KatadynWater Filter's BeFree 1 Liter

Brilliant piece of equiptment brilliant concept and works amazingly well price is good and quality is exellent should last for a long time

Excelant product, tested in the field and it performed exactly as suggested.

It works, I used it filtering water in a stagnant pool on top of a mountain. I didn't die 😊

We use water filters for hiking, camping and bikepacking. Previously we used water to go bottles and sawyer filters. They did the job as water filters but the flow rate is poor for decanting filtered water to a larger reservoir such as a camel back bladder or cooking pot.Water filtered using the katadyn tastes great and it is so convenient to carry and fill up on the go without having to take off your back pack. Good value for money.

Slightly better than the sawyer squeeze but in the future I'd buy the sawyer for all the goodwork they do by giving free filters out to countries in need. I wish I'd known that before buying this one even though this is better

Have had a Saywer mini for about 4 years and was under the impression they were the standard water filter but alas I noticed in a few recent youtube videos from the past year or so that EVERYBODY seems to have binned the saywer mini filter due to its ridiculously slow flow rate and vulnerability to the internals cracking if frozen during cold weather.Now everybody seems to have got one of these Katadyn be-free filters and I am just late to the party. I really can see what the fuss is about. Cleaning the filter is a piece of cake, the bottle squashes to nothing when empty, it all seems fairly well made except for the mouth piece on the filter which looks like it came straight off a bottle of the flat lucozade. However what I will say is that mine hasn't broken despite a winter of weekend use and if/when it does I will just replace it with one off a lucozade bottle so maybe its a positive not a negative.The price is only downside really, as it costs £50+ and I don't think you can buy replacement bags for them meaning if you get a puncture then you need to buy a whole new setup. not great for the environment and kind of against the message of the brand really but hey ho. overall a fab product and something every walker should have in their bag!

The media could not be loaded. If you're considering a water filter for a backpacking trip I would fully vouch for this. I used it for a week long backpacking trip in Scotland and had no issues at all with it. The water filters out at an okay rate, faster would be better but its not painfully slow, from memory it took roughly 30 seconds to fill half a bladder. Weight is a massive bonus with this, I'm not close to being ultralight but if I was to go down that route I'd still keep this in the pack, from what I've heard about Sawyer products they're a very close competitor to this, but the ease of use having the attached bottle, that can fold into the palm of my hand makes life so much easier. I used this quite often during my trip and didn't experience any blockages in the filter, I'd assume that's because the water was quite clear.Definitely wash this with some baking power before use though, I didn't and it did have a strong plastic taste for the duration of the trip. Not sure if that flavour does go or not so I can't vouch for that.

Nice and light, very packable and very useful where there are no water to be bought at the shops. Don’t forget after you have used the filter and before you pack it away to clean the filter with a little bleach in water look this up otherwise when you take it out again and you haven’t done this, then you will only get a trickle