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Outdoors · Owala · 2020

Owala FreeSip 32 oz

The lid solves the actual problem: drink without unscrewing anything, still fit ice.

Insulated water bottles, scored on four axes#1

Overall

8.4

out of 10

Axis scores

Outdoors is scored on these 4 axes. The total is their plain average — nothing is weighted.

Average of 4 axes

8.4/10

Performance
8.2
Value
8.8
Durability
7.8
Design
8.8
  • Performance — How well it does the core job
  • Value — What the same money buys elsewhere
  • Durability — Failure and fade reports past the one-year mark
  • Design — Build quality and how it sits in a room

Specs

Lid
Sip spout plus wide chug opening
Insulation
Double-wall vacuum
Lock
Push-button lid with lock

As published by the manufacturer. We didn't measure these ourselves.

Is it for you

Buy it if

  • You drink at a desk, one-handed, all day
  • Ice cubes need to fit through the opening
  • A lid that locks shut inside a bag

Skip it if

  • Fewer moving parts is your definition of reliable
  • You want a lid you can fully dismantle to clean

The two-way lid is the whole product: a spout for sipping and a wide opening for filling, drinking fast, or dropping ice in, without swapping lids. The button lock means it goes in a bag without incident.

More mechanism means more to fail and more to clean. The gasket and the spout are where owner reports concentrate, and the lid is not fully dismantlable.

Last updated . The scoring method is on how we rank.