The Best Specialty Cleaning Tools from Our 2024 Cleaning Awards

Whether you’re dusting surfaces, wiping down windows, or getting stains out of a rug, it helps to use a special tool to get these different areas of your home cleaned from top to bottom — efficiently and effectively. But how do you know which ones to grab for each task? 

Below, we highlighted the 11 specialty tools we awarded as winners in our 2024 Cleaning Awards — including our pick for the Cleaning Product of the Year. Each one will make a difference in the way you clean your home and help you tackle any particular messes in sight.

• Cleaning Cloths: E-Cloth Home Cleaning Set
• Duster: Swiffer Dusters Heavy Duty Extender Handle Starter Kit
• Window Squeegee: MR.SIGA Professional Window Cleaning Combo
• Air Purifier: Coway Airmega AP-1512HH Mighty
• Handheld Vacuum: Black+Decker dustbuster Pivot Vac 20V Max Cordless Handheld Vacuum
• Upholstery & Carpet Cleaner: Bissell Little Green Machine Cordless
• Pet Hair Remover: Black+Decker Pet Hair Remover
• Power Scrubber: Dremel Versa Power Scrubber Kit with Scrub Daddy Cleaning Sponge Pads
• Portable Stain Remover: Bissell Pet Stain Eraser PowerBrush
• Baseboard Cleaning Tool: Baseboard Buddy
• Steam Cleaner: Bissell SteamShot Deluxe

This Specialty Tools category showcases 11 all-star picks that can help you clean your home from top to bottom, including a window squeegee, handheld vacuum cleaner, and baseboard cleaning tool. Plus, we share with you our pick for the Cleaning Product of the Year, a must-have tool that’ll make cleaning so much easier.

The Cleaning Awards is our guide to the very best cleaning tools of 2024. There are 40 winners across five categories that our editors truly believe are the cleaning essentials you can’t live without. We spent months researching and testing — which meant a lot of dusting, scrubbing, and vacuuming! — to create this must-have list of tools that’ll help you conquer everyday messes. 

To select the winners, we looked at how well each tool performed, keeping in mind how well it cleans and if it works as promised (or better). We took into account its durability, ease of use, and features it offers. What makes this item budget-friendly or worth splurging for? And finally, we factored in innovation and what made this product stand out from the rest.

Want to see more winners? See here for the full list of winners for the 2024 Cleaning Awards.

All prices were accurate at the time of publishing, but may have changed since then.