Coway - Airmega AP-1512HHS

I have the Coway AP-1512HHS (the app-enabled Airmega, there’s also a dumb version that can’t connect) that I use via a HACS integration.

Sorry, what "air quality problems"? Can't say we've noticed any, with our 3 air purifiers running 24/7 in a one-bedroom apartment... 😉 (Both of us have pollen allergies and one of us has asthma.) That should answer your question. Seriously, buy an air purifier. Once you feel the difference you'll probably end up getting a few more. We've got two of the medium Coway models (Airmega AP-1512HH or 200M) and a smaller BlueAir. They also help with smells -- bathroom, pet, or cooking. Highly recommend the Coways because they: * Are whisper-quiet on all but the highest setting, and can auto-adjust (though we usually leave them on medium because they get loud if they kick into high). * Move a lot of air for their size * Have filters that last way longer than they're rated for (as long as you clean the prefilter) * You can turn the main light on the purifier off for use in a bedroom at night Tip: it's better to get several medium air purifiers and put one in each room or area rather than getting just one big one.

Anything Coway! I have a 240 and a 1512;both are great unit the 240 is alittle better and definitely quieter.

Coway Airmega AP-1512HH has been my go-to for a couple of years. It’s compact, quiet, and works like a charm for medium-sized rooms (up to 361 sq. ft.). The 4-stage filtration system (pre-filter, HEPA, carbon, and ionizer) is super effective at removing dust, allergens, and odors. I love that it has an eco mode to save energy when the air quality is good. It’s reliable and low-maintenance.

I second Coway. I have the [Coway Airmega AP-1512HH](https://www.reddit.com/r/ApplianceAdvice/comments/1cx5tt5/best_air_purifier_to_buy/) and it is a fantastic air purifier to improve indoor air quality. It's quiet, efficient, and has a sleek design that blends seamlessly into any room.

Coway AP-1512. My only complaint is that they lack a child lock button and my cats like to walk across the buttons and make changes. I’m looking into a whole home purifier for my HVAC system, though.

Coway Airmega 350, Winix 5500-2 and Coway Airmega 1512.

Winix 5500-2 or Coway Airmega 1512

Winix 5500-2 or Coway Airmega ap-1512hh

Winix 5500-2 or 5510. Also Coway Airmega ap-1512hh

With the Winix yes. It has a feature called Plasmawave which you can turn off. Coway doesnt have any ozone. I have an 8 month old, and the Winix hasn't bothered her at all. We keep plasmawave on all the time.

I just bought the coway airmega ap-1512hh. It was wirecutter’s pick, the amazon reviews were positive, done. I have a new apartment so been buying quite a bit and couldn’t be bothered to go down a rabbit hole of comparing fifteen different products. It’s working well. I do wish it was WiFi enabled. But I bought it for pretty much the same purpose, improving the room smell as I have a very elderly rabbit who no longer uses his litter box. They have a special pet filter but I decided to try out the one it came with for a few days and see if I felt it was necessary - it wasn’t. I don’t think any one air purifier can do the whole house unless it’s attached to your HVAC system. I’m probably going to get another one for the bedroom.

I'm also liking Coway. I got 3 of the 1512hh for the bedrooms and so far I'm linking them. Then I got the blueair 211i max and realized that the fabric is the pre-filter. I'm in Los Angeles so I got it because of the wildfires and possible asbestos but I'll be returning it because of this design. I didn't it try at, just took it out, saw how it's all attached together and tomorrow I'll send it back. Waste of time. I now got a Coway mega 1216l I hope it works better, it was only $100

The Coway AP-1512 (and the Coway Airmega 200, which is almost the same thing) are still good picks, as is the Winix 5500-2. All three have similar performances, including cleaning airborne viruses. I would also look at the Levoit Vital series, and the new PC fan filters like AirFanta and CleanAirKits. [https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-air-purifier/](https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-air-purifier/)

You’ll typically see the same top-rated models across Wirecutter, Consumer Reports, and Tech Gear Lab: the BlueAir Blue Pure 311i+ Max, Coway Airmega 1512HH, and Winix 5500. The best choice probably depends on the size of the space you’re trying to cover. For my downstairs rooms, I went with two BlueAir units (the 311 and 211 models). BlueAir offers a 25% discount for teachers, military, police, and possibly firefighters (can’t recall for sure), available in both the U.S. and Canada. They also offer a 15% discount on filter replacements if you sign up for a 6-, 9-, or 12-month subscription. For my upstairs office/bedroom—since it’s a smaller space—I went with the Coway Airmega 1512HH and have been happy with it.

Coway is regarded pretty highly I just bought an airmega 400 but something like the airmega 1512 has been a top performer in its class and it's on a sale RN for 165.

AirMega is better imo for bedroom.... 1512 lights up the room at night.

I have the 200m. I'm sure the 1512 would also. And prob higher models

Two COWAY 1512 Mega units, one on each floor

I had my eye on the HATHASPACE HSP003 but found its app alerts too jarring, so I swapped it for the Coway AP‑1512HH.

Coway Airmega AP-1512. This thing goes nonstop, is quiet, and does a great job. Inexpensive to run as well. ~$170

I highly recommend the Coway Airmega AP-1512HH, it’s currently on sale for $210 on Amazon. I’ve been using it for a few months now and it’s definitely the best I’ve used. It also has different filter kits for different uses (standard, allergen, smoke, and pet).

I have a Coway AP1512. One day I’ll get an air mega. I live in ~500 sq ft apartment with two cats. I keep it in my living room near where their litter area is (hall). It takes up so much dust and hair it’s wild. I can tell it works because it’s light sensor goes off when I put on perfume or baby powder in the bathroom, which is well away from where the filter is, or when I fry or bake anything. It’s really sensitive. That plus keeping the windows closed on smoke days has been a game changer!

I got the Conway Airmega 1512 a couple weeks ago and have been super happy with it so far.

I’ve got a Coway 300S in the main living area of my house (kitchen, dining room, living room), and a Coway 1512 in my bedroom. Both have been great! Highly recommend Coway.

I recommend getting Coway but having one for each room. The Coway Airmega AP-1512HH is really good and there are good prices for new units on eBay - I just got one there recently. It’s not very loud and actually the noise is not too bad compared to Levoit & I have extreme noise sensitivity issues.

I had it and replaced it with the Coway. The Coway is a beast compared to it, it is much better.

Like others, I swear by the Coway Airmega, but that’s just brand/model loyalty. You’ll want you check each model’s CADR score - the higher the number, the faster the unit filters the air. Decide what your ideal budget is, and find the unit with the highest CADR at that price point.

Coway Airmega 1512. I’ve bought several of these for myself as well as friends/family. It’s been #1 on Wirecutter several years in a row. It should be $200-300 on Amazon - wait for a sale as it goes down to $200 often. Second choice would be Clorox medium room. FWIW, I’m an air quality scientist.

The Coway ap-1512 is probably cheapest one worth buying, IMHO. You should also think about running cost - keeping filters reasonably fresh. Generic Coway filters are readily available and good quality, plus it’s energy efficient and quiet.

Our 1512HH is GREAT! We keep it on AUTO, and it only ever hits the high fan setting when we’re cooking something extra smoky bc our range hood fan (doesn’t) SUCKS!

I’ve got one of these and the Coway Airmega 1512HH as recommended in another comment. Both work very well, but the Winix makes noise on all speed settings, while the Coway is silent on low, near-silent on medium, and makes a much more pleasant air rushing sound on high than the Winix.

It can be turned off easily.

I have a cat with asthma! I got two of the coway airmegas and they work great. In a one bedroom apartment. The asthma attacks went way down

i have two of the coway airmega ap-1512hh. i think it has an optional ionizing function which i leave off. read it basically does nothing either way. but i highly recommend the model! also great for smells

Coway Airmega AP-1512HH Got 2 of these last year. Mold, mildew, cats, dust. I have allergies and asthma. My rescue inhalers now last months instead of weeks.

I also have two of the Coway Airmega AP-1512HH and they work great! Easy to clean and replace filters.

I was going to suggest, like many top contributors here do, getting one purifier per floor and one for the bedroom — I had three AP-1512HHs in mind. But since you mentioned setting up a wedding registry, you might consider going with two Airmega 250S units and one Airmega 350 instead. Congratulations on your wedding, by the way!

It's a good purifier and moves a lot of air. It's not the most energy efficient or cost effective large filter out there, though. Multiple smaller filters may cost less and perform better together due to better air mixing. I've also noticed that it winds up with less large or lint-type dust and hair, including cat hair, on the pre-filter than the multiple Coway 1512HH that we keep in other rooms and that we used to have in the same double room where the 400 is now. I think this is because of lower face velocity of the air, due to the 2x filter surface area (which on the plus side lowers resistance, increases energy efficiency and filter life, and decreases noise). And potentially also because it's higher off the floor. It may not be trapping all the heaviest particles, which would settle to the floor eventually in any case. It's a good idea to vacuum regularly because of that (and in any case). Some things to help you with your decision. If you do go with it, try to find a sale because they're often steeply discounted.

We have three of the same purifiers in our house and love them!

IMO they’re not that expensive. I get replacement ones for $40 on amazon and they last me a year. It comes with 2 outer layer replacements (that are changed 2x a year) and one inner layer replacement that’s changed 1x a year.

Same here! Got one for each room last year, and very satisfied with it so far.

Second the Coway Airmega! It is a beast, honestly. I’ve had it in my bedroom for over a year now, and you can literally feel the difference in air quality. 

I bought the coway airmega last year and love it ever since. The filter is really easy to change and it runs pretty quietly on low settings.

No, just the AP-1512

Amazon has some black Friday cyber Monday deals. I just picked up the coway 1512hh for my son's room, and a winix 5500-2 for the kitchen. Both on sale are under 300 all together. I'd recommend those for a bedroom and or living area depending on size of the rooms. I believe the coway has a pet filter optional you can purchase which may or may not help more. Ideally you'd want 4 air changes per hour or more in each room you'll mostly be in with the pets. There are calculators to help you understand

I wanted a shorter height purifier for my son's room. And have been interested in coway. I also decided to get the 1512 as I read you can swap in the carbon pellet filters with some modification that they offer for the 1512hhs. Also, I put the coway in my son's room as it's sensors are more focused on particulate matter. Whereas the winix also has odor and gas sensors iirc which would be better suited for the kitchen. Interesting note is all 3 are highly regarded South Korean companies.

I have 5 Coway Airmega’s. 1x Airmega 250 3x AP-1512’s 1x Airmega 100 They are BY FAR the best I’ve ever had and I recommend them to everyone. There was a very thorough test video done by wire cutter that originally piqued my interest here: https://youtu.be/VM9CJZpqfpA?si=s45QTvHQnlvtbcDE

That’s interesting. I’m extremely sensitive to smells but I’ve never noticed a smell with any of my coways, I have 5 of them. Absolutely love them/

I have asthma and it’s helped with that. It tends to get triggered with smells and such. I will say this. I have allergies to mold. My air purifier for months was red and I figured the light was broken because I wasn’t experiencing any symptoms (no sneezing, runny nose, watery eyes) and I’m allergic to everything. Then we discovered mold on a shelf. Threw out the shelf, air purifier turned blue and no more issues. So it was definitely doing its job!

lol. I was so mad too because my new purifier was broken 🤣 glad it was actually just working

Big advocate for the coway air mega 1512HH or something like that. It’s wirecutter’s top pick. Indeed quiet, powerful, easy to clean. You can turn the lights and ionizer off easily. Replacement filters are like $12-15 each and I can usually go 12 months before needing to change. People have good things to say about Winix, but they’re quite bulky/large in my experience.

Over and over, the Coway Airmega AP-1512hh is one of the most consistently high rated (If not highest rated) air purifier on the market and has been for years. Go on YouTube and almost every video recommends it. I have one and it’s great.

I have a different Coway (the 1512 that Wirecutter has recommended for years), and I do wish it were easier to tweak remotely, but the power on memory means I can at least toggle it on/off with a smart outlet.

I'm 15 years into a Coway 1512 (now AirMega) and it's still ticking. Air quality sensor goes red when I preheat the cast iron, blasts for a few hours, stops. I gift one to family if they start house remodels.

Winix 5500-2 or AM80, or Coway 1512 offer the best bang for the buck in terms of finished units as they sell for about $150 on sales--they mainly remove particulates, but for allergies, this is what you want. Each cover about 350-400 square feet of space for optimal performance and air quality, and they represent the most cost-effective performance relative to unit size/price/energy use/filter replacement costs. Buy as many as you need for your living space's size. Corsi-Rosenthal boxes are even less expensive.

Winix 5500-2 or AM80 (same unit, different look) or Coway 1512. They optimally cover 350-400 square feet a piece. They are the best bang for your buck when considering airflow, energy usage, and filter replacement costs. You can find them on sale for around $150. There are good aftermarket filters for them, too, from brands like Filter Monster, that further bring down operating costs (I've been using several Filter Monster products for years now and previously tested their particulate performance using a Purple Air PA-II--they perform comparably to factory filters.) Smaller units are actually less energy efficient due to a need to run on higher fan settings and larger units often have much higher purchase and filter replacement costs (although some are extremely energy efficient). Most air purifiers **do not** remove odors. They can disperse them by moving air around, but they do not have enough carbon to provide a significant level of adsorption to remove VOCs for any sustained period of time. Specialty purifiers that have large carbon canisters exist, and these work very well at odor removal, but they have some major downsides, such as price, energy usage, carbon canister replacement costs, and noise. Beyond that, air purifiers that excel in VOC removal sacrifice particulate performance, as you want slower airflow for adsorption (to allow sufficient 'dwell time' where the air is passing through the carbon bed), versus higher airflow for filtering particulates. An example of a purifier that removes VOCs is the AllerAir AirMedic Pro 6. I have one with a 40 pound Vo-Carb carbon filter and it was about $1,000 to buy, it's massive, loud, uses a ton of energy as it has a commercial motor, and the carbon canister is several hundred dollars to replace. Unless it is not possible, ventilation with outdoor air is a much more effective way to remove VOCs (and hence, odors.)

That is the one downside. The AM80 looks a bit better--I have several of them and they are not as obtrusive. The Coway 1512 is available in white and it looks pretty good in person.

Winix 5500-2 and AM80 (same unit, different look) and Coway 1512 are the best prebuilt units from a value perspective and can be found for around $150 on sale. Smaller units and larger units are less efficient, and buying several 5500-2s is more effective and efficient than a single large unit when factoring in things like purchase price, energy use, filter replacement cost, and effectiveness at filtering particulates. Each 5500-2/AM-80/1512 covers about 350 square feet optimally, although you may need more filtration than that for severe smoke. There are good quality aftermarket filters for them that are significantly less than the factory filters and perform equally well. If you are on a major budget, build a Corsi-Rosenthal Box. They are as effective as they are ugly--if you need air filtration in a pinch or on a budget, they are exceptional. If you want a real BIFL purifier that will last like 30 years, the AllerAir AirMedic line is built to this standard, but they also have some significant drawbacks and are not a great match for someone just looking for particulate filtration.

None of them use monumental amounts of energy except the ones that actually are BIFL, as these use commercial motors. Those use a lot of energy. For most, the Winix 5500-2 or AM80 (same product, different look) or Coway 1512 represent the best value of cost, features, efficiency, effectiveness, filter lifespan, replacement filter costs, generic replacement filter longevity (see Filter Monster), and longevity. They often go on sale for around $150. These units provide optimal performance for up to about 400 square feet. If your living space is larger, you would need multiple units placed in different areas of the home to get the best results. Multiple smaller units generally provide better performance than a single, larger unit. Both of these have reusable prefilters, which if cleaned often, will extend the life of the pleated HEPA filter (which cannot be cleaned). They also both have sensors that allows them to ramp or reduce fan speed based on air quality readings. The Winix has a really nice night mode, where it ramps down the fan speed when air quality is good + it is night, and it also dims all of the LEDs. Keep in mind though that the higher the fan speed, the more air turnover you get, and the faster particulates (including allegens) that are in the air will be filtered. If your roomate's allergies are severe, keeping them on a higher speed continually might be necessary to achieve allergy relief. Finally, keep in mind that most purifiers do not do much for odors or volatile organic compounds. (It doesn't sound like you are buying it for this reason, but I still wanted to note this.) There are specialty units that do offer significant VOC adsorption capacities, but these are specialty products that are generally extremely expensive and have quite a few downsides.

The Winix 5500-2 or AM80 (same unit different look) and Coway 1512 are the most cost-effective units short of building your own Corsi-Rosenthal Boxes. Multiples of these units are cheaper to run than one very large unit. Yes, they make a huge difference in removing particulates from air. Particulate matter is linked to the deaths of millions of people every year and it wreaks havoc on the human body--especially that of children. The lower the PM levels indoor, the better, and purifiers/CR Boxes are extremely effective in lowering PM. They do not remove odors. Only specialized units with large carbon filters designed for VOC adsorption can do this, and these units are extremely expensive to purchase and operate. If you are on a budget, you can build your own purifier, called a Corsi Rosenthal Box. They are cheap, ugly, and extremely effective at removing particulates from the air.

Coway AP1512. Simple to clean, easy to get replacement filters and relatively inexpensive. Gave an old one I have is five years old and still working perfectly. 

Idk, I don’t find the Airmega 1512hh helpful when it comes to smells. The carbon sheet feels useless in comparison to pelleted carbon. I’m a weed smoker and my Winix has made a night and day difference compared to the Airmega. I was shocked to discover it's pretty common for air purifier companies to mislead when it comes to room coverage. For folks with allergies, using an air purifier for virus (COVID, flu, RSV) mitigation, smoke, dust, etc. a purifier really makes the most difference when air in the room can cycle through the filters a number of times per hour. With that it in mind, the recommended room size changes. The Airmega is rated for about 300-350 square feet but that's only based on testing it at its highest fan speed. It's presented very differently in Wirecutter and Amazon when it comes to recommended room size. I've come to find resources for better assessing air purifiers. https://housefresh.com/coway-airmega-ap-1512hh-review/ https://www.airpurifierfirst.com/review/coway-ap-1512hh/

There’s a House Fresh article about the best air purifiers for viruses and bacteria. Sadly the Coway wasn’t on it. I wish I had came across the article before I bought my Coway 1512hh. The Winix 5500-2 is listed as a good buy for viruses. I ended up buying it for my living room and have the Conway in my bedroom. At some point I’ll upgrade to the Winix. Update: A few months ago I was looking at Coway's website and thought I didn't see viruses listed in terms of what their HEPA filters can filter out for the Coway 1512hh. I just looked and it's listed. Definitely put me at ease and I can cross getting another Winix for the bedroom off my list.

The AP1512 hh is for a smaller room. At its highest (and loudest) fan speed it can clean 360 sq feet. Since it's unlikely you'll be blasting it 24/7, the second fan speed is pretty underwhelming compared to the Vital. I ended up giving mine away to a friend since they have a small nursery it was better suited for.

For the first 15 years of our lives as parents we lived in an old Victorian house where the bedrooms were downstairs in the unfinished basement. Dust was always a problem for both my wife and our eldest kid, and probably there was to some extent mold down there too. We put a Coway Airmega AP-1512HH in the main downstairs hallway and it made everyone's allergies 100x better within days. It didn't even have to run continuously: we set it on "eco" so it would gently sample the air every 30 seconds and go to work only when it detected particles in the air. I love how simple and reliable it is. The little lights indicating when it's time to change a filter, and which one, are no more complicated than they need to be. The HEPA filters aren't cheap, but on "eco" we don't go through more than 1 every year (YMMV). I set a reminder to dust the outer filter and sensor every month (30 second job), and that's kept it running like new. Since we moved I bought a second one to stick in an out of sight spot on the main floor, where I can't see much more than the top panel where I'll know when it's time for a new filter, while our trusty old white one sits in the hallway upstairs. That second one I bought used, and got it for a great price because it was so scuffed up. Just a wonderful appliance that does exactly what it's supposed to. Unexpected benefit: I've recently switched our furnace filter replacement cycle from 3 months to 4 months because the last few came out looking brand new. I'll probably end up at a 6 month cadence before I feel like the filter's actually in need of replacement, and we're pretty sure it's due to the Coway filters pulling things out of the air before they get sucked through the HVAC return. That's not *quite* the Coway filters "paying for themselves" but it's a factor.

I own 2 and second this recommendation. They do what I bought them to do. Cleaning the filters makes it VERY clear how much garbage they pick up. They’re quiet and they work.

Actually, blueair makes some of the best air purifiers available. There's a really short list of reliable manufacturers: blueair, levoit, coway, and winix. The benefit of buying something like a winix 5500 or a coway 1512, is that the filters are rectangular, and there are a kajillion of them so there will always be a market for replacement filters. VOCs is a whole separate thing.

I hope mold remediation works out -- removing the sources is always the best place to start. The furnace filters used in CR boxes are not as good at capturing as hepa filters in many at-home air purifiers. The CR project is a low-cost way to get lots of clean air quickly, but aside from cost aren't competitive with air purifiers. One air purifier hepa filter can cost as little as $20 each year. (Specifically, the coway 1512 using replacements from durabasics or cabiclean.) If you can afford enough purifiers from coway, levoit, blueair, or winnix, then go for it. These are the purifiers most people trust and recommend. Some don't like ionizers because they think that they create problems by putting out their own VOCs. Most air purifiers have an on/off feature, but at least some Winnix purifiers don't have one and turn on the ionizer on automatically (I'm not sure, I haven't used one). I saw a Q/A recently where someone was trying to clip the ionizer out of their coway purifier, even though it has an on/off function for the ionizer. I guess they didn't trust it. So yeah, some people really, really don't like ionizers. I personally prefer coways, and at one point when I had an apartment, office, and a studio I needed to keep clean, owned eight of them. While many were used and gotten from CL/Ebay affordably, I got proficient enough at opening new ones that I timed a 2-minute speed unboxing and setup video. Would recommend.

I mean.... I mentioned the part about them having no reviews and being at a sketchily low price point of 1/2 to 2/3 the cost of everyone else. There are really only a handful of air purifier brands that have demonstrated reliability, affordability, and effectiveness over several years, and don't dabble in post-apocalyptic/steampunk decor -- coway, levoit, blue air, winix. If you want to pay more, there's iq air, alen air, and a few others. For $110, you could have bought a blue air 511 and almost a 411, a levoit 300, almost a Levoit Vital 100s, or a Winix a231. The winix 5500, the coway 1512, levoit vital 200, and the blueair 311 are all at this CADR, but for closer to $200.

If you take an air quality moniter, like the GQ Electronics air 760, and get the reading for the PM 2.5, you will see that it is not a waste of money....with the coway ap-1512 the reading is 000, totally clean.

I recently bought the Coway Airmega AP 1512HH, recommended by NYT Wirecutter. They also recommend a different model Coway that performs the same but just looks different. I'm super satisfied with it. It's amazingly quiet at low and medium settings. I wasn't dealing with any smells, just dust mites that cause allergy symptoms while I try to sleep. It seems to be doing a great job.

Also, I bought it direct from Coway and it arrived quickly. Highly recommended.

I've had the Coway Airmega AP-1512HH for several years now and it's great! Even on the medium setting it's not very loud and my allergies are noticeably better since getting it. It's highly rated by [Wirecutter](https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/coway-ap-1512hh-mighty-air-purifier-review/) and [rtings](https://www.rtings.com/air-purifier/reviews/coway/airmega-ap-1512hh-mighty) if you want to read some more in-depth reviews.

I have a Coway hp-1512, bought it in 2016, so far it's lasted over four times as long as the several Honeywell filters I bought before it (All of which died after about 2 years). The coway disposable paper filters are a little expensive. But according to reviews that is outweighed in the long run by the brushless motor, which uses less electricity (and is also more durable because there's no physical brush contact), and by the air quality sensor which can ramp speed up and down as necessary, again saving electricity.

I don't know about car-specific air filters, but I've been very happy with the Coway HP-1512 room air cleaner that I bought in 2016, so I'd check on whether Coway makes a product for cars/trucks. I second the advice about getting an air quality tester, I've been thinking about getting one myself.

My Coway definitely stops the smell from the box.

Coway Airmega AP-1512HH(W) True HEPA Purifier with Air Quality Monitoring, Auto, Timer, Filter Indicator, and Eco Mode, 16.8 x 18.3 x 9.7, White

If you're talking about the 1512HH it works great. The sensor is very responsive but it only detects particles and not smells or VOCs. I like the fact that it uses all the fan speeds in the automatic mode. The Honeywell air purifiers only detect VOCs and not particles.

Coway is the answer. They have lots of different models but I would recommend the Coway Airmega AP-1512HH. They have bigger units to cover larger areas but I've found that instead of spending $550 on the bigger unit to cover 1500 sq ft and placing it in a central location it works better to get several of the smaller units I recommended for the same price and place them in specific rooms. Its much more effective. For example put one in your bedroom, living room, kids bedroom, and living room, kitchen etc. The Model I recommend comes with an ionizer capability. I'd recommend turning that off (just press the button). Some research has come out that ionizers are good to be around.

1512 and 400. I love the both

Yes, great model. It will take care of the particulates (the really bad stuff), but you might get lingering smoke odor, which is a nuisance, but not the harmful part.

Levoit Vital 200 or Coway Airmega for the 16x10. All the others you listed are too small for that square footage. The Levoit is quieter if that’s important to you. If you have a bedroom that is close to double that, you either need two of same unit or a much larger unit (like the Levoit core 600) to clean the bigger room.

Coway Airmega, either the AP-1512HH or 200M (same guts, different faceplate).-

I’ve had my Coway 1512 on continuously for 10 months straight so far and no issues

We have had our first Coway 1512 for about 3 years and just bought two more this past year. We've been super happy with them. There are off-brand replacement filters online and they don't need to be replaced super often.

This is true. I use it as a white noise machine for my toddler and he loves it. It’s very loud on level 3. Much quieter on 1 and 2.

I have two Coway Airmega AP-1512HH, one on each level and as someone with terrible allergies, it's made a huge, noticeable difference. Last year my allergies started to get really bad again, and I couldn't figure out why. Turns out my 6 month autodelivery of replacement hepa filters got skipped and I didn't notice. It was 2 months past due for a change, I changed them and almost instantly my allergies went back to my normal manageable symptoms. They have a smart mode where it will turn up when it senses bad air quality which has been awesome, but also mildly terrifying. Awesome because it has turned up when a toddler as walked by alerting us to a poopy diaper. Terrifying because my husband burned some food really badly and it kicked into high and cleaned the air so much and so fast it didn't set off our smoke detector. We installed more smoke detectors after that.

Id go with the [Coway Airmega](https://productbible.com/product/coway-airmega-ap-1512hh). its quiet and has made a big difference for my allergies. My place feels noticeably fresher and I don’t wake up as stuffy anymore. Filters are easy to swap out too.

So you're focusing on the wrong things. Almost all units we recommend are H13 rated. Coway, Winix, even Levoit Vital. And third-party testing is ... not super relevant at this price point. You want a Coway 250 or Levoit Vital 200 for the upstairs and a Coway 1512 or Coway 150 or Winix 5510 or Levoit Vital 100 for the downstairs.

I’m a huge anti-viral illness and clean air mindful person and based on my research and cost, I’d recommend the Coway Airmega. The prices can be decent, sleek look, not too loud, and most importantly they have many articles out there recommending them for actually working.

[Coway](https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/coway-ap-1512hh-mighty-air-purifier-review/)has won many performance awards for their air purifiers for several years and their prices and performance have been better then Iqair from my research. The coway black with wifi looks sleek and isn't too noisy.

The black and gold model one. The white one does not have wifi but the black does (if that matters to you).

Depends on the preference and needs you have. The wifi one you can program it to run on a specific schedule (I.e eco overnight and auto during the day). The non wifi one you just don’t have the option to program it to run a certain airflow so you either turn it on low/med/high or leave it on auto/eco. Personally, I needed the wifi one for my parents so I could program it to run on high at specific times of day when I know they have workers coming in that might be sick as my parents are immunocompromised and I wanted their COVID risk to be lowered (these machines have been shown to capture those particules). But for regular folks without those concerns of timing the machine, the non-wifi one is probably is good.

Coway Airmega AP-1512HH is the best imo, definitely makes a noticeable difference in the freshness of the air in my home. filter changes take just a couple minutes, i also like that you can turn off the glowing front light for dark rooms

I suggest Coway TrueHEPA ones. Less bells and whistles. More good performance.

Coway and BlueAir are great. Make sure it says "True HEPA," unless you build a corsi-rosenthal box Levoit ones aren't always true hepa.

Buy the Coway air mega it usually goes on sale pretty often. 10/10

If I’d known about Austin Air when I bought my Coway Air Mega and Blue Air, I would’ve definitely picked Austin Air and I may still get one. It’s pricey, but so are Coway and Blue Air when you add up the cumulative price of filters. And, I find I need filter replacements much more often than recommended further increasing the cost.

Coway has a better reputation than the models Costco carries. Love our Air Mega. Bought directly from Coway at a steep discount. Just have to wait for sales.

Thirding this one!! Our are great

I like this one too. It’s easier to maintain than corsi rosenthal boxes and is less noisy.

For what its worth, NY Times Wirecutter blog tested a bunch and ranked the Coway Air Mega as the best option. I bought one and am happy with it. https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-air-purifier/

Coway Air Mega's are great. Blueair's larger units are equally great - with both DO not buy their filters directly from them - way overpriced - Amazon has generic equivalents that I have been using and have performed great (have air testers in home).

I have 3-4 Coway Airmegas and Winix 5500s. I found them all on my local Facebook Marketplace for $50-75 over the last 12 months. All in great condition. Previous owners sold because they were moving (college students; young professionals).

The Coway Mega is fantastic for dust, pet dander, woodsmoke. Had mine for a year now.

I bought an Airmega for our bedroom a year ago. My wife says my nighttime snoring has almost completely stopped. We ended up being so happy with it we bought another for the DR/LR.

The best is one isn't smart -> Austin air purifiers. They have the best charcoal filters and the filters don't need to be replaced except every several years. I have one of theirs as well as an airmega which is alright. Filter needs to be replaced more frequently though. It is cheaper but for its price it blows more air than most which is nice.

I feel for you, OP. I am an allergic-to-everything person to the point that I've needed to move homes to get away from paint, varnished wood, carpet, etc. The biggest trigger for me, though, and maybe for you is any centralized heating and cooling system. The systems' filters don't matter - the room's unfiltered air is also being blown in your face. I haven't found a purifier that can offset this problem. I don't use ACs and all my heat is water-based or electric. I experimented with Dyson - if it's the model that provides heating or cooling, there is a chemical in the device that can cause reactions. You can also be sensitive to the material in any carbon filter, like coal. The imperfect journey continues, but I ended up getting a custom purifer from Aller Air and I use it in the same room as a Coway HEPA. One for gas and chemicals, one for particulates. It still doesn't save me completely from my dusty old building, but I can now be confident that it's the only issue. Good luck!

It's not mysterious technology or snake oil. Air filtration is well understood. They definitely remove particulates from the air. I have a few HEPA filters around the house -- relatively basic ones -- Coway brand. Each was like $150 and the filters are a $15 replacement once a year. They're quiet and have nice auto/eco settings and even a sensor. The sensors obviously work because they ramp up a when we cook or otherwise kick up dust. I guess the question is -- does it really matter? The official verdict is still out on that, I guess. But I think it probably does. I don't *feel* a difference, but we live in a metro area where there's plenty of particulate around that's known to be harmful like tire & brake dust, so I think it's worth it over the long term especially with kids. Incidentally I remember reading that HEPA filters do in fact filter out airborne pathogens. There's part of me that is convinced that if we had decent HEPA filtration in public spaces, we'd see a marked drop in flu, RSV, and things like that. But who knows.

Coway airmega it's excellent. I have mine going 24 hours a day and it senses everything. It also filters the tiniest particles.

The airmega. You can buy filters specifically for dust. There's 3 different types of filters i believe you can buy, the original and two more alternatives

I got a Coway Airmega because it was highly reviewed on the Wirecutter website after my previous Levoit broke after only a couple years and wasn’t fixable (circuit board inside was fried).

We have two Coway Airmega units, one on either side of the house. They have been on 24/7 for several years now. Maintenance and cleaning are very minimal. Cost is about $150-200, although there are larger units based on how big of an area you need to filter. We are very happy with them! Whichever purifier you choose, I highly recommend you look into one with a replaceable HEPA filter. Other filtration methods just won’t give the same results.

Agreed! And they now offer different filters depending on what is most important to you to filter: one for smoke, one for allergens, etc.

This is the only correct answer. Don’t get air mega aim tho that’s a scam

I have the Coway Airmega and an Austin bedroom machine, and they seem to be equally good. The Austin cost significantly more.

Anecdotally, I have two big Airmegas running in fairly small spaces and I can't tell a difference in air quality between when they've been running and when they haven't. I don't get what the point is.

I have a coway airmega in the middle of a ~1k sq ft apartment. It frequently turns on a higher cycle after we cook on the gas stove down the hall

I have the Coway and had it for the last coupe of years B it I recently switched to the blueair purifier and am very happy. They also happen to look good.

The airmega. The number one pick from wirecutter for years now.

We have a 2500 sq ft home so we have several air purifiers. I went off wirecutter’s list and got Coway Airmega for the rooms with higher ceilings and Levoit for the kid rooms and office (where the litter box is). We have had them for a year and I’m happy with them. They’ve significantly cut down on daycare illness transmission within our household. Instead of all 4 of us getting sick it’s 1 kid and sometimes 1 parent per illness.

The Coway airmega is the best overall imo

I have one. They are legit.

I just recently bought 2 coway airmegas. No smell at all.

huge fan of Coway Airmega. filters last a long time, it has a mesh prescreen you take out and clean every 3 weeks or so, and it's both quiet and has a good CADR. And it's very slim and doesn't take up much space!

I have a Conway Airmega for my chicken brooder (chickens create a ton of dust as they grow, and they have to be inside for a few weeks cause they don’t have feathers yet) and it really cuts down on the dust.

Coway airmega gets my vote. Got 2 on amazon since pademic and they've been pretty good by far.

Yep, we’re a 4 Coway household here too.

Another vote for Coway Airmega. I’ve had several since 2020 and still going strong.

I've got a Coway airmega in our bedroom, and a BlueAir in my office at work. I love both of them... I'm a therapist and work in an 8'x10' room talking to people for an hour 5-6 hours some days. I think the BlueAir is a big reason why I haven't picked up any of the respiratory stuff some clients have come in with (well, that + vaccines + mindful hand washing/sanitizing). It's also pretty quiet which is important to me. I'm planning on picking up another BlueAir or two for the rest of my house this spring. The pricepoint is kinder than my Coway, and it's much quieter.

I would also say my Coway Airmega is one of the best investments I have ever made. It’s amazing how much it can grab and filter out. They say the filters should last a year, but we have it constantly running in a larger room and probably change the filters every 3-6 months. Closer to 3 when we have the AC wall unit on blast thru the summer. We’ve also had terrible Smokey days from the Canadian wildfires in my area and when I last replaced my filter, it was almost black so it was working hard! 2 years of having it and no issues.

Id say no, proprietary airfilter. I use [https://cowaymega.com/products](https://cowaymega.com/products) and get 3rd party filters to replace it. I also turned it into a fan by using plastic vacuum hose.

Coway Airmega; which model depends on the size of the space. Make sure it has a charcoal filter.

Been running coway airmega 24/7 since 2018. Replace the filter every year and bob's your uncle. 

Can't hear it if you set it to low. 

\+1 Coway Airmega.

I’ve had Coway AirMegas, Winix, and Whirlpool Whispure, and Coway is by far the best home purifier in my opinion. I have an AirThings air quality monitor and a dust allergy, and these filters make a difference. You do need to clean the Coway prefilter regularly, but it’s easy to do. I didn’t know they sold off market filters so I’ll have to look into that because the filters can be costly.

I have 2 Coway airmegas that are super quiet that I’ve had for nearly 2 years. Do you change your filters regularly? Only one I would not recommend is Winix—I had one of the smaller models and its noise was very inconsistent and it was poorly constructed compared to the Coway Airmega and the Honeywell Whispure (a tiny model).

Swear by Coway Airmega - liked it so much I bought another one - personally Iove their aesthetic as well but I consider them better than previous levoits and Winix - wait for a special offer is my advice 

The sensors are amazing. The review on Amazon sold me " my dog farted and it instantly kicked on and I never smell them anymore" Yes whenever I cook or smoke they instantly kick on and work really well.

Second the coway. They are worth the price. Given OP's budget, looking on ebay or facebook marketplace for a used one might be a good first step. Buy new filters for it if you get it used.

Can highly recommend Coway Airmega. We have 3 of them for the same reason. We've had them for a few years and regularly replace the filters, so haven't done recent research to see if there's anything better out there.

As someone moderately allergic to cats and SUPER allergic to dust. I'm allergic to most people's cats because they are silly lil guys who love to find tiny spaces that are hard for humans to dust well. We have two Coway Airmega air purifiers to help minimize dust buildup and deep vacuum regularly with a big kid vacuum to manage dust and floof. The Purina Live Clear allergy reducing cat food 100% works. We have a friend who is allergic to cats (like myself) she had minimal symptoms while at our home for hours. She hadn't taken any allergy meds that day. I still take a Zyrtec every night and generally experience little to no symptoms despite my void floof believing she is a feather duster and rolling on the floor.

I love my Coway AirMega! We’ve had it for a few years now and any time we have strong cooking smells or if I spray some hairspray, it kicks into gear and I can tell it’s working! Can’t speak to the longevity/BIFL just yet but I’ve been happy thus far and it seems like it’s great quality. I also buy their name brand filters. *EDIT: brand is “Coway” and phone auto corrected to “Conway”

I really like the Levoit. It’s super quiet on the lowest setting and you can turn the lights off. My husband is a bozo who needs white noise to sleep so he always turns it up to its highest setting and then doesn’t turn the lights off. We have a coway airmega for our living area but I prefer the way the Levoit looks and my older son kept messing with the coway and it got stuck on a setting so I can’t turn it up or down. ETA I also have a roomba because I am allergic to dogs but my dog is my favorite child and I let him sleep on my bed during the day.

I've been using a Coway Airmega for 3 years now. No complaints besides I don't like the look as much as I thought I would. Keep it in my bedroom because that's where I spend the most consecutive time and also it's not far from an HVAC intake. Having 1 was a bit undersized for my house so at first it seemed to run on medium and high more often (I almost always keep it on Auto). When the pre-filter gets clogged you'll notice it will randomly run on high. Easy to clean and change filters. I've been buying the filters from a 3rd party.

I did tons of research and also got the Coway, been very happy with it!

I have a Coway Airmega and it changed everything for me. My budget was only $200 and you can buy it for less than that easily. Dust, pollen, pet allergies, and cooking fumes are all big problems in my near-century home. I ordered replacement filters from Amazon. I do move it from room to room if I am doing a big project or cooking something which will smoke (no built-in hood). I keep it in my sleeping room the rest of the time. For something inexpensive I have been tremendously happy. If I had a budget of $500, I’d just buy more of these! It definitely cleans cooking odors/smoke no matter what room of my house it’s in, but I like to clear the kitchen air quickly for my own sake.

Coway Airmega looks like a solid pick, especially as it’s clearing out musty smells and reducing allergens while adding that cool breeze feature. I’ve run a few models non-stop in rooms with high humidity, and once they started picking up those subtle odors, I knew I was onto something. I’ve tried some models from Blueair and Medify before, but ConsumerRating is what I ended up trusting because it lined up features like filter life and energy efficiency to my needs. Coway seems to hit that balance of performance and reliability, which is exactly what I’m after.

Definitely the Coway Airmega. It’s sleek, portable and relatively quiet compared to some of the alternatives. You can find some good options [in this thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/productbible/comments/1lj3367/the_best_air_purifiers/)

I have three too. They've run 24/7 for years without an issue. Third party filters work fine and are half the price.

Absolutely necessary these days. I bought a Coway airmega last year because of the terrible dust from the incessant roadwork. There's a noticeable difference and most importantly, my daughter sleeps better. No regrets

I recommend the Coway Airmegas. To be effective, it will need to run at full blast. Get one with a high CADR or pick up multiples.

I vote for Coway Airmega. I have 3 of them and they’re great

We bought an Airmega four years ago (the last big wildfire year in California's bay area) and it's been a terrific purchase. It helped then with that acute problem, but it also helps keep particulates low year round. It's quiet, doesn't take a huge amount of space, and it makes a noticeable difference in the main living areas of our home (I don't expect it to work in bedrooms at the other end of the house). Do recommend, but the Coway app is pretty crappy.

The Coway airmega is the best imo. You can find some good options [in this thread](https://www.reddit.com/user/Unable-Treacle-9384/comments/1n9p2ve/the_best_air_purifiers/)

I own a Coway Airmega, BlueAir 311 Auto, and a Dyson PureCool. Coway is for the main living room/kitchen, BlueAir for kids rom, and Dyson for our bedroom. Overall the Coway is my favorite. It’s a beast and has a low cost of annual maintenance. Strongly recommend.

I have 4 Coway AirMegas in my house they’re great

I have two large Coway Airmegas at home, a Levoit mini at work, and a portable QT3. I use all heavily to make indoor air safer to breathe - removing particulate matter (the most harmful part of breathing wildfire smoke) including airborne viruses. Note that air purifiers don’t remove gases like CO2 from the air and I find when CO2 gets high I will get migraines. Ventilation like opening a window is the solution to CO2 buildup, which is hard when the outdoor air is full of smoke — this is where having an air purifier can make a big difference.

I love my coway airmega.

I tried a Dyson TP07 once, but it felt pricey for my budget, so I leaned toward Coway Airmega because it handles pet hair and dust pretty nicely.

I have a Coway Airmega at home, and it handles smoke and pet dander well without getting too loud.

Just chiming in to say we’ve had a Coway Airmega running continuously 24/7 for the last 6 years and we LOVE IT.

we went with wirecutters top pick and like it; Coway Airmega no reason it needs to be smart, just does its sensing and we let it do it's thing. [https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-air-purifier/](https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-air-purifier/)

I got a Coway AirMega because my apartment used to smell like my stinky chihuahua no matter what I did, and the smell is gone. Like when I come back to my apartment and open the door, instead of being like "wow, that is what I've been noseblind to?!" it smells the same as the hallway. (Also really helps my dust mite allergy)

We're so happy with our 2 Coway Airmega for each bedroom.

We use Coway Airmega air purifiers and we like them. I think they have a bunch of options for design and size.

Me too! I’ve tried the fancier copay’s but this one is the best for the money. Filters are reasonable and it has good power to circulate air. 

I love the Coway Airmega! I run it all day in the living room. Thinking about a small one fit the bedroom too.

First thing I want to say and it's important. The most important thing you need to know is that the air purifier has got to have true HEPA that is not an option ... 3m/filtrete is a joke of a purifier. They are terrible and do not last. biggest problem you have with their air purifiers are they are not sealed purifiers. There is a lot of dust that gets through other places and bypasses the filter in the unit and then what happens is it collects after the output vent so you will eventually start seeing dust there. Another is their filter cost. It's insane. if you look at their filter replacement schedule, it says the filter lasts 12 months used six hours a day.... air purifier are supposed to run 24/7 to have full effect so if you run it 24 seven that’s every three months their filters are also small... but I personally recommend and have used the past is these two for your size room are these I'll link. you get an air purifier that is going to be more powerful in your price range and will last for starters... There’s a reason why you want something with a higher CADR is because it will clean the air more frequently in that room and clean it better. You will get more air changes per hour basically and that’s a good thing. Also, you’re not gonna have dust getting past your filters and leaking out of the top of collecting everywhere else. You will also get a true 12 month filter when you run it 24/7. It comes with a TRUE HEPA and four replacement carbon filters. One of them will even include a additional year of filters if not both of them out of the box. The Coway Airmega is also another amazing air purifier for the price, however the filter costs have you replacing filters every 3 or 4 months with full use. Alen is also expensive from the get go but filters are annual. I have used these Winx purifiers in the past and I love them the plasmawave can be turned on or off I'd it's a concern but it doesn't produce ozone. I am just linking site so you can get all the information on them however I don’t know if you have a Costco membership or they still sell them or not but it was a great place to get these at an even cheaper price. https://www.winixamerica.com/product/c535/?_gl=1*1v4e0th*_up*MQ..&gclid=CjwKCAjwwLO_BhB2EiwAx2e-35mFNXJgc1BeCOGMGegBQ-An_KwmCD6L29mTNy-0yyIBkVrET2C_jhoC034QAvD_BwE https://www.winixamerica.com/product/c545/?_gl=1*u8q5cp*_up*MQ..&gclid=CjwKCAjwwLO_BhB2EiwAx2e-35mFNXJgc1BeCOGMGegBQ-An_KwmCD6L29mTNy-0yyIBkVrET2C_jhoC034QAvD_BwE

> Coway Airmegas Second the Coway Airmegas. I switched to two 150s from a more expensive Mila Air and am much happier with these. Huge HEPA filters. I run them 24/7.

I like the Coway AirMega

I followed the Wirecutter recommendation and have a Coway Airmega. Two technically, one for our room and one for the baby's room. My allergies are a lot better after using them. My only gripe is that the first one we got makes a slight knocking noise sometimes, like it's just a bit out of balance. Usually if I turn it off, let it sit for a minute, and turn it back on again it goes away, but it absolutely drove me nuts when I was trying to sleep. I can't hear it over the white noise machine we use now though.

My seasonal allergies got a lot better when I started using an air filter in the bedroom, so I would assume it works similarly on pets. It's horrifying how much dust it pulls out of the air. I have a Coway Airmega, mostly because that's what Wirecutter recommended. I buy the off-brand filters to save money though.

We've been happy with Coway airmega (one for kitchen, one for bedroom).

Wirecutter recommended the Coway Airmega. I got 2, one for the living room and one for the main bedroom. They have a sensor and cycle higher when there’s more particulates in the air. It has a prefilled and a main filter (that you change only once a year). It has an indicator light to tell you when to clean/change. Here’s the wirecutter piece: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-air-purifier/

These. I raise pet pigeons (very very dusty) in my house and these are what I use.

so you need specifically, a HEPA filter - Austin Air makes a terrific one. So does Coway - the AirMega

I'm sorry the Coway has what now? Pesticides? I finally bit the bullet and purchased one of the airmegas and I've been happy with it (the new plastic smell lasted a day but other than that) so that's kinda concerning....

I have 1 Conway AirMega ($170 ea) in each room that runs on med 24/7 365. Prior to the air purifiers the kids n wife would always have allergies n congestion/cough for what seemed like year round. My wife would have to pop Benadryl till it knocked her out. Slowly I started putting the air purifiers in each room, vacuuming the pre filter every time we vacuum the floors and they’ve gotten so much better since then. It’s been several years at this point. They still have the allergy fits every once n a while but it’s a lot less frequent. It’s not the prettiest solution to have one in every room, but for us I think it’s been worth the ongoing expense as the filters aren’t particularly cheap ($34 for 2). I’ve done a few other things that probably helped too. I swapped out the 1 inch filter return registers for 4 inch returns. I get 4 inch merv 13s from AprilAire. And I also started vacuuming with a true hepa vacuum.

budget budget, build a corsi-rosenthal  otherwise, get a coway airmega. it's a little pricier than some but it has a carbon filter which is great for smells. prefilter catches a lot and saves wear and tear on the hepa panel

Coway Airmega. Consistently high marks and top recommendation by NYT's Wirecutter magazine (which does product testing). Not cheap but super quiet and efficient.

I have Coway AirMegas in my house and they are great

Is there enough ventilation overall? Opening windows in the winter will dry out the interior air but a fan or air purifier is just recirculating the air already in the room. I recently got an Inkbird CO2 sensor to see when it's getting stuffy. I did a DIY hack turning a 自然換気口 (passive air inlet vent) into a powered intake fan that has a PM filter. The models were basically the same size so it was an easy swap. Then I ran an extension cable to an outlet. For air purifiers I use Airmega Coway as the filters are robust. I don't use humidifiers due to condensation risk from poor construction (less of an issue in concrete mansion).

Stick to basics- all you need is a good filter with a fan for PM 2.5. Thicker ones last longer before replacement. Some include additional charcoal/ carbon filters for VOCs and odors. Also try to get a thick/robust one of those as a cheap one I had just got saturated very quickly and ended up releasing smells rather than capturing them. Personally I have a few Coway Airmegas and retired a basic Iris Ohyama one. I also got air intake fans with PM filters so the air coming into the place is cleaner as well. I retrofitted a passive exhaust port into an active air intake as they're about the same size.

I've had a Coway airmega going 24/7 for six years that hasn't developed any noise problems

A Coway AirMega in the classroom was how I survived a couple bad wildfire years. It made an enormous difference.

Noisy on the quick clean burst mode where you tell it to briefly run as hard as possible. Moderate on high. Not noticeable at all under most circumstances.

Second the coway airmega- we use it for our kid's room, but have it on a set setting (rather than the auto setting) because when it would turn on to max air purifier it gets pretty loud.

If you have to get a big consumer brand, I would go with Coway. The AirMegas with tiny ionizers and charcoal pre filters work well enough for the price. Airtok is garbage. Levoit…I don’t know…but they are monsters in marketing and litigation to hide or prove something, IDK🤷🏻‍♂️? I usually end up returning their stuff.

After pursuing BIFL I decided to pick one up as well. I have two kids with seasonal allergies and this thing has been amazing!!!

Second Coway.

Agree. Our Coway Airmega does a great job, and has an "economy auto" mode you can just leave it on all the time. And if you remove and brush pet hair off the prefilter once in a while, your filters should last a long time.

I have 3. A Coway Airmega, a Levoit Vital 200S-P, and a Welov. None of them do ionization (bad for their lungs and our lungs). The last 2 are smart/wifi ones that let me see the filter life in the app, that feature I appreciate since with birds the filter runs out waaaaaay sooner than the “change every 12 months” recommendation.

I got the airmega on Black Friday a few years ago and I’ve been really happy with it. We don’t get a lot of dust anymore and it really seems to help with kitty litter dust and such. Last year there were wildfires nearby and the airmega kicked itself into high gear (I keep it on auto), so I do really trust that it’s actually doing something.

This one is kinda meh. Get a Coway Airmega instead

I had a smell for a few hours after turning mine on. Just ran it with the window open in my bedroom for a few hours and the smell was gone.

I've got a Coway AirMega in the LR and it's great. In the master BR I've got a Levoit Vital 100 which someone gifted to me and it works well enough. I have a Levoit Core 300 in the smaller bedroom; the space is within the specs but it feels a little small if I need to keep it running on medium... a larger unit running on low might be better. I think they say the 300 is also the most expensive to run, almost 2x the Coway given the CFM.

My Coway Airmega detects odors very quickly and automatically speeds up the fan.

We have a Levoit Everest-air by our grey’s cage, and a couple of Coway Airmegas in each bedroom. I would say an air purifier is mandatory for your health if you own a dusty bird like a grey. Always turn off the ionizer (or get one without it A prefilter that is removable for cleaning is super handy. If you keep it washed (or vacuumed) your air filter lasts so much longer. It’s crazy the amount of dust that collects on the prefilters!

I have these, 0 smell and great to put it on eco mode , as it detects poor air quality it automatically switches modes to higher setting and shows it as purple or red and once air is back to being good it goes back to eco mode and shows blue.

I’m in the uk and got a Coway airmega and it’s great. Did my research and wouldn’t change it. If you reaaaaaaly want to go all in, there’s some guys on yt that build their own using PC fans but it’s a bit overkill

if you ever feel like making your own air filter, check our r/crboxes for some inspiration. I have an coway airmega, a 6 fan cr box from NorthBox, a levoit mini, and one of the tiny ikea air filters. every room gets a different size and type of air filter according to the needs of that room.

It's not Canadian, but CoWay are a Korean company that make their products in China & South Korea. I bought mine from Amazon before I deleted my account in January. They have a Canadian website for direct ordering though. I used it to buy the filters I needed to replace this year. [https://cowaymega.ca](https://cowaymega.ca)

Same, Airmega still strong.

Have the IQ air does not catch dust or similar. I ended up buying a.Blue air that does and running both. The air quality that comes out of the IQ air is excellent, but if dust is your issue, is not gonna help. Blue air smells like plastic in comparison.. tried the Conway and there was so much plastic offgassing. I returned it..

I got some Conway ones on sale for a main level and bedroom in my house a while back. My plan was to help alleviate dander, allergens, and fire smoke. I can't say I have any empirical evidence of their efficacy, but I'm glad I have them. If you have a couple hundred bucks and no central air, I think it's worth it.

We have two, a Conway and a Fellowes AeraMax 300. Both are excellent. #

2 Conway and 1 Winix currently. Had 3 Levoit’s but they all died between 12-24 months. Junk

We have a mix of Conway and Blueair purifiers of various throughout the house, usually set to run on low/auto. They do help. I also like that it keeps the unfinished basement air much fresher. It’s still dusty but helps the airborne stuff.

Tried Winix for the affordability and great reviews. Trashed within the year, Co-way outperformed it by far. 

Dyson brings down AQI from 999 to 180 in around 30 mins. Conway takes around 45 min.

I used wirecutter reviews to buy Conway. Have been very happy with it

IQAir by a mile. I have a purifiers from Conway (nice, not expensive), Blue air (prettier, work), Levoit (not worth it IMHO), and IQ Air. By far, the IQ Air is the best of the bunch. Better filters. beefier construction. quiet and powerful. Pricy.

Horrible allergies all year round. LOVE my Conway. It even dealt really well with the wildfires we got a ton of smoke from last summer.

Hi msp > LA transplant so I've been living in fire nation for awhile now (welcome btw). Conway is good, has a sensor to ramp the fan up if it senses bad air and seems to work. Filters are $$$. You need one per room, they dont really cover more than a few hundred sq ft. In practice I have one my bedroom and one in my kitchen / living room. AC can help as well but the filters aren't as fine so they don't catch as much. In general keep your windows closed and doors closed. Run AC. Run filters on high during an event. remember to replace the filters in your house after a stretch of bad air. They'll get very dirty very fast if the air quality is very bad. 

IQAir is the best. Austin is #2. I got an Austin air healthmate plus. I wish I got an IQAir. If you only have allergies and don’t need VOC’s filtered you probably don’t need Austin or IQAir. I typically tell my friends get something like a Conway and make sure it circulates enough air for their space. I got a Blueair years ago and it still runs like a champ.

All of the conventional options recommended won’t cut it if you’re being serious. I have a few coway airmegas and blueairs and they don’t do much for real VOCs/smoke. You need a lot of carbon for that. My airmega has like 1lb of carbon, I’d recommend an allerair- I’ve got two airmedic 6 pro and the difference is remarkable. I think they have 25+ lbs of carbon. Very simple design, no bells and whistles, but very effective.