Who they are
Joovv is the brand most people have heard of. It is the category default, the one that shows up in podcast ad reads and in other brands' comparison pages, and it prices accordingly: $549 to $1,499 across the three devices in our data. The system is modular, so individual units stack into a full-body wall, and the app and build quality are genuinely good.
Where the panels are manufactured is not stated in our data. What is documented, and matters more than most spec-sheet trivia, is that the Mini 3.0 is Intertek certified to IEC 60601 medical electrical safety standards. Most rivals in this price bracket have nothing comparable. If you are plugging a 450W device into a wall and standing in front of it naked for twenty minutes, that is not a trivial thing to have.
What they actually publish
Less than a brand at this price should.
The Solo 3.0 is rated at greater than 100 mW/cm2 at surface. At surface is not a treatment distance. Nobody presses their skin against a panel, and irradiance falls off steeply, so a surface figure is the most flattering number a manufacturer can quote while remaining technically accurate. Independent testing found roughly 60 to 90 mW/cm2 at 15 cm with a 74 mW/cm2 peak, which is a reasonable real-world result and also visibly below the headline.
The Mini 3.0 publishes no irradiance figure at all. It also publishes no wavelengths and no LED count on its product page. For a $1,099 device, that is a remarkable amount of missing information. Alex Fergus measured it at 53 mW/cm2 as a nine-reading average and separately flagged an unusually high electric field even at 6 inches, which sits awkwardly next to the medical electrical safety certification.
The Go 2.0 publishes neither an LED count nor an irradiance figure. There is no way to judge what $549 buys beyond the form factor.
Set against Block Blue Light, Rouge or Mito, all of whom print a deflating spectrometer number next to the flattering one, Joovv's disclosure is thin. Set against Bon Charge or Vellgus, who publish big numbers with no distance at all, it is better, because Joovv at least states the condition attached to its Solo figure.
The range
The Solo 3.0 at $1,499 is the flagship: 150 LEDs at 660 and 850nm, 450W, half-body coverage, modular with other Joovv units, three year warranty, 60 day returns.
The Mini 3.0 at $1,099 gives a 9 x 15 inch treatment area from 60 LEDs, with a two year warranty and 60 day returns. On measured output per dollar it is the weakest panel we track. A Hooga HG500 costs $359, has 100 LEDs and publishes a full falloff curve. You are buying the badge, the safety certification and the return window here, not the photons.
The Go 2.0 at $549 is a battery-powered handheld under 6 x 4 inches and 1.32 lb, the most travel-friendly device in our data. Red and near-infrared sit in the same lens so both reach the same tissue at once, and it runs silent and fanless with a pulsed Recovery+ mode. It also has the shortest terms of anything here: one year warranty, 30 day returns.
Regulatory position
All three devices are FDA registered. None is FDA cleared. Registration means the manufacturer has listed the device with the FDA. It involves no review of whether the device works, and it is not clearance. Clearance would attach to a specific stated intended use, and even clearance is not FDA approval. Joovv holds neither in our records.
The IEC 60601 certification on the Mini is a separate matter and a real one, but it is an electrical safety standard, not evidence of therapeutic effect.
Who should buy it, who should not
Buy the Solo 3.0 if you want a modular system you will genuinely expand over time, you value the app and the build, and you accept that you are paying several hundred dollars above comparable measured output elsewhere for reliability and brand assurance. Buy the Go 2.0 if pocketability is the actual requirement and you have made peace with buying a device whose output nobody publishes.
Do not buy the Mini 3.0 on specification. At $1,099 for 60 LEDs and an independently measured 53 mW/cm2, the value case does not survive contact with the rest of the market. Do not buy Joovv at all if what you want is the most measured irradiance per dollar, because that is Hooga or Mito. And if you are shopping a Labor Day sale, note that Joovv publishes model-specific codes on its own sale page with hard expiry dates, so check the date before assuming a code still works.