Phonos Ultimate (for Sonos)

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About this app

Control your whole-home Sonos music system with this reliable and easy-to-use app. Has all the features you need and a few you can't get anywhere else. Our priorities are reliability and performance.

Features you expect:
See all your devices, rooms, groups, and music sources.
Supports over a hundred music services (same as Sonos).
Supports local libraries, line-in and custom station URLs.
Save your music queue as a Sonos Playlist.
Play/Pause/Next/Previous/Shuffle/Repeat/Like/Unlike.
Volume control for groups and individual devices.
Play and Shuffle playlists directly.
Edit groups easily.
View, Edit and Clear the Queue.
Add and delete tracks from Sonos Playlists.
Save the Queue as a Sonos Playlist.
Alpha-jump on large lists in Local Library.
Podcast skip fwd/back.
Add and Delete Sonos Favorites
Portrait, landscape and dark mode supported.
Edit EQ settings.

Features you maybe didn't know you needed:
Unique Devices View shows exactly how your devices are connected.
Shows track streaming data including sample rate and bit depth (requires S2).
Does NOT use the Sonos cloud API, for speed and reliability.
Supports S1, S2, and multiple systems simultaneously, and every Sonos device (except Ace headphones).
Add direct streaming urls, as custom radio stations.
Will never update your system.
Will never show ads.

We have been producing independent Sonos apps since 2011 though this is our first Android app.

This app cannot setup a new Sonos system or make configuration changes such as adding or removing devices. You must use the official app for that.

This app is NOT connected to, or endorsed by, Sonos. Sonos is a registered trademark of Sonos, Inc

Ratings and reviews

Excellent! Just tried Phonos Ultimate one year in. For a recent app, it's great! Thank you! As an early Sonos adopter, I was very happy with devices & apps for years. Then stuff started not working quite right. Then, the 2025 'great app update' broke everything as Sonos went into denial on steroids, blaming everything on users' Wi-Fi, which hadn't changed a bit. Phonos Ultimate' UI is clear, & easy. Controls that were broken for years now work. So the UI is 'ugly'? Why is that even important?

As useless as it is and as much as I hate the new Sonos app, this really doesn't do much better. Searching for music (a highly used feature) isn't very useful, and (as much as it shouldn't really matter) the app is not very pretty and not a pleasure to use.

Not sure what I'm paying for besides a simpler interface. Only shows s2 devices on a split system which is one of the main features I expected with this third party app.

What’s new

Delete tracks from the queue by swiping left. Custom radio stations can now be deleted.