Your Instant Sonos Remote for Apple Watch, iPhone, and iPad

Pause, skip, and set the volume in under a second. The Sonos app needs your home Wi-Fi. Lyd does not.

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Free for 14 days. No subscription, no signup.

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An Apple Watch on a wrist showing Lyd’s Now Playing screen: a song on a Sonos Move 2 with play, pause, skip and the volume ring

Your Sonos, Wherever You Are

Lyd runs on Apple Watch, iPhone, and iPad, and reaches your speakers through the Sonos cloud, at home and away.

On Every Device You Carry

Lyd on an iPad, an iPhone and an Apple Watch, all showing the same song playing on a Sonos Move 2: the Music library and Now Playing on iPad, Now Playing on iPhone, and playback controls on the Watch

Apple Watch

Sonos on Your Wrist

Sonos makes no Apple Watch app. Lyd has had one since 2019: volume on the Digital Crown, complications, and Voice Messages.

iPhone

The Full Remote in Your Pocket

Rooms, groups, a volume for each speaker, and search across every service linked to your system.

iPad

Built for the Bigger Screen

A native sidebar layout, not a phone app stretched wide.

In Every Place

A man at the dinner table glancing at Lyd on his Apple Watch, the plate in front of him and no phone in sight

  • Out of the house

    Works Away from Home

    Turn the music down from the office, or check on the way home that the house is quiet.

  • A second home

    Every System, One List

    Home, office, and the holiday house, one tap apart. S1 next to S2 is fine.

  • On the couch

    Quieter Without Getting Up

    Turn the music down, pause it, or set a Sleep Timer from your wrist, with the iPhone in another room.

Faster Than Opening an App

The Sonos app is for setting up and browsing. Lyd puts pause, skip, and volume where you already are, with no app to open.

Volume Buttons

The side buttons on your iPhone move the Sonos volume, five steps at a time, while Lyd is open.

Siri

"Pause all with Lyd." "Louder with Lyd." The phrases work from the moment you install, with nothing to set up.

Shortcuts

Leave home, stop the music. Every Lyd action, Scenes included, works in any automation.

Lock Screen

Wake the screen and see what is playing in which room, with the buttons to pause or skip.

Home Screen Widgets

Every widget size on iPhone and iPad, to skip, pause, and change the volume.

Dynamic Island

Pause, skip, or change the volume from inside almost any other app.

Scenes

One Scene Sets the Whole House

One tap on your iPhone, your wrist, or your Mac, or ask Siri, and the house is set in about a second.

The Scenes tab in Lyd on iPhone, listing Full House, Focus, Power and Dinner Time
Speakers
Who plays together, and which one leads the group.
Volume
A level for each speaker, plus bass, treble and loudness.
Music
A Sonos Favorite, a playlist, Line-In, or the TV, with a sleep timer if you want one.
Quiet elsewhere
A switch that pauses every room the Scene does not use. Leave out every speaker and the Scene pauses the whole house.
A check before you tap
If a speaker is offline or a playlist has been deleted, the Scene says so before you run it.

Everything a Scene can do

Try it on your own speakers. Fourteen days free, every feature included, no signup.

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Works with Every Streaming Service

Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer. If it plays through Sonos, Lyd controls it.

What People Say

“If you have Sonos, the Lyd app on its own justifies buying an Apple Watch.”

Wilf Forrow, App Store UK, July 2026

“Love running two different houses from my Apple Ultra 2.”

TJMILLER12, App Store US, December 2025

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Frequently Asked Questions

Do I still need the official Sonos app?

Yes, and that is fine. Setting a system up stays the Sonos app's job: adding a speaker, Trueplay, firmware, stereo pairs, alarms, and putting things into Sonos Favorites. Lyd controls what is already there, and it reads your Favorites and playlists so you can start them from a widget or your wrist.

The Sonos app has widgets and Lock Screen controls now. Why Lyd?

It does, and they are good. What Lyd adds:

  • Apple Watch. Sonos makes no app for it. Lyd has since 2019.
  • Away from home. The Sonos app needs your home Wi-Fi. Lyd goes through the Sonos cloud.
  • iPad. A native layout with a sidebar, not a phone app stretched wide.
  • Scenes. Regroup the speakers, a volume for each, and quiet in the other rooms.
  • Volume buttons. The buttons on the side of your iPhone move the Sonos volume while Lyd is open.
  • S1 next to S2. Every system under your Sonos account in one list.
  • Guest Mode. A system that is not yours, on its Wi-Fi.

What if I have multiple Sonos speakers?

That is the normal case. Group and ungroup speakers, give each one its own volume, and control a single room or a whole group. If you run more than one Sonos system, including an S1 system next to an S2 one, Lyd lists them all and switches between them, as long as they sit under the same Sonos account.

Does it work when I’m not at home?

Yes. Lyd sends its commands through the Sonos cloud, so as long as your phone has a signal you can pause, change the volume, switch rooms, or start a Sonos Favorite from anywhere. Guest Mode is the exception, because it talks to the speakers directly and only works on their Wi-Fi.

Isn’t this what Sonos Presets does?

Presets in the Sonos app save music, rooms, and volume and bring them back in one tap, and that is a good thing to have built in. A Scene holds more: it regroups the speakers and picks the group leader, sets a volume per speaker plus bass, treble, and loudness, can pause every other room, sets a sleep timer, warns you before you tap if a speaker or playlist has gone missing, runs from Siri and Shortcuts, and syncs to your Apple Watch and to Menu Bar Controller on the Mac.

Can I try it before buying?

Yes. The 14-day trial starts the moment you install Lyd, with every feature unlocked and no signup. After that it is a one-time purchase, no subscription, and Family Sharing covers up to five people.

More questions? Read the support page

Who Makes Lyd

Alexander Heinrich started Lyd in 2019. Dominik Maglia has looked after it since July 2025. It is a one-person project: the person who writes the code also reads the support email.

2019: Built Out of Necessity

"I was frustrated that Sonos never built Apple Watch support. So I did."

Alexander Heinrich

Alexander Heinrich

Developer

Alexander's story

Alexander Heinrich, a longtime Sonos and Apple enthusiast, created Lyd out of personal necessity. As someone who had invested heavily in both ecosystems, he was frustrated by the gap Sonos left open — no way to control his wireless speakers from his Apple Watch.

He named the app "Lyd" — Norwegian for "sound" — reflecting his straightforward approach: pure, direct control over your audio without complexity. What started as a personal project to solve his own daily frustration has become the definitive Apple Watch Sonos controller, used by thousands of music lovers who refuse to compromise on convenience.

2025: Building on the Foundation

"I found Lyd as a user and immediately saw where I could take it further. I reached out to Alexander to make that happen."

Dominik Maglia
Dominik's story

Dominik Maglia discovered Lyd while looking for a better way to control his own Sonos system. The app worked exceptionally well, and he immediately saw potential for more.

As a developer focused on user experience, Dominik knew he could build on Alexander's solid foundation and take Lyd further. He reached out to learn about Alexander's vision and where the app could go.

When Alexander's new job prevented him from continuing development, the timing aligned perfectly. In July 2025, Dominik took over the app with a clear goal: preserve what worked while pushing it forward. Since then, he's shipped a complete UX overhaul (version 4), brought widgets, Live Activities and Shortcuts to the iPhone (version 5), and continues actively developing new features based on user feedback.

Learn How to Get More from Sonos

Step-by-step guides for the widgets, the automations, and the controls on your wrist.

Sonos on Your Apple Watch

Sonos makes no Apple Watch app. Lyd has had one since 2019: rooms, volume on the Digital Crown, Sonos Favorites and grouping, with the phone left wherever it is.

Sonos S1 vs S2, Explained

Two platforms, two apps, and speakers that will never play in sync. What the 2020 split fixed in place, what it still leaves you, and how one app covers both systems.

Six Sonos Apps for iPhone, Compared

Widgets, Apple Watch, Shortcuts, remote access, price: how Clic, Lyd, Orto, Sono+, SonoPhone and Soro differ, and which one fits the way you actually listen.

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For the Mac

Also on a Mac?

Menu Bar Controller for Sonos is our separate macOS app. Sonos sits in the menu bar, one keystroke away, with no window to switch to.

Menu Bar Controller for Sonos

macOS, 14-day free trial

In the menu bar
Playback, volume and rooms, one click from whatever you're doing.
A full Music Library
Search every streaming service, browse your own collection and edit the queue.
Your Scenes, on the Mac too
Scenes sync over iCloud, so a Scene you build in Lyd is one click away on the Mac.
Learn More About MBC
The Menu Bar Controller Music Library window on a MacBook: search across every streaming service, Sonos Favorites and the queue.

One-Time Purchase. Yours Forever.

Pay $8.99* once and use Lyd forever. No subscription, no renewal, nothing to cancel.

Includes a 14-day free trial with complete access to every feature, and Family Sharing for up to five people.

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* App Store pricing varies by country. This price is for the US App Store.