(2025 Upgrade) Aiper Scuba S1 Robotic Pool Cleaner, Wall & Waterline Cleaning, Double Filtration, Extended 180-Min Battery Life, Smart Navigation, App Support, OTA Upgrade

We own a campground with a 40x20 heated pool. I am CPO certified, so I know how to keep a pool perfectly balanced and clean. I decided to get the the 2025 s1 version, to minimize the amount of morning work I have with the pool. I put the bot in at night on floor mode and cover the pool, by morning everything is clean. It is amazing the amount of crude this thing is able to get. We've had it a week now and every day the filter is like this. Over the 4th I could swear it pulled 3 mullets worth of hair out of the pool. Money well spent, but time will tell if it lasts. I will definitely update my review, if something changes.

Scuba Steve Went on its maiden voyage today in the pool and did a fantastic job! It even went on the sun shelf which is about 9 inches and cleaned that which I was surprised by. Cleaned the waterline very well and caught really fine dirt even though I took out the filter used for the very fine particles that it comes with. Very impressed!

This pool robot does a great job. It picks up all the fine stuff and runs long enough to clean the whole pool in one go. The app is easy to use, and the path it follows is smart. Setup was quick, and it’s been running strong so far.

So like many other people that have provided reviews, I’ve been the biggest fan of my Dolphin Nautilus, ( I have two ) which have treated me pretty fair the past nine years. I opted to explore the Aiper surfer S2, in an attempt to reduce the amount of debris sinking down to the bottom of my pool. This product is designed to skim the top of the water, however, it did not meet my expectations. That might be due to its incompatibility with my pool design but regardless, I didn’t want to give up on Aiper altogether- and was open to testing out the Scuba S1 vacuum for a couple of reasons….The dolphins have a cord… The Aiper units are cordless. I did find this to be a bit of an adjustment because it requires me to take it out with its special handle, clean as usual, but then allow it to dry before taking it inside to the garage to plug it in for charging. One nice feature is it has a longer run time and has multi modes for cleaning and the price is not that outrageous. And it didn’t require me to spend endless hours setting up an app and programming the scuba to do its job or recognize its surroundings. That was a major plus! I will also say that it gives me more peace of mind, knowing that I’m not tugging at a cord that could possibly be wearing down my vacuum or accidentally pull out of the unit. I did find it fairly easy to clean… The basket requires a little bit of moving around to get all the particles out. Overall, I have to say I’m pretty impressed with the Scuba S1 - and that’s coming from someone who has used the dolphin brand for almost 10 years. I would recommend the Aiper floor vacuums to any pool owner based on my experience. I just hope it lasts more than a couple of years so I can transition over to this brand and its products for good! 🤞

The media could not be loaded. TLDR: Poor performance on slopes. Would not recommend getting unless you have a flat bottom pool with no slopes.My pool is a standard 16x32 vinyl pool with an 8ft deep end.The good: The vacuum does pick up the sand and large debris on the floor (even without the fine filter). It does scale the wall and just above the waterline. It appears to get most of the debris off the floor.The bad: I have to baby sit it because it often gets stuck trying to do the N/S pattern in corners and on slopes. I run it on floor mode because in auto mode, once it cleans the walls it doesn't seem to have enough power to ascend the slope of my pool floor. But even in floor only mode, it seems to have difficulty navigating sloped floors, sloped walls, and sloped corners. In the attached video its stuck on floor at the beginning of the slope from the shallow end of the pool. The tracks were not making contact with the floor, the scrubbing rotors not doing much, and the jet not strong enough to move it. What's even worst is that after I nudged it, it reversed to attempt to go back over the same spot!!!! When it eventually gets to the deep end it has problems navigating the sloped walls and sloped floors. In one photo I attached you can see it drives along the very steep sloped wall, being almost vertical. However, the vacuum has difficulty on the less steep slope from the deep end back up to the shallow. On this slope the vacuum attempts the S/N pattern but constantly back slides down the slope, going over the same spot over and over. (It does the same back tracking on corners and steps in AUTO/WALL mode). It would often get stuck at this point in the deep end, along the slope doing the same thing over and over (I wish I could upload the video, but multiple videos are not allowed on reviews) Also I'm not convinced that the scrubbers are actually scrubbing the floor. The front of the vacuum seems to float off the ground a bit and the scrubbers just agitate the debris and hopefully the vacuum picks it up. It doesn't remove algae, and misses dirt in bumps and wrinkles.Overall: Is its helpful? Yes, it reduces the amount of manual vacuuming I have to do but doesn't eliminate it, nor does it eliminate the need for manually scrubbing as the vacuum misses spots and does not remove algae. It's also annoying to have to check on it every 15 minutes to make sure its not stuck.Is it worth the price? Let's just say I'm glad I got it on sale. If I get 5 years out of the vacuum I'll be happy. *Fingers crossed*

This robotic cordless pool cleaner arrived nearly fully charged and ready for use. It is battery-powered, featuring a 180-minute runtime. The cleaner can be controlled via an app, though it can also operate without the app using the default setting, which cleans both the walls and the floor of the pool. It is easy to use: simply power it on and submerge it in the water. My husband owns another robotic pool cleaner that he loves, and he feels that this one performs just as well.