SonoPhone for Sonos 4+
Best experience on Sonos S1/S2
Stefan Hansel Solutions UG (haftungsbeschraenkt)
Designed for iPhone
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- £3.99
iPhone Screenshots
Description
Yes. There's a better way to control your Sonos system.
- Speeds up most common tasks (less taps)
- Cleaner, more stable and fast interface.
- Backward compatibility is king (we support Sonos S1 firmware and also iOS12 devices)
- Manage zones and music sources.
You control your Sonos. Not the other way around.
See the features in action on YouTube (https://youtu.be/aMEuaZPUH58) or read more below.
This application is a third party app and not endorsed by or associated with Sonos, Inc. (which is why it is not free)
◆◆◆ A new, intuitive and concise user interface ◆◆◆
SonoPhone is designed to leverage the latest iOS design principles:
- Tap or drag the player on the top and you'll find the players view to select a new player and with volume controls for all players. From here you can also enter Zone Management, where you can group and ungroup players with drag and drop.
- Tap or drag the Track infos on the bottom and you'll be at the big covers screen
- Drag the main menu from any place to the left or right to have instant access to playlist or shortcuts
- volume + progress popups: when changing volume or progress of a song, you get popups telling you the actual values. Stop guessing your desired values today!
◆◆◆ less taps for common tasks ◆◆◆
SonoPad tries to optimize most often used tasks to have the least taps needed. In the end you are able to navigate and control your players much more fluently.
- Touch To Play: are you sick of always beeing asked what to do when you tap a track or album? SonoPhone defaults to just starting an album or song. A long press still gives you access to all options - you can also change the tap default in the settings menu. Want to build a playlist fast? Just set the default to 'always add to end' and off you go ...
- tap an album cover image and the whole album starts to play immediately
- aggregated search: search results are collapsed into one view, so you see immediately in what category you have the best results, without switching back and forth
- shortcuts to most used functions: drag the main menu to the right to get shortcut buttons for artist, albums, radio and musicservices.
- you can control the volume of every player directly from the player selection screen. No need to switch players anymore.
◆◆◆ S1 and S2 devices in one app ◆◆◆◆
- If you still have old S1 devices, the time of always having to change apps is over. We simply display all existing players in the network in one list. Grouping is unfortunately not possible, this is prevented by Sonos.
◆◆◆ Limitations ◆◆◆
- all music services except YouTube Music are supported
- no support for administrative features (adding/removing players, music service, ...). You need the official Apps for initial setup of your system, SonoPad will pick up all changes automatically.
- no options to set alarms or sleep settings
- no playing of music stored on iPhone
- no support for discontinued WD100 dock
◆◆◆ Other stuff ◆◆◆
- Sonos is registered trademark of Sonos, Inc.
What’s New
Version 1.8.7
- fixes status updates on the main screen when playing SiriusXM
- fixed the detection of Sonos boxes, when running SonoPhone on latest MacOS Sequoia
- added icon for Sonos Arc Ultra
As always: If anything is not working as you expect don't hesitate to contact support@sonophone.net
Ratings and Reviews
Marvellous - makes Sonos Enjoyable and usable again
This is hands down a brilliant app. Using Sonos had become a miserable experience for me since the introduction of S2 and the new app, but using this is just amazing. All I want to do is play my music and go forward or back without the error messages and instability with the traditional Sonos app, and this does it beautifully. I dropped a star though for the UI experience which I think could be a bit more polished, but functionality wise on music play back, it’s superb.
Fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
After months of the system not working I persevered to get it working, not well but useable. Sonos did another update in September 2024 and it stopped the system working again. The Sonos app said I needed to download Sonos 2 so off we go to the App Store and top of the list was this app! I sat there and thought Sonos are special but I doubted any other app could get anywhere close to being as bad as Sonos’s apps.
£3.99, I paid the money and downloaded it and expected to spend an hour setting it up. Well I opened up the your app and it INSTANTLY WORKED FLAWLESSLY no setup, responsive and fast. Volume works perfectly,
an excellent app. My advice to Sonos owners, download this app immediately and forget Sonos apps.
Much better than the updated Sonos App
After the disastrous May24 Sonos App update that removed so much basic functionality it was such a relief to find this App on the AppStore. I can now add to queue, edit queue, browse services, etc.
The interface is much more intuitive than the Sonos App and response times seem faster too. All my devices and existing queues and playlists were found and available a few minutes after running the app the first time.
No alarms or sleep timers but I didn’t use them much from the Sonos app so no issues for me.
Maybe it was a good thing the May24 Sonos update was so bad otherwise I’d not have found Sonophone.
App Privacy
The developer, Stefan Hansel Solutions UG (haftungsbeschraenkt), indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- User Content
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Provider
- Stefan Hansel Solutions UG (haftungsbeschraenkt)
- Size
- 22.3 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 12.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Danish, Dutch, German
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Stefan Hansel Solutions UG (HB)
- Price
- £3.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.