Roon

Roon Labs

About this app

*** The Roon experience requires a Roon Server on your network. ***

The Roon App is another controller for your Roon Server. You browse and play your music library on over 1,000 compatible audio devices, and provides a seamless in-home connection. You can install the free Roon App on as many devices as you like.

What is Roon?

The very best way to experience your music:

Roon reshapes the way you browse and explore music. Powered by rich metadata, Roon's interface invites you on a new journey of musical discovery every time you log in.

Your music library becomes the starting point on a vast map of performers, composers, influences, and genres. Follow the path emanating from the music you love to discover exciting new sounds and reconnect with long-forgotten favorites. You can delve even deeper through lyrics, artist photos, bios, reviews, and tour dates - then continue the journey with recommendations specifically tailored to your tastes and listening habits.


Listen anywhere, on all your gear:

Roon lets you play from your collection of music files and TIDAL, Qobuz, and KKBOX libraries on thousands of Roon Ready, Airplay, Chromecast, and USB devices from one app inside your home. Meanwhile, Roon ARC provides access, playback, and precision audio control for your entire Roon music library directly from your phone, wherever you are in the world.

Flawless playback. Everywhere, every time:

Roon is built to ensure your music sounds perfect every time you hit play, no matter where you are. Roon guarantees the best possible sound quality from every piece of audio gear - our MUSE sound engine delivers bit-perfect playback, exhaustive format support, and precision audio control for a fully customizable and flawless listening experience. From headphones to your home hi-fi, and everything in between.

Ratings and reviews

Normally I would rate a 5. However, lately the android app (on Pixel6a) is getting "hangy" when trying to exit out of an album, or get out of some pages in general. I can stop a song from playing, then the ability to get out and back to the track listing of that album,etc won't work. I just get stuck. if I close the app and start over everything is fine as normal, until it gets hangy/stuck again.

Has improved markedly over the last year. However, the mobile app still needs a lot of work. Not being able to adjust EQ curves---even in landscape mode---is a HUGE miss; now I need my tablet AND my phone, the former to make adjustments on the fly, and the latter to select tracks for T&E of the EQ changes. Not having volume or mute control when in the Queue screen is a other baffling MIA feature, especially since there's plenty of real estate at the bottom of the GUI.

I used Roon for years and drove many to use it. However, more than six months ago, I moved at home to Audirvana Studio for superior sound quality, and I use Qobuz app on my phone when I am outside. I have a lot of music files from my old CDs. But everything today is streaming. Roon with ARC, in my opinion, did not add much value to its customers but added to their portfolio for the acquisition. It made the app complex. Roon neither the best at what I want—music at home and on the go.

What’s new

Thank you for using Roon, the ultimate music player for music lovers. We’re continuously working to elevate your Roon music listening and browsing experience. Frequent updates deliver new features, fixes, and enhancements; turn on automatic updates to enjoy all the latest improvements. This update brings improved usability and key stability fixes to Roon.