The Best Shower Caddy | Reviews by Wirecutter

We were intrigued to test a newly released shower caddy from Quiet Town, The Spot. This caddy has an interesting design with a completely modular and customizable system we’ve never seen before, and it also has a steep price of $198. Our current picks had already proved that it’s worth spending more on a quality shower caddy. However, since this one is almost quadruple the price of our OXO top pick, I was extremely skeptical of whether this caddy was worth the price.

Immediately after opening The Spot, I was confused by the packing. Its box resembled a take-out pizza box, with interesting, non-traditional comparisons of what the caddy can fit, like, “your ex’s really moody but quite pretty goldfish, not your first dirty martini of the day, and a ping-pong paddle.” Yet what really was able to fit in the caddy was less than half of what our top pick can hold. The medium basket could only fit one 14-ounce bottle. After forcing products to fit, I was only able to cramp in a body wash, shampoo and conditioner, and a bar of soap. Quiet Town also sells additional add-on modular pieces, like a razor hook or single bottle basket, with prices ranging from $5 to $25. So maybe for an additional $75, we would have been able to fit all of our everyday products into this caddy, but this would have added to its already extraordinary price. While this caddy has a cool design, you’re better off saving your money.

We tested the Bukere Portable Shower Caddy, a popular caddy on Amazon. It has a clear phone compartment and a wet compartment for shower essentials and dry compartment for after-shower hygiene essentials. However, it was hard to utilize the phone compartment when showering, and the caddy did not hold as many products as the Room Essentials.

The Mainstays Portable Shower Caddy is more of a traditional caddy design, made with hard plastic. Its four compartments did not hold many products, and its bulky, transparent design made it uncomfortable to bring back and forth to a public shower and to store after showering.

The Pottery Barn Recycled Classic Shower Caddy and the EUDELE Mesh Shower Caddy have a similar design to our Room Essentials pick, however both were less spacious, so they held fewer products, and they also felt more flimsy.

We tried the ShowerGem Shower Caddy, after discovering it from the amount of traction it received from TikTok and it was an As Seen on TV product. Despite its unique design, it requires gluing a bracket to your shower wall and waiting a minimum of 24 hours before you can use the caddy. This is a step we found unusual and unnecessary to ensure the stability of a shower caddy.

We tried the AquaTeak Patented Moa Teak Shower Organizer because of the high quality teak wood and 5-year warranty and 30 day satisfaction guarantee. However, the design was awkward for detachable showerheads and we found our picks were better quality, more stable, and more personalizable for the price.

We tried the Utopia Alley 2-Teak Shelves Tia Rustproof Over the Shower Caddy but the caddy was not very stable and did not hold a lot of products, it’s probably too small for more than one person.

We tried OXO’s 2-tiered version of our top pick, and it has the same durability and large soap dish that we liked, but we think it’s probably too small for most people.

Simplehuman’s Standard version has adjustable shelves, but the neck can’t extend and its soap dish is smaller. Simplehuman makes an over-the-door version that we didn’t feel was as versatile as the over-the-shower-arm design. Simplehuman’s corner model was smaller and less sturdy than the OXO Pole Caddy.
Zenna Home’s highly rated Expandable Handheld Shower Head Caddy fell short for us, because its hard plastic hook slid off the shower arm repeatedly—a problem our other picks all avoided.

We had high hopes for Zenna’s Never Rust caddy. But its second shelf is short, and anything taller than the tiniest bottles on the top shelf interfere with the shower’s spray. The Zenna has two hooks, which jut out sharply and give it the appearance of being very cheaply constructed.