▶ NEW: Soro is now updated with a Liquid Glass redesign, music services support** and extended Apple Music integration, both in-app and in the Shortcuts app.
Soro provides modern, intuitive user interface to control your speakers, extends your iPhone, iPad, and Mac with Control Center and Home Screen widgets, Live Activities and 30+ powerful Shortcuts actions. Soro lets you create both quick actions or extensive workflows to control your speakers with the Shortcuts app using widgets, Siri voice commands or automations.
▶ Control Center
* Instantly adjust speaker settings from anywhere
* One tap to open Now Playing, Queue, and EQ views right from the Control Center
▶ Modern Interface
* Modern design that feels at home on iOS and iPadOS
▶ Browse Your Music
* Support for Music Services that you already added in the Sonos app (YT Music is not supported currently)
* Browse your Sonos Music Library
▶ Extended Apple Music Integration
* Add tracks, albums to your Apple Music playlists or favorites (in-app and via Shortcuts action)
* Play artist stations
* See additional details of albums and artists, such as related items and notes
▶ Learn About What’s Playing
* Chat-based web search to explore songs, albums, artists, and more—right from inside Soro
▶ Live Activity, Widgets & Shortcuts
* Revamped Live Activity with more controls—jump directly to EQ and queue
* Lock Screen, Home Screen & StandBy Mode widgets for instant access
* App Shortcuts for Spotlight, Siri, and the Action Button
▶ Speak Text on Your Speakers
* Send announcements or media with built-in text-to-speech
* Playback resumes automatically when the message ends
* Works across supported Sonos speakers*
▶ Shortcuts & Automations
* 30+ actions to control your speakers in the Shortcuts app
* Build quick actions or extensive automations or integrate with other third-party apps
* Examples included in the app to get you started
▶ Available Actions
Play
- Play Sonos Music
- Play Favorite
- Play Sonos Playlist
- Play Sonos Music Library
- Play Apple Music Artist Station
- Play URL
- Speak Text
- Play Audio Clip
Queue
- Get Queue
- Go To Track in Queue
- Clear Queue
- Save Queue
Input/Source
- Use TV Input
- Use Line-In
- Use Queue
Playback Control
- Control Playback: Play, pause, skip, or seek
- Select MP3 Chapte
Rooms and Groups
- Now Playing
- Group/Ungroup
- Wake Speaker
- Create Stereo Pair
- Separate Stereo Pair
- Set Direct Connect IP
Settings
- Sonos Settings: Change speaker or group settings like volume, bass/treble, loudness, speech enhancement, night mode, surround settings, subwoofer settings, trueplay, and more.
- Load Sound Preset: Apply a saved sound/EQ preset to a room or its group.
- Get Battery Status
Alarms
- Create Alarm
- Update Alarm
- Delete Alarm
App / Live Activity / Widgets
- Open Soro: Open the Soro app to a specific screen (Select, Queue, EQ, or selected Music Service), optionally targeting a room, defaults to currently playing.
- Start/Update Live Activity
- End Live Activity
- Reload Widgets
Apple Music
- Add Track to Apple Music Playlist
- Favorite Track in Apple Music
Playlist management
- Add Music to Sonos Playlist
* Speak Text supported on Sonos One, Amp, Port, Play:5 (Gen 2), Beam, One SL, Move, SYMFONISK (table lamp & bookshelf), and all newer Sonos S2 speakers.
** Currently YouTube Music is not supported
Soro is not affiliated with Sonos Inc. nor is it an official Sonos app. Sonos is trademarked by Sonos Inc.
Grain of salt. Used 5 minutes so far.….but has turned all my SoNo’s into SoYes’s SoFar. My biggest pain in offloading Alexa to HomeKit was the extraordinary negligence in Apples volume options. There’s literally not a way to control volume on sonos by voice….not even with Siri on the appletv activated by the ACTUAL APPLETV REMOTE that has the volume buttons built in (understanding if you had the remote in hand it wouldn’t matter to begin with). HomePods….can control AppleTV great unless you want to send the hdmi command to raise or lower volume. This app does all that and more (so far). I’m crazy about seeing the option to modify sub settings. I do it manually between movies and music to keep balance (particularly when it comes to Atmos content vs non atmos on Apple Music). I was also hesitant about third party add ons because other shortcuts extensions introduce bugs to flush out in addition to the already-hardest-learning-curve smart system available. THIS ADD-ON DIDNT EVEN ASK FOR SONOS ACCOUNT CREDENTIALS. OUTSTANDING. It naturally needs network device discovery permission, but just worked. The UI of the actions is intuitive. 1 and done attempts with the first test runs. Love this. Love it. Love my 5 minutes of childish excitement over something that solves a first world problem. In love. Love YOU (developer).
Valuable & Useful
jmmiller03
After buying more fully into the Sonos ecosystem I was looking for an application to help me tighten the integration between my Apple HomeKit based smart home and my multi-room Sonos system. This app has provided me so much value allowing me to set up shortcuts for preset volumes and equalizer settings and use these shortcuts on my Apple devices and via Siri. I guess one could build these shortcuts themselves, but this app has accelerated the process and removed any challenges in the development process. Due to this app I have built out an entire infrastructure for multiple rooms in my house in the time it would take me to build out just one room. Thank you for the great work, and I highly recommend exploring this application if you are both an Apple and Sonos user!!!
Finally Lock Screen Control
Hatedbassist
For a brief period, the Sonos app allowed you to control playback from your Lock Screen… then it went away. This Soro app now bridges the gap and allows you to do just that- plus a lot more. When I’m hosting people, I’m often skipping tracks, adjusting volume up or down, and each time I’d have to open my phone and get into the Sonos app. Not the biggest of first world problems, but when you are trying to be an attentive host, it’s nice to be on your phone as little as possible. A tap to wake it and a tap to skip, then my attention is back on my guests.
Great App - Adds Control to Sonos
Speck378
This was a great find. I have 1 airport express that supports Airplay 2 and Sonos speakers all over my house. With this app, I can ask Siri to group the Sonos speaker connected to airplay to other rooms and then play music directly from my music app. So far it seems to work well, maybe a tad slow which sometimes causes it to time out. My one request for the developer would be to add Apple Watch support. These shortcuts don’t work with the Apple Watch, I get an error saying “could not run unknown action. This action requires an app to be installed”. Adding Apple Watch support would be excellent.
Developer Response
Thank you for your feedback. Will work on speed improvements and the Apple Watch support for sure.
* User Interface Redesign — Enjoy a visual refresh throughout the app to feel at home on your devices and make controlling your speakers and browsing your music more intuitive
* Music Services Support — Now you can access music services in-app and in the Shortcuts app via the new ‘Play Sonos Music’ action. (YT Music is currently not supported)
* Extended Apple Music Integration — Add tracks, albums to your Apple Music playlists or favorites (in-app and via Shortcuts action), play artist stations and see additional details of albums and artists.
* Revamped Live Activity UI — Redesigned Live Activity for quicker access to essential tools—jump to the EQ, view the music queue and take more actions without leaving your lock-screen or home screen.
* Smarter Automations & Actions — More intuitive control and automation options so the routines you love are easier to build. Everything from triggering playback to adjusting sound settings is more logical to configure.
4.1.9:
- Live Activity Dynamic Island improvements to allow all interactions that are available via the lock screen activity
- Full Live Activity appears in StandBy mode now without causing any activity crash
- Live Activity update logic has been improved as well
4.1.8:
- Live Activity stability fixes
- Added ‘Set Surround Distance’ action
- The various 'Play' action’s ‘Set Volume’ option now uses numerical input instead of the slider
- Added option to set TV Autoplay and Ungroup On Autoplay via the Sonos Settings action
- Ungroup action now returns the ungrouped room(s)
- Fixed 'Create Alarm' action crash
- Fixed issue where the 'Open Music Service' and 'Open Sounds Settings' actions didn't work properly
- Added Find Favorite action. It will allow filtering by favorite type and music service and pass the output to the Play Favorite action.
- Fixed SiriusXM issues
- Fixed audiobook starting over instead of resuming (where supported, ie. Audible)
- Fixed audiobook playback control buttons not appearing properly
- Play Favorite action now supports selecting multiple favorites (only queue-able items will be added to the queue).
4.1.6:
- Added 'TV Dialog Audio Delay' option to the 'Sonos Settings' action and control center widget
- Fixed the 'Speak Announcement' and 'Play AudioClip' actions’ override volume logic
- Favorites and playlists order on Soro Home Screen respect sort order set
- Fixed 'Update Alarm' action, where weekday alarms didn’t get updated properly
- Added selecting Sonos Playlists as an option to the 'Play Favorite' action
4.1.5:
- Bug fixes and stability improvements
4.1.4:
- Added 'Load Only' parameter to the 'Play' action types
- Resolved timeout issues improving overall reliability of discovering speakers
- Fixed issue with the Speak Text/Play Audio Clip actions of the clip playing multiple times on already grouped speakers
- Updated the order of settings in the Sonos Settings action to make more sense based on usage patterns
4.1.3:
- Fixed issue Sonos Radio favorites disappearing
- Fixed issue when favorites didn't show up in the Play Favorite action
- Added iPad layout improvements
- Various other fixes
4.1.2: Improved search experience, grouping/ungrouping and shortcut execution times. Plus various other fixes
Version 4.1.9
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