Best Budget Smart Toothbrush
Writing this review after a few days of use. This brush is pretty cool. I’ve always wanted to get smart brush, but they’re expensive. This brush hits the sweet spot in price and I was lucky enough to get it for 50% off on Black Friday at Bed Bath.
The app is great. Didn’t encounter bugs and setup was pretty easy. Using the guided brushing has helped me as I can keep track of areas. This has made me realize I’m an awful brusher even though the dentist says I’m a good one. I’m just lucky to have good genetics. My teeth feel very clean! The tracking is pretty good but sometimes the angle doesn’t register with the accelerometer and the area gets counted as a miss. But for the most part it’s pretty accurate. I’m gonna get a Pop-Socket adhesive mount for my mirror to mount my phone to keep my head up for guided brushing. Idk if I can add a second brush, but I may have to get the battery powered brush for brushing at work. I like that it works with HealthKit. I like looking at my data. The point system is pretty cool. Each point is a cent. Doing the math, you would need to brush 1.5 times a day to get one free brush head pack per year. We’ll see how long these heads last. Idk why but you can use points for a new toothbrush, but that would take 5 years if you brushed twice a day. There’s challenges though that earn 50 cents and maybe new challenges will come up later to speed up those 5 years, haha.
The app is great. Didn’t encounter bugs and setup was pretty easy. Using the guided brushing has helped me as I can keep track of areas. This has made me realize I’m an awful brusher even though the dentist says I’m a good one. I’m just lucky to have good genetics. My teeth feel very clean! The tracking is pretty good but sometimes the angle doesn’t register with the accelerometer and the area gets counted as a miss. But for the most part it’s pretty accurate. I’m gonna get a Pop-Socket adhesive mount for my mirror to mount my phone to keep my head up for guided brushing. Idk if I can add a second brush, but I may have to get the battery powered brush for brushing at work. I like that it works with HealthKit. I like looking at my data. The point system is pretty cool. Each point is a cent. Doing the math, you would need to brush 1.5 times a day to get one free brush head pack per year. We’ll see how long these heads last. Idk why but you can use points for a new toothbrush, but that would take 5 years if you brushed twice a day. There’s challenges though that earn 50 cents and maybe new challenges will come up later to speed up those 5 years, haha.
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Response from developer
That's hum-azing news! We are so happy hum is working out so well for you.
It’s only okay.
I was so excited for it to tell me how well I’m brushing. It does track how well your brushing an area, but not that well. You could miss an entire tooth and it wouldn’t know because of how large the sections it tracks are. But my biggest problem is that it controls when you brush what area. It’s really hard for me to jump around to different areas instead of brushing in the same order I’ve brushed my entire life. Why do I have to brush the front top incisor teeth right after brushing only the front of my bottom molars? It doesn’t make since. Why not completely finish brushing the molars and then move on? I really, really hate that. I decided to brush as usual one day and it said only 1% of my teeth were brushed properly even though I brushed for an entire 2 1/2 minutes. It thought that because it can only track the area it shows you even if it’s pattern is nonsensical. Other than that, I love it. When you follow the irritating pattern, the app works well enough and I love being able to track my brushing habits. The reward points are also great because I can eventually get some free replacement heads. Over all, I think it’s a so-so app. It has some problems, but it also has some good features.
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Response from developer
We are so sorry to hear that hum did not meet your expectations and we truly appreciate . We always recommend brushing at a 45 degree angle for best accuracy. Please contact us if you are ever experiencing issues to further investigate https://humsupport.colgate.com/hc/en-us ! We want to get you hummin' along smoothly.
Best. Toothbrush. Yet.
OK, this is amazing. My friends and I all got these for Christmas and it was the first thing we used. The display of your own teeth is incredible, and you can SEE the change this toothbrush is making to your teeth. Everyone I know with this toothbrush, including me, brushes EIGHTEEN TIMES A DAY, times a day, 3 guided brushes before and after every meal. Unlike every other toothbrush, this one makes a change you can see. Not only in the app, but every time you look into the mirror you see a new you. GREAT JOB!!
If you are looking to get the hum toothbrush, my advice is:
YES. I couldn’t find any better toothbrush online, I 100% recommended it.
If you are not sure where the spots you are missing when brushing your teeth, this is the app for you. It colour codes wherever you need to brush, and follows where you toothbrush is on your screen, telling you which spots it needs to be in.
This is probably the best toothbrush I’ve ever used and I never regret buying it!
If you are looking to get the hum toothbrush, my advice is:
YES. I couldn’t find any better toothbrush online, I 100% recommended it.
If you are not sure where the spots you are missing when brushing your teeth, this is the app for you. It colour codes wherever you need to brush, and follows where you toothbrush is on your screen, telling you which spots it needs to be in.
This is probably the best toothbrush I’ve ever used and I never regret buying it!
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Response from developer
That's hum-azing news! We are so happy hum is working out so well for you.
I’m impressed
It works really good, it has a better impact on my gums because right now there kinda lifted. It could probably clean my teeth a little bit better but I have to the extra work for that. But over all it cleaned pretty good. Now the back of the tooth brush is used for your tongue, but I use the bristles because the back doesn’t work barley at all. But the bristles work good for it. Waitttttt, I just now realized that I had it on the low mode the whole time. I should probably turn it on that instead. But one thing I should probably invest in is a tongue cleaning thing because i don’t know if it’s best for the bristles for cleaning my tongue. You should totally buy this. I asked for this for my birthday and I remember getting Brushing my teeth with it that night. I was amazed. With the app that comes with it, it makes me more exited to brush my teeth. And idk if I mentioned this but I really like how it cleans my tongue. KIDS- MAKE SURE YOU GO TO THE TOP OF YOUR TOOTH AND THEN BRUSH DOWN. YOU SHOULD ALWAYS BRUSH FOR 5 MINUTES. AND BRUSH YOUR TONGUE. ALSO FLOSS YPUR TEETH. IT COULD SAVE YOUR LIFE AND IT WILL HELP YOU WITH YOUR BAD BREATH( BRUSHING YOUR TONGUE IS VERY CRUCIAL FOR THIS TO. ) moral of the story guys please take care of your teeth cause you only get a limited amount of teeth. Love you guys and merry Christmas and happy new year. Stay safe!!!!!!❤️❤️🦷🪥😬😁OOH AND ALSO FLOSS BEFORE BRUSHING AND MOUTHWASH AFTER. byeeeeee❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
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Response from developer
Thank you so much for taking the time to share this with us. It brings a smile to our faces knowing how much you're enjoying your hum experience and for the feedback you provided! Feedback like yours helps us improve our products to better suit our customers. So we really appreciate it!
Pretty cool app
Still brand new to the app but so far seems very intuitive.
Update: After a few days of use, I am loving this toothbrush for the most part, as well as the app. I only have two minor complaints. The first being that the brush head is rather small which does allow for more in-depth cleaning of each tooth and reaching those hard to reach areas, though I think the same effect could have been achieved with a slightly larger brush head. The other complaint I have is that the app seems to glitch occasionally and fails to recognize when I brush some zones but I have been getting 85+% coverage the last few brushes so overall it isn’t horrible. To get an electric toothbrush that is also a SMART brush at this price point is INCREDIBLE.
Update: After a few days of use, I am loving this toothbrush for the most part, as well as the app. I only have two minor complaints. The first being that the brush head is rather small which does allow for more in-depth cleaning of each tooth and reaching those hard to reach areas, though I think the same effect could have been achieved with a slightly larger brush head. The other complaint I have is that the app seems to glitch occasionally and fails to recognize when I brush some zones but I have been getting 85+% coverage the last few brushes so overall it isn’t horrible. To get an electric toothbrush that is also a SMART brush at this price point is INCREDIBLE.
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Five stars but some bugs ✨✨💗🌸
First of all This really good app and I totally recommend it to my whole family because it’s really good and I got the toothbrush for like 50 bucks and it was really good and I love the brush. a couple things i would fix is if the guided brushing thing because it exactly work as well because there is kind of a little bug I don’t know what type of bug it is but it basically just doesn’t count where it is and it kind of tells you to check in your zone even though I’m doing all that stuff correctly so it’s like I’m not getting all that it says am I getting all that coverage but then it makes it count sometimes it doesn’t even count even though I brush them really .Well there’s nothing else as much as I love Hum by Colgate giving it check out points or saving a dollar or something it’s really cool I totally love it and recommend this brush to really anyone
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Humdinger of a toothbrush
I just got braces, so with the increasingly frequent dentist visits, I’ve been extra conscious of my dental health. Until I got Hum, I only used non electric toothbrushes. There was just something about electric toothbrushes that didn’t work for me, and the cheap ones I got always got waterlogged and died, so I figured they weren’t for me. While listening to a podcast, I heard an ad for Quip. It sounded interesting, but I wanted to do my research and look into other options before I committed. While looking up other electric toothbrushes, the Hum website popped up and after reading reviews and comparisons, it seemed like Hum was gonna work best for me. After about a week of use, I am totally impressed with Hum !! My teeth feel exponentially cleaner, and with the guided brushing I feel like I’m learning to get more of the hard to reach areas. The smaller brush head has been a lifesaver for my sore teeth while getting used to the braces and tenderness after wisdom teeth removal. While I admit I’m mostly writing a review to get the points, I do genuinely recommend this toothbrush and app and am so thankful to this product for making such an torturous time for me a million times easier, fresher, and less painful.
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Response from developer
Thank you for your honest review! We're thrilled you're loving everything about your hum!
