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by Lorenz Keller
The Mova P50 Pro Ultra is everything a robot vacuum cleaner should be
17/6/2025
Translation: Katherine Martin
Pictures: Lorenz Keller
The Mova P50 Pro Ultra proves that it’s possible to get a decent robot vacuum cleaner without breaking the bank. As my hands-on test reveals, it’s good quality, boasts plenty of features and has an affordable price tag.
Having entered the Swiss market just this year, Mova, a fledgling Chinese robot vacuum cleaner brand, is keen to stand out from the crowd. To achieve this, the company’s honed in on pricing policy, producing robot vacuums that aren’t super cheap, but reasonably priced.
A Dreame subsidiary
As I’m unboxing the Mova P50 Pro Ultra, I’m struck by its similarity to Dreame vacuum cleaners. Some components, such as the brushes and mops, are actually identical. Logos aside, the app also looks pretty much the same.
This is no coincidence; Mova is a subsidiary of Dreame. As a secondary brand stemming from the same manufacturer, its products are priced below those of the main brand. Although Mova’s products are based on the same technology as Dreame’s, there are subtle differences in how they’re put together. You’ll be familiar with examples of this from the car industry, such as Volkswagen with Audi, Skoda, Seat and VW.
Everything a robot vacuum cleaner needs
Mova’s P50 Pro Ultra has all the features you might need while skipping unnecessary bells and whistles.
Here’s a roundup:
- Lidar navigation: A lidar sensor allows the robot to quickly map out your home and navigate it precisely. During my six-week test, it didn’t get lost once. Cameras help the robot to detect obstacles.
- Edge cleaning: You can extend the vacuum’s side brush and one of the two mops to clean the edges and corners of a room.
- Self-cleaning: The base station vacuums dirt into a dust bag with a capacity of 3.2 litres. It washes the two round mop heads with water heated to 75 degrees Celsius, then dries them with hot air. Plus, it tops up the cleaning solution and fresh water automatically. If you’re vacuuming but not mopping, the P50 Pro Ultra deposits the mops in the base station. Should you need them again, the robot can magnetically reattach them.
You’d get the following features on top-of-the-range models, but not the P50 Pro Ultra:
- Climbing ability: The Mova doesn’t have extendable wheels or legs that would allow it to climb over thresholds or steps. With a little effort, it can move over bumps measuring a maximum height of two centimetres.
- Special features: Some top-of-the-line robot vacuums have retractable laser towers or extendable gripper arms. With the P50 Pro Ultra, you’ll have to do without gadgets like these.
Top-quality cleaning performance
With a suction power of 19,000 pascals, the P50 Pro Ultra is one of the most powerful robotic vacuum cleaners on the market. Compare that to the top model, the Dreame X50 Ultra Complete, for example. Priced at 1,000 Swiss francs, it has a suction of 20,000 pascals. However, it’s worth bearing in mind that these self-declared numbers only provide limited information about a vacuum’s cleaning performance. Suction power alone isn’t enough to get the job done; all the vacuum cleaner’s components, such as its brushes and filters, need to work as well together as possible.
When I used it in real life, the Mova P50 Pro Ultra completely won me over. It could easily go toe to toe with top models from Roborock and parent company Dreame on day-to-day cleaning. Pet hair, crumbs and minor everyday mess proved no match for it.
I had the P50 Pro Ultra do its rounds several times a week, giving my home a significant cleanliness boost. Given that we have pets living with us, this was lovely. The only work I had to do by hand was clean the areas that robotic vacuum cleaners generally can’t reach.
One thing I especially liked? When I checked the floor brush for the first time after six weeks of testing, there wasn’t a single hair caught in it. And that’s despite the fact I have several long-haired housemates. This considered, the roller’s anti-tangle function, which continuously cuts tangled hair, works excellently. Another plus point is that the brush comes included with the vacuum cleaner. With some competing products, you have to buy one separately.
The downsides: noise and height
The Mova P50 Pro Ultra doesn’t run quietly. Standing one metre away from it, I measure a reading of about 63 decibels. That makes it one of the loudest robot vacuum cleaners I’ve ever tested. If you’re planning to let your vacuum run while while you’re in the same room, this will be an important factor to consider.
The robot vacuum’s second drawback is its height. Including the tower, it’s 10.4 centimetres tall, making hoovering under my sofa a tight squeeze. The latest top-of-the-range models are less than ten centimetres tall, with those boasting retractable lidar towers sometimes measuring in at just eight centimetres.
Installation and app: superior quality
Setting up the P50 Pro Ultra works in the same way as a Dreame vacuum cleaner. In other words, you have to create an account and connect the robot to the app. You then send your vacuum off on a tour of your home so that it can create a precise room plan.
The Mova P50 Pro Ultra turned out to be quite the little sprinter in this regard, finishing in an almost record-breaking eight minutes. The only robot vacuum to beat it was the Dreame X50 Ultra, which managed the same job one minute faster. Since Mova uses Dreame’s powerful mapping technology, it’s no surprise that it creates room plans so efficiently.
The robot identified the layout of my home almost perfectly. Although the system did split the office into two, that can be corrected with just a few clicks. After just a 15-minute setup process, the vacuum’s ready to spring into action.
As is typically the case with robot vacuums, you use the app to program the device. You tell it what to clean and how often, define restricted areas, select a cleaning intensity level and decide how much liquid it should use for mopping.
What’s more, you decide whether you want the vacuum to use images to analyse objects and use AI to avoid obstacles. To do that, you have to accept the privacy policies. While you can prevent images from being uploaded to the cloud, the map of your home is saved either way.
Generally speaking, the Mova app is structured like the Dreame app. That’s a positive thing, given that the Dreame app is clearly laid out and demonstrably good. However, it also has the same weaknesses. If you define the cleaning process in the app manually each time, doing so takes a few too many clicks. Having a quick selection of the five most popular modes would be preferable.
How affordable is the Mova really?
New top-of-the-range robot vacuum cleaners will soon cost over 1,000 Swiss francs or euros. The Mova P50 Pro Ultra is available for around 700–750 Swiss francs or euros, with barely any compromises on regular cleaning performance. With this in mind, the new robot vacuum cleaner is a fair deal.
The result isn’t quite as positive when I compare the Mova with last year’s top model from Dreame, the X40 Ultra Complete. More than a year after its market launch, it’s available for 750–800 Swiss francs or euros. Although it has similar features, the suction power is lower at 12,000 pascals. This considered, the P50 Pro Ultra is still the better deal, as it’s slightly cheaper and has more suction power.
In a nutshell
Good quality, affordable price
By launching the P50 Pro Ultra, Dreame’s new subsidiary brand has brought a robot vacuum with last year’s top-of-the-range technology to market at a reasonable price. When I tested it, it proved itself to be a reliable household helper.
Boasting a powerful suction and two mops, the P50 Pro Ultra also comes with a base station that takes a lot of work off your hands. It vacuums up dirt into a bag, cleans the mops with hot water, then dries them. It’s just a shame that Mova hasn’t fixed the shortcomings we’ve seen on previous Dreame devices.
Pro
- Good cleaning performance
- Fair price
- Has all the important features
- Compact base station
Contra
- Not ideal for low furniture due to its height
- Quite loud
Lorenz Keller
Senior Editor
Lorenz.Keller@digitecgalaxus.chGadgets are my passion - whether you need them for the home office, for the household, for sport and pleasure or for the smart home. Or, of course, for the big hobby next to the family, namely fishing.
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