SonoPhone for Sonos

I only downloaded this just now for the sleep timer. I’d downloaded fast. Yippee! I don’t need to set up an account or anything fiddly to get it to work. Yip Yip. But no sleep timer when it’s such a common complaint of the new Sonos interface and (seemingly) easy to integrate? Waaaaah. Please add it. But huge thanks for your work here.

Barebones app, does the needful. This app installed quickly, and found my 16 sonos devices within about one second. No fluff, no extraneous stuff. Speakers, zones and groups, and media selection; all quick, simple and easy.

As other reviewers have posted, I’ve been so frustrated with Sonos and their disaster app “upgrade” from March 2024, that basically rendered my whole home system with multiple Sonos amps and speakers unusable (nothing kills the mood like a sudden change in volume or loss of sound altogether!). This app worked instantly! It recognized all my equipment and my music sources, I didn’t have to do anything. I have music again! THANK YOU!

I have been an IPhone user since 2008 (3G) and a Sonos user since late 2005. I have downloaded several hundred apps in that time and I have owned about 40 pieces of Sonos equipment (S1 and S2 combined). When Sonos forced their updated app on its users a few months ago I became one of the angry and frustrated customers who HATED Sonos for taking a perfectly fine app that worked and replacing it with an app that has far less functionality and only partially works. Then I was fortunate to find an alternative that works perfectly and restores the features that went away from the Sonos app a few months ago. I LOVE LOVE LOVE Sonophone!! It now occupies the prominent space on my first page that the Sonos app occupied for nearly two decades. And that is not going to change even if and when Sonos fixes their horrible app. So my first app review is now in the history books. 😃

The SonoPhone app is incredible and everything the Sonos 2 app should be and is not. The simple interface is what I like the best. It also does not make my music lag and disappear like the Sonos app does. You hit a home run! A thankful SonoPhone App user.

As with the vast majority of people who have invested a large sum of money into a Sonos system, when Sonos upgraded their app a while back, it was such a massive failure that I couldn’t even use my system. I spent countless hours trying to reboot and perform diagnostics and then wait for customer service to no avail. I was online reading through the long winded rants from countless other Sonos customers like myself when I stumbled across an article that lead me to this app. I had very low expectations for this app, but I was desperate. It’s not the most aesthetically pleasing, but it functions a million times better than the actual Sonos app. Total life saver. I can spend time listening to my music vs rebooting and sitting on the phone with Sonos tech support as they guide me through the same useless steps over and over!

This app just works. It’s a bit old-school UX-wise, but I hear there’s some improvements on the way. And to the dev - love the screenshot & line about “you control your sonos, not the other way around” - touché!

You did what the entire Sonos Corporation had me thinking was IMPOSSIBLE! You gave me a way to control my Sonos System without having an aneurism every 5 minutes! Thank you! I sometimes compare this app to controlling my music on the Sonos app and I laugh so hard. While the Sonos app is still displaying a song that played 20 minutes ago and is basically useless, SonoPhone is effortlessly displaying the correct song, is loaded to the correct part of the song that is playing, and allows me to change the song if I want. If you told me 10 years ago that these basic features are things I would one day pray for, I’d be flabbergasted but here we are. I can’t thank you enough for giving me the ability to still use my Sonos system in my house that I’ve had for 15+ years. I do not exaggerate when I say - I thought I was going to have to sell/ donate my system. It’s been almost 5 months and the Sonos app still hardly functions. Thank you a million times over!! Best $2.99 I have ever spent in my entire life.

I went from Xfinity to GloFiber network. The Sonos app found none of my devices. It told me I needed to factory reset every device. I was frustrated. Found some great comments about this app and purchased it. Opened it and everything was there with zero issues. Thank you!!!

I invested heavily in Sonos when it was targeted at audio freaks with massive local music libraries. The Sonos app walks back from that audience with every release. I get it - but I was in love with streaming platforms alone, the HomePod would’ve been my play. This app saves Sonos. The browsing experience for a native digital library is on fire, with UX that mirrors the categorization I’ve spent years cultivating. Love live this app.