Boona Tandem Showerhead: Perfect for Shower-Sharing Couples

Toni Braxton made me believe that showering with your partner is the purest expression of romance.

I was about 10 years old when her music video for “Un-Break My Heart” was in heavy rotation on MTV. I was old enough to start losing interest in Nickelodeon yet still so impressionable that MTV had an outsized influence on how I imagined the world must work.

In the video, Braxton mourns the ripped, smoldering Tyson Beckford after a fatal but otherwise PG-rated motorcycle accident. During one scene, she recalls a PG-13 moment that they shared in a steamy, soft-focused shower after a game of flirty Twister. True love.

But, in reality, couple showers typically aren’t so sublime. I’ve always found them, at best, just okay: After a few minutes, one person gets cold while the other stands in the way of the body wash.

Maybe it’s just a hardware problem. My wife and I have only ever lived in places with relatively small, single-headed showers. Perhaps one day, we’ll get ourselves a big bathroom with one of those multi-arm, multi-thousand-dollar shower towers.

In the meantime, we decided to give the Boona Tandem Shower a shot.

Funded through Kickstarter in 2022, featured on Shark Tank in 2024, and seen all over Instagram and TikTok by the end of 2025, the Boona Tandem Shower is touted as an easy way to add a second head to most (though not all) showers in just a few minutes, no plumber required.

Though it hasn’t totally un-broken my heart, my wife and I both consider the Boona Tandem Shower a big upgrade. It’s sturdy, and it works as advertised. Our co-showers are better (if still imperfect), but the best part might be how decadent it feels to shower alone with warm water splashing both sides of your body — at a fraction of the cost of a water-guzzling, fully plumbed, multi-headed setup.

Installing the Tandem Shower is a simple DIY project, even for novices. It’s essentially a showerhead that’s built into a tension-style curtain rod (both of which are straightforward, renter-friendly upgrades).

I needed a wrench to unscrew my old showerhead, but I finished the rest of the installation in less than 10 minutes without any other tools or supplies, just as the instructions promised. I simply wedged the Tandem Shower between my shower walls and connected all the fixtures, and since then I haven’t seen it wobble or shift, and it hasn’t leaked at all.

The Tandem Shower has absolutely delivered on its promise to make our couple showers more enjoyable, simply because neither of us ever catches a chill. We don’t have to awkwardly rotate around each other to take turns under the water, and there’s no rush to wash up and get out.

At first, showering with it felt almost like going on a date to a new restaurant or, I dunno, one of those high-tech indoor putt-putt courses for the first time: familiar enough to be comfortable, fresh enough to be exciting.

After a few weeks, though, the novelty faded, and the Tandem Shower’s limitations became more apparent.

There’s no way to customize the water temperature for each nozzle, which means the two of us remain at odds on the ideal water temperature (my wife prefers scalding, I like it normal).

It didn’t make our bathtub any bigger, so we’re still crammed into a space that’s slightly too small for two long-limbed individuals.

And it’s hard to stay out of the spray; my wife doesn’t want to get her hair wet every time she showers, and that’s hard to avoid with the Tandem Shower.

Still, even though we’ve ended up co-showering only once or twice a month, we’ve found that the Tandem Shower is worth it for solo showers. It’s like washing yourself under a warm, gentle waterfall. My wife said that sometimes it’s so relaxing that she can’t remember which direction she’s facing when her eyes are closed, and she finds herself grabbing a handful of the shower curtain when she’s actually fumbling for the shampoo.

You may be wondering about the water pressure. It’s adequate.

Water-efficiency rules for showerheads keep changing, but the Tandem Shower complies with the strictest version of the recent regulations and splits a single showerhead’s worth of water between its two nozzles. (Boona even ships slightly different versions of the Tandem to different states, depending on local rules.)

I ran some tests, and while the numbers told me that each individual Tandem Shower head was delivering significantly less water than I’m used to, I couldn’t really feel it. The sensation of getting soaked with warm water from two sides more than made up for the gentler flow. I never had trouble rinsing shampoo out of my hair, either.

When I really want to max out the pressure, this is what works best:

• Stick with Boona’s heads: You can attach your own showerhead to the Tandem Shower, but it might not be designed to work well with half the normal water flow. My shower’s regular head — an unremarkable single-setting Kohler model — proved to be too dribbly for comfort on the Tandem.
• Use the high-pressure setting: Boona’s heads have three patterns, but my wife and I almost always use the high-pressure pattern. According to my measurements, it uses more water per minute than the other settings, and it focuses the extra flow into fewer, stronger jets.
• Turn off one of the nozzles: The Tandem Shower has a three-way mixing valve, and with a simple mid-shower knob turn, you can direct the water to flow through only the front head, only the rear head, or both. When it’s restricted to a single head, the water pressure increases (my wife usually uses this setting when she rinses her hair, which is much longer and thicker than mine).

In the user guide, Boona also suggests removing the water-saving restrictors from the showerhead if you need more oomph. This goes against the spirit of efficiency regulations, and it doesn’t always work: I took one out, and it barely changed the flow rate.

The root problem turned out to be my home’s mediocre water pressure, which delivers just enough water to my shower to meet the federal maximum (at least for now) of 2.5 gallons per minute. Low pressure is pretty common, and if you get even less pressure than I do, the Tandem Shower might feel underwhelming on its dual-head setting.

The most common complaint I’ve seen about the Tandem Shower is that it doesn’t fit in every shower. I know this firsthand: My second bathroom has a roomier shower that would have been ideal for the Tandem, except the arm is too close to the low ceiling. The Tandem’s tension rod needs at least 2 inches of clearance to fit above your existing shower arm, and 4 or 5 inches is better.

Other owner reviews say that the Tandem Shower is either too short or too long for their showers. (Boona says that it will fit spaces between 45 and 75 inches wide.) The Tandem’s main water line is designed to connect with today’s standard 0.5-inch pipe-thread shower arms, but if your plumbing hasn’t been updated since World War II, or if it uses an unusual connection, the Tandem might not fit.

I’ve seen at least one low-cost Tandem Shower knockoff available online. I don’t know if the showering experience is any different, but it certainly looks cheaper: The water line that feeds the rear showerhead is exposed and wraps around a support rod.

To be fair, the Tandem Shower itself wouldn’t exactly fit in on the set of a big-budget, golden-era R&B video. And couple showers might never feel as transcendent as they look on film. But once I have to send this loaner back to Boona, and it’s shipped out of my door and shipped out of my life, I’ll cry so many nights.

This article was edited by Megan Beauchamp, Katie Okamoto, and Ben Frumin.