The best humidifiers for home, humidifier models

At any time of the year, we may encounter insuf­fi­cient air humid­i­ty in our house or apart­ment. When the indi­ca­tor drops below 40–60%, it is more dif­fi­cult for us to breathe. The skin becomes dri­er and ages faster. The mucous mem­branes of the nose and mouth also dry out, which leads to a decrease in immu­ni­ty. As a result, we get sick much more often.

Humid­i­fiers help with this. Bud­get mod­els can sig­nif­i­cant­ly increase the lev­el of humid­i­ty in the room, and more expen­sive ones allow you to choose it your­self and can even clean the air and car­ry out its ion­iza­tion.

In the arti­cle we will show you how to choose wise­ly, and con­sid­er top ten humid­i­fiers.

How to choose

All humid­i­fiers are divid­ed into three cat­e­gories:

• tra­di­tion­al
• steam
• ultra­son­ic

Now most of the mod­els on the mar­ket are ultra­son­ic humid­i­fiers. How do they work? In such devices, a spe­cial mem­brane is installed that vibrates in the ultra­son­ic range. She breaks the water into tiny drops. The fan blows these droplets out­wards, thus cre­at­ing a fog effect. In our rank­ing of the best, mod­els of this par­tic­u­lar type will be main­ly con­sid­ered. We rec­om­mend choos­ing among them.

Now let’s move on to the impor­tant fea­tures. There are sev­er­al of them:

Room area

Small devices process an area up to 30 square meters. meters. Larg­er ones serve rooms up to 90 sq. meters. Please note that even if you buy large area humid­i­fi­erdon’t think he can humid­i­fy the air in the entire apart­ment. For this, the device has too many bar­ri­ers. The best option: choose sev­er­al devices so that the cor­rect humid­i­ty lev­el is main­tained in all rooms.

Performance

This indi­ca­tor deter­mines how much liq­uid will evap­o­rate per hour. In this case, the more the bet­ter. A humid­i­fi­er with a small capac­i­ty will take half a day to raise the humid­i­ty lev­el. And some mod­els — just an hour. Per­for­mance in the range of 400–550 ml / h can be con­sid­ered aver­age, but it is bet­ter to choose a device with a slight­ly high­er val­ue.

tank size

The size of the tank depends on the size of the device. If it is small, then the water tank will be the same. A small tank will have to be filled sev­er­al times dur­ing oper­a­tion, with a large one there will be no such prob­lem.

Noise level

In the tech­ni­cal spec­i­fi­ca­tions, it is worth check­ing the noise lev­el of the device. If the device is too loud, it can­not be used dur­ing sleep. Also, it will not work to put it in a room with small chil­dren: a loud sound will fright­en them.

Timer operation

An impor­tant func­tion on which the safe­ty of the sit­u­a­tion of your apart­ment or house direct­ly depends. You can for­get to turn off the humid­i­fi­er and go to work, then it will work until the evening. This will lead to accel­er­at­ed dam­age to fur­ni­ture and oth­er items made of wood or paper. If the appli­ance will turn off on com­mand after a cer­tain time, this will pro­tect the inte­ri­or from exces­sive mois­ture. There­fore, our advice is to choose a mod­el with a timer.

Rating of the best humidifiers

1 Hanzo Z6

In the first place of our rank­ing of the best humid­i­fiers locat­ed Mod­el Han­zo Z6. And not just like that: in terms of func­tion­al­i­ty and design, it clear­ly stands out among oth­er mod­els of this rat­ing. Let’s start with the appear­ance: the humid­i­fi­er has col­ored lights, you can choose the col­or your­self or let them change each oth­er. The brand’s logo with a saku­ra flower looks beau­ti­ful and reminds of Japan. At the bot­tom of the humid­i­fi­er are small wheels, with their help it can be eas­i­ly moved around the apart­ment or house.

The water tank of this device is the largest: as much as 20 liters. Accord­ing­ly, it serves an area up to 90 sq.m. Per­for­mance is amaz­ing too. Han­zo Z6 con­verts to steam up to 1000 ml/h. This fig­ure is achieved by 4 evap­o­ra­tors.

But there is prac­ti­cal­ly no noise from it, it emits a sound of less than 45 dB. Even the air con­di­tion­er is loud­er. This allows you to put it in the bed­room or in the nurs­ery. More­over, the humid­i­fi­er has a sep­a­rate night mode to reduce noise to a min­i­mum. It is also worth adding that Han­zo Z6 con­ducts air ion­iza­tion.

Water is puri­fied by ultra­vi­o­let light. The man­u­fac­tur­er does not advise pour­ing it from the tap, it is bet­ter to use fil­tered. You can add it to the tank direct­ly through the hole locat­ed at the top of the device.

The device is con­trolled via a touch screen or a remote con­trol. The but­tons on the touch screen allow you to turn the device on and off, select the humid­i­ty lev­el and spray inten­si­ty, set the timer, and adjust the oper­a­tion of the UV lamp. And note that it is avail­able to choose the humid­i­ty lev­el from 45% to 95%.

We liked:

• Col­or back­light
• big tank
• Very high per­for­mance
• UV clean­ing
• Humid­i­ty lev­el up to 95%
• Air ion­iza­tion
• No noise

We did­n’t like:

• No water fil­ters

2 REMEZair RMCH-403

On the sec­ond place in the rank­ing of the best cli­mat­ic com­plex from REMEZair. It per­forms sev­er­al func­tions at once: humid­i­fi­ca­tion, heat­ing or cool­ing, air purifi­ca­tion and ion­iza­tion. Sounds impres­sive. HEPA and car­bon fil­ters are respon­si­ble for air purifi­ca­tion, EcoGreen aquafil­ter is respon­si­ble for water purifi­ca­tion. Air ion­iza­tion elim­i­nates aller­gens (dust par­ti­cles, plant pollen) and improves well-being.

Now let’s move on to tech­ni­cal indi­ca­tors. The device is high, you can put it only on the floor. The per­for­mance is slight­ly above aver­age: 600 ml / h, but the water tank is volu­mi­nous, 8 liters. Which is not sur­pris­ing, since the device itself is large. Con­trol is avail­able via Wi-Fi, voice, touch and remote con­trol.

Air cool­ing is achieved by sup­ply­ing cold steam and cre­at­ing the effect of a sea breeze. Air ven­ti­la­tion sup­port­ed: it will be effec­tive on an area of ​​40–50 sq.m. There are three fan speed set­tings: low, medi­um and high. Using the timer, the oper­at­ing range is set from 1 to 15 hours.

Per­haps the most inter­est­ing fea­ture of this humid­i­fi­er is sup­port wire­less charg­ing for phone. It must be placed on the top pan­el of the humid­i­fi­er and it will begin to charge. It turns out that along with the humid­i­fi­er, you will also receive a dock­ing sta­tion for your smart­phone.

We liked:

• Phone dock
• Decent spec­i­fi­ca­tions
• Air ven­ti­la­tion
• Ion­iza­tion and air purifi­ca­tion
• Work­ing with voice assis­tants

We did­n’t like:

• Poor cool­ing
• Smells like plas­tic when heat­ed
• Quite noisy

3 BORK H701

BORK man­u­fac­tures high-tech pre­mi­um prod­ucts with exclu­sive design. There­fore, it is not sur­pris­ing that they humid­i­fi­er mod­el H701 — one of the best on the mar­ket. It is made in Korea and impress­es with its appear­ance: the sil­ver met­al case looks expen­sive.

This appli­ance has a steam type of humid­i­fi­ca­tion. What does this mean? Unlike mod­els with a tra­di­tion­al type, they evap­o­rate mois­ture much more inten­sive­ly. Water is heat­ed with an elec­tric heater or elec­trodes. In addi­tion, they have a high­er lev­el of safe­ty due to the tem­per­a­ture treat­ment of water. Despite this, you can choose how the steam will be: cold or warm. If you select the warm steam func­tion, its tem­per­a­ture will be around 40–45°C.

The Nano Sil­ver fil­ter with ion­ic resin effec­tive­ly soft­ens water by absorb­ing salts and min­er­als. The per­for­mance of 600 ml / h pleas­es, but the man­u­fac­tur­er is silent about the water tank. Judg­ing by the dimen­sions (314×175×316) of the device, it is of aver­age vol­ume. Humid­i­fi­ca­tion area is decent: up to 70 sq.m.

The device is con­trolled by a sen­sor on the front sur­face of the humid­i­fi­er. Water is poured from above. The timer can be set. Avail­able four auto­mat­ic modes: Nurs­ery, Health, Night and Ener­gy Sav­ing. It is con­ve­nient that you do not have to man­u­al­ly con­fig­ure the oper­a­tion each time, just select the desired mode. Adjust­ment of inten­si­ty of evap­o­ra­tion is present, block­ing from chil­dren is also avail­able.

We liked:

• Styl­ish design
• Four auto­mat­ic oper­at­ing modes
• Steam tem­per­a­ture selec­tion
• Water pas­teur­iza­tion
• Child pro­tec­tion

We did­n’t like:

• Strong­ly gur­gles
• A lit­tle noisy fan

4 Xiaomi Mijia Pure Smart Humidifier Pro

This mod­el from a sub-brand of Xiao­mi has been pop­u­lar for a long time and has earned the title of one of the best mois­tur­iz­ers. It, unlike the more bud­get Smart­mi Evap­o­ra­tive Zhi­mi Air Humid­i­fi­er 2, is ultra­son­ic. The humid­i­fi­er has a UV lamp: with it, it pre­vents the spread of microor­gan­isms in the air. For water purifi­ca­tion, an antibac­te­r­i­al HEPA fil­ter with sil­ver ions is installed.

It is impor­tant that thanks to the smart spray sys­tem, mold, odor and bac­te­ria do not form inside the device. Still he sim­u­lates nat­ur­al evap­o­ra­tion and does not remove mois­ture in the form of fog, which allows you not to spoil the fur­ni­ture or floor. The inten­si­ty of evap­o­ra­tion is adjust­ed auto­mat­i­cal­ly. The device deliv­ers warm steam.

Humid­i­fi­ca­tion rate is quite high: 600 ml/h. Man­u­fac­tur­ers write that the device will be able to increase the lev­el of humid­i­ty in the room to the desired val­ue in just 10 min­utes. The capac­i­ty of the water tank is 5 liters, this val­ue is enough for 8 hours of con­tin­u­ous oper­a­tion. The dis­play shows the humid­i­ty lev­el and oper­at­ing time.

It is pos­si­ble to add liq­uid direct­ly dur­ing oper­a­tion of the device. The humid­i­fi­er can be con­trolled from a smart­phone: it con­nects to the Mijia smart home sys­tem. Auto­mat­ic switch­ing on and oper­at­ing mode are set via the app.

We liked:

• Antibac­te­r­i­al clean­ing
• nat­ur­al evap­o­ra­tion
• Smart­phone con­trol
• Ultra­vi­o­let lamp

We did­n’t like:

• Only warm steam is sup­plied

5 Electrolux EHU-3315D SENSEhealthline

We con­tin­ue to list the best mod­els and move on to humid­i­fi­er Elec­trolux EHU-3315D SENSE­health­line. It ster­il­izes water using ultra­vi­o­let light. It also has a UV lamp for air dis­in­fec­tion. The steam is sup­plied warm, there is no cold steam mode.

Two fil­ters were placed inside: one of them is water, and the oth­er is antibac­te­r­i­al. Thanks to them, you can use tap water, they will clean it of min­er­al impu­ri­ties and bac­te­ria, and there will be no white coat­ing on the fur­ni­ture.

The aver­age tank vol­ume is 5.5 liters. Pro­duc­tiv­i­ty is not spec­i­fied, but pro­cess­ing area: 50 sq.m. The device is con­trolled through the touch screen and remote con­trol. Equipped with this humid­i­fi­er and ion­iz­er. It imi­tates the ven­ti­la­tion of the air and refresh­es it. It is allowed to add essen­tial oils to the device, there is a spe­cial com­part­ment for this. The man­u­fac­tur­er does not write any­thing about the timer func­tion, per­haps it does not exist.

The noise lev­el from it is small, so you can safe­ly turn on the device at night. It comes with a brush for clean­ing the tank, which is nice.

We liked:

• UV lamp
• Antibac­te­r­i­al fil­ter
• Ion­iza­tion
• Con­ve­nient touch con­trol

We did­n’t like:

• No timer
• Very noisy
• The stick­er on the case is dif­fi­cult to remove

6 Philips HU5930/50

The Dutch com­pa­ny Philips pro­duces a lot of house­hold goods. There are humid­i­fiers among them. Mod­el Philips HU5930/50 can not only humid­i­fy the air, but also puri­fy it: there­fore, we could not but add it to our rat­ing of the best. For this, advanced Nan­oCloud and NanoPro­tect tech­nolo­gies are used. Evap­o­ra­tion of this device is only cold.

Inside the humid­i­fi­er two fil­ters for water and air purifi­ca­tion. They will have to be replaced as need­ed. It’s good that the device itself will remind you when this needs to be done. Clean­ing it up is easy too.

Of course, this device has a touch screen to dis­play the humid­i­ty lev­el. The lat­ter is con­fig­ured in four ways. The fan speed is set using three modes, although an addi­tion­al auto­mat­ic mode is also pro­vid­ed. Inside, not only a hygrom­e­ter is installed, but also an air qual­i­ty ana­lyz­er.

The timer is set for a peri­od of 1 to 8 hours. Of the oth­er use­ful fea­tures: pro­tec­tion from chil­dren. In all respects, a good mod­el, but it has a very small water tank — only 4 liters. At the same time, the device itself is quite large, it needs to be installed on the floor. Due to the cul­ti­vat­ed area of ​​70 sq.m. you will often have to add water, since four liters for such a space will not be enough.

We liked:

• The pres­ence of a timer
• Good work­ing area
• Air clean­ing
• Child lock func­tion

We did­n’t like:

• More suit­able for win­ter than sum­mer
• Too expen­sive price
• small tank

7 Boneco U700

Mod­el from the Swiss com­pa­ny Boneco AG stands out for its phased water purifi­ca­tion sys­tem: this is what got us inter­est­ed and secured its place in the rank­ing of the best humid­i­fiers. First, it is heat­ed to 80 ° C and pas­teur­ized, that is, the water is puri­fied from pathogens and bac­te­ria. The water is then passed through an ion exchange resin fil­ter car­tridge. It cleans the liq­uid from hard­ness salts, so it is quite pos­si­ble to pour run­ning water into this humid­i­fi­er. In addi­tion, an Ion­ic Sil­ver Stick (ISS) is installed in the water tank. It pro­vides addi­tion­al water dis­in­fec­tion.

Let’s make a reser­va­tion right away that both fil­ters and sil­ver rods are not eter­nal, they will need to be bought in addi­tion. The fil­ter life is 2–4 months, and the rod lasts up to 12 months. If you are not ready to spend mon­ey on ion exchange resin car­tridges often, then the man­u­fac­tur­er has pro­vid­ed the pos­si­bil­i­ty of reusing the fil­ter. You just need to replace the resin in it, and it is ready to work again.

The water tank is quite capa­cious, 9 liters. Pro­duc­tiv­i­ty: up to 600 ml / h, slight­ly above aver­age. Cul­ti­vat­ed area area: up to 80 sq. m.

The dis­play shows the humid­i­ty lev­el and the set mode. An indi­ca­tor lights up there if the water tank needs to be cleaned, which is very con­ve­nient. The device will auto­mat­i­cal­ly turn off if the tank runs out of water, which will save it from dam­age.

Of the addi­tion­al func­tions: a cap­sule for aro­ma oils, a choice of cold and hot steam. Con­trol via the remote con­trol is not pro­vid­ed, for this you need to use the dis­play on the device itself.

We liked:

• Staged water purifi­ca­tion
• Capa­cious tank
• Good ser­vice area
• Oil cap­sule

We did­n’t like:

• Noise from the device will not let you sleep at night
• Fil­ters don’t work well enough (white spots appear on fur­ni­ture)

8 Hyundai Lizardis HU9E

Among the best mois­tur­iz­ers and device from the South Kore­an brand Hyundai. This is a mod­el with a mod­er­ate capac­i­ty of 330 ml/h, due to its small size. The width and height of the device is 28x34 cm. It is clear that it will not be able to process a large area. For Hyundai Lizardis HU9E it is 30 sqm: enough for a medi­um sized room. The vol­ume of the water tank is 6 liters, slight­ly less than aver­age.

Enough fea­tures for a bud­get price. Sup­port­ed warm or cold steam sup­ply: Use­ful for both cold win­ters and hot sum­mers. The device is equipped with a hygrom­e­ter: it deter­mines the lev­el of humid­i­ty in the room. You don’t have to guess how humid the room is, just look at the device’s dis­play.

Aro­macap­sule is locat­ed inside the device. Aro­ma oils can be added to it to cre­ate a SPA effect. There is also a timer with a range of oper­a­tion from 1 to 8 hours. Comes with a con­trol pan­el. With it, a timer is set, the device is turned on and off, the inten­si­ty of steam out­put and air heat­ing are select­ed. Steam out­put is adjustable in three modes.

Inter­est­ing­ly, this the mod­el sup­ports both the adjust­ment of the direc­tion of blow­ing and humid­i­fi­ca­tion. The steam sup­ply can be direct­ed to the cen­ter of the room to min­i­mize mois­ture con­tact with the fur­ni­ture. The man­u­fac­tur­er does not rec­om­mend installing it on the floor, prefer­ably on a table or oth­er sur­face above the floor lev­el.

We liked:

• Cold steam sup­ply
• Mois­ture Per­cent­age Deter­mi­na­tion
• The pres­ence of a timer
• Aro­macap­sule

We did­n’t like:

• Incon­ve­nience of water fill­ing (you have to turn the device over)
• At night, mod­er­ate noise and gur­gling can inter­fere

9 Smartmi Evaporative Zhimi Air Humidifier 2 EN

Anoth­er Xiao­mi humid­i­fi­er impres­sive bud­get price. This is the only tra­di­tion­al type mod­el on our list of the best. Water is sup­plied to the evap­o­ra­tor blades, which are con­tin­u­ous­ly rotat­ing. The fan sup­plies a strong air flow to them, and drops of liq­uid are car­ried out of the device. The advan­tage of a tra­di­tion­al humid­i­fi­er is that it works with­out addi­tion­al con­sum­ables.

It can be filled with only 4 liters of water, it is very com­pact. Pro­duc­tiv­i­ty is also small, only 260 ml / h. It is clear that with such indi­ca­tors the cul­ti­vat­ed area will be small — up to 36 sq.m.

Evap­o­ra­tion rate adjustable, it is con­ve­nient to pour water from above, for this the device does not even need to be dis­as­sem­bled. The humid­i­fi­er is made of a spe­cial bac­te­r­i­al plas­tic that can inhib­it the growth of bac­te­ria. The dig­i­tal dis­play shows the per­cent­age of mois­ture, the vol­ume of water in the tank and oth­er infor­ma­tion.

It’s nice that the man­u­fac­tur­er indi­cat­ed the max­i­mum noise lev­el — 47 dB. The device is qui­et. Smart­mi Evap­o­ra­tive Zhi­mi Air Humid­i­fi­er 2 sup­ports con­trol from a smart­phone, and also works with Yandex.Alisa and Mi Home. You can set a timer for the humid­i­fi­er, which is impor­tant. It also auto­mat­i­cal­ly turns off when all the water in the tank evap­o­rates.

We liked:

• No addi­tion­al mate­ri­als need­ed
• Works with Yandex.Alice
• There is a timer
• Qui­et oper­a­tion

We did­n’t like:

• No water treat­ment
• Lit­tle per­for­mance

10 Polaris PUH 9105 IQ Home

We are fin­ish­ing our rat­ing of the best from the bud­get mod­el PUH 9105 IQ Home from the brand Polaris. Wi-Fi con­trolled humid­i­fi­er that can be con­trolled via the Polaris IQ Home app. You can turn on the device and make it work even when you are away from home.

Since the cost of the device is inex­pen­sive, this affects the tech­ni­cal char­ac­ter­is­tics. The ser­viced area is only 45 sq.m. Water con­sump­tion is aver­age — 500 ml / h. The tank for her is also medi­um in size, 5 liters. There is a hygrom­e­ter inside, so the humid­i­ty lev­el will be main­tained auto­mat­i­cal­ly. The device is able to con­duct air ion­iza­tionand you can also pour aro­mat­ic oils into it.

The water is cleaned by a fil­ter with a dem­iner­al­iz­ing car­tridge (ion exchange resin), which means that you can fill in ordi­nary, untreat­ed water. In this mod­el, as well as in the device from BORK, there are four modes: Health, Chil­dren, Night and Auto­mat­ic. Also, you can cre­ate your own mode if need­ed. Through the phone, it is pos­si­ble to select the “warm steam” func­tion, adjust the inten­si­ty of humid­i­fi­ca­tion, turn off the back­light, set a timer or sched­ule.

A demo mode is avail­able in the Polaris IQ Home app. You can eval­u­ate the fea­tures and inter­face of the app to see if it will be con­ve­nient for you to use it to con­trol your humid­i­fi­er. A nice bonus: the device works with voice assis­tants Alice and Marusya.

We liked:

• WiFi con­trol
• Work­ing with vir­tu­al assis­tants
• Air ion­iza­tion and arom­a­ti­za­tion
• Steam tem­per­a­ture selec­tion

We did­n’t like:

• No more than 12 hours of work
• Bot­tom water top-up
• Not always clear con­trol log­ic

Rating results

We have seen ten the best humid­i­fiers from dif­fer­ent price seg­ments and with dif­fer­ent func­tion­al­i­tyto make it eas­i­er for you to choose the right one. The pop­u­lar­i­ty of these mod­els is eas­i­ly explained, just look at the reviews. These are high-qual­i­ty devices cre­at­ed for the com­fort of the buy­er, which is why they got into our rat­ing. As a result, the best Mod­el Han­zo Z6: she is an exam­ple of the best val­ue for mon­ey.