The Best Pool Accessories to Upgrade Your Summer (2026)

Key points

• This floating gadget monitors temperature, pH, and ORP (a stand-in for free chlorine), together giving you a solid picture of your pool’s disinfection capabilities, automatically updated every 15 minutes.
• While many chemistry monitors require replaceable supplies (quite costly) and regular battery replacements to work, Iopool’s solution is solid-state, needing no maintenance at all except for storing it out of the pool in winter months.
• I used mine for two full swimming seasons until it died (at which point it must be replaced)—and I like it so much I just dropped its successor into the water for the summer.
• Chris Null For Floating Around With a Drink When our first 90-degree-Fahrenheit day popped up on the forecast last month, I immediately started searching for a floating cooler for drinks that had a canopy to block the sun and would not cost a fortune, and ended up buying this Funboy one off...