Does the CoolCove actually heat as well as it cools?

I’ve used mine in a cold bedroom and it takes the edge off fine, though I mostly care about the noise level since I sleep light. It’s not going to warm a whole apartment, but for one room it does the job. My preference is just keeping it near my desk instead of relying on it overnight.

Mine does heat, but it’s more of a warm-up-the-room-you’re-in thing than actual winter heat. I used it in a small office for a couple months and it kept me comfortable without touching the main thermostat. If you want it to replace a real heater, probably not.

I’m mainly looking at it for the heating side too, and the thing that stood out to me is that it actually uses a ceramic heating element rather than just blowing room temp air around. That makes me a lot more willing to try it as a supplement in my living room when the main heat isn’t quite enough. I haven’t bought one yet, but that part of the description made me less worried about it being basically a fan.

Mine’s weaker heating than cooling, no way around that.

Heat mode works but it’s not the same as cooling. I’ve used mine on and off since February and it takes the edge off a cold room, nothing more. If you’re picturing something close to a real heater you’ll be disappointed.

Heat mode is the only reason I kept mine past the return window, so I’ll push back on the “it’s weaker, no way around it” stuff. In my case the cooling side was the letdown. I ran it in a back bedroom last summer and it barely moved the needle unless I was sitting right in front of it, which is annoying since that’s the whole pitch. Then winter came and I figured I’d get maybe a week of use before boxing it up.

Instead it turned into the thing I actually reach for. My place has one of those old wall heaters that either blasts you out of the room or does nothing, so I started running the CoolCove on the desk while I work in the mornings and it’s been solid. Warm air comes out fast, like within a minute or two, and the room holds it fine as long as the door’s shut. I’ve used it pretty much every cold morning since November and it hasn’t choked once.

Where I’ll admit it falls short is if you leave a door open to a hallway or a bigger space, then it’s just fighting a losing battle. But for one closed room it’s genuinely fine.

My preference is honestly just having one thing on the shelf instead of a space heater and a fan taking up closet space, and that alone made it worth keeping for me.