I bought the DryGuy portable boot dryer with the (orange accents on it) but didn't like how it had no option to turn off the heat and just blow air. The heat option uses a lot of electricity and actually can heat up a whole room. Plus heat can be damaging to certain materials (I dry my clothes on air dry or on a line when I can). It also had a weird noise when operating that I can only describe as that of a VCR on remind but with a very high pitched subtle siren sound too. I wasn't sure if the high pitched sound was my imagination or not but someone at work commented on it too. I the Maxx heavy duty on, no heat, and it sounds nothing like the DryGuy. The Maxx Dry sounds like a white noise machine, both with the heat on or with it off. There is clearly a design flaw with the DryGuy or they need to use a different part in it to prevent the weird noise it is making. There is really no comparison...I suppose for traveling the DryGuy would be ideal (at a lower price maybe 20-25 bucks) because it is foldable down to the size of an old school lunch box, but for use at home this one is much better, for the optional heat and lack of annoying noise. The only thing I can criticize is the lack of a cover for the shoe holder pieces that aren't in use. Just a couple plastic parts costing 2 cents to make would suffice, unless there is some reason they should've be covered while the other 2 are being used.