BluOS Controller User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience38.8% of reviews
Neutral11.9% of reviews
Negative experience49.3% of reviews

~ Based on 804 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is BluOS Controller Safe?

BluOS Controller appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for BluOS Controller is 88/100.

This assessment is based on 5,316 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.4/5.

Safety Analysis

84.1% of ratings point to a safe experience
4.5% of ratings suggest some concerns
11.4% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 5,316 App Store ratings for BluOS Controller.

Is BluOS Controller Legit?

BluOS Controller appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for BluOS Controller is 100/100.

Based on 100 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Does not connect

Serious connection problems all the time. It might work all right for a while, but then I can’t seem to find the player

What happened?

I started using this app around a year ago and truly loved using it. But out of nowhere the new update makes scrolling through long lists a painful experience. It gets stuck halfway through and I need to wait until it gets its second wind before proceeding! And this is on an iPad Pro no less!

Disappointed

Was so looking forward to replacing my Denon HEOS for higher quality streams and more service, which is here. Often drops wifi connection. Poor app. Both iPhone and iPad apps have the smallest possible font identifying which device you are controlling in the bottom left corner in the music bar. There is no off button and multiple time I started playing in the wrong room startling my wife. Close to $3,000 in with Icon and Edge thinking I made a mistake.
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Dreadful

A maze of hidden pointless dross

Shockingly bad

I’ve never reviewed an app before but this is one of the worst (if not the worst) I’ve ever used. I use it in tandem with Qobuz and most of the time I end up abandoning this app and just using Qobuz via bluetooth, even though i’m sacrificing audio (the whole reason I got the DAC). It always wants to update and the fact that they charge for this app is shameful.
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Latest update crashed the app

Just spent 3 hours on the phone with blue sound. Yesterday’s update caused my app to recognize my players but then said checking for updates for your player and the little wheel just spins with no results.

App disconnects daily

Really poor app, you don’t have to look far to discover all the issues with the app and player. App never reconnects after an update if you use an ethernet cable. App looses the player almost every time I open it. Lastly you have to use the app, with no alternative.

App doom loop

I’ve been using this system for years. Recently, the app has been disconnecting from the unit. When trying to reconnect, I get stuck in a doom loop of my phone trying to connect to the unit, it not connecting, me hitting “Cancel” on the app with the hopes of getting into the app itself, but instead, the app tries to reconnect to the unit. Over and over and over.
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Always disconnects

The app is so bad it always disconnects and then I can’t play sound

Does Not Work

My $1300 amp just never works on this app, just wire or Sonos

VPN Warning

If you use a VPN service on your iPhone then expect this app to keep throwing “WiFi Not Connected” errors.
That aside, it does its job.
It could do with a light theme.

Thumbs down on this app

This app often has glitches and makes one long for the days of a simple “on-off” switch on your stereo. Tech support focuses solely on your hardware (brand of router, type of cables) when you reach out, rather than accepting feedback on the bugs in their app. Too bad.

Grouping speakers

I can never group speakers, I often have to exit the app and re-start it just to get the speaker working that I was listening to before trying to group them. I wish I’d stuck with Sonos.

Latest update can’t connect.

Was decent for a few years until latest update. Stopped loading content and now won’t connect to my network. Please fix this app so I don’t have to buy another streamer!

Doesn’t work

Loses connection with my 1 of my 2 BlueSound speakers daily. Hangs all the time. Won’t pick up other devices. It is a seriously flawed app and makes me regret the space these speakers are taking up in my house

Poor UI

This controller has a very poor User Interface and keeps sending messages. I got this to work but after lots of trouble. I have the M50 streamer and it took hours to set up. And although it works I keep getting error messages that make no sense.

No longer works

Doesn’t work with newest update at all

App sucks!

My

BluWaist

I’ve had so many issue getting it to find the node icon, I gave up!
I use Tidal directly and that always work, but the BluOs app NEVER, had the node icon for 4 months, I found it once … :(

Needs to be scriptable

Would be a lot better if we could use Apple Shortcuts. Would also be nice if you could attach icons to radio stations not provided by TuneIn which in itself is of very little use, due to legal action, in the UK. Home Screen layout is not very attractive.