Melitta Integrated Bean to Cup Coffee Machine, Barista T SMART Model F83/0-101, Bluetooth connectivity, Melitta Connect App, Whisper Grinder (Quiet Mark), Silver

First off must admit it's our first coffee bean to cup machine, that said we've had fun with it making different coffees. The quick coffee menu guide is very helpful and easy to use, we have set up one recipe of our own which wasn't too difficult to do, but often we just alter the quantities in the app menu if we want something that is not exactly on the coffee menu. Overall we're impressed and like the ability to to vary the coffee drinks as the day goes on

Easy in use, easy cleaning. Tasty coffee. Solid build but not premium materials. Overall good quality and coffee maker.

I just love this machine so much... Is amazing the money you save by doing your own cappuccino at home with fresh milk... In less than 6 months you have paid for this machine by saving money in COSTA, CAFÉ

Very good price and reliable German quality

I would love to give a review but the item was faulty. Never got to use it.

Excellent machine. Very satisfied

We thought buying a Melitta meant we would get a quality machine. It has been a complete nightmare. It often won't draw the milk through, despite rigorous cleaning and descaling, plus the after-sales support is awful - if it doesn't work you have to send it away and it's gone for ages. When it came back, it worked for a little while then packed up again. Would never buy another Melitta product, not just because of the poor performance, but the dire aftersales - they couldn't care less, judging from our experience

The machine makes great coffee. It also costs more than 10 times my previous manual espresso machine that is still going strong after 10 years. Is it worth the money? Absolutely not.The main reasons I wanted a new machine were to make cappuccino and to reduce the time and messing about cleaning after every use.The milk froth is pretty good but not comparable to doing it properly with a wand. It is a single function that fulfils the role of both steamed and frothed milk so what you get is a bit of a cross between the two.One major point I am unhappy about is that it seems to use 3x as much coffee as I did before. This will be primarily because I find I need to use a double shot to get a good taste. I set the strength towards the higher end and notice the pucks are much larger than I was used to. So that's more coffee and two lots of it every time. I only drink one cup per day but I'm going through bags of coffee beans in less than a week.The 'smart' function sounded like a good idea. In reality using the mobile app is actually the only way of getting the drink I want - a double-shot cappuccino. It is a bit much to call it 'smart' to be honest. The app is a terrible experience. Most importantly, it isn't really smart as most people would understand it: you can only use the app over bluetooth; it can't integrate with eg. Alexa or any other smart home systems. There is some customisation you can do via the machine's panel and some that you can do in the app - but they are completely separate and don't have any relation to each other at all. So you cannot set the machine's one-touch buttons to produce the drinks you configure in the app. This means the buttons/functions on the actual machine are basically useless to me. It is very annoying to have to open the app every time I want a drink - especially as it will just randomly lose connnection and require messing about with resetting the bluetooth etc for about 10 minutes when you just want a coffee and need to get to work.The app itself has many poor design decisions as well as stupid, unnecessary limitations:The sliders are very fiddly to use and often change when you take your finger off the screen so it takes several attempts to set the value you want.There is a bug where some of the sliders are disabled at first so you have to save the wrong values and then edit them again to get what you want.In one part of the app your changes are never saved so you can't actually customise any of the built-in recipes.The 'Name' field of a freestyle recipe is limited to 9 characters - how ridiculous is this, it can't even fit the word "Cappuccino"!I use the two bean hoppers for regular and decaf beans - that was the reason I wanted this feature. However, you can't just set it to decaf and then produce one of your recipes - it will override the setting. You have to create an entirely separate set of recipes for decaf. But you can't call them "Decaf something" because the Name field is limited to 9 characters!You can only save 1 recipe as favourite on the front screen so for others you have to click deep into the frustrating menus. Why can't you have as many as you want?The app is nonfunctional unless it is actually connected to the machine, you can't customise or even view recipes without the connection even though such actions don't require any communication with the machine. It also pops up error messages into your status bar after you've switched the machine off.Other general niggles with the machine:I don't know why but the internal part of the tray fills up with manky water really quickly, it asks you to empty it literally every 2 drinks. You have to be really careful when removing it and emptying so you don't spill it all over.It has a power-saving mode, you can change the timer but if you forget to do the milk cleaning routine right away it will shut down automatically after the set time. You don't want to let the milk go funny in the tube but if you switch the machine back on then it will do two more rinses as well (power on, power off) and then the water tank will be empty so you have to fill that up again. There could be a simple way to inhibit the rinse but there isn't.Finally on to the customer service - I emailed to ask about only a couple of initial questions. It took them 2 weeks to reply, when they did it was obvious they hadn't even read my email because they just attached a standard troubleshooting document completely unrelated to my question. It took them 2 more weeks for a further reply to actually address my query - essentially their answer was a flat 'no'. Not even politely 'sorry no, but we will take your feedback on board'. This gives the impression they don't care about their customers, not what you expect from a premium brand. I dread actually relying on their support if there is a fault with this expensive luxury product.