The invention relates to a dryer, comprising a clothes-drying chamber, a heating element and an exhaust apparatus. The heating element is arranged on a bottom plate with air inlet holes at the bottom of the clothes-drying chamber, and the exhaust apparatus is arranged at the top of the clothes-drying chamber. The invention solves the problems of the wearing of the dried clothes existing in traditional tumbler dryers and the low drying efficiency and the high energy consumption generally existing in the traditional dryers. The dryer has the advantages of energy saving and electricity saving, high clothes-drying speed, favorable clothes-drying effect and the like and has the functions of storing and ironing clothes, and the like.