7 Best Dehumidifiers We’ve Tested and Reviewed (2025)

This 13-pound dehumidifier is without a refrigerant. Instead, it works with zeolite desiccant material. Like Eva-Dry’s Renewable Mini Dehumidifier above, the EVD-4000 works with the same dehumidification principle but at a much larger scale. It has a rotating desiccant ceramic disk to pull in moisture and is able to dry out a 440-square-foot room. It's lighter and quieter than the other dehumidifiers I’ve tested, but that comes with the higher price. And because the EVD-4000 doesn’t require refrigerant, it’s able to work in a variety of temperatures. It has a blue-light ionizer and air filter to capture some particulate matter. And the air blowing from the unit is warm. It is barely audible at its lowest setting and is around a quiet-ish 60 decibels at its highest setting.

When I first plugged in the EVD-4000 it gave off an off-putting smell, like heated plastic, but true to the manual’s word, it soon dissipated. I also worried that the EVD-4000 would somehow impact the indoor air quality of my son's 250-square-foot room. It did not. I set the ideal humidity at its highest setting of 35 percent and checked my various indoor air quality monitors. They were reading a high 62 percent humidity. I wondered how long it would take EVD-400 to deliver its 35 percent target. It took four hours to get to 46 percent humidity, but after seven hours, the tank was filled and EVD-4000 turned off. The EVD-4000 includes a drain hose for continuous drainage, and that would be ideal to use, as its water reservoir is too small for continuous dehumidifying. It also has three swinging louvers, a clothes drying mode, and a pullout tank to collect water.

Like the Honeywell Smart, the GoveeLife portable dehumidifier has an app. It also has a continuous drain hose and a 2-gallon water tank. It’s capable of removing between 49 and 109 pints a day depending on the temperature. The higher the temperature, the more water it’s able to remove. The unit weighs nearly 40 pounds, but I was able to move it around on its wheels. It had that disappear-into-the-room white design, and while I wouldn’t run it at full blast in my bedroom, it was quieter at its lower settings.

It also had something I hadn’t considered before: laundry mode. I was more than curious, as I hate running my dryer and knew that countries like Denmark have drying rooms where they line-dry their clothes with the aid of a dehumidifier. Could I increase my energy efficiency and dry my clothes simply by running my dehumidifier? Why, yes! I was able to dry two bath towels, a cotton T-shirt, a tennis skirt, and several hand towels in four hours. In that time, the 2-gallon tank was almost at capacity. It was also a day with nearly 80 percent humidity. I liked the GoveeLife as a dehumidifier, but the big takeaway was having a real alternative to my dryer.