Customer Ratings & Reviews

We have lots of cats and dust in our house so we've put various air purifiers throughout our house to try and keep the air as clean as possible. This Shark air purifier has been a good addition and we're pleased with it so far. It's a nice design and on the auto setting has been totally quiet and unobtrusive. Compared to some others we have, I'd say it's more of a "no frills" model but it does the most important thing: air filtering. It doesn't have Wifi so you can't connect to it via an app. The manual refers to a remote control, but that's an extra accessory that's available for purchase. I guess it's nice to have that option if you really need it, but for the price I thought they would have included it. For the most part, you can just set it and forget it, but it would be nice to turn the bright display off remotely if you forget to do that before getting into bed (for example). There are three display levels, by the way: full bright, medium, and completely off. The noise level is about what I expected. There are four fan levels plus the auto setting where it adjusts the speed based on the sensed air quality. At manual setting 1 it's inaudible in my home environment (about 37dB background level). Setting 2 went up to 48dB, setting 3 was 58dB, and setting 4 was quite loud at 65dB. In theory, you should only need the higher settings for short periods to clear out contaminants. The replacement filters appear to run $70 to $90, the more expensive option being for the filter with Microban antimicrobial coating on it. The filter is easy to remove, and the instructions recommend removing and flipping it over every 3 months to more evenly make use of the filter. It also says the filter should last 6 to 12 months.

I live in a very dusty area of California. I can fathom living without air purifiers in my home. I have several and while a lot of them work well they usually don’ last long and are not as quiet as they state. This leads me to the first couple of things with this purifier it is extremely quiet eve. At max volume it’s lower quieter than most of the purifiers I have had. I love the auto function on this one, as it just lets me set it and forget it in my boys room and it turns on when it needs to. It doesn’t run all day it’s just turns on every so often when the aire starts to get bad. I wish more purifiers auto function worked this well other I have had just stay on and the power of the fan fluctuates but never full stops. I also like the fact that it shows how much of the air has been cleaned in the room on a scale of zero to one hundred makes it very easy to know how clean your air is. I cannot find much to fault this purifier about. It works extremely well and is very quiet which are the two things you could ask for in a purifier. Highly recommended

Talk about cleaning but super quiet. Really like the Auto mode! Once it recognizes the air went from Good to fair it starts working to clean the air ince it does it goes back to low. But the whole time you can hardly hear it

The Shark air purifier Max is a nicely designed unit. It’s not very large, it measures about 22” tall and is 10” wide. The controls are fairly intuitive and easy to figure out. The HEPA filter is easily removed by turning over and unscrewing the bottom of the unit by ¼ turn. I have this setup on my office, I love the black color and the attractive design. I have it set to “Auto” and it runs very quiet, I don’t even hear the fan. The display was showing that the air is clean at 100%. Once it shows 100% for 10 minutes, it enters “eco” mode and supposedly, the filter life will be optimized. In “Auto mode”, the filter should automatically detect changed in the air quality and adjust the fan speed accordingly or the 100% display should change to a lower number. To test this, I placed another HEPA air purifier, let’s call it “Blue” next to the Shark Max and spray painted a plastic model kit in my office. The Blue unit sprung to life pretty much immediately, the fan went on high and a red LED showed instead of the normal blue/green one. The Shark Max did not seem to detect the odors. The odor was quite strong, eventually the Shark display dropped to 99%, but it was still on low speed. The Blue kept running at full speed. Overall I can’t say that I recommend this filter. It failed at detecting very strong paint smells, although the Blue unit I’m comparing it to is approximately 2x the cost of the Shark. I feel the Shark should’ve detected the odors.

I usually use Whirlpool units but I decided to try this unit out because of its 360 compact design. The purifier works great. There are only 2 minor issues: The display is too bright and cannot dim. There is no pre-filter for the filter so you will need to change the filter more frequently

This air purifier is very quite and easy to set up and operate.

Compact and unobtrusive, considering the power, the system was able to manage 900 square feet of unfinished basement storage quite well. I have allergies and always seemed to be bothered after a trip to the basement, after running the Shark for a week, I don't have any trouble after working down there. Set this up in the basement of the house and it made a huge difference over the course of the past few weeks. Filter access and system setup was no fuss and the navigation menus were clear. Cord length was decent for where we located it but depending upon your space you may want a longer cord. A nice feature was the color changing ring around the display. When we first started running it, it was a red ring for two of the three particle sizes and over the course of the first evening it improved to yellow then blue. Variable speed selection is also nice. Set on MAX (4), it was a bit distracting, now we run it down at 1 or 2 and it runs very quietly. Having a remote also makes it easy to switch from across the room. Not sure how long it will be before we need to swap filters, but filter changing instructions are very clearly written.

It was time to upgrade my air purifier and this was a great choice! Will be buying a second for the opposite side of the house!

The Shark seems to work; my cat's allergy symptoms have definitely improved. Also, learned that 'fresh air' from an open window is an illusion and makes the machine work really hard.

Excellent Air purifier! We are very satisfied with our purchase, and we have spreade the news to family and friends.

I feel the freshness ever since acquired the equipment

Great air purifier for the condo. Live in Las Vegas and works great here.

The unit takes up more space than I would have anticipated, but seems to do a pretty good job of cleaning the air. I like that it has an indicator as to how clean your air is, however, it always says our air is 100% clean which I am skeptical of. Despite this, the air coming out does have a "clean smell." It is very quiet, so if you're looking for good fan noise in your bedroom per se this is not the unit for you. Even at full speed, the fan is barely heard. It is nice that the lights are dimmable and able to be turned off completely, as I have this in my bedroom next to my bed so it doesn't keep me awake at night. One thing I do wish it had, though, is a remote control so that I don't have to get up and change the fan speed manually if I want it to be switched from Auto low medium or high. Additionally, the cord is quite short - barely 6ft - so keep this in mind for your placement, as you may need an extension cord. Overall, though, another great household product from the folks at Shark!

Works well. glad i purchased. feels like the air is clearner now.

It makes the air so crisp and clean. I love it! It's amazing!

After researching air purifiers I knew this would be the one for my living room/itches area. I am not disappointed. I have 2 large dogs that shed massive amounts of hair and dander. The air is cleaner, smells better, and less allergens. Couldn’t be happier with this purchase.

a great product ....................................

We purchased this purifier to help remove drywall dust during a home renovation. It's helped, but not as much as we expected. Be sure to look at the square footage, because this didn't cover as big of an area as we had hoped.

Happy with my purchase. Purifier does a great job.

After about 10 weeks it has went to 0% air quality for wxtended periods of time. Unpkugged to reset its fine for a few hiurs and then drops to 0 to100 back to 0 and continues. I dont have the conway or the germaguard doing that. Thought it was gonna be a good alternative proving not to be.