The 3 Best Showerheads of 2025

The Delta 6-Setting Hand Shower 75470 is a handheld-only showerhead with six spray settings, including a ProClean spray that emanates from the top of the head and is intended to make rinsing easier when you’re cleaning your shower stall. We like the idea and will keep an eye on future iterations, but like more than a few reviewers, we encountered a spray button that jammed when we went to use the ProClean spray. A standard handheld can do a rinsing job nearly as well (albeit with a bit more back-splashing).

The Delta Universal Showering 3-Setting Raincan Shower Head 52680 is a good showerhead, but it’s not as satisfying in use or as versatile as our top pick, the Delta 5-Setting Showerhead 52535, since it lacks the shampoo-rinsing and pause functions.

The Moen Verso Adjustable 9″ Diameter Spray Head Rainshower 220R3 detaches easily from the shower arm for cleaning, via a combination twist-off-and-magnet holster. But it also features easy-to-clean silicone nozzles to begin with, so this feature doesn’t justify its cost, and its infinitely adjustable spray isn’t as satisfying as the multiple settings on our top pick.

The Moen Four-Function Eco-Performance Showerhead 3638EP has a much smaller head and, as a consequence, narrower and less enjoyable sprays than the Delta 52535.

The Kohler Bellerose 2-in-1 Multifunction Shower Combo Kit K-R21117 is a former pick, but after further use, we think its exceptionally wide combination of handheld and fixed spray and aim patterns (15 in total) is overkill—more than most households will need, and more importantly, more than they’ll use. The Moen Attract Magnetix Rainshower Combo 26008, our upgrade pick, is plenty versatile, and its magnetic handheld holster is by far the best we’ve seen.

The adjustable-flow Kohler Statement VES Single-Function Showerhead K-20999 is an admirable effort at water-use efficiency, but its 1.5 gpm default flow is barely below the 1.75 gpm of our picks, and our top pick has a similar pause function that slows the output to a trickle when you want. The halo-shaped head doesn’t deliver the full-body coverage that sets our top pick Delta 52535 apart.

The Kohler Statement Three-Function Showerhead K-26290 has a wide, oblong head that, by design, delivers a somewhat wider spray than round models, but we’re wary of push-button spray selection and don’t love the look of the solid charcoal-gray silicone spray face.

The Hansgrohe Pulsify Select S 24132001 is, according to a showroom representative we spoke with, extremely popular, and it does deliver a pleasantly soft rain-shower spray. But that’s its only spray pattern, and its design—a featureless cylinder nearly the size of a 28-ounce can of tomatoes—is love-or-hate. (We like these cans better.)

The Hansgrohe Club 04919000 is one of Hansgrohe’s most popular models, but its small face delivers narrow spray patterns, and the clunky knob you use to switch between them feels like it’s perpetually on the verge of snapping off.

A long-ago upgrade pick, the combination Delta Universal Showering H₂0kinetic In2ition 5-Setting Two-in-One Shower 58480, performed poorly in 2019, 2020, and 2021 tests against newer competitors. Its spray patterns were disappointing—the fixed head provided an unpleasantly sparse halo, and the other settings felt weak.

The Delta Universal Showering In2ition H₂0kinetic 5-Setting Two-in-One Shower 58620-25-PK comes with a detachable handheld that’s shaped like a wand instead of the usual circular attachment. The benefit of this long and skinny design is a gentle, continuous waterfall setting that’s ideal for rinsing a baby’s head. (It felt pretty good on ours, too.) Unfortunately, this model shares many of the same flaws as the Delta 58480.

We dismissed a third Delta In2ition model, the 75583CSN, right out of the case due to its cheap-looking gray attachment hardware.

We had high hopes for the Delta HydroRain 4-Setting Two-in-One Shower Head 75699 because the fixed-mount portion of this dual handheld model tilts, meaning you have more control over where the overhead spray hits. A weak flow doomed it from the start, and the face of the handheld is molded at such a sharp downward angle that it’s difficult to find a comfortable way to rinse off.

Our former low-flow pick, the 1.5 gpm High Sierra fixed showerhead, now also comes with a handheld option, but we found it to be heavy and cumbersome, and neither of them were pleasant to use, emitting a hissing spray that bothers some people—especially those with tinnitus. Neither greatly exceeds the 1.75 gpm we now use as our standard water usage.

Nebia by Moen makes a less-expensive spa shower, the N214R0, that doesn’t have a handheld showerhead. We turned the hand shower off on the model we tested to see how it felt and much prefer the dual option.

We appreciated the heft and quality metal lever of the 1.75 gpm Speakman Signature Icon Anystream S-2252, but none of the streams provided wide enough coverage to feel satisfying.

We liked the Moen 26100EP, an affordable handheld showerhead with six spray settings. If you want a handheld option but don’t want to shell out $100 for the Moen 26008, the 26100EP could work for you.

The single-mount Moen HydroEnergetix 8-spray showerhead is another affordable option. But of its eight settings, only one (the concentrated massage) hit the spot, and none provided wide-enough body coverage.

We tested the Moen S6320EP and found its sprays underpowered. The head is 8 inches wide, which provides significant coverage but makes it harder for each individual spout to deliver a great deal of water. It’s also so wide it won’t fit in showers with shower arms that are less than 3 inches long.

The Kohler K-15996-CP Flipside is a popular but strange model that changes settings by rotating a nozzle-filled disk nestled inside a circular holster. The sprays that emit from the narrow edges of the disk are sparse and flat mistings, which we found unpleasant. When you rotate the disk to switch settings, it sprays your face in the process.

We tested the Hydroluxe 24 Function 3-Way 2 in 1 Shower Head, one of the most popular and least expensive showerheads on Amazon. The model broke as we were trying to assemble it (a surprisingly difficult task), which probably speaks to the quality and longevity of the head.

This article was edited by Harry Sawyers.