Focal & Naim

Naim Audio Ltd

About this app

The Focal & Naim App is the ultimate remote control for your home hi-fi system, enabling you to have millions of songs at your fingertips. Enjoy instant playback through your connected Naim devices – from legacy products to the very latest releases - no matter what room they’re in.

This app also now supports the new Focal Bathys Bluetooth Headphones.

Simple and intuitive set up:
• Set up new devices seamlessly with the Naim set up process.

Orchestrate your music:
• Control all functions and settings of your devices remotely.

Fill your house with sound:
• Use the Naim multiroom system to stream your favourite music throughout the house or have a different playlist in each room.

Stream entire libraries of music:
• Playback to your Naim devices through a great number of sources such as Qobuz, TIDAL, Spotify, UPnP and iRadio.

Play your way:
• The straightforward user interface makes it incredibly easy to play, create playlists and adjust play queues while providing extended artist information.

Customise your experience:
• Adjust room compensation and display illumination settings for the Mu-so range
• HDMI-ARC autoswitching

This app works with the following Focal products:
• Focal Bathys
• DIVA UTOPIA

This app works with the following Naim products:
• Mu-so
• Mu-so Qb
• Uniti Core
• Uniti Atom
• Uniti Atom Headphone Edition
• Uniti Nova
• Uniti Nova PE
• Uniti Star
• ND 555
• ND 5 XS2
• NDX 2
• UnitiQute 2
• UnitiQute
• UnitiLite
• NaimUniti 2
• NaimUniti
• SuperUniti
• ND5 XS
• NDX
• NDS
• NAC-N 172 XS
• NAC-N 272
• NSC-222
• NSS-333
• CI-Uniti 102

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.

[update] - following a number of updates since the last review, I now find the app very stable, and the connectivity to the muso speakers works every time. ----- When the app works, it's pretty good. Easy to navigate around the different sources/rooms and do pretty much what you need. My main gripes are that about 25% of the time it fails to detect one/all the rooms and I have to leave it for a while or connect directly from Spotify/Tidal.

What’s new

• Adds Dynamic EQ Preset for Bathys MG
• Fixes an issue with daylight savings time for Mu-so 1st Generation
• Fixes an issue with playing specific TIDAL tracks
• Plus other fixes and improvements