Customer Ratings & Reviews

Bought this mini HomePod, as I wasn’t completely sold on the HomePod. I’m used to buying Harmon kardon Bluetooth speakers. 100$. Great little speaker. Very responsive, easy to use , good sound. If you like Apple products this one is a great addition to your home, or office.

Sound better than expected. I have a Sonos home and wanted to give these little guys a chance. Ended up buying two when they were on sale for 20% off. I have them paired in stereo and tied to an Apple TV 4K in my office. For they size they do have a decent sound quality but do not compare to a Sonos one. I wanted better sound for my office TV so have these a shot. They were cheaper then a Sonos beam but work great for my requirements. I haven’t figured everything out about them yet. Seems I won’t ever use their full features without have these all over the house. We use Sonos with Alexa all over so most of my smart home devices aren’t HomeKit compatible.

Really good punch for the size! I bought this as a gift for someone and I have the original HomePod which sound is amazing. The mini is very loud for its size without distortion. Very pleased with the purchase.

A nice addition to the Apple ecosystem. It sounds good and works as a hub for your HomeKit accessories. Setup is quick and easy using your iPhone. I have the original HomePod setup as a stereo pair and I believe these would make a great stereo system especially for smaller spaces.

Nice little speaker works in tandem with my other home pod to create stereo sound

The quality works great works right at the box. Easy to set up with new iPhone works great with Apple Music.

We purchased two of these and it has been a great addition to our household the kids love it and we can intercom between rooms and it really has great sound! We will be getting more to place around the house!

A lot of big sound from this small package. A lot extra features in a small package.

I actually have 2 sets of these little speakers. 1 in the bedroom where we can listen to music as we try to fall asleep. The other in the family room where we can listen to our favorite music instead of watching TV.

Awesome device for my home. I like how this is a lot smaller then the original model. It works great with my home automation setup. Speaker inside has good quality sound but I don’t fully use it for that purpose.

That's incredible, love the sound of the speaker, we called with my family "Tiny Sun" it's amazing

Bought this to run and operate my apple HomeKit. It has made using my Apple TV’s, lights, and my other smart devices very simple. I plan to buy a couple more just to have around the house.

I already have several of these, I like that they can be connected to each other, good sound quality and perfect to add it to your apple tv and watch movies

I bought this after signing up for Apple Music and wanted a compatible speaker. Great sound, very easy to set up (just hold your iPhone up to it), and definitely worth the money.

Great sound, great integration with the Apple ecosystem, compact. Basically everything I want in a speaker. I picked it up on sale for $80, which made it a great value in my opinion.

Great sound, great value. For a little speaker, this is able to easily fill up a room. The price point makes it a great value. I wish the charger was a bit smaller, but that is a minor gripe.

I purchased two of these mainly for the small size. I use them as a speaker pair with my Apple TV in my bedroom and it creates a great surroundsound. It also works perfectly with all my HomeKit enable devices

Love it for my office. It is perfect size and color and has easy connection with my phone and desktop.

I waited nearly a year to purchase the HomePod until it went on sale for a not inexpensive, but much more reasonable price for an innovative and well executed speaker design. I took some time to “burn in” the speaker components with a variety of music styles, something done with higher end speakers in expectation of bringing out audio warmth and fidelity. I even placed it in a bay window enclave to act as a sort of speaker horn enclosure so as to enhance the projected sound. Such were my high hopes for how well the HomePod might perform. After all, it had been hyped and compared to higher end stereo equipment due to its genuine technical advances in speaker design. Its WiFi only input maximized the digital music information the advance computer chip could upscale for the multiple speakers calibrated for each personalized listening area. Well, it turns out not to be the aural renaissance of bookshelf audio systems, an unrealistic expectation Apple perpetrated upon itself for this device. Nonetheless, it is a compact and competent sound system that produces music with enough quality to lose yourself in it, absent of harsh or distracting distortions in the musical reproduction. It is a joy to merely ask for whatever song or album comes to mind from memory or suggestion and then be able to listen effortlessly to faithfully reproduced music. That said, and despite being a fan of the Apple ecosystem who harbored high hopes for how well the HomePod would perform, it is evident that it is not, and never will be a high-end bookshelf speaker system that transforms the music from the mundane into some superlative version. Moreover, it is ironic and frustrating that in trying so hard to be more than it is via strict audio source inputs, it is transformed into less than it could be if only Apple would “jailbreak” the HomePod. For starters, it could at least allow Bluetooth 5 audio connections for input. That would unleash it as a top-notch Bluetooth speaker free from depending upon a WiFi network, freely accessing whatever sound sources were available to the listener. A USB-C input would be a cinch winner also, simultaneously inputting audio and charging the audio input device. Yes, I know that would impinge on the revenue stream from Apple Music that is the real money to be made by Apple with the HomePod, but it would enable a moderately high-end audio system and an ultimate midway audio system. It would likely be the preeminent sound system for small-spaces like apartments, dorms, offices, RV’s, work spaces, sheltered exterior spaces, etc. At the same time, doing so would not prevent it serving as the aspirational sound system Apple envisioned. It would dovetail nicely into maximizing their high-dollar X series phones that now have Bluetooth 5, which seemingly allows virtually lossless digital streaming rather the the garbage in, garbage out hyper-compressed digital formats inherent in previous Bluetooth iterations. As it is, the HomePod has garnered a precious small percentage of the smart speaker market as they have virtually required an Apple Music subscription to make use of their speaker. In pursuit of their version of the perfect sound system, Apple has destroyed the very good, and for most customers of a device like this, good enough is perfect. That still leaves the not-so-smart-speaker problem of poor, dear, simple Siri’s incompetence at summoning anything but Apple Music (or most anything else reliably) that severely limits HomePod's utility as a go-to music and other listening device. That one will not go away until Apple develops the in-house talent to build Siri out as seemingly envisioned originally, or the in-house vision to develop her by building out that talent however those billions of earnings might increase product value. Then Siri might just tell me she does not have access to Willie and Lobo in her music catalogue rather than giving me some random Willie Nelson album.

Pretty good sound for a speaker this size. Would have loved Bluetooth connectivity. I realized two speakers work drastically better than 1.