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Don't Buy a Smart Home Device Until You Read This: Our Readers Pick the Best Platforms and Gadgets
How can you make your smart home the smartest it can be? Check out our Readers' Choice results for platforms, lights, power plugs, and thermostats.
What's the Best Photo and Video Editing Software? You Tell Us
We're looking for the definitive ranking of media editing tools. Grade the software and apps you use on your computer, tablet, or phone for a chance to win $250.
Tell Us the Speakers and Headphones You Like to Listen On
If you use wired or wireless speakers, or more personal audio devices like headphones, earphones, or earbuds, we want to hear your opinions. You might win $250.
We Want to Know What Your Favorite Tech Stores Are—and Why
Contribute to PCMag's retail reporting by telling us about your hardware and electronics shopping experiences. You could win $250.
Do You Have a Robot Floor Cleaner? Rate Your Vacuum, Mop, or Combo Bot
Hand sweeping, vacuuming, and mopping is a thing of the past if you've got a handy robot doing the work. Share your thoughts on your floor cleaner today for a chance to win a $250 Amazon gift card.
Rate Your Home Security Options for a Chance to Win
Complete this survey about indoor and outdoor surveillance cams, smart locks, video doorbells, and full home alarm/burglary systems, and you could win $250.
Rate the Wearables and Fitness Tech Keeping You Healthy
Our new survey covers the smartwatches, rings, fitness trackers, and smart scales that monitor your health, as well as the tech you use for exercise: bikes, rowing machines, treadmills, and smart fitness mirrors.
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Readers’ Choice 2025: Your Favorite Mobile Carriers, Phone, and Tablet Brands
After surveying thousands of PCMag readers, these are mobile device makers and cellular providers that earn the highest accolades.
Readers’ Choice 2025: The Dating Apps Our Readers Love (and Hate) Most
Looking for love can be a chore. So can finding the right app to get there. Our readers rate the top dating apps to help you maximize your success.
Readers' Choice 2025: Your Favorite Personal Finance Apps
If you're ready to get your finances under control, these are the companies our readers trust most for budgeting, investing, and online payments.
Rating the Retailers: The Best Places to Buy PCs and Electronics in the US
After gathering feedback from hundreds of our shop-savvy readers, we have a definitive ranking of the best (and worst) technology retailers, both online and in real life.
Readers' Choice and Business Choice Surveys: Methodology
Learn exactly how the Readers' Choice and Business Choice surveys work in this explainer.
Call for Help: The Best PC, Phone, and Tablet Brands for Tech Support
Not everyone is comfortable troubleshooting or fixing the devices they own. If tech support and repair options are a consideration in your technology purchases, these are the brands our readers recommend.
Tech You Can Count On: The Most Reliable PC, Phone, and Tablet Brands for 2025
Survey data from thousands of PCMag readers reveals which tech companies make the most dependable devices you can buy.
Tech That Lasts: The Best Brands for Longevity
Tired of upgrading every couple of years? If you want your devices to last, these are the PC, tablet, and phone manufacturers our tech-savvy readers recommend.
Readers’ Choice: The Top EV, Hybrid, and Charging Network Brands
If you're considering buying an electric car or truck, these are the top vehicle and charging brands, according to more than 1,000 PCMag readers who have made the EV leap.
Readers' Choice 2024: The Best Gaming Hardware Brands
Thousands of PCMag readers select the top manufacturers for all things gaming, including consoles, computers, assessories, game stores, and more.
Readers’ Choice 2024: The PC Security and Online Privacy Brands You Trust Most
After polling thousands of PCMag readers about their antivirus, security, and VPN software, these are the services they recommend (and the ones they don't).
Readers’ Choice 2024: Your Favorite Robot Vacuum Brands
Looking to lighten your household chore load? After polling hundreds of PCMag readers, these three companies emerge as the top manufacturers of robotic vacuums, which can do just that.