An independent controller for Sonos

Music in every room. Without the wait.

Sonify is a native app for iPhone and iPad that puts your rooms, your favourites and what’s playing on screen the moment it opens. Then gets out of the way.

Download on theApp Store See what it does

Requires iOS 17 or later and a Sonos S2 system.

Launch

Open it. It’s already there.

A controller is something you open for five seconds, many times a day. So Sonify is built to be useful in the first of them.

01

Picks up where you left it

Your rooms, and what the selected room was playing, are restored from your last session instead of being fetched again.

02

Connects to every room at once

The connection to your system and to each room starts the instant the app does, in the background, all together.

03

Home comes from cache

Favourites, shortcuts and music services are on screen before the network has answered. Even the first artwork is ready.

Rooms

Group the house in a few taps.

Tick a room and it joins. Untick it and it leaves. The sheet answers straight away, and the speakers follow.

  • Every row is a volume slider. Drag anywhere on a room to set its level.
  • Press and hold for just that room. The others leave the group.
  • Sync brings every room in the group to the same level.
  • Areas from your Sonos system appear as chips. One tap groups the lot.
Paper LanternsMira Solène
Living Room + 228

Try it: tick rooms, tap an area, or press Sync.

Scenes

Rooms, volume and music in one tap.

A scene remembers which rooms play, how loud each one is, what to play and how to play it. Set it up once. After that it’s a button.

What’s in a scene

Rooms with their own volumes. An album, playlist or station. Shuffle, repeat, crossfade and a sleep timer. And, if you like, an EQ preset for every room in it.

Pick a scene to see what it holds.

Home Widgets Control Center Siri NFC tags
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Plays

Sunday SlowStreaming · Playlist
  • Shuffle
  • Repeat
  • Crossfade
  • Timer
EQ PresetEvening

Rooms

NFC tags

Tap a tag. Music starts.

Put an album, playlist, station, track or scene on an NFC tag. Hold your iPhone near it later and Sonify opens and plays it, in the rooms you chose.

  1. Choose Create NFC Tag from the menu of anything you can play, or from a scene.
  2. Pick the rooms and whether to shuffle, or leave it on your default NFC room.
  3. Hold your iPhone to the tag to write it. From then on, the tag starts the music.

On iPhone. Tags are not included. A scene’s tag works on the iPhone the scene was made on; music tags work on any iPhone with Sonify on the same system. Tags written by earlier versions of Sonify keep working.

Now Playing

Everything about this song, this room, this moment.

Swipe the artwork to skip. Pull down to close. The rest is one tap away, and none of it is buried in a settings page.

A queue that keeps its place

What you add with Play Next or Add to Queue sits above the album you were playing, which carries on afterwards. Drag to reorder, swipe to remove, or select several at once.

Each room’s volume, right where the group’s is

Start dragging the group volume and a slider for every room rises above it. Adjust one, or press Sync to level them.

Knows when it’s the TV

On TV input, the transport gives way to Night Sound and Speech Enhancement.

The small print, on screen

A Lossless or Atmos badge when the stream has it, time remaining, and a sleep timer counting down.

Beyond the app

Often, you won’t need to open it.

Widgets, Control Center controls, Siri and Shortcuts reach your speakers from wherever you already are.

Home Screen widgets

Now Playing, with play, pause and skip. One scene, a tap away. Or a grid of four or eight.

On the Lock Screen

The room, the track and the artist, under the clock.

Control Center

Play/Pause and Next Track for a room you choose, Pause All, and a button for any scene. On iOS 18 and later.

Ask Siri

Four phrases work with no setup at all.

  • “Pause Sonify”
  • “Run Dinner in Sonify”
  • “Play Kitchen Disco with Sonify”
  • “What is playing in Kitchen on Sonify”

20 actions for Shortcuts

Build your own automations from playback, volume, grouping, favourites, scenes and search.

  • Play Scene
  • Set Volume
  • Group Rooms
  • Search and Play
  • Set Sleep Timer
  • Party Mode
  • Play Input
  • Get Now Playing

Search and Library

One search. Every service.

Type once and Sonify asks all your music services together, grouping the results by service as they arrive. Or choose one service and narrow it by category.

  • Recent searches are kept, so yesterday’s album is still one tap away.
  • A library for each service, as a list or a grid, with an A–Z index for the long ones.
  • Press and hold anything for Play Next, Add to Queue, Play On…, Start Radio and favourites.
  • Pin it to Home. Any album, playlist or station can become its own shelf there.

And the rest

The things you’d miss if they weren’t there.

Home, your way

Reorder scenes, favourites, recently played and your pinned shelves. Or make a service’s own browse page your Home.

EQ, with presets

Bass, treble and loudness for each room. Save a room’s sound as a preset and apply it again later, by hand or from a scene.

Home theatre

Surround and sub levels, Night Sound, Speech Enhancement, TV autoplay, and a switch back to TV input.

Play On…

Send an album or playlist straight to the rooms you tick. They’re grouped when you press Play, not before.

Playlists you can edit

Create, rename, reorder and delete playlists, and add tracks to them, on services that allow it.

Party Mode

When friends have the phone, tapping a track adds it to the queue instead of cutting off what’s playing.

Volume buttons and Lock Screen

Your iPhone’s volume buttons set the room’s level, and playback controls sit on the Lock Screen. Each can be switched off.

Line-in and sleep timer

Switch a group to any room’s line-in, and set a sleep timer from 15 minutes to two hours.

Light, dark, Liquid Glass

Follows the system’s appearance or keeps the one you pick, and uses Liquid Glass on iOS 26.

Questions

Before you download.

Something else? Get in touch.

What do I need?

An iPhone or iPad on iOS 17 or later, and a Sonos S2 system on the same Wi-Fi network. Sonos S1 systems aren’t supported.

Control Center controls need iOS 18. The Liquid Glass design appears on iOS 26. Writing and reading NFC tags needs an iPhone.

Which music services work?

The ones already added to your Sonos system, plus its local music library. Sonify reads them from the system, so there’s nothing to sign in to again. To add a service or renew its access, use the Sonos app.

Some features depend on the service: liking tracks, editing playlists and starting a radio are offered where the service supports them.

Does Sonify replace the Sonos app?

For everyday listening, it can. You still need the Sonos app to set up speakers and to add or re-authorise music services.

Sonify can’t find my system. What now?

Check that your iPhone or iPad is on the same network as your speakers, and that Sonify is allowed to use the local network in iOS Settings.

If Sonify reports “Access Denied”, open the Sonos app, go to your profile, then Privacy & Security, and make sure Authentication is turned off. Then restart Sonify.

Does the queue work for music started elsewhere?

The queue page manages what was started from Sonify. For music started in another app, Sonify still shows what’s playing and controls playback, volume and grouping.

What does Sonify know about me?

There is no Sonify account, and the app contains no advertising or analytics code. It talks to your speakers on your own network. The privacy page covers the details, including the one thing that does pass through sonify.cloud: the play queue.

Is Sonify made by Sonos?

No. Sonify is an independent app. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Sonos, Inc.

The Sonify app icon: seven green bars on black.

Press play sooner.

Sonify for iPhone and iPad.

Download on theApp Store

Requires iOS 17 or later and a Sonos S2 system.