Comparison

Sonority for Sonos vs TripWave

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

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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

TripWave

Features
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Your music deserves more than a progress bar. Music with Visuals turns your iPhone or iPad into a moving world of color, light, and rhythm. Drift through liquid patterns, dive into cosmic tunnels, or watch waves and particles dance with the beat. Find a look for a quiet evening, a favorite album, or a room full of friends. PICK YOUR SOUND Explore live internet radio across chillout, ambient, electronic, jazz, rock, classical, dance, and more. Save favorite stations, add your own streams or .pls playlists, and hide stations you do not want to hear again. You can also play audio files from your library in the app or use the microphone to react to nearby sound. On iOS and iPadOS 27 or later, Listen to Device Audio lets supported audio from other apps drive the visuals. On iPad, you can also open the Spotify source and select "tripwave" from Spotify on another device on the same local network. The Spotify receiver is available on iPad, not iPhone. TAKE THE SHOW TO YOUR TV Send the visualizer and its audio to compatible AirPlay or Google Cast receivers. Keep the controls on your phone or tablet while the big screen brings the music into the room. Casting requires compatible receiving hardware on the same local network. SAVE A MOMENT WORTH SHARING Record 1080p HDR visualizer videos in portrait or landscape on supported devices, then save or share the result. Recording requires active audio and is available when casting is off. MAKE THE VISUALS YOURS Explore thousands of presets, save the ones you love, and use Queue All to build a visual playlist from your favorites. Switch scenes yourself or let the automatic-change timer take over. Known strobing presets are hidden by default; Pro settings let you choose to show them. Highlights: - Full-screen visuals that respond to the music - AirPlay and Google Cast streaming to compatible receivers - 1080p HDR video recording on supported devices - Live radio, audio-file playback, and microphone mode - Device-audio visualization on iOS and iPadOS 27 or later - Spotify receiver on iPad - Saved visualizations, Queue All, and automatic scene changes - No app account or registration required Press play. Find your world. Share the show.

Screenshots

Sonority for Sonos4 screens
TripWave4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: TripWave at Free against Sonority for Sonos's $2.99. Sonority for Sonos's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On update cadence, ads and device support 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

TripWave is free to download; Sonority for Sonos costs $2.99 up front. TripWave sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Sonority for Sonos asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly fortnightly. Both last shipped on November 10, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Sonority for Sonos versus TripWave: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSonority for SonosTripWave
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightlyFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad, Apple TV
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB303 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperCasper VerswijveltAjit Dhiwal

In-app purchases

None

Sonority for Sonos

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

TripWave

One-time1
  • Lifetime Pro Unlock$4.99

Questions

Is Sonority for Sonos free?
Sonority for Sonos costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is TripWave free?
TripWave is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Sonority for Sonos or TripWave have ads?
Neither Sonority for Sonos nor TripWave shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sonority for Sonos or TripWave?
Sonority for Sonos ships an update fortnightly, and TripWave fortnightly. Most recently, Sonority for Sonos was updated on November 10, 2026 and TripWave on November 10, 2026.

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