Sonobit - Remote for Sonos for Pc

I can’t believe I just heard about this app after Googling “how to get Apple Watch to work with Sonos”. I was skeptical to purchase based on the reviews, but people leaving anything less than a 4 are nuts. I have an Apple Watch Gen3 with a iPhone X, for the sole purpose to control my Sonos setup with my watch. It blows my mind that Sonos didn’t include this capability, but someone created it and capitalized on it, and it does just what I need: volume control, pause, skip forward and back, while showing you the song info. A nice future capability would be a volume slider control vs. tapping the volume up and down in increments. Some people want to be able to group and ungroup speakers, which is a nice to have, but how often are you doing that on a daily basis? I’m sitting on my couch, listening to my station, on the speakers I want, and have the watch control to make the adjustments listed above without reaching for my phone. Another more important capability would be for the app to always be displayed on the watch as it does when you connect to a Bluetooth speaker, as opposed to having to hit the app button and reopen the app. Overall this app is a hit and a must have if you have the Apple Watch, and I’m telling all of my friends.

Provides basic controls for Watch os5. It easily found all my Sonos units and allows room switching, but only after learning that a Force Touch (holding down your finger on main screen) switches to a two button menu with “Groups” & “Mute” controls. “Groups” control allows you to switch rooms. All I wanted was mute and volume controls from Watch while system is already on and this app provides that.

Felt the need to write a review because there are so many varied reviews here that span two years. from my perspective, the overall rating does not come close to reflecting the current value of this app. This is the best app to be able to control your Sonos system. You can select the group, control the volume, pause the music and mute. What else do you need? Maybe selecting favorite sources would be nice, but the price is right for this one. Works great, lets me skip songs I don’t like, and lets me adjust volume without having to pull out the phone. If Sonos made an app, it would probably be just like this. BTW, the flashy icon colors make the app easy to see on the Apple Watch.

Extremely easy set up. Was impressed that it was not necessary to provide Sonos login credentials. Just install the app, add the widget, and your are done. The app provides very basic controls (pause, play, previous track, next track). You can also switch between speakers including speaker groups. The watch app also works well with the same functionality. To make this a 5 star app I would really like to see volume controlled by the watch crown, a watch complication that would quickly take you to the Apple Watch app, and the ability to initiate and/or switch Sonos favorites (playlists, stations, etc.). It appears the only way to change what is playing is to open the native Sonos app.