Purple RestorePlus Hybrid  Mattress Review

The Purple RestorePlus Hybrid is 13.1" tall, so you can use standard fitted sheets. This bed-in-a-box lacks handles and is quite heavy (147 lbs, according to Purple's specifications for the Queen-sized variant). During testing, it sometimes required three people to move and lift, so you might need some help setting it up.

This 'Medium' mattress is a good option for average-weight and heavier side sleepers as well as lighter back and stomach sleepers. It's not supportive enough for average-weight and heavier back/stomach sleepers, while it'll create uncomfortable pressure for lighter side sleepers.

Like the all-foam Purple Mattress, its construction, particularly its Gel-Flex Grid, affects how it feels depending on your weight. The grid's squares collapse easily, but lighter people won't apply enough pressure for it to buckle, resulting in great support for people in that weight category. People in the average- and heavier-weight categories who cause it to buckle and sink into the polyfoam layer below will perceive it as much softer and much less supportive. Some mattresses with a similar 'Medium' feel, like the Brooklyn Bedding Signature Hybrid and the Casper Snow, offer significantly better support for people in the average- and heavier-weight categories.

This 'Medium' mattress offers fantastic body conformity for heavier people and excellent body conformity for people in the average-weight category. If you're a side sleeper, your shoulder will sink in enough for comfortable side sleeping. However, its body conformity for lighter people is poor, and it'll create uncomfortable pressure for lighter side sleepers.

This mattress is most supportive for lighter people, as it helps keep your spine aligned if you sleep on your back or stomach. However, it only offers mediocre support for heavier people and disappointing support for average-weight people. It's not a good option for back or stomach sleepers in those weight categories. While it's normal for a mattress to be less supportive for heavier people than for lighter people, it's not always such a significant difference. The Purple's grid becomes quite stiff once you lie on it, and it collapses. Lighter people won't cause it to buckle, so it helps add support, but average-weight and heavier people will sink into the polyfoam layer below.

This mattress has a good amount of bounce. The springy grid layer and bouncy pocket coil layer help give it a lively feel that makes it feel easy to move around in your sleep.

The 'Gel-Flex Grid' upper comfort layer collapses when you lie on it, and it contours around you quite closely. The lighter parts of your body won't sink in very much, and it doesn't have an enveloping feel, but the grid is highly contouring, which helps with pressure relief.

It's an extremely responsive mattress. The grid layer responds very quickly when you move, which makes it feel easy to change sleeping positions.

This mattress has a great motion isolation performance, so you won't feel every little movement your partner makes. You'll feel larger movements near the source, so when your partner rolls over, you'll feel it in the lumbar area. However, it does a fantastic job of keeping motion localized, so you won't feel it all over the mattress. Motion also dissipates quickly, making it less likely to wake you.

It has great edge support. The sides of the mattress are reinforced with polyfoam and coils, and while you'll sink into the bed a bit when you sit on the edge, it doesn't form much of a ramp outward, so you won't feel like you're about to slide off.

This mattress has outstanding cooling. It feels cool when you first get into bed and dissipates an exceptional amount of heat over an eight-hour night, performing even better than the all-foam Purple Mattress, which is itself exceptionally cooling. The unique grid-shaped comfort layer allows heat to dissipate more quickly than solid foam, making it a good option for hot sleepers, especially if heat often disturbs your sleep.

The results for the Purple RestorePlus are off the charts, as you can see above. We've also created a graph with a modified Y-axis, so you can see its performance over the entire eight hours.

The mattress cover is made of polyester (97%) and elastane (3%). It's removable, but not machine-washable.

The left and right sides of the mattress's support layer are reinforced with tightly wound 16-gauge coils. There's also firm polyfoam along the edges of its upper comfort layer. These components help give it its great edge support.

Purple's GelFlex Grid makes up the upper comfort layer. This grid of springy plastic sits above a transition layer of polyfoam, making the mattress particularly responsive and allowing a lot of airflow, which helps with cooling.

The transition layer is made of good-quality polyfoam, which will resist sagging for longer than less dense, lower-quality foams. The polymer grid is very dense, but density isn't a good indicator of durability for elastomeric polymers. Other factors, like chemical composition, cross-linking, and fillers used, are more important in determining how long it'll last.

The GelFlex Grid makes up the upper comfort layer. It's 7.1 cm (2.8") thick, and it collapses easily when you lie on it, which adds contouring and helps with pressure relief. This layer is thicker than the Purple Mattress's grid layer, which helps explain the RestorePlus's better body conformity for most people. The transition layer has medium firmness. Not everyone will interact with it, as lighter people won't cause the grid layer to buckle and sink into the polyfoam layer. However, if you do, it allows you to sink in a little more and prevents you from feeling the individual springs below.

The 13-gauge pocket coils make up the mattress's support layer. They're zoned, with a much firmer feel in the lumbar area, which is intended to help support your hips and lower back. There are also tightly wound 16-gauge coils along the left and right sides of the spring layer for edge support.

The GelFlex Grid has medium firmness, but doesn't behave like foam. The grid's squares easily collapse when you lie on it, and it becomes much stiffer once collapsed. The transition layer of polyfoam has medium firmness and allows average-weight and heavier people to sink in a little more than the GelFlex Grid's 7.1 cm (2.8") thickness.

The spring layer is zoned, and there's a significant difference in firmness between the lumbar and head/foot areas. The coils are very firm in the lumbar area, which helps add more support for heavier parts of your body like your hips. They're much softer at the head/foot of the mattress, with a medium feel.

The polyfoam transition layer has low resilience, so it has very little bounce and doesn't have a lot of 'push back.' While the shape of the elastic polymer grid doesn't allow us to test its resilience the way we do with foams, it has a springy feel. This helps give the mattress its very responsive overall feel.

The springs have a lot of bounce, which helps give the mattress a bouncy feel overall, making it feel easy to move around on.