
Every so often, one of the DIY brands goes rogue and makes something jobsite worthy, and I think the Ryobi Devour is one of those anomalies. (Full disclosure, I made a video about this—which I actually forgot about until I started writing this article—for the Home Depot last year).
Despite the fact that if you pull a pushbroom backwards instead of push it, it sends less dust airborne—it still sends dust airborne!
The Devour? It doesn’t. It contains the dust at the sweeper heads.


Its two 18-volt-powered, adjustable, bristly wheels gather debris into an easy-to-remove—and sealed—container. It sucks up debris-type stuff like drywall chunks and small wood scraps and it’s pretty darn thorough on fine powder like drywall dust and the spilled bag of thinset I tortured it on.
I guess it’s slow. But so is sweeping a room and wiping down surfaces over and over—or sending fine dust up Mrs. Jones' basement stairs into her kitchen while you finish her basement. So is dragging a shop vacuum around.

The tool collapses into a vertical configuration for easily hanging on a wall. If I had to do lots of sweeping jobs—especially indoor, like finishing basements or tile prep in a big kitchen or just cleaning up big rooms after drywall or paint—I’d give this approach a second look.
Tool ships bare. With battery and charger, it’s $292.