Focal & Naim

Naim Audio Ltd

About this app

The Focal & Naim app gives you total control of your entire Focal & Naim ecosystem. It brings streaming, radio, and your personal music library together in one beautifully simple interface.

• Your Focal & Naim Account
Create your free account to register your products, access local Internet Radio, and receive exclusive benefits such as extended warranties and enhanced customer support.

• Seamless Setup
Ready your new Naim & Focal devices with our intuitive product setup process.

• Total Control
Manage every aspect of your system — speakers, streamers, and settings — all from your phone or tablet.

• Whole-Home Sound
Stream music perfectly in sync across rooms or set a unique mood in each of your spaces with Naim Multiroom technology.

• Stream Without Limits
Access high-resolution playback from your favourite sources, such as Qobuz, TIDAL, Spotify, and UPnP. Enjoy thousands of internet radio stations, including Naim Radio, now also available locally on your mobile device.

• Tailor Your Experience
Fine-tune your speakers to your room with ADAPT™ technology, adjust EQ, lighting, and noise cancellation for Focal Bathys headphones, or personalise settings across the Naim Mu-so range.

• Stay Connected Anywhere
Control playback from your wrist with Apple Watch or Wear OS support.
Version 8.0 adds CarPlay and Android Auto integration, bringing high-fidelity Internet Radio straight to your car.

Compatible with all current Focal & Naim network-connected music players (some legacy products not supported).

Ratings and reviews

EDIT: Naim has being doing better for Android users. The connection is more stable and devices are detected more reliably. However, it still regularly requires you to exit the app and restart it to get connection back to the unit. I'm changing from 2 to 3 stars. Previous review from 2016: App crashes regularly using upnp, connection gets lost when bringing app back up, multiroom volume control erroneously shows devices at the room volume or not at all... Come on Naim, you can do better for us Android users!

The app isn't the most horrible thing in the world, despite it being very glitchy and unstable. My problem is that I mainly use Tidal with my Mu-so Qb, and on my LG v40, many songs just refuse to play. Most commonly this is singles, or songs that there's only one of on an "album". But sometimes albums with 10+ songs won't play a single song from the album. Incredibly frustrating and makes me regret purchasing my mu-so qb.

Review edited following response from NAIM. For app and unit to work together you need a strong WiFi and internet. Otherwise the app might have trouble 'seeing' the unit even though the phone with the app on is nearby. So unit and app might not work when placed some rooms away from the router. Now unit has been placed nearer the router the app works quite well. It is a far superior interface than the little remote control which is provided with the unit. *and, no, I do not use a BT smart hub.

What’s new

- Minor bug fix for radio station images