Smart Evaporative Humidifier 774S

I had this one and I recommend it if you don't care about air quality much and have good water quality (or buy the additional filters for this unit). I was using it for my living room and it worked well to make the place more humid relatively quickly. Cranking it up to even 50-60 made it pretty muggy indoors and the air quality horrible. I got an evaporative one also from dreo and I like it a lot more, especially for the winter my plants are doing so much better!!! I recommend using distilled water if you get this, but it should be fine for most applications.

Apt is about 1400 sq ft. Upstairs and downstairs. I believe my furnace is pulling the moisture out of the air. Yes it is working correctly because when in set it to level 3 it lowers the humidity by a couple of more points. I also have the Dreo evaporative model that I mainly use for the bedroom. Overall depending on the outside temp I can get 25-30% humidity upstairs and downstairs. I am in the frigid North East, so we are talking in the 20’s outside at night.

I just did a ton of research and landed on the dreo evaporative wick humidifier. The white dust is harmless, but the bigger issue is your ultrasonic is spreading bacteria if you aren't doing a weekly clean + monthly or seasonal deep clean. It doesn't mean you won't have to do a deep clean on an evaporative wick one, but it's far less harmful for your health to run that instead. Be proactive about cleanliness regardless of what you end up using. But that's unfortunately the result of not using mineral free distilled water

we have a dreo stand alone... Works great but you need distilled water, otherwise all of them will clock up in a heart beat. They do work, but you have to be aware of your house insulation situation...the more you have humidity, the higher are the odds of accidental dew point issues on walls etc...causing mold

I went through three WiFi enabled smart humidifiers (Govee, Dreo and Levoit) and I hated all of them. I assumed that because none of them had wicks and they were easy to clean and I was using only distilled water I would have no issues. I had terrible issues. I finally went back to my Honeywell HCM350B germ free cool mist humidifier I bought in 2019. I can toss the parts in the dishwasher to sanitize them, the wicks (use Honeywell brand wicks for no smell) last a while because I use distilled water and it has three modes - low, medium and high. If you want WiFi this is not for you. If you want lights and an app this is not for you. If you want to know the humidity in your room, this is definitely not for you. If you want an easy to clean and easy to fill humidifier for a small space that will last the rest of your life, buy this humidifier.