- Top 3
- 1. Best overall
- 2. Best premium beard trimmer
- 3. Best budget beard trimmer
- 4. Best beard trimmer for shorter beards
- 5. Best beard trimmer for longer beards
- 6. Best beard trimmer for thick beards
- 7. Best beard trimmer for attachments
- 8. Best beard trimmer for battery life
- How to choose the best beard trimmer
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The best beard trimmer is a modern-day essential for crafting an attractive beard. Be it a bushy hipster flex or a more sculpted number, carving out a stylish beard takes time, patience and a good trimmer.
If you're looking for regular beard management or the occasional trim, you might be wondering what is the best beard trimmer on the market. Our top picks for the best beard trimmers are the sharpest, to put it bluntly (no pun intended), but our favourite trimmer overall has to be the Philips BT9000 Prestige, due to its design, feel and results.
If you're looking to fully upgrade your grooming routine, then you might want to check out the best body groomer for all-over hair removal, or, if you want to remove your facial hair completely, then you'll want the best electric shaver.
Without further ado, here's the best beard trimmer you can buy today.
Beth is Home Editor for T3, covering style, living and wellness. While Beth can't grow a beard so doesn't have a need for the best beard trimmers, she still has an expansive knowledge on the subject, having covered beard maintenance for over two years. She's always ready to offer the latest news, recommendations and advices on beard trimmers, facial hair and grooming.
Recent updates
We've updated our best beard trimmers guide with the Manscaped The Beard Hedger in at spot 6, and swap our premium and cheap options around.
The top three
The Philips BT9000 Prestige is the best beard trimmer overall, with a classy design, a premium feel and brilliant results.
The Braun Beard Trimmer 7 has a powerful performance and a range of cutting heads to shave through the bushiest of beards.
For those on a tight budget, the Philips OneBlade 360 is an effective and affordable choice.
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The best beard trimmer overall
There's no doubt that the Philips BT9000 Prestige is the classiest looking beard trimmer we've ever clapped eyes on. That's thanks to its steel body, steel blades and heavy-duty rubber grip. Even the battery life indicator is neatly integrated into the base of the trimmer.
Thankfully, the BT9000 Prestige isn't just a looker, because our reviewer found it offers an equally classy shave. There's a robust steel dial that quickly adjusts the blade length from 0.4mm to 5mm, or throw on a plastic guard and cover the 5.4mm to 10mm lengths.
Designed primarily with neater beard-scaping in mind, it neatly whips away whiskers without any snags or pulls. That steel cutting head is brilliantly contoured, thanks to “anti-friction skin follower” technology, and managed to get into those awkward or hard-to-reach areas where many rivals fall down.
We found the battery life is excellent too, and the 'power sensor adaptor' automatically adjusts the speed of the motor depending on how hard it works, allowing it to plough through longer sections without getting bogged down. Although we wouldn't recommend submerging it in a bubble bath, it's supposedly 100-percent waterproof and performed perfectly when tested in the shower. The easy flip-back shaving head also makes rinsing out fine hairs easy, as there's no fiddling around trying to clip a cheap plastic head back on.
Yes, it's pricey for a beard trimmer, but it feels premium and like it's built to last. Keep on top of blade maintenance (oiling them after cleaning) and this is one trimmer you won't be throwing in the bin after a few months of heavy use. Before you buy, be sure to check our Philips discount codes to bag the best deal and check out our Philips BT9000 Prestige review for more.
The best premium beard trimmer
There are slightly cheaper beard trimmers out there but the Braun Beard Trimmer 7 feels like good value for money, earning its place pretty high up on this list. It is small, light and easy to use. Our reviewer found the tough blades shave cleanly and feel like they are built to last.
Granted, the quality of the main body isn't massively impressive, and some of the included shaving attachments feel like gimmicks. However, if you stick with the main blades and the two plastic guards, you can achieve some great results, both on the face and you know...
Our reviewer said the battery life was solid and the unit is waterproof enough for easy rinsing to clean, but just beware that you’ll need a two-pin adaptor if you don’t have shaving sockets in your bathroom.
Read our full Braun Beard Trimmer 7 review for more.
The best budget beard trimmer
The best budget beard and body trimmer is the Philips OneBlade 360. Despite it's garish looks, this is a cheap and cheerful face and body groomer that’s great value for money, and easier and comfortable to use.
Philips has an extensive beard trimmers and shavers collection, so if you want something a bit more premium, then you should go with our first pick in this guide: the Philips BT9000 Prestige. And if you're specifically looking for something for shorter beards, then you'll want the Philips OneBlade Pro, a different version of the OneBlade.
But for a reasonable price that won't break the bank (unless you need a replacement head which isn't as cheap as you'd think), we're giving it to the Philips OneBlade 360. It's great for short and long hair, the slim and lightweight design is comfortable to use, and its flexible head makes shaving much easier. As the name suggests, the detachable blades have an innovative 360 design that ensures fewer passes are needed to trim beard hair.
Our reviewer found that the 5-in-1 adjustable comb worked well on longer hair, although he found that the blades dull quicker than you'd expect. But it does an amazing job, considering the low price tag.
Read our full Philips OneBlade 360 review for more details.
The best beard trimmer for shorter beards
The Philips OneBlade is an odd-looking thing, with what appears to be a large Mach 3-style blade instead of the familiar cutting comb (although with the Pro models you get a cutting comb too).
The main selling point here is the absence of razor burn: if you’ve found other trimmers leave your face a fiery red, we think you will find the OneBlade considerably more gentle. You'll want to stand near the sink, use it in the shower, or keep a cordless vac nearby, mind: as we found the way the head vibrates sends cut stubble all over the place.
The dual-sided blade is designed to cut more precisely than a comb and we find they last about 6 weeks to 3 months before needing to be replaced. That's somewhat less than Philips' claim of 4 months, but the replacement heads aren't especially pricey or hard to find.
The battery runs for 90 minutes on a one-hour charge and it can handle beards up to 10mm via its adjustable comb head. We'd say it is suited to shorter trims on the whole – it's most ideal for those who favour neither beards nor a smooth visage: it does perma-stubble brilliantly.
There are a number of versions of the OneBlade available at Amazon and elsewhere, and particularly if you suffer from facial irritation, they are all excellent. The hardware of the non-'Pro' versions does have more of a tendency to wear out, however. That's because rather than having an integral, adjustable comb for different lengths, they use interchangeable combs.
Read our full Philips OneBlade Pro review for more information and if you want some buying advice, check out how to choose a beard trimmer for shorter beards.
The best beard trimmer for longer beards
The Remington B5 borrows the rotary dial set-up of rivals, which we find makes adjusting the length of the built-in comb really easy. It also boasts one of the best spread of lengths we've seen in a single comb mechanism, covering 0.4 to 18mm.
When set to its shortest setting, the Remington B5 does a good job of slicing whiskers down to a fairly even trendy perma-stubble, but the large comb does make it difficult to reach tricky spots, like those on neck or just underneath the jaw.
For not very much money, it feels like a good buy, although it doesn't come with the nose/ear trimmer attachments like other rivals we've listed here. Bottom line: it's good for really thick beards but lacks the finesse for shorter or more lavish facial hair designs.
Read our full Remington B5 review to find out more, and make sure to check out our guide on how to choose a beard trimmer for longer beards to see if you should buy this trimmer.
The best beard trimmer for thick beards
If you have other facial hair alongside your beard, then you'll love the Manscaped The Beard Hedger – just like our reviewer did. While Manscaped is better known for its body groomers, the Manscaped The Beard Hedger is great for trimming or completely shaving your beard, moustache and other facial hair.
While our reviewer found that it lacked a few tech features, he found that the Manscaped The Beard Hedger was easy to use, had an impressive battery life and was extremely kind to skin.
We found it to be best for thicker beards in our Manscaped The Beard Hedger review, as it easily trimmed through impressively bushier beards without breaking a sweat. But as it comes up multiple trimming lengths of up to 10mm, the Manscaped The Beard Hedger is also great for all types of facial hair, for trimming, sculpting or completely removing hair.
The best beard trimmer for attachments
Wahl's excellent emergency charge system is just one reason to get excited about the Wahl Aqua Blade trimmer, because it delivers enough power for a quick trim in just one minute - perfect for when you inevitably run it flat and need a last-minute shave before work.
On top of that, it comes with a staggering 16 guide combs, which means you can go from a 0.2mm super close shave, all the way up to a proper barbershop hair-do tidy up if you really want to. There is also the obligatory nose hair trimmer, detailer head for fancy beards and a foil shaver for getting that "smooth as a baby's bottom" look to your cheeks and chin.
The best beard trimmer for battery life
If you want a beard trimmer with a long lasting battery life, then we'd recommend the Philips Series 7000 Trimmer. Now, you might be thinking 'why is it the best for battery life if it only has a 120 minute runtime?!' Well, our reviewer found that the Philips Series 7000 Trimmer charged incredibly quickly, and once he charged it to full, he hadn't had to charge it at all during the entire testing period, so it gets top points there from us.
Aside from its charge, the Philips Series 7000 Trimmer has a nice, comfortable design and it's pretty decent value for money. It has a patent trimming comb which was the star of the show, as it had 11 lengths to choose from and the self-sharpening blades didn't dull at all. The only issue is that the Philips Series 7000 Trimmer comes with a different charging port than other Philips models but if this particular port gives that great battery life, we can live with it.
See our Philips Series 7000 Trimmer review for more details.
How to choose the best beard trimmer
When considering a beard trimmer there are several things to consider. The first is length: some trimmers are only suitable for short beards, while others come with a range of heads or guards that can be used for bushy beards.
Most trimmers can be used for body hair and the hair on the top of your head too, but if you want anything other than a skinhead, you'll want a trimmer that's capable of longer length settings.
Charge time may matter if you’re constantly on the move, and often these things take eight hours or more to fully juice up. Realistically, that shouldn't be a problem if you only trim once per day, but if you suffer from beard maintenance anxiety, you might favour a trimmer with an emergency 'quick charge' feature, giving a full trim after just a few minutes of charging.
Watch out for consumables – while many trimmers have self-sharpening blades that last forever, some need oiling, and some even require regular replacement. As with electric toothbrushes, our biggest tip is: never pay