Play Video Everyone in my family loves the ice this little machine makes. The ice is just like the nugget ice you get from Sonic or Chick-Fil-A. It is not bullet ice like some of the ice machines that are sold. I received it on Christmas Day and my whole family kept going back to get the “best ice”! It comes with 2 ice bags, so you can make a ton of ice to freeze. It is not loud when running. I would say it is about as noisy as when the dishwasher is running. As the ice melts, it will make new ice. I am very happy with this ice machine 10/10!

This is an amazing product. Quickly makes the best and soft chewable nugget ice. Very easy to use. Would recommend 100 times over.

Play Video So worth it it’s not loud the ice is soft and chewable

We recently received the Inoviva ice maker and have set it up and made our first batch of Ice cubes. While the list below will display maybe more cons than pros the bottom line is this ice maker is high quality, makes great ice cube nuggets and works as described. The cons may or may not be an issue for most. Pros - Makes great sized, chewable ice cubes and are perfect size that most fridges cannot make. Within 10-15 minute of cleaning and set up ice starts coming out. It fills up in a few hours but enough to fill up a glass in less than 30 minutes. We also love that it comes with 5-6 ice bags. These are super handy and made specifically for ice. A big bonus if you need to pack a cooler or store the ice it makes. Cons - Its large and its tall. You need to have 6" space on each size and above to open the lid although slanted. It is going to be really hard for us to find a space to operate it in our kitchen. It is far to big to put on our pantry shelf as well. It is also pretty loud. I know it says the decibel level is low but its actually pretty noisy. It is the only appliance we hear in our kitchen at the moment. and 1 major complaint that I have which may not be a big deal to most is that their really is no storage for the small ice scoop it comes with. The booklet shows you to put it inside the basket, but that takes up space for ice. For a machine that seems to be built with quality in mind it seems so trivial to not have a small clip attached to the lid to hold the scoop while making ice. Again not a big deal but pretty dumb that they seem to thought about this after the fact. Overall we love the ice it makes and the speed in which it makes it that it trumps any of the complaints other than figuring out where we are going to put it. I would recommend this ice maker if you are in the market.

My LG fridge has an ice maker that only seems to work whenever it feels like it. Instead of a simple spring controlled bar that raises as the ice builds up so it knows when to shut off. It has a motor that swings a bar back and forth. A motor that's now seen better days so the bar often gets stuck if you look at it wrong. When it's stuck it thinks it's full. So this is now the third similar small ice maker I've tried from Vine and I happy to say it's the best one. Though with one of them that's a really low bar to meet considering it lasted only 3 months before I heard an awful and loud groaning sound. I ran in and found half the top popped off and the groaning sound still happening. So I quickly unscrewed the 4 screws to that part to relive the pressure. What I found was the shaft that spins the little piece to eject the ice was snapped off and an almost inch thick round block of ice had built up and the auger was pressing it outwards and almost snapping the plastic housing that I had unscrewed. I went and looked up other reviews and some of them had the same thing happen and theirs shot off into the ceiling, SMH. So um... yeah.... nice design there folks, SMH. Anyways, this one doesn't have a little spinning piece. It just has an inverted cone that forces the ice to spill off into the container. What I like about it. It's larger than the other two so it can hold more ice as well as water. As shown in the comparison pic between it and the one I have left that is working. The ice it makes is larger and in a more solid shape. Without all those fractures it won't melt as fast as the other does. It's the quietest of the 3 by far. Not just merely the fan but the compressor too. Only the top is see through on the ice container. Which makes it thicker and therefor better at keeping the ice from melting. The other 2 both have thin see through sides on a large part of the containers that doesn't insulate remotely as well. The ice container has more holes in it than the other two's ice containers combined. Which lets the melted water drain a lot more easily. The faster water can drain the less time it has to help melt the ice. Once ice actually starts it makes it decently fast. What I don't like about it. Though it has a sensor, a beam that if the ice level breaks it for long enough it knows it's full. Clearing the beam doesn't immediately start ice production again. With the other two pretty much the second the beam is connected again they started to make ice. This one has a 4 hour delay instead. So if you're having heavy use out this like using it for a whole family, it's better to manually start it again which is more annoying than it just doing it on its own. When the production cycle does start, it doesn't just load the ice making part with water. It also spills water out and mostly around the ice container. Similar to how it looks when running the cleaning cycle. IDK if it does that to melt and residual ice. Maybe not being able to do that is why the other one broke and that's how that really thick chunk of ice was able to build up? IDK. What's annoying about that is though the majority, like 90-95% of the water makes it into the tank below the ice container through the channels around the container. Some does splash into the container. Which then goes on to greatly help melt the ice that's there. I would have liked to see either the channels a bit bigger, or the ice container being held upwards about half an inch. All of that height difference is all it took as I held up the container myself to see if any water got it and it didn't when holding it. I'm thinking of just putting something in there on the parts that the container rests on to raise it up a bit so that can't happen anymore. All in all those are pretty small gripes. All that remains to be seen is longevity. (I was also really happy with the one that broke at first) If this also kicks the bucket way before it should like that did, I'll come back and edit this accordingly. But as it is now the family and I are quite happy with this.