Sonos S1 Controller

Name: Sonos S1 Controller
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Rating: 2.23099422454834 (149372 reviews)
Author: Sonos, Inc

Sonos, Inc

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About this app

This app controls systems that include the earliest Sonos products: Zone Players, Play:5 (Gen 1), Bridge, Connect (Gen 1) and Connect:Amp (Gen 1)

Easily control your system.
Adjust volume levels, group rooms, save favorites, set alarms, and more.

Stream from popular services.
Connect your streaming services and browse all your music, podcasts, radio, and audiobooks in a single app.

Listen to Sonos Radio.
Enjoy thousands of stations free on your system, including live radio from around the world, genre stations, artist-curated stations, and original programming from Sonos.

If you are a California resident, for more information about our privacy practices, please see:
California Privacy Notice: https://www.sonos.com/legal/privacy#legal-privacy-addendum-container

This first generation of the Sonos app supports the earliest Sonos products.

Updated on

Feb 23, 2026

Data safety

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No data shared with third parties
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This app may collect these data types
Personal info, App activity and 2 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

134K reviews

Jason Protheroe

November 9, 2020

Why is it that the Spotify app, PC and mobile can find all of the speakers in my house, yet the Sonos app can't. This app is horrendously bad and gets worse with every update. I spend more time trying to reconnect the app to the system than listening to music. When it does work it will randomly loose the entire system and re-find it, or just individual rooms and then they'll reappear later without having to do anything. It occasionally informs me that I need to run an update, while installing the update it crashes and tells me to try again, yet when I do, it apparently no longer requires an update. And on another note, why does the app need the exact gps location of my mobile device to (not) be able to find a speaker on a wireless network!

121 people found this review helpful

A Google user

September 26, 2019

The app is not the most intuitive but works fine. Improvements should come (hopefully) to the way it is organised, especially the research field. It would be nicer to be able to stream on sonos using other apps (apple music, music app,...) as if the sonos system was headphones connected to the phone. That would be much easier and better.

3 people found this review helpful

Steve Campeau (HimalayaJo3)

March 1, 2025

I don't know what Sonos have done. But the connectivity on my Play 5 Gen 1 was always pretty poor given Sonos is one of the top brands. But they seem to have taken a poor system, remodelled it, and made it so poor that the wireless function just doesn't work and, even when Hard Wired, the Spotify connection is now unnecessarily over complicated and clunky. You get better functionality from cheap chinese stuff. Absolutely shocking.

80 people found this review helpful

What’s new

Renamed the Sonos S1 Controller, this app supports systems that include the oldest Sonos products. Systems supported by this app will continue to receive bug fixes and security patches but will not receive new software features found in the new Sonos S2 app and will not be compatible with Sonos products released after May 2020. For more information, please visit https://support.sonos.com/en-us/topic/sonos-apps.

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