My Snooz Review
The Snooz is a device that claims to block out noise to help you sleep better. It’s yet another device I backed on Kickstarter. A more accurate description of what the Snooz is, taken from their Kickstart campaign:
SNOOZ is an acoustic white noise machine that helps you fall asleep and stay asleep. Using a proprietary fan in an acoustically optimized enclosure, SNOOZ produces peaceful white noise to help the world fade away so you can sleep.
So does the Snooz work as they claim? Keep reading my review of Snooz and find out.
The Snooz on Kickstarter…. a really late project
The Snooz team was extremely late in delivering the product. They originally planned to ship by March 2016 but I didn’t get mine until April 2017, over a year later. Was it worth the wait? For me, yes it was.
The prototype you see in the Kickstarter campaign looks nothing like the final version.
What’s the Snooz good for?
The Snooz works great at drowning out sound. My bedroom faces the street and there are car sounds that are quite noticeable late at night or early in the morning, but not with the Snooz on. I had to play with the volume of the Snooz to get it to a level where it drowns out most of the noise, but isn’t so loud that it’s a distraction on it’s own. You will likely have to experiment with the right volume that works for you, too.
How’s the Snooz app?
I never use the app. I have never even installed the app. I have too many damn apps on my phone. I just manually press the power button on the top of the Snooz when I’m ready to use it and press it again in the morning when I wake up to turn it off. I’m not even sure what you can do with the app. I would guess schedule when the Snooz turns on and off, volume control, and the tone of the fan? I honestly have no clue.
The Snooz breaks! Dun, dun, dunnnnnn….
The top of the lights on the Snooz stopped working randomly a few weeks ago. I emailed the Snooz team the next day and asked how I could fix it and they said that it’s probably the beginning of the end for that unit, and that they’d send me a new one immediately. Sure enough, the next day they shipped me one and sent me a tracking number. I just received the new one yesterday and used it last night. I think I’ll keep using my old one until it finally kicks the bucket before I start using the new unit.
So there’s a bit of warning. The Snooz is potentially non durable as my first unit lights stopped working within 3 months. But the good news is that customer support from the Snooz team is very fast and responsive.
Why not use a real fan, you ask? You could, but it would run more power. The Snooz is also very portable, so you can take it with you while traveling. I have yet to do so but may do that in the future. It would have come in handy in on my last trip where my roommate snored like a jackhammer. Here are some other advantages:
The Snooz review conclusion… worth it? Worth it.
The Snooz works really well for me. The first time I tried the Snooz the quality of my sleep jumped up a couple of notches. Since then, I’ve been using it every night while at home. I think the Snooz is overpriced, unfortunately. For the same amount of money you could get yourself a pretty decent fan that also has the added ability of actually being a useable fan. But if you want volume control, portability, and app controlled sleep assistant, the Snooz is a good investment.
If you want to find out more about the Snooz, visit their website here.