This works well to make smoothies. I’ve only made a few so far. It’s not as powerful as my old blender but don’t really have any complaints as long as it purées nicely. It does take some time to get the frozen fruits to fall into the liquid and I had to stop and jiggle & shake the cup to get it moving once when it was stuck but think that’s my fault for not realizing I put the non-frozen fruit in the cup first where it would be at the top instead of closer to the blade. That made it difficult for the frozen to be next to the blade first, even with liquid in the cup.