Comparison

Sonority for Sonos vs Ordinalist

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Sonority for Sonos

This app enhances your speaker setup beyond the official controller, allowing for advanced configurations like dedicated front speakers, custom speaker groups, and EQ adjustments. It provides detailed control over your home theater system and speaker pairings, all managed locally over your Wi-Fi network.

Highlights
  • Dedicated front speakers on soundbars
  • Build complete home theater systems
  • Custom speaker groups (2-16 speakers)
  • Configurable profiles with one-tap rebuild
  • 10-band equalizer for custom tuning
  • Rename rooms and identify speakers
  • Diagnostic tools for troubleshooting
Features
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Sonority configures your speakers in ways the standard controller app doesn’t allow, using only the local network connection on your home Wi-Fi. It does no audio processing of its own; all the sound comes from your real speakers. The configurations it creates are standard, supported speaker bondings, just ones the official app chooses not to expose. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Dedicated front speakers on a soundbar: add a discrete left/right pair so your bar becomes the center channel, for a true three-speaker front stage. • Build a complete home theater in one guided flow: fronts, rear surrounds and one or two subs, each optional. • Use a single amplifier to drive both passive front speakers. • Speaker groups the standard app won’t make: full-range zones of 2-16 speakers, stereo pairs (including mismatched models), or a custom per-speaker left/right/both layout, each with an optional sub. • Config profiles: snapshot your whole layout and rebuild it in one tap after moving speakers around. Each profile gets its own icon and colour, reorders with a drag, and opens a per-entity detail view showing exactly what it saved. A profile can also capture and restore per-speaker audio settings (bass, treble, loudness, night sound, speech enhancement, sub and surround levels, lip-sync) and, optionally, volume. • Apply a profile without opening the app: from a home-screen widget (small, medium or large) or a long-press on the app icon. • A 10-band equaliser for a home theater, speaker group or single speaker, something the standard app doesn’t offer at all. Start from a Movie, Music or Vocal preset, then tune the whole configuration at once, or each speaker separately, and move all bands together to set one speaker’s level. An Amp or Port has no tunable channels; the rest of the set is still tuned. • Rename rooms, toggle a speaker’s room-calibration tuning, and identify which physical speaker is which by blinking its status light (or a short chime on phones and tablets), right from a room or a bonded speaker. • Diagnostics: a technical, hide-nothing view of your system when something isn’t working, which you can share with support or email to the developer to get help. • Works on phones, tablets and desktops, with a layout that adapts to the screen: a roomy side navigation and multi-column view on big screens, the familiar single column on phones. Every change is made over your local network and shown to you before it’s applied. Every layout can be undone in the app. Changing a layout or applying an EQ can clear a measured room tuning. PRIVACY No account. No sign-in. No analytics, no tracking, and no data collected. Sonority talks only to the speakers on your own Wi-Fi network. Nothing leaves your home unless you choose to send diagnostics to get help. REQUIREMENTS Compatible speakers on the same Wi-Fi network as your device. A speaker holds one tuning: either one measured in the manufacturer’s own app, or the EQ you set in Sonority. — Sonority is an independent app and is not affiliated with, authorized, maintained, sponsored, or endorsed by Sonos, Inc. “Sonos” is a trademark of Sonos, Inc., used here only to describe compatibility.

About

Ordinalist

This app helps you definitively rank your music by presenting two songs at a time for you to choose your favorite. It tracks every decision to generate a complete ranking from your most to least preferred tracks.

Highlights
  • Rank playlists, albums, or discographies
  • Pairwise song comparison
  • Automatic ranking generation
  • Multi-language support
  • Definitive music order
Features
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You say you know your favorite music. Cute! Prove it. Ordinalist takes a playlist, album, or discography and makes you decide between two choices at a time. You pick the one you like more. Then do it again. And again. And several more times because apparently you needed 147 songs in this playlist. While you’re busy having an existential crisis over which track you’ve heard 600 times is better, Ordinalist keeps track of every choice and turns them into a complete ranking from favorite to least favorite. No star ratings, no scoring songs out of 10 like you’re judging Olympic gymnastics, and no deciding whether something feels like an 8.7 or an 8.6. Two songs. Pick one. That’s the whole deal. The easy choices go quickly, but the hard ones make you question everything you’ve ever claimed about yourself. Eventually, you get the thing you came for: an actual, definitive ranking of your music based entirely on your own decisions. So when your alleged favorite ends up at #14, don’t look at us. You did that. HOW IT WORKS - Pick a playlist, album, or discography to judge - Ordinalist gives you two choices - Pick your favorite - Keep going until everything is ranked - Stare at the results - Disagree with yourself - Rank something else Ordinalist doesn’t decide what you like, but it does keep receipts. Ordinalist includes support for English, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, German, Japanese, Korean, and Simplified Chinese.

Screenshots

Sonority for Sonos4 screens
Ordinalist4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Ordinalist at Free against Sonority for Sonos's $2.99. Ordinalist also leads on update cadence (weekly vs fortnightly). Sonority for Sonos's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On rating, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Ordinalist is free to download; Sonority for Sonos costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Sonority for Sonos against 5.0 for Ordinalist. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sonority for Sonos ships an update fortnightly, Ordinalist weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Sonority for Sonos versus Ordinalist: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSonority for SonosOrdinalist
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyFortnightlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB43 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCasper VerswijveltAndrew Mastracchio

Customer experience

Sonority for Sonos

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Ordinalist

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Sonority for Sonos

No in-app purchases

None

Ordinalist

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sonority for Sonos free?
Sonority for Sonos costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Ordinalist free?
Ordinalist is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Sonority for Sonos or Ordinalist?
Sonority for Sonos and Ordinalist are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Sonority for Sonos or Ordinalist have ads?
Neither Sonority for Sonos nor Ordinalist shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sonority for Sonos or Ordinalist?
Sonority for Sonos ships an update fortnightly, and Ordinalist weekly. Most recently, Sonority for Sonos was updated on November 10, 2026 and Ordinalist on November 6, 2026.

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