Amazon's Echo Show 5 can give you the forecast, read your calendar, and more to help you easily manage your day. The Echo Show 5 offers a lot of value for what it is. It can be used as a Bluetooth speaker to stream music and podcasts, check in on your home security cameras, video chat with friends...

Full Alexa capabilities; Minimal footprint; Integrated camera cover

None that we could find

Bangs solid tunes bruthaaaaa

The Echo Show 5 delivers Alexa on screen at a ludicrously low price but it has its limitations

Great price; Privacy shield on camera; All the features of the Show 2 in a smaller package;

So-so audio quality; Disappointing microphone sensitivity;

The Amazon Echo Show 5 is smart, compact and easy to set up – it's going to be the best Echo for a lot of people.

Alexa keeps getting better; Easy smart home controls; Decent audio performance

Screen isn't very big; Limited video app support; Thick display bezels

The Echo Show experience is getting better all the time and this is a great entry point. Sure, there are some compromises, but it's value for money and great competition against Google's equivalent Nest product.

Enough size/volume for most rooms; Screen features are continuously improving; Ring doorbell integration; Great value;

No YouTube; Many Alexa Skills need further optimisation; Echo Show 8 better option for music;

Like the idea of Amazon's Echo Show, but don't have $180 to spend on a smart display? You might be interested in the highly-rated Echo Show 5, which is on sale right now for just $64.99, a 28 percent discount. Released in June, the Alexa-powered Echo Show 5 features a 5.5-inch display on which you can view the time, calendars, to-do lists, recipes, song lyrics, news and sports highlights, video calls, feeds from connected devices like security cameras and baby monitors, and more. You can put it on your nightstand, then simply ask Alexa to set and turn off alarms. Reviewers love its "big, clear numbers" and "nice clockfaces, which are easy to change." The Echo Show 5 earned an excellent rating in PCMag's review and praise for its "powerful voice assistant features" and "useful touch-screen controls with web browser." It's our Editors' Choice for small-screen smart displays. "The Amazon Echo Show 5 is a fantastic little smart display that offers loads of features, with a more...

The Echo Show 5 delivers Alexa on screen at a ludicrously low price but it has its limitations

Great price; Privacy shield on camera; All the features of the Show 2 in a smaller package;

So-so audio quality; Disappointing microphone sensitivity;

The Echo Show 5 delivers Alexa on screen at a ludicrously low price but it has its limitations

Great price; Privacy shield on camera; All the features of the Show 2 in a smaller package;

So-so audio quality; Disappointing microphone sensitivity;

This budget smart display has a bit of an identity crisis.

Physical camera shutter, Cute and compact, Good video-call quality, Smart-home camera and doorbell integration

So-so video, Laggy interface, Limited uses