IKEA Förnuftig air purifier: Price, release date, specs

IKEA Förnuftig air purifier: Cost, release engagement, specs

(Image credit: IKEA)

IKEA FÖRNUFTIG SPECS

Cost: $54.99
Retail launch: April 1 (U.S.)
Size: 12 10 xviii x four inches; stand adds v inches to height
Colors: Blackness or white
Optimal room size: 108 square feet (10 square meters)
Filters: Cleanable prefilter; disposable HEPA-similar filter and gas/odor carbon filter
Fan speeds: Three
Make clean air delivery rate: 70 cubic feet per infinitesimal (max)
Audio: 29 dB, 49 dB and 60 dB, depending on fan speed
Power consumption: 1.5 to 16 watts
Sold with: Cleanable prefilter and disposable HEPA-like filter
Replacement filters: HEPA-similar filter, $5.49; gas/odor carbon filter, $nine.99

Just in time for April Fool'due south 24-hour interval — but not a joke — IKEA is releasing a new air purifier that'southward priced at a jaw-droppingly cheap $55. We're not certain it'll make our list of the best air purifiers, merely at this price, that may not matter.

The Förnuftig (that'south "Sensible" in Swedish) air purifier looks similar a minor slice of art when hanging on a wall, or a Scandinavian speaker when continuing on the floor. It ships with a HEPA-similar filter to screen out small particles, plus a prefilter to catch hair and large grit particles.

IKEA Förnuftig toll and release date

The Förnuftig is available on the IKEA U.Southward. website and in IKEA U.S. stores as of April 1, 2021. It costs $54.99. IKEA says the Förnuftig has been available in China since last autumn.

Y'all can besides get an optional activated-carbon filter ($ix.99) to absorb odors, gases and volatile organic compounds (gasoline, new vinyl, etc.). There's a infinite for the gas filter behind the HEPA-similar filter in the Förnuftig'southward body.

The operating cost is the principal appeal here. Replacement filters for other air purifiers cost betwixt $20 and $lx, while the Förnuftig's filters cost much less. You practise take to supercede the Förnuftig filters a bit more than oftentimes, just not frequently enough to make upwards the difference.

IKEA Förnuftig: Design

The Förnuftig looks pretty prissy and goose egg like the futuristic monoliths that most air purifiers resemble. The rectangular torso comes in black or white, but the main matter y'all'll see is the bonny tweed-like gray-fabric prefilter on the front. That pops off and tin can be cleaned with a vacuum cleaner, only the two filters behind it accept to exist replaced every four months.

The Förnuftig is about 12 inches wide, 18 inches long and four inches deep. At 7 pounds, 13 ounces, it'south light enough to mount on a wall (air intake is on the sides, not the back), but you lot can attach an included stand for flooring placement and a conveying handle also.

Two Förnuftig air purifiers standing side by side. — (Image credit: IKEA)

IKEA Förnuftig: Room size requirements

IKEA says the Förnuftig can effectively clean the air in a room of 108 square feet (or 10 foursquare meters), which is a small bedroom by North American standards. The FÖRNUFTIG isn't going to do much for your living room, but it might for your youngest child's room or a invitee bedroom.

Compare that optimal room size to that of the $90 Levoit LV-H132, which tin handle 129 square feet, or the $100 PureZone 3-in-i, which can do 200 square anxiety. That latter size is about the boilerplate size of a North American master sleeping accommodation, though the bedrooms in newer McMansions are a lot bigger.

IKEA Förnuftig make clean air delivery rate (CADR)

The Förnuftig's clean-air-delivery-rate (CADR), or air throughput, is a bit hard to effigy out because IKEA's press package for the air purifier refers to the European cubic-meter-per-hour charge per unit while we Yanks are stuck on the cubic-foot-per-minute (CFM) organisation.

The highest fan speed on the Förnuftig provides to a European CADR of 140 m3/h, which a Google-provided conversion formula translates to a U.South. CADR of about 82 CFM. However, then we drilled down into the Förnuftig product page on the IKEA website and saw that a maximum CADR of but 70 cfm was listed.

Either way, that's on the low side. The $100 PureZone 3-in-1 has a CADR of 80 CFM and the $90 Levoit LV-H132 as well mentioned above tops out at 110 CFM. The EPA recommends a CADR of 65 cfm or more for fifty-fifty the smallest rooms.

IKEA Förnuftig fan speeds and power consumption

The Förnuftig has 3 fan-speed levels. IKEA's press brochure says the lowest speed is "quiet enough for sleep" (29 dB according to the user manual) which makes us wonder how loud the other two speeds are. The Förnuftig user manual has those pegged at 49 dB and threescore dB, respectively, the higher of which is roughly the volume of normal indoor conversation.

The three fan speeds draw about 1.5, 6.5 and xiv watts, respectively, according to the Förnuftig user transmission. Your home internet router may draw up to 15 watts, while a smartphone charger draws between 5 and 7 watts.

IKEA Förnuftig costs of operation

If you take both the carbon and HEPA-like filters in your Förnuftig and supersede them diligently every 4 months, so that will run you about $46 a year. Skip the carbon filter (you probably don't need information technology) and that drops to $xvi a year.

By comparing, replacing the HEPA or HEPA-like filters every 6 months on a regular air purifier volition cost you betwixt $40 and $120 per year.

IKEA Förnuftig care and cleaning

The prefilter mounted on the front end of the Förnuftig tin can be cleaned with a vacuum cleaner afterwards you lot pop it off. The HEPA-like filter and the activated-carbon gas filter must be replaced every four months. An LED light on the top of the FÖRNUFTIG lets yous know when it's time.

Buying an air purifier? Here's what you lot demand to know

Paul Wagenseil is a senior editor at Tom'due south Guide focused on security and privacy. He has also been a dishwasher, fry cook, long-booty commuter, lawmaking monkey and video editor. He's been rooting effectually in the information-security space for more than 15 years at FoxNews.com, SecurityNewsDaily, TechNewsDaily and Tom's Guide, has presented talks at the ShmooCon, DerbyCon and BSides Las Vegas hacker conferences, shown up in random TV news spots and even chastened a panel discussion at the CEDIA home-technology conference. You tin can follow his rants on Twitter at @snd_wagenseil.