Auli 2.0 review: the air purifier you won’t hide away in a corner
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Most air purifiers end up in the corner, tucked away because they just look like another piece of tech where design was an afterthought.
Not the Auli 2.0. It’s a 52-inch floor lamp with a triple-stage HEPA filter hidden in the base, and it took me less than 30 minutes to build.
Here’s the gist: This is an actually stylish piece of furniture that has two shade options, warm linen and soft ivory, both on the same pine-finish base. Auli offers free shipping, 30-day returns and a one-year warranty.
The Auli 2.0 floor lamp and air purifier is a 52.4-inch dimmable LED lamp with a three-stage H13 HEPA filter in the base. It features five fan speeds, three light modes and two color choices for your shade. Filters cost $69 or $62 with the 90-day subscription and are rated for 2,200 hours.
Yes. It’s a cylinder weighing about 14 pounds, 11 inches in diameter, with a sophisticated slatted base that houses the purifier and a tall fabric shade that houses two bulbs.
At three stages, the filter design is the real deal: a pre-filter for hair and dust, activated carbon for odors and smoke and an H13 HEPA layer that Auli says captures 99.97% of particles down to 0.3 microns.
The brand rates it at 1,836 square feet of coverage per hour (which far surpasses the city square footage in which I reside).
One thing the product page tells you that the photos don’t: the base is made of acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS), a type of plastic used in everything from Lego bricks to dashboards and often a pick for 3D printing filament.
That durable ABS base features a nice pine wood-grain finish that I didn’t realize wasn’t wood at first glance. From six feet away, it reads as wood, but up close it’s plastic. I don’t mind, but worth knowing ahead of time.
A few illustrated steps and it’s genuinely easy, with two spots that may slow you down.
The packing was pristine (I’m a big fan of spatial intelligence), and the power adapter ships tucked inside the filter in a bubble-wrapped sleeve so it can’t rub the HEPA pleats. Someone thought about the details.
The two rings that hold the shade look identical and are labeled “top” and “bottom,” which saved me a guess. The three support bars inside the bottom ring line up so they don’t sit over the control knobs, which is either lucky or deliberate and I’m giving them the point either way.
Where the Auli 2.0 tricked me up a bit: connecting the terminals and screwing the pole into the base is awkward with one person and two hands. Mine didn’t feel secure on the first try, so I backed it out and did it again. You can tighten it much further than it feels like you should.
Then the shade. It ships rolled flat and attaches with five evenly spaced clips and Velcro along the seams to be put in the back.
Start with the soft side of the Velcro, not the prickly side, or you’ll do what I did and undo half of it. It’s tall enough that you can’t easily reach its middle while you’re clipping. When I took it back off to move the seam, I found the five clips are spaced so the center one puts the seam squarely at the back.
The bottom ring can also slip loose when you pull the shade off, and rethreading it is more annoying than it should be once the other components are assembled.
Twenty-five minutes with one restart and zero tools. Not bad at all.
I’d say these are a nice-to-have, not a need-to-have. That turned out to be the best news of the setup.
The remote comes in the box. AAA batteries do not, and nothing on the packaging or in the manual’s contents list prepares you. You finish a build, go to test using the remote and discover you’re AAAs to your Amazon next day delivery list.
The app didn’t fare any better for me. It wanted an account, a verification code and a password before it would look at the lamp, then my Wi-Fi credentials, then a reset button it illustrated using a device that isn’t the one in my living room. I never found the QR code it asked for. So I gave up.
But I don’t necessarily consider this a fail. I don’t need everything to be smarter than me.
Fortunately, the knobs do everything. Five purifier speeds and three light modes: warm, natural and cool, each dimmable. Warm is the one you want. Cool is that flat white office light, and I’m sure someone’s asking for it, but not me.
The top display labels sleep mode, auto mode, child lock, air quality indicator and filter replacement light.
Fair warning that this is a first impression, so I can’t tell you what it’s doing to my air quite yet. That’ll take me a few months and a filter indicator.
What I can tell you is that you feel it working. Stand near it on a higher speed and there’s a soft, albeit fairly quiet pull of air moving through the base, the kind of thing you notice with the back of your hand before you notice it in the room.
So: yes on first impression, with one placement caveat.
At just over 52 inches tall, it sits below eye level for most adults, so you can see down into the lit shade. I placed it in an open area beside the couch that people don’t need to walk by or linger. I’m picky about those sorts of things though, so you may not mind.
If you want to see which shade works in yours, Auli’s 30-day trial means the only thing you’re committing to right now is the look, and cleaner air, of course.
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