Roon ARC

Roon Labs

About this app

*** Roon ARC requires a valid Roon subscription ***

ARC puts the best possible on-the-go music experience in your pocket and lets you enjoy your Roon library and all of Roon's immersive features wherever you are in the world.

ARC is a custom-built streaming service powered by your Roon system at home. Explore your complete collection of artists, albums, playlists, and personal music files, plus TIDAL, Qobuz, and KKBOX streams. Discover added content from Roon's music experts and smart features, such as staff-curated playlists, Daily Mixes, New Releases for You, personalized recommendations, and Roon Radio. You can add albums to your collection, build playlists, set favorites, create tags, and more, just as you can in Roon.

Offline listening lets you download your personal music files to keep the music playing wherever your adventures take you – even if you're off the grid entirely. ARC offers remote access to Roon's captivating library of in-depth artist bios and album articles, revealing the stories that take us deep into the heart of our favorite music. And there's more…

Ready to hit the road? Your Roon library is too! Roon's browsing and discovery features fully integrate into your car's controls for safe and convenient playback. With ARC within easy reach of the wheel, every road you take is a journey in sound. ARC makes the driver's seat feel like your listening chair at home.

ARC is designed to look and feel just like Roon. You get the same intuitive, aesthetically rich Roon interface you know and love, fully optimized for your phone. No more switching between streaming apps; ARC compiles all your music in one place for easy access and maximum enjoyment.

And now, Roon's audio shaping suite and pristine sound quality have arrived in ARC - with bold styling never before seen in a mobile app! MUSE delivers the precision audio control of Roon when you're on the go or running a streamlined mobile setup with ARC. It places radically unique EQ handling, optimized balance control, precision volume leveling, FLAC, DSD & MQA support, crossfeed, headroom management, and sample rate conversion in the palm of your hand.

You can customize sonic qualities to your specific tastes with MUSE, then save or apply them with a few clicks. To top it all off, MUSE even remembers your presets and reapplies them when you reconnect to a known device. The MUSE Signal Path display provides complete audio signal transparency as the music flows through your device - from source media all the way to your speakers.

ARC offers artful design, sound quality, and a music listening experience unmatched by any other music app. Best of all, it's included free with your Roon subscription.

Ratings and reviews

Can't search or browse by artists in offline mode, just browse a bunch of albums. This is very annoying when I am flying a lot and want to change what I'm listening too mid-air. Android Auto part of this app won't let you even search at all, this is really annoying. There's no way this should be behind a "safety" feature either as by passenger often takes care of the music when I'm driving. It's just stupid that a search does not exists. This pricey luxury should have these things included.

The same stupid behavior on desktop exists here when it comes to playing tracks from your library. You go to tracks, select a song, hit play, and shuffle. It should shuffle through your library now, right? No. It adds that single song to the queue and that is it. You have to play a playlist, album, or turn on Roon radio. It is the MOST BASIC behavior of any music app ever and it fails to incorporate it.

Just a bad experience. Will resample your audio even on Android devices that don't have that limitation. App works poorly offline and there's no soft transition. Cover art will disappear and it seems like navigating the desktop app but everything marked as unavailable. Glitchy and will close multiple times on you. The app nobody asked for and they still delivered with a bunch of missing functionality. Your only saving grace is the UI but does it matter when your product doesn't work well?

What's new

Thank you for using Roon ARC, a custom streaming service powered by your Roon library. We’re continuously working to elevate your mobile 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 includes improved battery and GPU efficiency, better connectivity, and stability.