Why We Built VapeBeat

We test vapes so you don’t waste money on bad ones.

That’s it. That’s the whole thing. But since you’re on the About page, you probably want a bit more than that, so let’s go.

VapeBeat has been covering the vaping industry since before half the brands you know existed. We’ve seen the good (pod systems going from clunky plastic bricks to genuinely great devices), the bad (remember when every tank leaked constantly?), and the ugly (we don’t need to name names, but you know who you are).

Here’s what we actually do, day to day:

We buy devices, test them properly, and tell you the truth about them. Not “this product was provided by the brand for review” fluff where everything magically scores 9/10. If something is overpriced, underpowered, or just plain bad, we say so. Loudly. With evidence.

We cover vape news without the clickbait. The industry moves fast and regulations move faster, so we track what matters and cut out what doesn’t. You get the story, not the spin.

We write guides that actually help. Not the kind that state the obvious for 2,000 words to hit a word count. The kind where you close the tab knowing more than when you opened it.

And we do it all for one type of person: someone who wants straight answers without having to wade through manufacturer marketing copy dressed up as journalism.

Ten Years In, Thousands of Products Later

VapeBeat launched in 2015, which in vaping years makes us practically ancient. Back then, a good vape was a leaky tank and a box mod the size of a brick. We’ve tested everything that’s come out since, and the number is genuinely somewhere in the thousands at this point. Coils, tanks, pods, mods, disposables, dry herb vaporizers, dab rigs, nicotine pouches, CBD products, cannabis vapes. If it’s been sold as a safer alternative to smoking, there’s a reasonable chance it’s been through our hands.

That scope matters, because context is everything in product reviews. When we tell you a device punches above its price point, we’re not saying that relative to the three other things we’ve tried. We’re saying it relative to a decade of testing the full spectrum of what this industry produces, from genuinely brilliant to embarrassingly bad.

We’ve also expanded well beyond nicotine vapes. Cannabis vaporizers, concentrates, e-rigs, dry herb devices, nicotine pouches, CBD, emerging nicotine replacement products. Anything that sits at the intersection of harm reduction and getting-your-fix-without-a-lighter, we cover it. The industry doesn’t stay still and neither do we.

The VapeBeat Store (UK)

If you’re in the UK and you want to actually buy something rather than just read about it, we’ve got you covered there too.

The VapeBeat Store stocks a curated range of UK-made bar salts, because the domestic stuff is genuinely better and you shouldn’t have to settle for whatever mystery liquid came bundled with a cheap disposable.

We also carry the most popular refillable pod vapes, the ones we actually recommend in our reviews, not just whatever someone paid us to shift.

Everything in the store is there because we’d use it ourselves. That’s the bar. It’s a short list by design.

If that sounds like you, you’re in the right place. If you’re a brand hoping we’ll go easy on your product in exchange for a press kit and a LinkedIn connection request, you’re very much in the wrong place.