13 Best Air Purifiers (2022): HEPA, Portable, and Quiet | WIRED
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13 Best Air Purifiers (2022): HEPA, Portable, and Quiet
Welcome to the future, where clean air is a luxury. From pandemics to wildfires, air purifiers have become the gotta-have-it home appliance. Buildings let in a lot of particulate matter, volatile organic compounds, and vaporous chemicals. Indoor plastics, furniture, paint, and flooring off-gas noxious fumes too. There's also evidence that air filters can help clean Covid-causing virus particles from the air.
Since your home might be your workplace, playground, meditation studio, dine-in restaurant, neighborhood bar, refuge, and movie theater, you want to ensure that the air you're breathing for most of the day is clean. These are our top air purifiers. We ran them in a New York City apartment, a Long Island apartment, a Dallas-area apartment, and a Portland, Oregon home. We tested them during wildfire season and in living rooms, kitchens, and bedrooms. All of these purifiers provided significant anecdotal benefits, from stopping persistent coughs and allergy symptoms, to helping us wake up with clearer sinuses and less raspy throats.
Not sure if you need an air purifier or something else? We have a guide to all the different devices that can help you improve your indoor air quality. For more home tips, take a peek at our other guides, including the Best Robot Vacuums and the Best Mesh Wi-Fi Routers.
Updated May 2022: We've added the Bissell Air320 Max and Aura Air, and removed the Dyson Pure Humidify+Cool, as it's been discontinued.
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Best for Small Rooms
Coway Airmega 200MFor sheer simplicity and affordability, the Airmega 200M will do the job for most people's lives, houses, and budgets. The compact, attractive device easily fits into a corner of my bedroom and is effective for spaces up to 361 square feet. It saves energy with an included air quality monitor that turns the machine off when no pollution is detected and automatically increases the fan speed if it detects particles. When my dog plopped down in her bed, or when I cooked bacon with the bedroom door open, the Airmega 200M roared to life. You'll probably want to turn off the AQ monitor's bright light at night, though. —Adrienne So
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Best for Living Rooms
Coway Airmega 250Coway's Airmega 250 splits the room capacity between its bedroom and office model, the 200M, and the excellent Airmega 300/400 series. This is the perfect size for a typical living room or den. It captures 99.999 percent of particulates down to 0.1 microns, which makes it capable of tackling wildfire smoke and big-city pollution. The washable prefilter keeps the replaceable HEPA filter lasting longer too. And, hey, it looks like the air purifier version of a 1994 Plymouth Acclaim, but in an endearingly hip way; retro without trying to look retro. —Matt Jancer
★ Another alternative: The Airmega 250S ($361) is the smart version of the standard Airmega 250. You can conveniently view air status and control it with your phone via an app. If you find them both at similar prices, it might be worth the small upgrade.
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An Affordable Big-Room Air Purifier
Honeywell HEPA InSight HPA5300BThis Honeywell is rated for rooms up to 500 square feet, which is on par with the other large-room air purifiers we tested. It's also very lightweight and easy to pick up and move around with its built-in handle. Inside, it packs two HEPA-grade filters and an activated carbon prefilter for trapping volatile organic compounds such as cooking odors. When air quality dipped inside my apartment, the InSight quickly ramped up its fan and sucked up the odors or invisible particulates. For under $300, you get a strong-performing purifier with an automatic set-it-and-forget-it mode, plus you can tote it from room to room. —Matt Jancer
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