What's new in Sonevia.

Sonevia on the App Store

For iPhone, iPad and Mac, with everything from 0.9.0, 0.9.5 and 0.9.8.

Added

• Sonevia for Mac, with one Pro purchase for iPhone, iPad and Mac.
• iCloud Sync, free and on by default.
• Japanese, German, French and Spanish.
• Effects, AutoMix, AirPlay 2 and Emby.

Improved

• The Equalizer keeps up with your finger: no stutter after a drag, the preset list stays where it is, and a touch right after a drag always registers.

Steadier, and room for larger text

Improved

• Larger text sizes fit: Home, Settings and Now Playing rearrange themselves at the largest sizes, so every name stays readable.
• A smoother Equalizer while you drag the curve.
• The Pro page lists every Pro feature, in groups.
• Apple Watch shows the cover when you open it in the middle of a song.

Fixed

• A damaged FLAC or WAV file could close or freeze the app.
• An unusual star rating from a server could close the app.
• A music folder inside Sonevia's own folder could go missing after an update.
• The format badge now follows the app's language.
• On the Mac, Home's quick picks click again, pages scroll clear of the playback bar, and each page shows its title.

Mac, iCloud and five languages

Added

• Sonevia for Mac: a native app for Macs with Apple silicon and macOS 26, with a sidebar, a playback bar, the media keys and Control Center. Add music folders from the sidebar's Folders page.
• iCloud Sync: playlists made in Sonevia, likes, ratings, plays, resume points, EQ profiles, effects and settings stay the same on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Server sign-ins and your ListenBrainz token follow through iCloud Keychain. Your music files are never uploaded.
• Five languages: Japanese, German, French and Spanish join English, in the app, widgets, Siri phrases and on Apple Watch. Pick one on the first screen or in Settings › Language.

Changed

• The privacy policy has a section on iCloud Sync.

Effects, AutoMix and AirPlay 2

Added

• Effects and your own sound chain: reverb, echo, delay, chorus, flanger, phaser, auto-wah, distortion, a compressor, headphone crossfeed, filters, EQ, gain, bit crusher, tremolo, ring modulator and stereo width, up to ten in a row, with eight presets. Changes glide in without a click, and with effects off the sound is untouched.
• Effects for one song: give a song its own chain, which takes over while it plays.
• AutoMix: when two songs share a tempo, the crossfade starts on a beat they share.
• Emby servers.
• More ways to connect: custom headers (such as Cloudflare Access), client certificates, self-signed certificates and servers behind a path.
• Artist mixes: an artist and the artists close to them, using Plex's sonic analysis when your server has it.
• Liked albums.
• Ignore a song and it's skipped everywhere; switch a folder or server library off without removing it.
• Share an album as a picture.
• Two more app icons: Aurora and Paper.

Improved

• AirPlay 2: HomePod and several rooms at once, with lyrics and the time in step with what you hear over AirPlay and Bluetooth.
• Sort names everywhere: "The Beatles" sorts under B, and sort names from your files and servers are used.
• Artist pages show EPs, singles, compilations and live releases.
• Lyrics timing goes past ten seconds either way.
• Cover style: a full-width header or a square cover, for albums and playlists separately.
• iPad: a readable width, a cleaner tab bar, a Go menu and pointer effects.
• A new server sign-in.

Changed

• Playlists have their own tab, and Settings is the gear at the top.

Fixed

• The server screen's text jumped as it opened.
• A second tap on the Search tab now puts the cursor in the field.

Sonevia Pro

Added

• Sonevia Pro: a one-time Lifetime purchase and a free seven-day trial, both through the App Store. Everything else stays Free.
• Search forgives a slip: when nothing matches exactly, the closest songs appear, even with a word one letter off or a word missing.
• Sonevia's own folder in Files, and in Finder on a Mac, for music that lives only on your device.

Changed

• iPad and Mac say "this device" where they used to say "iPhone".
• The quality line beside the cover in CarPlay is a plain label.
• The privacy policy has a section on purchases.

Full-width covers and a better Plex

A fresh look, iPad and Apple Watch

Jellyfin, Plex and your headphones

Added

• Jellyfin and Plex Media Server, beside Navidrome.
• Several servers, and http:// servers at home, with a clear warning.
• Find Your Headphones: thousands of headphone corrections from the AutoEq project.
• Your Apple Music library, and Siri plays songs, albums, artists and playlists by name.
• Immersive Now Playing, playlist downloads, Edit Tags and themes.
• Add Songs and Open in Sonevia, so single files such as M4A play at once.

Improved

• Layouts for larger text, and a fast library even with tens of thousands of songs.

Widgets, Siri and recaps

Added

• Widgets, Siri and Shortcuts.
• Animated artwork made from a video.
• Star ratings, and M3U and M3U8 import and export.
• The loudness scan and Library Health.
• Automatic downloads of your liked songs, most played and chosen playlists.
• Monthly and yearly recaps.
• Apple Music plays go to ListenBrainz too.

A new Library and Search

Added

• A redesigned Library and Search, with an Apple Music tab and its artist and album pages.
• More parametric filters: band-pass, notch, and 12 to 48 dB high and low cuts, in an editor you hear live as you drag.
• Browse by folder.
• ListenBrainz in Settings.
• About, the privacy policy and Acknowledgements inside the app.

The Audio Lab, history and Apple Music

Added

• Sound Check, crossfade, a sleep timer and long-song resume.
• Listening history, stats and smart lists.
• The Audio Lab, the parametric EQ with Compare and sharing, and USB DAC details.
• Your own lyrics, a timing nudge and full-screen lyrics.
• Apple Music as a source, with your own copy played first.
• A private section behind Face ID, and backup and restore.

Improved

• Streaming quality settings, playlists kept in step with your server, and faster browsing.
• Settings, rebuilt as cards.

Navidrome, CarPlay and Autoplay

Added

• Navidrome and OpenSubsonic servers, with downloads and play while downloading.
• A headphone profile for each output, and ParametricEQ.txt import.
• Mixes and Autoplay, so the music keeps going when the queue ends.
• Artist and album pages, with information from Wikipedia.
• ListenBrainz scrobbling.
• CarPlay.

Your library and Now Playing

Added

• Your music folders, with tags, artwork and playlists.
• Now Playing, Home, Search and the mini player.
• The Lock Screen and Control Center.
• A queue you can edit, favourites and resume.
• Synced lyrics.

Every format worth keeping

Added

• Opus, Ogg Vorbis, AAC, WMA, AIFF and DSD.
• Exact song lengths and seeking for DSD and Opus.

The first Sonevia

Added

• FLAC, WAV, ALAC and MP3 playback, with songs that join without a gap.
• The equalizer, with changes you hear without a click.
• Headphones, speakers and calls handled: playback follows your audio output and pauses for interruptions.