Endy Mattress Review (2020)

Comfort & Feel

There are three aspects that make up our assessment of comfort and feel. We call these "preference-based characteristics" because no rating here is better or worse – rather, the attributes that are most desirable to you will be determined solely by your personal preferences. We apply the same classification standards to each mattress so you can more easily compare apples to apples.

Softness ( what’s this )

Keep in mind that what mattress companies call “firm” or “soft” is a purely a preference. All mattresses should be supportive and promote healthy spinal alignment. Whether a mattress is fluffy and squishy (what mattress companies call soft or plush), or less so (what companies call firm), is purely down to your personal needs and preferences.

We classify the Endy mattress as a straight-up Medium in terms of softness overall, right in the middle.

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Cushioning Depth ( what’s this )

This refers to how deeply you sink into the mattress or feel cradled or hugged, versus a feeling of floating on top of the bed. We found the Endy mattress again to be in the middle-of-the-road between the two poles, with maybe just a hair towards the shallower end of medium.

Responsiveness ( what’s this )

We use the term "responsiveness" to indicate two aspects of a mattress--memory feel and bounce. Generally, it refers to how quickly a mattress recovers its shape after being compressed. When you press your hand into the mattress, for instance, then remove it, does it take several seconds for the mattress to return to flat, or does it recover immediately?

The Endy mattress does not contain any memory foam, so it really does not have any of that recognizable memory-foam feel, where after compressed, your hand print takes several seconds to disappear (some describe this as a slow, melting into the mattress feeling). Rather, the Endy mattress recovers its shape quickly; not as quickly as an innerspring mattress might do, but definitely a lot faster than what you’d associate with memory foam.

This also translates to bounce, which we test in two ways. When we dropped our 16-lb. bowling ball in the mattress, it bounced a little bit, and when our tester dropped his weight onto the bed, he did not bounce at all. For a foam mattress, the Endy does have a little mid-level bounce, which some couples prefer.

Back Support & Pressure Relief

The two things that you should always be sure to get from your mattress are spinal alignment (commonly thought of as "back support") and pressure relief. Unfortunately, no mattress will deliver these two things equally well for all sleepers. In particular, spinal alignment and pressure relief capabilities will vary across sleepers with different weights, body shapes, and sleep positions. To help you determine how this mattress will perform for you, we break down our spinal alignment and pressure relief assessments by sleeper type.

In our evaluations, the Endy mattresses afforded very good support for back sleepers, and would be suitable for a broad range and sizes of people.

The Endy was also good in our view for lighter weight stomach sleepers -- maybe less than about 200 lbs. For heavier people, we questioned whether hips might sink into the mattress’s soft top layers too deeply, bottoming out on the firmer support layer.

We thought it might be find for certain, but not all, side sleepers. Our 200 lb. tester felt that his shoulders didn’t sink quite deeply enough into the mattress as he would have liked, and he felt the mattress’s support layer sort of pushing back up.  In the end, we thought the Endy could be fine for those who occasionally sleep on their sides, especially those of average weight.

Spinal Alignment

The key to good back support is maintaining proper spinal alignment while you sleep. This means that the mattress should hold your spine in roughly the same position it's in when you're standing. The ability of a given mattress to do this will generally depend on your weight, sleep position, and body shape.

Here is how we break down the spinal alignment of the Endy mattress:

Back Sleepers:

While our tester was on his back, he noted that his hips sank just deeply enough to create a perfectly neutral spine, while he felt the mattress did a nice job reaching up to support his lumbar curve. We feel that sleepers of a wide weight range would have a similar experience in this position on the Endy mattress.

Side Sleepers:

Side sleeping was not ideal for our tester. While he didn’t experience any pain or pressure, his shoulders did not sink as deeply as he would have liked. While the Endy will probably be just fine for those who only sleep occasionally on their sides, we especially question how supported heavier and also lighter might be; heavier people might sink through to the firm support layer of the mattress while lighter people might not compress the foam layers much at all.

Stomach Sleepers:

Achieving good spinal alignment for stomach sleepers can often be trickier as the hips can tend to sink down too far with some mattresses, but our tester felt okay in this position, but we did question whether those over 200 lbs. would experience the same support, and suspect that hips might sink far enough to create less than ideal spinal alignment.

Pressure Relief

Other Features

Beyond the preference-based characteristics of comfort and feel, and the body matching for spinal alignment and pressure relief, a mattress will have a number of other attributes that can make it a better or worse choice for you. We call these "priority-based characteristics" because they are areas in which a mattress can be better or worse, but that will have differing amounts of importance to each sleeper. So, determining how much importance to give to these features will be entirely a matter of your own personal priorities. As always, we apply the same ratings standards to each mattress so you can more easily compare apples to apples.

Motion Isolation (what’s this)

With a bowling pin standing upright on the Endy bed, we tested motion isolation by dropping a 16-lb. bowling ball on it, as well as the whole weight of our 200-lb. tester.

In both tests, the pin barely moved at all. For that reason, we felt that this mattress would be an excellent choice for couples who don’t want to feel their partner getting in and out of bed.

Temperature ( what’s this )

For most people, we do not think the Endy mattress will feel hot. The top two layers appear to be less dense foams, which should have better airflow than denser materials. Also, you don't sink super deeply into the bed, nor does it have a heavily quilted cover. That means more of your body is exposed to air.

If overheating in bed is an issue for you, and you’ve experienced it with other mattresses, other models have features that are specifically intended to address this, but for most we don’t expect heat to be a problem with the Endy bed.

Edge Support ( what’s this )

Foam mattresses aren’t typically very supportive along the very edge of the mattress—important if you like to sit on the edge of the bed, or if you tend to sleep along the edge. But the Endy mattress surprised us.

When laying on the very edge of the mattress, our tester felt stable, and not at all like he was leaning or sliding off.

Ease of Repositioning ( what’s this )

If you tend to move and change positions a lot over the course of a night, ease of repositioning will be a priority for you. Our tester did experience any problems. The bed has no deep quilting or super-squishy foam that could impede movement.

Green Features ( what’s this )

For mattress shoppers concerned with the use of natural materials, sustainable manufacturing practices or the like, we offer our subjective evaluation of any efforts taken by the company to make the mattress more green, healthy, or safe. 

For the Endy mattress, the company makes no claims about the use of natural materials.

All of the foams are petroleum-based, but they are certified to the CertiPUR-US standard, which verifies that a material has low VOC off-gassing as well as a lack of chemicals and other substances regulated by the CPSC. This is a fairly standard certification these days that we see on almost all mainstream brands. What's less common is that the entire Endy mattress has received Greenguard Gold certification, a stricter level of assurance that the mattress is safe for the most sensitive environments, like child-care centers and hospitals. Another less common certification attained by Endy is the OEKO-Tex Standard 100, a materials certification that ensures the absence of chemicals harmful to healthy.

We also gave the Endy mattress a ‘sniff test’ when we first unpacked, and it definitely had a 'new mattress smell' that seemed a little stronger than average to our nose. The smell dissipates over time and exposure to the air.

Adjustable Base Compatibility ( what’s this )

We tested the Endy mattress on our standard adjustable bed frame. The mattress is certainly safe to use on such a base -- it won't damage the mattress at all. But we did notice that the Endy didn't conform terribly well to the base when in its fully bent position; the foot of the mattress lifted up, and when our tester got off the mattress, it wanted to pop back up.

We would expect these conformance issues to improve over time, however, as the mattress breaks in a bit.

Price, Value & Longevity

What Does the Endy Cost?

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