Best Wireless Earbuds, Tested and Reviewed (2025)

Other Earbuds We Like

Every period seems to bring caller sets of earbuds with longer artillery life, caller features, and much compact designs. As such, we can't database everything we like. But if you're inactive hunting, present are immoderate different recommendations.

Beyerdynamic Amiron 300 for $280: These premium earbuds from Beyerdynamic (8/10, WIRED Recommends) look nondescript and dependable fantastic, but they deficiency immoderate of the superlative qualities of the buds connected the database above. If you're aft a clean-looking brace of headphones with fantastic vocal definition, they're worthy considering.

Soundcore Space A40 for $60: While they're nary longer connected our main list, the Space A40 are inactive immoderate of my favourite buds for the money, providing bully features, wide sound, and fantabulous sound canceling for their terms class. They besides look polished, with lone their deficiency of auto-pause sensors betraying their debased price.

Samsung Galaxy Buds 2 Pro for $100-200: The Galaxy Buds 2 Pro are getting older, but they're inactive among the champion buds to brace with a Samsung phone. They don't person the multi-device connectivity of our apical prime for Android users, and their five-hour artillery is looking beauteous abbreviated these days, but they supply fantabulous dependable quality, IPX7 waterproofing, and a distinctive plan that doesn't conscionable ape the AirPods Pro. That makes them good worthy considering connected sale.

Pixel Buds A Series for $99: These utilized to beryllium our apical prime for astir people, but they're present overshadowed by different affordable options that besides see things similar sound canceling. If you tin find a brace connected sale, they're inactive worthy snagging, particularly if you person an Android phone.

Soundpeats Air4 for $76: Soundpeats’ Air4 (7/10, WIRED Recommends) whitethorn beryllium evident AirPods Pro knockoffs, but they're precise bully knockoffs for the money. You won't get top-flight performance, fto unsocial Apple exclusives similar Find My enactment oregon iCloud sharing, but you volition get bully dependable and features, including decent sound canceling, astatine a monolithic discount. While these aren't a apical choice, they're a large fund buy, particularly connected sale.

Sony Linkbuds Fit for $200: Sony’s Linkbuds Fit connection affluent and punchy sound, naturalistic transparency mode, and a airy and comfy fit, helping them unrecorded up to their intent arsenic a “wear anywhere” solution. They supply immoderate coagulated features, but skimp connected artillery beingness with conscionable 5.5 hours per charge, and their sound canceling is conscionable OK. Their oddly unresponsive interaction controls and reliance connected flimsy silicone sleeves further diminish their value, but they're inactive Sony buds and could beryllium worthy nabbing connected a bully sale.

Montblanc MTB 03 for $395: These earbuds are priced retired of scope for astir buyers, but if you've got the cash, you'll beryllium rewarded with a luxury acquisition worthy of the brand. Montblanc has called successful immoderate dense hitters from the audio manufacture to plan and dependable these buds. The effect is simply a small, comfortable, and rather flashy-looking brace of wireless earbuds that dependable truly impressive.

Raycon Everyday Earbuds for $80: These YouTuber-beloved earbuds are really a decent inexpensive brace (7/10, WIRED Review). They are tiny and light, and they travel with an IPX6 rating, which makes them large for workouts.

Master & Dynamic MW08 Sport for $399: The Sport are a large enactment that travel with progressive sound canceling and a striking design, but the precocious terms keeps them retired of the scope of astir people.

Earbuds to Avoid

As a wide rule, you should debar earbuds that don't enactment the Bluetooth 5.0 modular (or higher) oregon don't connection astatine slightest 5 hours of artillery life, and much similar six these days. Batteries successful wireless headphones degrade implicit time, truthful the amended your artillery beingness is astatine first, the much tolerable it volition beryllium successful 2 to 3 years.

Apple's modular AirPods (previous oregon existent gen) for $119-170: These headphones bash immoderate things well, we conscionable don't similar them each that much. (Read our latest review.) They get OK artillery life, travel successful a compact case, and enactment good for calls, but they don't acceptable each ears well, and since they don't person receptor tips oregon wings, you're retired of luck if they're loose. The priciest exemplary adds sound canceling which works astir arsenic good arsenic you'd expect for a brace that doesn't connection a due seal. Want wide music, bully sound canceling, and precocious features made for iPhones? Get the AirPods Pro Gen 2, which sometimes outgo much (and sometimes less) but are legitimately great.

Beats Solo Buds for $80: These are lackluster successful virtually each imaginable mode (6/10, WIRED Review), particularly erstwhile it comes to features for the money. Their champion traits are their micro-size and large battery, but that's astir it. It's odd, due to the fact that we similar different headphones from the brand, but these conscionable don't support pace. The champion we tin accidental is they are cheap.

Samsung Galaxy Buds 3 for $180: A Cybertrucked brace of AirPods clones (5/10, WIRED Review), the headphones successful the caller Galaxy Buds enactment enactment worse than they already look. With nary eartips, these are uncomfortable to deterioration for agelong periods, and the sound canceling is each but useless.