Shokz’s OpenMeet keeps your ears open through a full day of calls

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Shokz’s OpenMeet is a headset that never goes in or over your ears, and it’s down to $119.95 from $219.95. The frame leaves your ears uncovered on calls, so a day of meetings doesn’t end with sore ears or a mark from the band.

Sound comes from Shokz’s DualPitch setup, which pairs a 10th-generation bone conduction driver carrying the highs and mids with a separate air conduction driver for bass, all on a band that weighs 78 grams. Nothing touches your ear canal. The split is the design’s whole logic, since bone conduction alone has never given a headset real low end. Shokz says the bone driver carries the crisp highs and mids while the air driver handles the bass.

Shokz OpenMeet, Black, No Adapter
Open-ear bone conduction · Dual-mic noise reduction · 15 hours of listening
Price: $119.95 $219.95 (save $100.00, 45% off)
Where to buy: Buy on Amazon

The band comes in sizes matched to head circumference, and two pairs of pressure relief cushions sit in the box for the fit, which you fine-tune by adjusting the headpiece, swapping cushions or tilting the band backward. Sizing is homework, done once, and the size guide sits on Shokz’s page next to the price.

What open-ear changes on a call day

An over-ear headset seals you off, and an earbud plugs the canal, so hours of calls build a pressure that turns into an ache behind the ears by mid-afternoon. The OpenMeet sits off the ear entirely while the call plays through your cheekbones, which is why Shokz pitches it at extended video calls and conferences, at home or in a traditional office. There’s nothing pressing anywhere by the sixth meeting.

That’s the trade, and it runs both ways. You hear the doorbell, the kid in the next room and the colleague asking a question across the desk, and you never pull one side off mid-sentence to catch a name called from the doorway. In a loud room, though, the room stays audible to you too, because an open frame has no seal and blocks nothing around your own ears.

Focus work is the casualty, and quiet rooms flatter this design while call centers won’t.

The boom mic does the filtering

Your side of the call is where the OpenMeet works hardest, with a dual-microphone system on the boom that Shokz rates at up to 98.6% noise reduction in its own lab tests. The tests ran at street-intersection noise levels, between 65 and 72 decibels, Shokz’s footnote says. That’s a lab figure, earned under controlled conditions, and a real kitchen at lunch will hand it a harder test than any intersection. The direction is right, though.

The boom carries a mute button, so killing your mic is a thumb press rather than a hunt through the meeting window. Push buttons handle volume, and the pairing list, prompt volume and prompt language all live in the Shokz app. Nothing here needs a menu mid-call. The boom ends beside the corner of your mouth.

Battery, pairing and the dongle decision

Shokz rates the battery at 14 hours of talk time and 15 hours of listening, with a charge time of an hour and a half. One charge on Monday morning covers a meeting-heavy week for most people working a full week from a desk.

MultiPoint pairing is on by default, and the headset runs on Android, iOS, Windows 8 and later, and macOS 10.15 and later.

Bluetooth alone covers phones and most laptops, though the steadier office route is the OpenMeet UC, which adds Shokz’s Loop120 wireless dongle in the box for computers that drop Bluetooth headsets mid-call, and for Shokz Connect management on the desktop. The adapter versions run $139.95 against a $249.95 regular price, in USB-A or USB-C. Shokz Connect only runs through the dongle, so the UC box is also the desktop management route. The dongle version is the office pick.

Shokz’s own OpenComm2 2025 Upgrade sits above it at $159.95 with 16 hours of talk time at just 35 grams, so the OpenMeet’s case rests on the newer DualPitch audio and the lower sale price rather than on weight. The older headset also carries an IP55 sweat rating, while the OpenMeet skips water resistance entirely and stays at the desk. Pay more for light, or pay less for the newer sound. Both headsets make the same open-ear bet.

What comes in the box

The box carries the headset, a hard case, a USB data cable, the manual and the two pairs of cushions, and the headset itself comes in black only. The case is a hard shell, and the cable is a standard USB data cable. The case is the useful extra here.

Shokz OpenMeet, Black, No Adapter
78 grams · MultiPoint pairing on by default · Hard case included
Price: $119.95 $219.95 (save $100.00, 45% off)
Where to buy: Buy on Amazon

Buy the OpenMeet at $119.95 if your workday is a wall of calls and your ears are done with buds and cups by lunch. Skip it if your office is loud and you need isolation more than awareness, and look at the OpenComm2 instead if you’d rather pay more for a lighter band with an IP55 sweat rating.

At $119.95, this is the open-ear work headset priced like a desk tool rather than a novelty, which is exactly where it should have started.

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