the Home app on my iPhone and check settings. Sometimes it is checking for/waiting for an update). I use iTunes Match and can ask Siri to play any of my hundreds of albums or any of the thousand of individual songs I have uploaded to my iTunes Match account and the HomePod plays them. I love the instant voice activated access to all of my music. Also works with my Apple TV if I want to use the HomePods for my TV sound output. Good product if you know what you are buying and what the current and future uses are/will be with new Home kit functionality and new compatible devices becoming available.

This product is very incredible. I bought it at Black Friday night with a very good price. The sound is very smooth and I can talk with Siri very easy and fast. I was very satisfy when I decide to buy on Best Buy online with this product because it made me reduce $100 at that time.

This was a second HomePod I added in my home office. One was good, but even though it's got 360-degree output of sound, two work together to really fill the space. These are great for almost everything, but fall a little short for spoken word podcasts. We have a Tivoli Audio M1BTSLC Model One Bluetooth radio in my wife's study, and going from one room to another voices are clearer on the Tivoli. That said, for ease of use and overall music playing, we're very pleased.

I was not expecting this to be as incredible as it is. It’s the best Smart Speaker out there! The HomePod is incredibly loud and you can feel base. I was planning on getting a soundbar but connected to my Apple TV, it works as a surround sound speaker. Good purchase!

The homePod is an awesome speaker with great loud sound. I also like how it looks and its cool white color. The things that I hate about it is its expensive price tag and that its Siri is not as smart as Alexa. For this reason, I only use this as an extended speaker of my iphone. It gets pretty useless and unhandy if you don’t subscribe to Apple Music. So unless you have an Apple Music subscription, I recommend that you buy this HomePod.

i was amazed at the quality of sound from such a small speaker! rich and full of bass! excellent for tv speaker versus sound bar! this offers so much more than sound bar because of siri, iphone calls & texts, etc. i’m going to buy two (2) more for living room to go with my new 65” samsung 7 series curve tv! '

At first I was going to rate this a 3/5 because I was using it in my small office (6x8) and it was a little overpowering for the small room, especially sitting on the desk top. My main purpose for it is sound, I don't care at all about the Siri functions. I'll just keep using my power computer speakers in that room for now. So I moved it out into a large kitchen/family room and integrated it in with 4 in-ceiling speakers in that room by putting it across the room on a shelf, and it tied in quite well and improved the sound drastically. The bass is significantly improved and makes the in ceiling speakers sound way better. It sounds great in the kids bedrooms - way better than the little portable battery powered ones they currently use. We've set up an Apple TV & monitor on a desk in one empty room as a 2nd tv watching area and it works great for that. It's impressive how good it sounds alone but would probably be pretty amazing if paired with another in a stereo configuration, so that's likely in the future. I'd like to compare it to a Sonos airplay compatible set for similar pricing though. If I could perform a lobotomy on it and take out Siri I'd like it better. I use "hey Siri" on my phone extensively while driving on hands free. Then I come home and do a fast and easy calculation like "hey Siri what's xxxx plus xxxx" and it stops working on my phone and the HomePod answers from across the room up on a shelf "I'm sorry, I can't do that", while my phone Siri is silent. I think I can disable it but the control interface isn't super great.

Bought on sale during Black Friday, I would not pay full cost for the HomePod, and I would only buy if you are strongly into the Apple ecosystem and you use Apple Music. If you do not subscribe to Apple Music, do not buy the HomePod. Compared to Amazon's Echo, the sound of the HomePod is awesome! However, the echo is superior when it comes to voice commands.

While interested, I had been reluctant to get a HomePod given the price premium, so when it went on sale I snapped one up and I’m very pleased that I did. Amazing sound quality and microphones that can hear my voice even when music is playing makes for a good experience. So easy to set up as well, as it used the settings from my phone during initializing.

I wasn’t sure about purchasing this unit and decided to after all. Wha a sound! Very full and fills up a room. Easy to setup and use. Apple does it again. They know what they are doing. Recommend to buy and enjoy, you won’t be disappointed. Several of my friends have now purchased after hearing mine.

I am really glad I waited for this speaker, and not quick to buy the others other there. It does not compare to other smart devices, because it isn’t branded as a smart device but as a true speaker for music. And it is amazing loud and even when at 10% volume everything is clear and crisp! Recommend playing thunderstorms on this speaker and going to sleep with it playing.

Review name says it all. Sounds amazing. When I first started using this speaker, I was having some connectivity issues with airplay. It might've just been my wifi network though. B/c using it in another residence, I have zero connectivity issues. The NFC capability to transfer whatever's playing on my phone to the HomePod is super clutch.

First of all, I was surprised at how small the Homepod is. I was worried that it would take up too much space on a counter or shelf. It is a perfect size. That said, the sound quality is fantastic and crystal clear. I don't have any smart home products, so I use my Homepod primarily to play music. It works great with Apple Music, allowing you access to all types of music.

The HomePod sounds and looks great! I use it primarily as a speaker, but have found it to be convenient for checking weather, time, telling jokes and so on. It is very cool that I can ask a question from another room, even with some music going, and the HomePod responds. We don’t have any HomeKit automation items yet, but it seems like controlling them with HomePod voice commands should be a snap. I only have two complaints. 1) We have heard random sounds from the HomePod when it should have been not in use. The first was a kind of electric pop sound. It was startling (we were sitting near it) but there was no apparent harm to the HomePod. This has happened only once after about 4 weeks of use so far. I read about other reports of this pop sound. Maybe it is the result of a software update. Recently, I picked up a second HomePod. After just a week of use so far, it has (I think) emitted a 1- or 2-second high-pitched tone one morning at 3:30am three times about 2 minutes apart. In this case, I am not certain it was the HomePod because I couldn’t reach the HomePod quick enough to be sure, but everything else downstairs checked out fine. Again, I suspect the sound resulted from a software update. I expect Apple will resolve the sounds I described. 2) We have an immense iTunes library of both music we have imported from CD and purchased via iTunes. For many years I have used the Remote app to play music from our shared iTunes library and output to speakers around the house connected to Apple TV or Airport Express. So, it would be super convenient to ask HomePod to play music from my iMac shared iTunes library. But, you cannot start music by voice command unless you subscribe to Apple Music (maybe this will change). However, once you manually start music in your iTunes library, you can ask HomePod to skip to the next song or adjust the volume. That’s nice.

I was on the fence about purchasing the HomePod. Didn’t really have a need for it, but purchased to give it a try AND I LOVE IT! I had a Bose Soundlink that I used for pairing with my phone, but I can connect my phone to the Hompod and also my Apple TV to use instead of a sound bar. The sound quality is great and I like the design of it.

Ima start by saying the sound is amazing! Is a speaker so that matters most of all... but apart from that I love Siri, how it can control my lights, my Apple TV, how I can ask her everything... the connectivity with all my Apple devices is just beyond cool!

Awesome! The Dolby Atoms sound is incredible. It is not as good as an actual surround sound set up, but for my open living room it is perfect. The set up was easy and no wires. Siri is responsive from across the room and the A.I. is smart enough to not wake my other Apple devices.