What is Soro?

Soro is a 3rd party app to control Sonos speakers on iOS, iPadOS and macOS.

Drawing inspiration from the iOS multi-room audio controls, Soro’s frontend provides an easy to use interface that feels home on Apple devices.

Soro adds the ability to control Sonos speakers via:

• Control Center
• Live Activity
• Widgets
• Shortcuts

Soro extends the Shortcuts app with over 30 actions to control Sonos (and Ikea Symfonisk) speakers and home theatre systems.

Users can create both quick actions and extensive workflows integrating other apps to control their speakers with the Shortcuts app using widgets, Siri voice commands or automations.

What's new in Soro 3.0

• Brand new frontend.
• Control Center integration.
• Various fixes and improvements.

New features added in Soro 2.0

• Control Sonos systems from the iPhone and iPad lock screens via Live Activity.
• Widget for the Home Screen and Standby. Also for the desktop on macOS.
• New App Shortcuts for the Action Button.

New features added in Soro 1.4

• ‘Speak Text’ action aka Intercom for Sonos

  Similar to the Intercom action available for the HomePod, this action lets users to play messages (or media files) on any of their supported* Sonos speakers utilizing the text to speech features built into iOS, iPadOS and macOS and continue the already playing content after the message.

  Users can set the voice and the language to any of the available ones on their device (downloaded under Spoken Content - Voices option in Settings) and adjust the pitch and speed rate as well.

  In addition to using text to speech the action can take local or remote media files as an input.