The Laundry Alternative Ninja Spin Dryer - Portable Spin Dryer for Clothes - 3200 RPM with High Tech Suspension System - Portable Ideal for Apartments, RV Travel - Emerald

I’m so happy that I purchased this. I have a condition EDS that makes my joints dislocate easily and getting to the laundry mat and carrying a heavy laundry bag can be difficult. Now to be honest this takes some practice to get the hang of it. But it’s well worth it. Clothes come out so dry that it takes maybe 30 minutes to finish fully drying all my clothes on my drying rack with a big box fan blowing on the clothes. This little spin dryer has handled heavy sweaters, blankets, sheets, towels, pants etc. If it fits it can handle it..I found that the lightest clothes need to go on the bottom of the spin dryer and heavier clothes need to go on top. Then I give the clothes in the spin dryer a little shove to squish them down. If I don’t the whole thing shakes a little. I’ve found hacks that really help make it work perfectly every single time even on fluffy queen size blankets, big heavy sweaters, jeans etc. When doing fluffy blankets clean a heavy bath towel along with soft fluffy blanket. Set fluffy blanket in spin dryer first and then set bath towel on top of blanket inside the spin dryer and push it all down then close lid and turn on.. Pushing down gentle or hard on the clothes doesn’t seem to matter as long as they are pushed down. If you just toss them in the dryer can’t seem to balance correctly. I really shove the clothes in and fill it to the top with no issues. I saw many comments about it in the reviews saying that the shaking and bouncing was awful and it will if you treat it like a normal dryer and the clothes are rung out and tossed in first. It shakes. A lot. I found tossing in soaking wet clothes works best and shoving the clothes down as flat as you can once in the spin dryer and making sure heaviest clothes are on top works best.. The I turn on and hold top of spin dryer down until I’m sure it won’t bounce, ten seconds tops. If it does spin I rearrange the clothes slightly give a shove and try again. It rarely happens though if done correctly. Then I just wait for all the water to come out. If you can place it in a tub or over a drain it is easier because you don’t have to keep emptying a bucket but my small bucket fills twice max per load.I do keep two big square plastic dollar store buckets on hand. See photo. Because it will fill fast and you’ll need to pull it out to dump and place another under it while you do so. I stop my spin dryer when the water bucket fills half full. Wait a minute for water to slow. Dump bucket and then re start. This works best for me. The spin dryer has never taken more than two minutes to fully spin dry my clothes. It’s super energy efficient. Using it every other day my electric bill went up ten dollars but I was also running Christmas lights every day at the same time. So I’m guessing that the spin dryer might cost five dollars a month to run. I personally love it but if you don’t have patience on trial and error and just want something that works perfect no matter what you do this probably isn’t going to be for you. Unless my machine isn’t normal and it came slightly broken or something it does seem to take a little practice. Hope this helps and if you do decide to purchase I hope you love it as much as I love mine.

I'm not technically allowed to have any washing machines at home, but have owned a wonder wash (the original non electric, hand cranked washer) for years and it has worked so well for me when I couldn't get to a laundromat for whatever reason. Well, with the shelter-in-place laws and two sick kids, I have to stay in as much as possible. Hand wringing heavier items like jeans has always sucked, and those items have taken forever to dry. With this I can dry 2-3 loads out of the wonder wash per day!!! And it's not even that sunny or dry out yet. Towels, jeans, and anything else I put in are near dry in 3-4 minutes. Back to not being allowed to have a washing machine--well, technically this isn't one, and it's so quiet and quick it doesn't really matter. As far as size goes, it's small, but my house is literally tiny. About 32 feet long in total, and we only have one large slide. So I do have to put this away for the sake of my very tall and not small husband who can just barely stand the amount of floor space we have as it is. Luckily for me it's light enough to pick up and store on a top bunk with no straining. Granted, I'm not a weak wisp of a lady, but I'm not a brick house or athlete either. I can carry my 35 pound toddler for quite some time and up a steep hill that winds most adults on their own, though, so maybe I have accrued more mom-arm strength than I thought. Anyway, clothes come out slightly wrinkled from being spun SO well, but if you shake/snap those items before hanging to dry they don't seem to end up with any wrinkles. I don't think wrinkles before they dry should count, personally...just wanted to let you know not to be alarmed when you do see them! So, really amazing, holds a lot more clothes than these tiny portable washer/spinner couples I usually see. I could have sprung for a whole actual tiny washer/spinner all-in-one but I think the set up would be too much of a pain to install and remove daily, and I know there's not space for one of those to remain on the floor. They're probably heavier to lift (it's what I tell myself to not hate hand cranking the laundry...although I won't lie, the wonder wash gets our clothes very clean!). This brings me to another point. The spin dryer drains below...you have to put it in a tub or over some sort of floor drain, or you can be like me and just put a perfectly sized large plastic bowl from the dollar tree under it. It's yet to get close to overflowing despite doing hoodies and jeans and whatnot. Also, the "no on/off switch" comment/review...this is not true. When you close the lid, theres a knob you turn to press/seal the lid shut tightly. When cranked all the way to the right, it's on. When you move it back to the left, right before the position it must be in to actually open the lid, it turns off. There is a very subtle "power off" symbol there (basically looks like a 0). Don't let someone's inability to use picture diagram directions deter you. This machine is great. I hope I get to keep using it. But if things really hit the fan and power outages start becoming a think, I'm glad I still have my wonder wash to rely on. (Again, trying to make myself feel better about not being allowed to have a real washer/being paranoid about getting busted and kicked out of my beautiful neighborhood). Also would recommend to people who hand wash delicates and sweaters....will get your stuff very dry without damage! If you own stuff nice enough to hand wash you probably have room and disposable income for this lovely, helpful little machine.

The first unit I received was defective. Not a huge deal aside from the inconvenience; that happens with the best products and companies. The most important measure of quality for the money is what they do about that. This seller was very responsive and shipped a replacement immediately, along with a pick up for the old unit. I had my new unit in a couple days. The new unit is working as advertised. This dryer is great. It works very quickly and gets clothes almost completely dry - an impressive feat for a machine that does not use heat. It slashed tumble dry times in my 110v dryer down to less than a third of what they were before. With this machine I can now do a load of laundry with my mini machines in the same amount of time as (or less than) a traditional machine. It only takes a couple minutes to extract most of the water. You can set it on the counter and put the drain over the sink (I recommend a fine mesh drain trap to capture any lint if you do), or you can set a large container at the bottom (choose a larger one than you think because this extracts a LOT of water). Make sure to balance the load and use it on a flat, level surface or the machine will wobble and not work efficiently. Try to put the clothes in evenly but also hold onto the meaning for a few seconds after it starts to let it adjust itself. It should still wobbling and go quiet in a couple seconds. It should be fairly quiet and steady. I’m very happy with my purchase. It’s an important addition to my small space. Light enough to lift onto the counter, narrow enough to store in a tiny closet, fast enough to shave hours off my laundry tome, and affordable enough to keep my total cost for all three items (washer, spin dryer, and 110v tumble dryer) well under the cost of a full-size set.

I deliberated purchasing this Laundry Alternative Spin Dryer for over 6 months. Our apartment building has a laundry room, but at $5/load and the Speed Queen washer being tough on our clothes I wanted to save money and preserve our clothes. A few things to note: 1. Waterlogged laundry is heavy, and even a few garments can cause the dryer to wobble and never up speed. I sometimes find I have to rebalance the drum multiple times for each load 2. It dries clothes to a similar level as our building's Speed Queen washer, so spinning laundry after using the commercial washer doesn't make much difference in dry time. I tend to only use this to spin dry hand washed clothes to maximize value 3. The price. At $150 it is the cheapest dryer of this kind but it takes (in my case) the equivalent of 60 full loads for my small family to break even. The price was the main reason I hesitated in purchasing the dryer. Ultimately, I'm thrilled with my purchase of this spin dryer, and it has made my life much easier being able to wash single items at a time and not needing to lug laundry to the laundry room.

The Ninja centrifugal ('spin') clothes dryer is working like I expected. What has surprised me is that it's more gentle starting-up than I thought it'd be and the sound it makes is more of a 'purr ' than the noise I was expecting. I put the dryer on a AC power outlet strip with an on/off switch so I can power-down the dryer without engaging the mechanical brake that is engaged if the power-switch on the dryer is used. In that way I allow the spin dryer to spin down much more slowly than if the brake was engaged (I then use the dryer's power switch to engage the brake once the drum is almost completely stopped). The spin dryer has surprisingly good bearings and it takes several minutes to spin down to where I engage the mechanical brake (i.e. I turn-off the dryer using its on/off switch with integral brake). So far (without having taken it apart) my best guess is that the spin dryer uses an under-sized two-pole induction motor and it takes 20 to 30 seconds to get up-to-speed when power is applied. --------------------------- I find that it's best to press-down on the dryer housing when it's first turned-on as slight imbalances in the load can cause the dryer to shake as the drum comes-up-to-speed and it passes through mechanical resonant frequencies. Once the drum is spinning pretty well the spin dryer is stable with minor vibrations being felt if the body of the dryer is touched. The feet on the dryer are of a material that serves to damp mechanical vibrations of the case. It is important for the dryer to be sitting directly on a solid surface as otherwise damaging mechanical oscillations (as the drum comes-up-to-speed) might occur. ----------------------------------- For someone like me it's OK but it'd be too much of a bottleneck in the wash-cycle for a family with a lot of clothes to wash on a weekly basis. I can stuff 4 or 5 long-sleeve shirts into the dryer or (roughly) 3 bath towels. Then it's about a three minute spin-cycle to squeeze-out most of the water. After that everything still goes up on hangers for air-drying but there's significantly less water in the fabric (at the start of the air-drying process) compared to if the clothes went straight from the washer to air-drying. The 'Ninja ' centrifugal spin dryer is (in my opinion) targeted at the same people who find 'tiny homes ' an interesting concept. -------------------------------------------------------- From what I can tell the overall quality of the Ninja centrifugal ('spin') dryer is good. It isn't 'commercial quality ' but for under $160.00 it's reasonable. The only ventilation louvers for the motor are on the bottom of the case and I'm guessing the designers were worried that water would get inside if they put louvers on the sides. I'd be happier if I could force-air-cool the motor but have sternly 'told-myself ' not to take-out-the-drill while the dryer is new. -------------------------------------------------------- - Paul --------------------------------- (update) 09 December 2025 The Ninja Spin Dryer is still working like it's supposed to. After use I leave the top open for several hours to allow the interior to dry out. - Paul ----------------------------------

Just received this laundry spinner a couple of days ago, and I'm impressed at how sturdy and stable it is, and how much it can hold. The cord is fairly long, which is handy, and the instruction booklet is straightforward and easy to follow. For my first attempt, I started with a small-ish amount of clothing (the machine could have easily handled three times that amount). Loading the machine as instructed, I placed the heavier items at the bottom, lighter ones next, and one heavier item a the very top, then pressed everything firmly down; there were no unbalance issues, and everything stayed put. Also as instructed, I held on to the machine for the first few seconds after starting it; once it stabilized, it stayed in place, spinning merrily on its own without supervision. After three minutes, no more water was coming out, and the lighter cotton items came out almost dry, but very wrinkled. I bought this spinner so I wouldn't have to wring things out by hand after removing them from my handy Panda washer, and while I'm very happy to be relieved of that awkward and not very effective task, some of my clothes -- which I hang dry rather than put in a tumble-dryer --now require ironing. But with the unplanned extra time on my hands due to the pandemic putting me mostly out of business, I guess now's a good time to reacquaint myself with the calming, zen benefits of ironing! Over all, I'm impressed with this machine. After using, I wipe out the drum with a cloth/paper towel dampened with a little water and white vinegar; then I prop the lid open overnight to be sure it gets thoroughly dry before storing. Though the machine does not leak, I planned ahead and bought some pet wee pads so I could put a pad under the machine while using it, which saved me from having to swab the floor when I inadvertently kicked over my water-collection container. Wee pads might also be a good idea if you plan to use this spinner on hardwood or carpeted floors. For those living in multi-unit buildings, this machine is usually quiet enough not to have to worry about disturbing neighbors -- depends on how heavy the load. Overall verdict: Very effective -- makes laundry much less of a hassle, and is well worth the cost! UPDATE 10/26/20: I finally figured out how to reduce the wrinkle factor in clothes that I'm hang-drying or putting on a drying rack. I now run the machine for a full 5-6 minutes, which gets fabrics so dry that wrinkles aren't an issue, and by the time they're fully air-dried, most wrinkles have fallen out. Even towels get so dry in this spinner that when hung to dry, they don't end up too stiff and scratchy.

This is bigger than I expected but I am perfectly happy to make room for it. I am 5'8 and the top hits me mid-thigh while sitting on the floor. Length and width are about 13x13 inches. It fits a medium sized load of clothes and I LOVE this. Our washer broke but our family cannot go even a day without washing any clothes, let alone days while the parts are ordered and appointments for next week are made, etc. I don't like laundromats because most soaps cause a reaction to my skin and other people's laundry soaps get into my clothes. (Besides the prohibitive price of laundromats.) Getting a Wonder Washer was weeks out so I bought a scrubba bag and went to town hand washing clothes. I have Rheumatoid Arthritis so the amount of water I am able to wring out left our clothes pretty wet and they were taking forever to dry in the dryer. Especially since our dryer is one of the newer models that likes to takes it's time and chat with the washer while eventually getting to the business of drying something. Therefore, after much research (thank you fellow reviewers!), I purchased this Laundry Alternative Spinner. I put a bucket full of very wet clothes into it, mash them down without worrying about distributing them evenly, put a bowl under the drain spout,and run it for a few minutes. Small loads take about 2 minutes and larger take about 5 minutes. This spinner leaves my clothes barely damp and works much better than the spin cycle of any washer I have ever used. As in, I am about to save money on energy even when my washer is fixed. The drying time after using this is a third of the usual drying time in the dryer and some of my clothes I left hanging in the shower while I went shopping. When I got home, they were completely dry. I will add one last important note. When I received my Spinner, I followed the included insert to remove the top piece, which is right under the lid and easy to pull out and discard, and the bottom (plastic?) base that are supposed to protect it during shipping. I could not find the bottom brace and came very close to dismantling the machine in search of this brace. Before messing with that screw and removing vital parts, I decided to take a quick look at the manual to see what this brace looked like. This is when I understood that while my Spinner was fully intact when I received it and suffered no issues in shipping, no bottom brace was included.

Writing this review because I've not seen many others that compare it to the previous model, the Nina Soft spin dryer. We owned that dryer for 7 years and used it steadily until we had a capacitor melt that took it out of action. After looking for a little bit for a Nina Soft replacement, we settled on the Ninja as, hopefully, an improved version of the dryer we loved. Unfortunately, it's been a bit of a letdown. The capacity from a weight point of view is supposed to be more than the Nina, but we've found in reality it doesn't hold as much. It spins faster, but takes longer to get up to speed and we have to hold it steady for a longer amount of time before it feels comfortable that it won't start wobbling if we let go. The clothes also haven't been coming out as dry. Previously, if we did a load before bed and then hung them up, they would all (with the exception of some things like jeans) be dry by morning. That's not been our experience with the new one, where things seem to take a full 24 hours before they are dry enough to put away. Part of this could be that we might not be running the dryer as long because it seems to smell like the motor is hot after just a short period of running (and we're sensitive to this after the Nina Soft caught on fire). We're also giving more time between loads. Our older workflow was to have a big bathtub full of laundry and put that through the Nina Soft one right after the other. We'd hang the clothes from one load while the next load was drying and repeat until we were done. We now stop the machine while we're hanging up the clothes and that, plus the smaller loads, means it takes us longer to get through a week's worth of laundry. A couple of other minor notes comparing the two: * The Ninja is quite a bit heavier than the Nina Soft * The handle is built into the sides instead of being a single piece that rotates out - the design change means you need two hands to move it instead of just one, which is a pain when you are trying to carry it plus other laundry items into the bathroom at the same time. * The cord wrap has been redesigned a bit and the cord doesn't stay as securely wrapped as it used to. All in all, the Ninja is still a good device if you don't have access to a traditional washer/dryer for some reason. We've saved a ton of money and time doing most our laundry at home instead of carrying it 3 blocks to the nearest laundromat. The Ninja still fulfills that promise, just not as well as its predecessor.