Alexa Plus Review: Smarter for the Smart Home, but Not Yet a Personal Assistant
Alexa Plus is the best smart home assistant we've tested so far. It understands natural commands like "I'm cold," cuts weather query and timer response times from 10–15 seconds in 2025 to 3–5 seconds, and can even accept uploaded photos of recipes to help with cooking. But it performs immaturely in personal assistant scenarios, full-screen ads on the Echo Show seriously disrupt the experience, and the Echo Dot Max is the best choice for running Alexa ad-free.
