Narwal - Freo Mate
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Last updated: Jul 23, 2025 Scoring
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"The Narwhal mop really seems to clean the floor instead of just running a went mop bad over it like the IRobot. ... I have very annoying high gloss wood floors that show every foot print. ... And a narwhal which does a 80% good job at mopping."
"For mopping, Narwal ’s practically the Baymax of vacuums"
"Narwal is very good with mopping"
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"they do great with tangle-free tech ... My Freo Z never has this problem."
"If you have pets, make sure you look for one that is good with pet hair. We went up a model For that reason."
"There are brushes shaped like an archimedes screw with the brush fibers at a certain angle so any tangled hair will move to the narrow end of the brush and the vacuum inlet at the narrow end will suck it into the dust box ... Narwal does this. ... Both the cutting brush and the conical brush design is great for any long hairs."
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"The time saved alone from not sweeping daily is huge for me, totally worth it."
"I usually run it in the mornings after breakfast right before I leave the house to take my kids to school. ... Love coming home to a clean floors."
"it will save you from having to frequently clean yourself. ... You WILL save time and have a good looking main floor area."
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"I have been very impressed with its obstacle avoidance."
"Narwal is known for its obstacle avoidance though, and based on my experience that is very well deserved."
"The Narwal sensors have "pet detection" so it will stop when it sees my dog in its path."
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"The Narwal is pretty quiet when you have it on the lower settings. ... I run it all the time when my 3 year old naps."
"the Narwal is also extremely quiet at low suction."
"And the quietness is a bonus."
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"Toe kick cleaning is in my experience non-existent. Maybe mine are too low, I'll have to clean those 2 inches by hand."
"Also treshold detection. It tends to ride up to them and not clean the inch next to the treshold because of that."
"Oh and note that it wont get into certain places, so you might have to spot vacuum behind doors or behind certain types of furniture once a month or so."
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"If you wouldn’t like to carry your base station up, don’t get the Narwal. ... the lack of an onboard water tank means it can only clean about 5-15 square meters before having to clean its mops again."
"The vacuum chamber is not very large and thus i have to empty it every two runs. ... It doesnt have a sensor thats worth a damn, so i dont go by the app for fullness of the container."
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"If it gets stuck long enough on a task, meaning it makes no progress, it will give up. ... If you rescue it after this happens, it will just reset back to the default vacuuming task. ... So if it was mopping, you have to restart the mopping task manually. ... This is dumb to me"
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"I also wouldn’t really recommend it as after any robot mop combo with a mop cleaning station makes the mops really wet after cleaning it, which doesn’t seem great for your wood floors."
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"Also I didn’t like how much data the Narwal sent to servers. ... In the 2 weeks I had it, my firewall logs showed the Narwal sent over 20 GB of data. ... I had the remote video disabled so assume it was for vision AI analysis. ... Still, it shouldn’t need to send that much data."
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