Blueair – Blue Pure Fan Auto – White – White

Blueair has made something as simple as a fan into a conversation piece with a truly unique design. The fan is lightweight and easy to move with the leather like strap on the top. It also has removable pre filters in different colors to add to the unique look. It comes with two (grey and dark blue) and I believe two or three other colors are available This allows you to add a bit of flair or complement your home décor. The small led light on the front will indicate your air quality depending on the color.
The fan has three different speed settings, an auto mode and a night mode. The lowest setting is basically whisper quite, the second you know it’s running but it’s not loud, the third you definitely know it’s on. The third is about what you would expect from a typical fan on high though. In auto mode it runs based on the quality of the air from the censor. Night mode cuts all the lights off and only runs on the lowest setting. The fan on all but the highest setting doesn’t put out a lot of air. On the lowest setting it’s basically more of an air purifier to filter the air near you, on the second highest it’s a nice breeze when you’re within say 6 to 8 feet. The highest settings is more of what a bigger floor standing fan would put off on medium. This is a great bedside or desk fan rather than an across the room kinda fan unless running on high. The one area I think Blueair missed the mark on is the fact there’s no remote or app control. Blueair has such an awesome app for their air purifiers I really don’t understand why they didn’t integrate that ability into this. Given it’s small size and where the ideal places are for this, being able to control the speed of the fan with a remote or your phone would have been ideal.
If you’re looking for a small air purifying fan that’s lightweight,easy to move and has a design that’s truly eye catching, this is it!

Bottom line:
The Blueair offers a pretty decent, personal-sized cooling fan to accompany its industrial strength air purification/filtration capabilities in a very stylish and modern-looking package. There are a few brilliant usability touches to accommodate nighttime and smart outlets/timers, and just a few design elements that could probably have used a bit more tweaking. If you just need a stylish air purifier, this one is definitely a solid choice; as a personal cooling fan (that also happens to offer substantial air purification capabilities), however, it seems better suited to low and MAYBE medium speeds (at most) as fan noise becomes a bit excessive/intrusive at the highest setting.
Design:
Although it’s slightly bigger than I expected (that’s our 10 lb Yorkie-mutt pictured next to the unit below), it’s still small enough to sit on a dresser or large desk, though probably not a night stand, especially if there is a lamp or clock on top as well. Dimensions are roughly 11″ D x 13″ W x 15″ T, but you are supposed to clear out at least 4″ around the unit on all sides, so you have to figure on losing that much real estate when you’re considering placement. The coated feet are longer in the front than the back, so if you place the fan on the floor (or at your feet next to your desk), the cooling breeze is angled somewhat upwards and will sort of work its way up to you if you’re seated. The rear panel is removable and houses a massive, 3″ thick filter with a cloth pre-filter “sock” that covers the assembly–there is a second pre-filter cover thoughtfully included in the box. The front of the Blueair offers fan-blade ventilation via “hole-shot” design that is pretty stylish compared to a run-of-the-mill fan with simple slits cut in the face. However, the back of the unit completely exposes the cloth-covered filter, so you have to be careful handling or moving the fan as you could potentially crush some elements of the filter if your hand is resting against/putting pressure on the filter itself. A vinyl/leatherette (I really don’t think it’s real leather) carrying handle is fasted to the top with what looks like 4 silver button-top pop-rivets; they feel sturdy enough on my new unit, but I have seen these kinds of button fasteners give way in the past–depending on how often you intend to move this unit around, a bit sturdier construction here would be a bit more reassuring.
Operation:
There is no remote control, but operation is limited to only 2 buttons (power and fan speed/program selector) so you don’t really need one. There are no automatic timer settings, just controls for fan speed…this is definitely a FAN that also packs in some pretty potent air purification; it’s not necessarily designed to be a sophisticated air purifier with completely autonomous and unattended use in mind. Fan speed is indicated by a small LED that lights up below the selected program (with one exception), and adjustments from one speed to the next are silent (no beeps). There is a curved LED segment in the upper left corner of the fan’s front grill that indicates current air quality. The LED cycles blue/orange/red to indicate clean/moderate/polluted air quality. While informative, this LED segment is actually VERY bright and would definitely be intrusive in a dimply lit or darkened room–fortunately, there is a nighttime setting that deals with this issue that I’ll get to in just a moment.
The “Auto” program uses the fan’s internal sensor to vary fan speed based on detected dust/contaminant levels, supposedly starting off at high or medium (depending on how polluted the air is to begin), and then reducing down to the lowest speed setting once air quality is back in the “blue” range. All our rooms read as clean initially, so I didn’t have an opportunity to see how the Blueair behaves in this capacity. However, the “Night” setting (denoted by the little moon icon) adjusts fan speed down to its slowest and turns off all LEDs. This setting is definitely preferable to regular operation where the bright LED segment would probably have kept us awake, but it also sacrifices our ability to select any higher fan speed settings that would afford a stronger cooling breeze blowing across the bedroom.
Regarding filtration performance–I guess that all depends on whether you buy into the benefits of air filters and purifiers like this in the first place. We haven’t had our Pure Fan unit long enough for heavy dust to start building up at the back where the pre-filter is catching larger pollutants before they hit the finer particle filter inside, nor is our home particularly polluted to begin with (we don’t smoke or have an active fireplace or anything like that). But we do have pets, and our home does get very dusty as our constant expenditures on replacing dirty/grey AC filters will attest. We have other air purifiers in rooms throughout the house and they do a very good job of providing cleaner-smelling, less dirty living conditions for our family–the size of this unit’s filter, combined with the powerful fan for moving more air, should prove to be a very effective combination in the long run.
As indicated earlier, the Blueair Pure Fan does not offer any automatic timers. However, in one of the best bits of usability engineering I’ve seen in a unit like this, the fan remembers its last settings when powered up so that if you use a smart outlet or wall timer, it will turn back on and return to the previous settings just as soon as power is restored. I’m using an Amazon smart plug with the Blueair so I can control the fan with Alexa voice commands and set routines for unattended operation. This is something I was usually only able to do with fans and other small appliances that had a physical power switch that could be left in an always-on position…definitely a nice touch!
Fan noise is really the only significant gripe I have about this unit. On low speed (and the night setting), the fan truly is virtually silent; but the cooling breeze is also minimal at best–I cannot see it offering much cooling performance if sitting back in a corner or more than a few feet away. The medium speed offers decent cooling at a reasonable distance, but is maybe just a hair louder than the white noise that a decent, but unobtrusive, desk-side fan would otherwise produce. I probably couldn’t comfortably watch TV with it set to medium if the fan was right near my head because of the noise; but I could easily see falling asleep with the fan at medium as the cooling breeze really is quite effective. Again, however, the bright LED on this setting would be very intrusive at this point.
At high speed, however, the fan emits a VERY loud wind turbine/whooshing noise that makes it pretty well unusable (in my opinion) as a personal cooling fan where you intend to be in the same room and in close proximity during operation. At full speed, I could easily hear the fan at the back corner of our master bedroom while standing outside the door and on into the kitchen. Now, I do give Blueair props for eliminating any unpleasant high-pitched motor noise at the maximum speed setting; but the volume is still high enough that I can’t see anyone comfortably carrying on a conversation (or engage in work requiring deep concentration) with the fan set this high, nor does it seem suitable for use in anything but a WAY-across-the-room setting, unless you’re really REALLY hot and just need to stick your face in front of a tiny tornado to cool off. At the maximum setting, the fan also started to shudder on its rubberized spiky feet; on carpeting, you might not notice, but on a hard floor, shelf, or counter/table top (where ours was placed), these vibrations caused some slight rattling noise to develop in the enclosure as well. That said, the size of the unit seems to lend itself better to personal (read: up-close) use, and the low and medium (to a slightly lesser degree) fan speed settings are perfectly suited for these uses.

Think of fan with a HEPA filter on steroids.
I have seen some internet hacks that use a box fan and someone attaching a HEPA filter to the back of it and you have a similar but crude device.
This is way better than a hack. Plug and play. Assembly was a snap. HEPA filter has a washable pre filter and comes with a spare pre filter.
Easy to use buttons. On/off… Speed… Night time use is great. It goes super low speed to keep noise down and all the lights go off on it.
The fan speed and strength is great for it being a compact device.
For its size build and functionality, I would recommend this product.

I love this thing!
This is my second Blueair product so I was not at all surprised by the quality. To give you an idea how things are in my house, I am always too hot and my wife is always too cold. As such, it is pretty common for me to have a fan on me. While this takes care of the airflow problem, it does nothing (truth be told it makes worse) the flying dust issue. This fan is the perfect solution as it offers not only a powerful, quiet and portable fan, but it also offers a great dual filter to catch dust and pollens. I can tell a difference immediately.
Setup was simple, controls are intuitive and clean and finish is certainly above your average off-the-shelf fan. Nice leather handle makes this lightweight unit easy to move as well as offering a clean aesthetic appreciation.
If there was one place for improvement (and yes, I know this is nit-picking) it would be if it was like my other Blueair Purifier and it had the WiFi option to monitor filter, air-quality and adjust fan speeds and modes. That said, I can see why a fan wouldn’t really need that, but I am just spoiled.
In all, this is a great product and I would wholeheartedly recommend it to a friend.
**PLEASE NOTE** This product was provided to me at no or reduced cost in exchange for an honest and unbiased review. This is exactly that, honest and unbiased.