Why we ran this test
The Uproot Cleaner Pro is the one that keeps turning up. It is the little teal squeegee with the metal head that everybody has seen scraping a sofa cushion in a video somewhere. It costs $16.99 for a single Pro, the maker describes it as infinitely reusable, and it holds a 4.9 out of 5 across 24,893 reviews. That is a higher score than the glove I ended up with, from a lot of buyers. On paper there is not much to argue with.
Then I read the small print under the Uproot listing, and it is the maker's own line, not mine: not intended for use on knitted and delicate fabrics. My winter wardrobe is mostly knitwear. So is the throw on the back of the sofa. That one sentence ruled out a decent share of the surfaces I actually needed cleaned, and it sent me looking for something I could use everywhere without thinking about it. That is how I ended up with the PurePath Glove, which lists the opposite claim: safe on all fabrics, cashmere to denim.
So I ran both for six weeks. Same sofa, same two car seats, same wardrobe, same two animals shedding onto all of it. I used each one the way its maker says to use it. Here is what I found.
At a glance: the glove against the squeegee tool
Both listings side by side before I get into what each one is actually like to use.
| Spec | PurePath Glove | Uproot Cleaner Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Form | Glove, slips over your hand | Handheld tool with a handle |
| Knits and Delicates | Listed as safe on all fabrics, cashmere to denim | Maker says not intended for knitted and delicate fabrics |
| Machine Washable | Yes | Not stated by the maker |
| Wet or Dry Use | Works wet or dry | Not stated by the maker |
| Reusable | Reusable 1,000+ times | Described as infinitely reusable |
| Money-Back Guarantee | 60 days | 60 days |
| Free Shipping | On every order | On orders over $49 |
| Price | $24.99 | $16.99 |
| Customer Rating | 4.7 / 5.0 | 4.9 / 5.0 |
| Number of Reviews | 41,160+ verified buyers | 24,893 reviews |
| Size Options | One glove | Mini, Pro, Max and Xtra |
Green marks the better pick in each row.
How each one actually lifts the hair
This is where the two stop resembling each other. One builds up a static charge and combs the hair into a strip. The other drags a fine metal edge across the pile and rakes it up. Both work. They just do not work the same way, and that is what decides where you can point them.
- Two things happen at once: friction builds a static charge, and a pair of directional brushes does the sweeping
- The static is what gets the fine stuff, the flyaway hair that a lint roller pushes around instead of picking up
- Rubbing back and forth rolls the hair into a long strip you can pinch off the surface in one piece
- Nothing on it is sharp. The working surface is fabric and bristle, so there is no edge to catch a loose thread
- It goes on your hand, so your fingers follow the shape of a cushion, a headrest or a sleeve instead of fighting it
- The maker lists it as reusable 1,000+ times, and there is nothing to refill or replace along the way
- A fine toothed metal edge set in a frame, dragged across the fabric to rake the hair up into the head
- The maker calls it infinitely reusable, and on that point it is making a stronger claim than PurePath does
- It is rigid, so it holds its line beautifully on a flat cushion and a stair tread
- The hair collects in the chamber behind the edge, which you tip out when it fills
- The maker's own listing rules out knitted and delicate fabrics, which is the line that shaped my whole test
- It comes in four sizes, from a Mini for tight corners to a long-handled Xtra for carpet, which the glove has no answer to
Neither approach is wrong, and I want to be fair to the tool here. On a flat, sturdy surface the metal edge is genuinely satisfying, and the rigid head holds a straighter line than my hand does. If your problem is one sofa and one car, it will solve it for eight dollars less. The glove won me over somewhere else. Because it charges the fabric instead of raking it, and because the surface touching your clothes is cloth rather than metal, the list of things you can point it at is longer. That turned out to matter more in my house than anything either one does on a cushion.
Where each one is built to work
Mechanism is interesting. Coverage is what you actually live with. Both makers publish a list of what their product is for, and the two lists are not the same shape at all. This is the section where the Uproot line makes its strongest case.
- Clothes, furniture, car seats and carpet are all named, and so is fur woven down into a rug
- Safe on all fabrics, cashmere to denim, which is the one line the Uproot listing has no answer to
- Rated for embedded fur that a lint roller skates over, not just the loose layer sitting on top
- It rinses under a tap and goes in the machine, so the working surface gets cleaned rather than picked at
- Works wet or dry, which matters on car upholstery
- One size covers all of it, which is simple, though it also means no long handle for a big carpet
- Carpets, rugs, stairs, cars, cat towers and furniture are all named on the listing
- Four sizes cover jobs the glove cannot reach: a Mini for corners, an Xtra with an adjustable handle for whole rooms
- The Pro head is 6.6 by 5 inches, a genuinely useful footprint on a sofa cushion or a stair
- Described as safe around pets with no harmful substances, and there is nothing to spray or refill
- The maker positions it for medium sized areas, which is an honest description of what it is good at
- Knitted and delicate fabrics are excluded by the maker, so jumpers, throws and anything loose-woven are off the list
Read it by surface count and Uproot takes this section outright. Four sizes against one, a long handle for carpet, and a rigid head that beats my hand on a big flat run. If your fur problem is the living room floor, the Xtra is built for that and the glove simply is not. Read it by fabric type instead and it flips, because the glove goes on the things the tool tells you to avoid. Two honest answers to two different questions. Mine was a wardrobe question, so the glove took it, but I can see the house where the answer goes the other way.
What happens on knits and delicates
This is the section that decided it for me, and it is the one place where the two listings flatly disagree with each other. I am not going to describe damage I did not do, so I will keep this to what each maker publishes and what I was willing to try.
- The listing claim is safe on all fabrics, and it names cashmere and denim as the two ends of that range
- Nothing rigid or sharp touches the cloth. It is mesh and bristle against fabric, with your hand behind it
- I used it on a lambswool jumper, a loose-knit throw and a wool coat without hesitating
- Because it wraps your hand, it follows a shoulder seam and a cuff instead of skating over them
- Light pressure is enough. The charge does the work, so there is no need to bear down on the weave
- On denim, canvas and a tight-woven sofa cushion it is excellent, and that covers a lot of a normal house
- The rigid head keeps an even line across a flat panel better than a hand can
- The maker's instruction is explicit: not intended for use on knitted and delicate fabrics
- So I did not put it near my knitwear, and I would not tell you to either. Following that line is the whole point of it being printed
- That rules out jumpers, loose throws and anything delicate, which in my house is most of a wardrobe and the sofa blanket
I want to be careful here, because this is a limit the maker published rather than a fault I uncovered. Uproot tells you not to use the Pro on knits and delicates, and telling you that is the responsible thing to do. But once you follow it, a chunk of the house is off the table, and you are back to a lint roller for the jumper you actually wanted to wear. The glove carries the opposite claim and I used it on all of it. If your shedding problem lives on hard-wearing fabric, this section will not move you. If it lives on your clothes, it is the only section that matters.
Living with it day to day
Day to day these are both thirty-second jobs. What separates them is what you do with the hair once it is off, how they store, and how they clean up when the working surface clogs.
- Slip it on, glide, ball the hair up and bin it. That is the whole routine
- Hair rolls into a strip as you go, so you lift it off in one piece rather than chasing crumbs of it
- When it loads up, it goes under the tap or into the machine and comes back clean
- Works wet or dry, so a damp car seat is not a problem
- It folds flat and lives in a drawer or a glovebox without taking a shelf
- Your hand is inside it, so you can feel where the fabric is still gritty and go back over that spot
- Sweep, and the hair packs into the chamber behind the edge. Tip it out when it fills
- Nothing to wash and nothing to dry, which is genuinely less faff than rinsing a glove
- The handle means you are not crouching with your hand flat on a stair tread
- The Xtra adds an adjustable handle for standing up while you do a whole carpet
- It is rigid, so it stores like a tool rather than folding into a drawer
- You pick a size at checkout, so the job you bought it for is the job it is best at
Honestly, this round is close to a draw and the tool edges it on one point I did not expect. Emptying a chamber is faster than rinsing and drying a glove, and if you hate maintenance that is a real mark in its favour. The glove pays that back in reach. Because your hand is in it you can feel what you are doing, and it goes on a car headrest and a coat sleeve without you contorting. Uproot wins on cleanup, PurePath wins on awkward shapes, and neither one is any trouble.
What each maker actually claims
Neither of these is a laboratory product and neither publishes a study, so this is a section about what each company is willing to put in writing. That turns out to be more revealing than it sounds.
- States the glove is safe on all fabrics and names the range, cashmere through to denim
- States it is machine washable and works wet or dry, neither of which the Uproot listing claims
- Puts a number on reuse, 1,000+ times, rather than leaving it open-ended
- Rated 4.7 out of 5 by 41,160+ verified buyers, the larger of the two review pools by a good margin
- Backed by a 60-day money-back guarantee with free shipping on every order, no minimum to reach
- The claim that it saves about $150 a year against lint rollers is the company's own arithmetic, not an audited figure. Treat it as a sales estimate
- Rated 4.9 out of 5 across 24,893 reviews, a higher average score than PurePath holds
- Describes the Pro as infinitely reusable, which is a broader reuse claim than PurePath makes
- Publishes exact dimensions for every size in the range, which makes it easy to buy the right one
- States it is safe around pets with no harmful substances, and carries the same 60-day money-back guarantee
- Names its own limit in print rather than burying it, which is more than a lot of brands manage
- Says nothing about machine washing or wet use, so I have marked both as not stated rather than guessing
I went in expecting to catch someone overclaiming and mostly I did not. Uproot prints its own limitation, which I respect, and its 4.9 average is the better score of the two. PurePath makes the wider claims, and where the Uproot listing simply stays silent, on washing and on wet use, I have written not stated rather than turning silence into a fault. Neither company has tested its product against the other and no independent lab has put these two side by side. Everything here comes off two published listings and six weeks in one house.
Guarantee and buying terms
I expected this round to go my way and it does not. Both give you 60 days, so the guarantee is a straight tie, and the difference comes down to what you pay and what shipping costs you.
- $24.99 for a single glove, the dearer of the two singles, though the Duo at $29.99 is effectively buy one get one free
- The Trio is $36.99 with a flea comb included, so the per-glove price drops to about $12.33 if you want one upstairs and one in the car
- Shipping is free on every order with no minimum, so $24.99 is the whole number you pay
- 60 days to ask for your money back, which is long enough to get through a full shedding season
- $16.99 for a single Pro, which is eight dollars less than the glove and the cheapest way into either
- The same 60-day money-back guarantee, published plainly, so nobody is out-promising anybody here
- Free shipping starts at $49, so a single $16.99 Pro does not reach it on its own
- Multi-packs at $26.99 for two and $34.99 for three, so it stays the cheaper option per unit at every tier
The guarantee is a tie at 60 days each, so this comes down to arithmetic. The Pro is cheaper at $16.99 against $24.99, and both of them run multi-buy tiers, so the tool stays ahead at two and three units as well. What narrows it is the bundles: PurePath comes to about $12.33 a glove on the Trio against about $11.66 on the Uproot three-pack, so eight dollars apart at one unit is under a dollar apart at three. Free shipping at any size closes a little more, because a lone Pro sits below the $49 line. If the cheapest way in is what you want, buy the Pro. I paid the difference for a reason that has nothing to do with price, which is the next section.
Price and value
Uproot wins this one and I want to say so plainly. The Pro is $16.99 against $24.99 for the glove, and it holds the higher customer rating as well. If you are counting money, this round is not close.
- ✅ Listed as safe on all fabrics, cashmere to denim, where the Uproot listing excludes knits and delicates
- ✅ Machine washable, so the working surface actually gets cleaned
- ✅ Works wet or dry, which the Uproot listing does not claim either way
- ✅ Electrostatic charge plus dual directional brushes, so fine flyaway hair gets lifted rather than pushed around
- ✅ Worn on the hand, so it follows a cuff, a headrest or a cushion seam instead of skating over them
- ✅ Reusable 1,000+ times with nothing to refill, and it folds flat into a drawer or a glovebox
- ✅ 60-day money-back guarantee
- ✅ 4.7 / 5.0 from 41,160+ verified buyers, the larger review pool of the two
- ✅ Free shipping on every order with no minimum, and it ships from the USA and Canada
- ❌ $24.99 against $16.99 for the Pro, so it is the more expensive way in
- ❌ One size only, with no long handle for a whole carpet and no Mini for tight corners
- ❌ The maker excludes knitted and delicate fabrics, which rules out jumpers, throws and loose weaves
- ✅ $16.99 for the Pro, eight dollars less than the glove, with multi-packs down to a better unit price
- ❌ Machine washing is not claimed by the maker
- ✅ 4.9 / 5.0 across 24,893 reviews, a higher average score than PurePath holds
- ✅ Four sizes, Mini through to a long-handled Xtra, so there is a version for whole-room carpet
- ✅ Described by the maker as infinitely reusable, a broader reuse claim than PurePath makes
- ✅ A rigid 6.6 by 5 inch head that holds a straighter line across a flat cushion than a hand does
- ✅ Published dimensions for every size in the range, so you can buy the right one first time
- ❌ Wet use is not claimed by the maker, so I have left it as not stated rather than guessing
- ✅ The same 60-day money-back guarantee as PurePath, published just as plainly
- ❌ Free shipping only over $49, so a single Pro does not reach the threshold on its own
Uproot takes this round outright. $16.99 against $24.99, a cheaper unit price at every bundle tier, and a 4.9 average against a 4.7. On money and on score, the tool wins and it is not particularly close. What the extra eight dollars buys is the fabric list. The glove is rated for cashmere and knitwear that the Pro's own listing tells you to avoid, it goes in the machine, and it works wet. In my house that covered a wardrobe, a sofa throw and two car seats, so I paid it and I would pay it again. If your fur lives on denim and a flat cushion, you do not need what I paid for, and the Pro is the smarter buy.