The Shark Pet/Rocket Pro Cordless is a basic cordless stick vacuum. It's an entry-level bagless model with few features. It has manual suction power controls, allowing you to switch between two power levels. You can also choose between two floor surface settings, which will speed up the brushroll on carpet or slow it down on bare floors.
It's worth noting that this vacuum has many variants, which differ in included attachments, accessories, colorways, and can even exhibit slight design differences. You can look at the Differences Between Variants section of the review for further information.
Our Verdict
The Shark Rocket Pro is a reasonable choice for a house. It's ideal for homes with bare floors and pets, as this vacuum does a great job of clearing debris of all sizes on hard surfaces and easily removes pet hair from carpets. Carpet pick-up performance itself isn't quite as strong, though, as it struggles to lift heavier debris from the carpet fibers. Its runtime is sufficient to clean fairly large areas of your home on a single charge or handle a couple of heavier messes. It's sturdy enough, with adequate build quality. However, this vacuum's filter is awful, and it blows fine dust out into the air and all over your room. Also, emptying the bagless dirt compartment releases a cloud of dust, so it's recommended to empty this well away from living areas.
Outstanding pet hair pick up performance on carpet.
Great debris pickup on bare floors.
Has trouble lifting fine material out of carpet or cracks due to low suction.
- Does a terrible job of sealing in allergens.
Emptying the dirt compartment creates a cloud of dust.
The Shark Rocket Pro is an adequate option for a small apartment. This compact stick vacuum is easy to store in a small space. In terms of performance, it's great on hard floors since its brushroll opening is high enough to suck in fine, medium, and large debris, and it's outstanding on pet hair, where the brushroll offers plenty of agitation to snag nearly everything. It's decent on carpet, picking up most medium and large materials, though it struggles to pick up fine debris deeply embedded in the carpet due to its low suction. Unfortunately, the biggest problem you'll encounter with this vacuum in a small apartment is its terrible impact on air quality. Its filter is ineffective for fine particles, blowing them out into the air and onto every surface. Additionally, its bagless design means that you create a cloud of dust when emptying the dirt compartment; it's best to empty it outdoors as a result.
Outstanding pet hair pick up performance on carpet.
Great debris pickup on bare floors.
Has trouble lifting fine material out of carpet or cracks due to low suction.
- Does a terrible job of sealing in allergens.
Emptying the dirt compartment creates a cloud of dust.
The Shark Rocket Pro is a good choice for cleaning stairs. It's lightweight and cordless, so you can easily pick it up and carry it up and down long staircases without tripping over a power cord or worrying about reaching the nearest outlet. It delivers decent performance on bare floors and adequate performance on carpet, though it tends to miss deeply embedded fine material. If you have pets, it does a fantastic job picking up pet hair from carpeted stairs. However, its filter is so ineffective that you'll end up blowing fine particles out of the exhaust and into the confined space of a stairwell. Additionally, you should empty it well away from these areas, as you'll release a cloud of dust.
Cordless design makes it easy to use on stairs.
Outstanding pet hair pick up performance on carpet.
Great debris pickup on bare floors.
- Does a terrible job of sealing in allergens.
The Shark Rocket Pro is an acceptable choice for cleaning your car. Its portable, cordless design ensures that you don't need to stay close to a power outlet to reach every inch of your car's interior. It comes with a crevice tool and a combination hard-bristle brush/upholstery nozzle to deal with messes in tight corners or on seats. It's well-built to last through the work, easy to store when you're done, and reasonably easy to clean and maintain. It offers decent performance on low-pile automotive carpet, and its upholstery tool is quite effective at removing pet hair. However, it lacks suction to lift deeply embedded fine debris.
Upholstery tool is highly effective with pet hair on furniture.
Converts to handheld for tight spaces.
Has trouble lifting fine material out of carpet or cracks due to low suction.
Lacks turbo brush for cleaning carpet and fabrics.
The Shark Rocket Pro is decent for cleaning bare floors. It's not especially powerful, but it still manages to clear away a wide variety of debris types on hard, flat surfaces like hardwood or vinyl. However, it can struggle with debris wedged in cracks and crevices. While the floorhead has a high enough opening to draw in medium and large materials, some medium debris can get trapped in the floorhead and fall out when you pick up the vacuum.
Great debris pickup on bare floors.
Openings in floorhead large enough for medium and large material.
Has trouble lifting fine material out of carpet or cracks due to low suction.
- Debris can get stuck at floorhead.
The Shark Rocket Pro offers adequate pickup performance on carpet. The floorhead has a large enough front opening, and the agitation is high enough to effectively deal with medium- to large-sized debris on carpet. However, it leaves fine material behind due to its lack of suction, especially on high-pile carpets.
Openings in floorhead large enough for medium and large material.
Brushroll has high agitation to effectively pick up medium and large debris.
Has trouble lifting fine material out of carpet or cracks due to low suction.
The Shark Rocket Pro offers outstanding pet hair pickup. Its brushroll configuration is ideal for lifting pet hair out of carpet, with agitation high enough to pick up almost every strand with one pass. On furniture, it does a great job collecting pet hair with its upholstery tool, even at its standard suction power setting.
Outstanding pet hair pick up performance on carpet.
Brushroll has high agitation to effectively pick up pet hair.
Upholstery tool is highly effective with pet hair on furniture.
The Shark Rocket Pro has an awful impact on air quality. Its filter doesn't really trap fine particles and blows them right out its exhaust. When you empty the debris that remains in the bagless dirt compartment, it creates a cloud of dust, which will settle throughout the room.
- Does a terrible job of sealing in allergens.
Emptying the dirt compartment creates a cloud of dust.
Performance Usages
Changelog
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Updated Feb 02, 2026:
We corrected the hose diameter, adjusted the affected usage scores, and changed the explanatory text.
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Updated Jan 16, 2026:
We added text to this review for the new tests added in Test Bench 1.4, as well as the new verdicts.
- Updated Jan 16, 2026: We've updated this review to the latest test bench, adding Runtime, Mobility, Air Quality, and Mopping Capabilities sections, as well as a Swappable Battery test. See the Vacuum Test Bench 1.4 changelog.
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Updated Feb 19, 2025:
We've included a link to the Wyze Cordless Vacuum S in the User Maintenance section of the review to provide an alternative that's easier to maintain.
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Differences Between Sizes And Variants
The multiple variants of this vacuum differ only in terms of regional availability, color, and floorhead design. We tested the IX141 variant, and you can see its label here.
| Model Code | Included Tools | Self-Cleaning Floorhead | Color | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IX141 | Crevice tool, Upholstery nozzle, Dusting brush | No | Blue | |
| IX140/IX140C | Crevice tool, Dusting brush | No | Orange | IX140C is the Canadian market designation |
| IX144AMZ | Crevice tool, Dusting brush | No | Mojito green | |
| IZ142 | Crevice tool, Dusting brush | Yes | Orange | |
| IZ140/IZ140C | Crevice tool, Upholstery nozzle, Dusting brush | Yes | Green | IZ140C is the Canadian market designation |
Let us know in the comments if you encounter another variant of this vacuum we missed.
Popular Vacuum Comparisons
The Shark Rocket Pro is a basic cordless stick vacuum. It sits below newer, pricier, and more feature-packed Shark stick vacuums like the Shark Cordless Pet Plus, Shark Vertex Lightweight Cordless, and Shark Stratos Cordless. It's missing many features that have become commonplace, and lacks automatic power adjustment, a self-cleaning floorhead, a folding wand, and a bundled HEPA filter. In this regard, the budget-oriented Wyze Cordless Vacuum S offers true HEPA filtration, while the now entry-level Dyson V8 also boasts significantly better filtration. Nevertheless, it still delivers strong overall debris-pickup performance on various surfaces and is decently maneuverable. It excels at picking up pet hair, with its bristled brushroll providing enough agitation to remove almost every single strand from the carpet. But its filtration performance is terrible, so allergy sufferers should look elsewhere.
If you're looking for an alternative, check out our list of recommendations for the best cordless stick vacuums, the best cordless vacuums, and the best cordless vacuums for pet hair.
The Dyson V8 is better than the Shark Cordless Pet IX141. The Dyson is easier to maintain, incurs virtually zero recurring costs, weighs less, is more maneuverable, has a wider array of attachments, and has a more powerful suction motor. Conversely, the Shark has a bigger dustbin and offers a similar 40-minute battery life while recharging in less time.
The Shark Rocket Pet Pro is superior to the Shark Cordless Pet IX141, although both vacuums share similarities. The Rocket Pet Pro has all of the same features as the latter but with a self-cleaning brushroll, an allergen-trapping HEPA filter, and an easily removable and replaceable battery.
The Dyson V7 and Shark Cordless Pet IX141 each have their advantages. The Dyson is easier to maintain thanks to its removable brushroll, weighs noticeably less, is easier to maneuver, and does a better job of filtering out allergens thanks to its HEPA filter. Meanwhile, the Shark performs better at cleaning carpeted floors, has a larger dustbin, and offers a marginally longer battery life.
The Shark Cordless Pet Plus IZ361H is better than the Shark Cordless Pet IX141. The Pet Plus is effectively an upgraded version of the Rocket Pro, featuring a higher-capacity, easily removable battery pack, a HEPA filter, and a self-cleaning brushroll. However, both vacuums are otherwise identical.
Test Results
The Shark Rocket Pro offers very good performance on hard floors. While it easily clears most debris types, its floorhead tends to trap some medium-sized debris, like rice, causing a mess when you lift it.
This Shark Rocket Pro's performance on high-pile carpet is okay. It leaves a small amount of large debris, like cereal, and medium-sized material, like rice, especially along walls. It really struggles with finer materials, like sand that has been thoroughly embedded in the carpet fibers.
This Shark Rocket Pro performs decently on low-pile carpets. While it can clear away most medium- and large-sized debris, it isn't as successful with finer materials like sand that's deeply embedded in carpet fibers or stuck along walls.
The Shark Rocket Pro delivers exceptional pet hair pick-up performance. Its brushroll can thoroughly agitate carpet fibers to remove hair, so it only requires a single pass to handle pet hair.
This vacuum does a great job of removing pet hair from furniture, even when used at its standard suction power setting. Its upholstery tool effectively collects pet hair on fabric, though the vacuum's relatively bulky design makes it a nuisance to use for extended periods.
This vacuum does a poor job of cleaning cracks and crevices. It lacks the suction power to lift debris stuck in cracks when using its floorhead. Even using it in its higher-power MAX suction mode does little to improve performance in this respect. You can see a video of the vacuum cleaning crevices in its MAX power mode and the outcome of that test.
The build quality is alright. It feels similar to similarly designed Shark stick vacuums, like the Shark Cordless Pet Plus. It's made mostly from plastic but features an aluminum wand. It feels relatively sturdy for the most part, though its clear plastic dirt compartment is a tad fragile. Thankfully, it's very easy to disassemble and reassemble, with most components attaching via easy-clip mechanisms and featuring visible latch buttons for easy disassembly.
- Vacuum motor unit/body
- Vacuum head
- Vacuum wand
- Brushroll cover
- Dirt compartment
- Felt pre-motor filter (with pink tab)
- Foam pre-motor filter
- Post-motor filter
- Recharge cable
- Crevice tool
- Upholstery tool (not included with IX140, IX144AMZ , and IZ142 variants)
- Dusting brush
- User guide
It isn't a difficult vacuum to stow away when not in use. Like Shark's other stick vacuums, you can detach the main body/dustbin assembly from the wand and stow it in a slot just above its floorhead to minimize its vertical footprint. Unfortunately, there's no rack or onboard storage for the included attachments, so you'll have to find an alternative place to store them.
The Shark Rocket Pro has a relatively large dirt compartment for a stick vacuum. It's mounted parallel to the wand, allowing for a larger overall capacity than alternatives with vertically oriented dustbins, like the Dyson V8.
In its Barefloor surface setting with no attachments, you can expect a nearly 40-minute runtime, which is less than that of newer Shark vacuums with higher-capacity 2450 mAh battery packs. In its most power-hungry configuration, with the MAX power trigger depressed, the floorhead attached and set to its faster-spinning Carpet setting, battery life drops to just under 15 minutes, which doesn't leave you much time to deal with stubborn messes.
You can keep tabs on the remaining runtime via the trio of LED indicator lights on the battery, which turn off one by one as the charge level decreases. When you have depleted the battery, you'll find recharge time is on the good side compared to other vacuums.
Unlike the pricier Shark Cordless Pet Plus, its battery isn't easily removable; instead of the press of a latch, you'll need to remove four Philips-head screws to remove the battery cover and access the pack. Thankfully, you can still buy a replacement pack if its performance degrades over time.
This vacuum has several components that require regular cleaning.
- Dirt compartment/Lint screen: The dirt compartment can be easily removed by pressing the release button located on the spine of the vacuum's main body. From there, you can lever it out of its socket. If you don't want to remove the dustbin entirely and just want to empty it, you can press down on the trash bin lever to open its bottom door; just make sure to do so when you're hovering over the trash, as any accumulated debris spills out quickly. The lint screen inside the dustbin isn't removable and tends to collect a lot of hair, which is something to watch out for if you have a long-haired pet that sheds heavily.
- Brushroll: Unlike most other new Shark vacuums, this model doesn't use the brand's self-cleaning PowerFins brushroll design, instead opting for a more basic bristled roller. As such, pet hair tends to get wrapped around it easily and tightly. Worse yet, it shares a common downside with other Shark vacuums in that this component isn't removable, so you'll need to work within the constraints of the floorhead itself. Pulling out any long strands of hair that may have become wrapped around the roller can take quite a bit of time, so it's easier to clear out any tangled hair with scissors.
- Pre-motor filter: The foam and felt pre-motor filters are stacked on top of one another in a slot at the top of the dustbin. You should regularly rinse both to maintain suction power and wash them with cold water and soap once a month.
- Post-motor filter: The post-motor filter is located inside the main body of the vacuum, just ahead of the grip. To access it, you'll need to remove the dustbin. You should wash this part once a year with cold water.
Any part rinsed under water should dry completely before being reinstalled in the vacuum.
If you're looking for a vacuum that requires less maintenance, consider the Wyze Cordless Vacuum S.
Recurring costs are very low.
- Pre-motor filters: The foam and felt pre-motor filters won't need replacing if they're well-maintained. However, you can purchase them as a single set from Shark's website if necessary.
- Post-motor filter: The post-motor filter isn't listed as a replaceable wear item, but you can still purchase a replacement from Shark's website if needed.
You can also buy a replacement lithium-ion fixed battery from Shark's website.
This vacuum has a couple of quality-of-life features. The slider on top of the grab handle allows you to switch between Hard Floor and Carpet modes, which decrease and increase the rotational speed of the brushroll, respectively. However, since there's no height adjustment, its floorhead can still get dogged down in thick carpeting. Pulling and holding the trigger inside the handle activates the vacuum's MAX power setting for cleaning stubborn debris.
This vacuum is fairly portable. At a weight of just over seven pounds, it's noticeably heavier than contemporaries like the Samsung Jet 60, but much lighter than other Shark stick vacuums, like the Shark Vertex Pro Lightweight, which features a more complex dual-roller floorhead, as well as a heavier folding wand.
This vacuum has decent maneuverability. It's easy to adjust power and floor type settings on the go or to detach and reattach different tools. However, unlike the pricier Shark Vertex Pro Lightweight, it lacks a flexible wand, making cleaning under tables and chairs significantly easier. Its floorhead also doesn't pivot flat to clean under tables and chairs, but its bottom-mounted dustbin would get in the way even if it did. It also gets stuck on carpet tassels and thick rugs, requiring you to turn the vacuum off to free it.
This is a cordless vacuum, so the range is limited only by the remaining battery life.
This vacuum has a terrible impact on air quality. The filter does an awful job of trapping dust particles, and within a few seconds of loading the filter, it stops holding them back entirely and blows all particles right out its exhaust.
As with nearly all bagless vacuums, emptying this one has a negative impact on air quality. Even if you empty this deep into a disposal bag, it'll be impossible to contain all the dust. It's best to empty this outdoors if you can, or away from any living spaces.
This vacuum has bad real-world suction performance. While it has the same motor as other Shark vacuums, like the Shark Cordless Pet Plus, its floorhead doesn't generate as tight a seal with the ground. Regardless, its floorhead delivers sufficient surface agitation to allow it to draw up most kinds of debris, which does help offset its limited power output.
This vacuum's airflow performance is mediocre. It can't generate as much air movement as newer, pricier Shark vacuums, like the Shark Stratos Cordless, and has a little more difficulty dealing with heavier debris.
It's a very quiet vacuum. Even with its MAX power trigger pulled and the brushroll spinning faster in its Carpet surface setting, you can still hear and understand nearby conversations spoken at a relatively normal volume.
