SonoPhone for Sonos Reviews

SonoPhone for Sonos Reviews

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About: Finally there is an improved controller App for Sonos available on your iPhone
or iPod Touch! Even still supporting iPod Touch 5th Gen and iPhone 4S! Watch
on YouTube (http://youtu.be/rvp4QinakL0) or read below about - a new
intuitive and concise user interface - less taps for common tasks - home
automation integration - and current limitions (don't skip them ;) ) or come
over to my homepage www.


About SonoPhone


- 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.

- volume + progress popups: when changing volume or progress of a song, you get popups telling you the actual values.

- 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.

- 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.

In the end you are able to navigate and control your players much more fluently.

A long press still gives you access to all options - you can also change the tap default in the settings menu.

No need to switch players anymore.

- you can start SonoPhone with the 'sonophone://' URL from other remote Apps.

Its also possible to hand over a return URL, then a new icon is displayed to return to the automation App.

SonoPad tries to optimize most often used tasks to have the least taps needed.

or come over to my homepage with much more information and screenshots available.

This application is not endorsed by or associated with Sonos, Inc.


         


Overall User Satisfaction Rating


Positive experience
62.6%

Negative experience
37.4%

Neutral
31.4%

~ from Justuseapp.com NLP analysis of 26 combined software reviews.

20 SonoPhone Reviews

4.0 out of 5

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Feature request and great personal music library search

The thing I love the most about this Sonos controller is its powerful music library search. I do a keyword search and it gives me almost instantly the albums and tracks that have that contain that word. I have my cd library on a network attached storage (NAS) device. Otherwise, SonoPhone is functionally a largely a complete replacement of the Sonos provided controller.

I have a feature request. The Pandora app allows you to swipe back and replay previously played songs. The Sonos app does not offer that, so I would like to request that in this app. Also, it would be great to have an option to see only the album art and music controls without the menus for SonoPhone . I would argue music lovers also have aesthetic sensitivity (care how things look, too). Because of the less attractive appearance of SonoPhone , for now, I will stick with the glacially, marginally improving Sonos maker’s controller.

Thanks for a great app!


By


IT WORKS

Right there, five stars. If you’ve been frustrated/horrified that the primary Sonos app has been turned into a sleazy data-collection privacy nightmare, this is pretty much the only sane alternative now: no “sonos account” to set up, no horrific “we track every click you make and song you play, even from your home collection” terms of service to agree to, no “hey plug in an always-on microphone” cash grab.

In an ideal world, it’d be optimized for larger-screen iPhones, but whatever: it works, and it’s let me continue to use my sonos system without having to surrender my privacy. A million thanks.


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Like seeing a number for volume level

I mostly got this to be able to see a number for the volume level, so I can set the volume back to the exact volume I want to be able to hear music in other rooms when I’m getting ready in the morning without it being too loud or having to adjust it when I move into a room that doesn’t have a speaker. I also like being able to get to so much from one screen. Finally, I’m happy to find that SonoPhone still works after the Sonos S2 upgrade!!!


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Worked from jump!

I was looking to see if Sonos had any updates to their app and stumbled upon this gem! Loaded super quick! No longer waiting for 3-10 seconds for mySonos app to load. The ability to create zones is excellent as I play certain sets of speaker together almost all the time. Really good app!


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Great alternative to the use official app

The Sonos app has been leaving a bad taste in my mouth for years (requirement to register and the inevitable surveillance that follows, need to constantly update and difficult UI) I wish someone had told me there are alternatives! SonoPhone worked right after I downloaded. No drama, no headache.


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Perfect!

So frustrated with the official Sonos app and this little gem worked perfectly right out of the gate. It paid for itself in seconds after restoring control on an aging iPad that is still my go-to device. Wish it had an iPad layout but “working” beats “pretty” any day. Overall big thumbs up!


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Best work around if you have a desktop app which Sonos disabled without warning

My thanks to the developer!

I don’t want to buy new devices just because developers and device manufacturers are in cahoots.

My $2k Sonos system was less than two years old when, without warning, Sonos told me I should update and broke what was working. Further they no means or intention of me going back to what worked before the update!

I found out using intuitive reasoning to appoint an iPad app to the share point on my desktop.

And I can also play it from my smart phone.


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At Last!

YES!! Finally a way to escape the Sonos tyranny of constant buggy “improvements,” excessive dysfunctional updates, and forced obsolescence of my hardware and operating system. Now I can use my system like it was when I bought it. I was about to junk it until I found SonoPhone. Thank you!!


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Thanks a million

This is a great app it has a font size for real people. The volume displayed as a number is nice. I can tell that app creator really uses Sonos and has improved my experience with Sonos greatly with SonoPhone. SonoPhone just feels right and I find myself using Sonos again. The stock Sonos app has regressed. Thanks again for a great app.


By


Fantastic!

I was getting so frustrated with my expensive Sonos system which became useless with the new app. This works on all my devices, new and old. Very happy I purchased SonoPhone for both my iPads and phone.


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They need to work on this app more!!!

I so loved using SonoPhone for the first hour. But that’s where the love ended! It can’t find my Sonos speakers 90% of the time or half my speakers don’t work. This could be such an awesome app for using with your Sonos speakers. But these developers need to work on the kinks a lot more. Kinda disappointed to be totally honest


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Simply Simple!

Love SonoPhone the moment I downloaded it’s simple and functional.

Recommend for anyone who feels that Sonos have made their app too complicated. The requirement of an account for the Sonos app did it for me.


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Missing support for SonosDock

With the latest update (Oct 2018), Sonos ended support for the SonosDock, which enabled playback and control of iPods, Nanos, etc. by not upgrading the system that functionality could be retained. Now Sonos has disabled iPhone iPad apps that won't update.
I had hoped that this app would be a solution, but not so.


By


Excellent!

This is what I needed after Sonos stopped supporting my iPod. It worked immediately with no tweaking needed. I am very impressed and also very happy!!


By


No different

Thought it would enable the music on this phone function that Sonos removes but this doesn’t


By


A must-buy for any Sonos user

SonoPhone doesn't do anything the standard Sonos app doesn't, and in fact it is missing a few (relatively insignificant) features, as noted in the description.

Where this app shines, though, is in its interface. It is modern, in the iOS 7 sense, and elegant from an ease of use point of view.

Sonos is a great system that, until now, was accessed via an inferior UI. No need to suffer through that anymore.

One star is missing for a few small issues that I'm confident will be fixed, and that in no way should prevent someone from buying.


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Sonos needs to buy the rights to this!

SonoPhone is worlds ahead of the official app. I like the ROOM selection at the top and how it changes screens so all u see is the room list. Everything is organized and clean. The volume display is a nice touch. The click and drag zones is genius and adds another nice touch.

SonoPhone 's functionality resembles the ease of use of the old official Sonos app, with an updated look. Sonos should be writing u a check to buy the rights to this thing. I am a CI and I will be pointing my customers to SonoPhone over the real app.


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Impressed!

Pretty much what everybody else has said. Great app for running our sonos speakers. We love that we can look up artists on the internet from SonoPhone . We've been using the normal sonos app for a while and this one just seems to work better for us overall. Love this and the iPad version.


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Saved me from Sonos Controller

Sonos decided in their infinite wisdom to screw their customers still using IOS 6 (e.g. iPod Touch 4G) as controllers, forcing their customers to upgrade to newer OS. i.e. to buy a new iPod/iPhone.
Thank goodness for this app which still works with IOS 6. THANKS A MILLION!


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Much better then the Official app

Easier to use , faster ,
And a lot more intuitive. , cleaner .
Absolutely worth 2.99 . Worth more like double this .

Very happy with SonoPhone .




Is SonoPhone Safe?


Yes. SonoPhone for Sonos is very safe to use. This is based on our NLP (Natural language processing) analysis of over 26 User Reviews sourced from the Appstore and the appstore cumulative rating of 4.0/5 . Justuseapp Safety Score for SonoPhone Is 62.6/100.


Is SonoPhone Legit?


Yes. SonoPhone for Sonos is a totally legit app. This conclusion was arrived at by running over 26 SonoPhone for Sonos User Reviews through our NLP machine learning process to determine if users believe the app is legitimate or not. Based on this, Justuseapp Legitimacy Score for SonoPhone Is 94/100..


Is SonoPhone for Sonos not working?


SonoPhone for Sonos works most of the time. If it is not working for you, we recommend you excersise some patience and retry later or Contact Support.



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