Drag for the number of rooms you want to fill. The Sonos number is current retail pricing for their speakers. The Home Audio Sync number is the full cost — for as many rooms as you want.
Prices reflect Sonos's current listed retail. Doesn't include accessories, stands, sub, soundbar, or replacements when older speakers fall off the supported list.
Sonos makes good speakers. These are the parts of owning them that have driven people to look for something else.
Older Sonos products have been moved off the supported list more than once. When that happens, your speakers keep working — until they don't play nicely with the new app, the new protocol, or the rest of your house. With Home Audio Sync, your "speakers" are devices you already use for everything else. They get updated by Apple, Google, and Samsung. They're not waiting on us.
Sonos's 2024 app overhaul was widely criticized — features removed, basic controls broken, alarms unreliable. It happens because the app is the only way in. Home Audio Sync is a web app: open a link in any browser. Nothing to update, nothing to roll back, and on a bad release you can keep using the old URL.
Once you buy in, every new room is another $250–$700 speaker from the same company. Mixing brands is a workaround at best. Home Audio Sync is hardware-agnostic — pair an iPad in the kitchen with a smart TV in the den with a Bluetooth speaker on the patio, and they sync.
New Sonos speakers are notorious for fussy setup — accounts, firmware updates, mesh reconfiguration, swearing. To add a room to Home Audio Sync, you open a URL and scan a QR code. Total time: ten seconds.
A typical whole-home Sonos setup is four figures before you've heard a note. The hardware is genuinely good — but if you have devices already, they're effectively free speakers. We made the software so you can use them.
We're honest about it. Here's what Sonos still does better — and where Home Audio Sync wins by a lot.
I've wanted a whole-home audio setup for years, but I couldn't justify spending thousands of dollars on proprietary hardware. I had speakers in my office upstairs, a receiver on the main floor, and surround sound in the basement — and I just wanted a way to use them all together.
There had to be a way to use the old phones, tablets, and laptops I already had lying around. So I built one. It's a web app — you open a room, drag in your music, and scan a QR code on any other device to lock it into the same audio stream. No apps to install. It plays directly through the browser.
Getting the synchronization right was the hard part, and there are still rough edges — TVs and Bluetooth devices are tricky. But for anything that loads and plays quickly, it's seamless. It's mostly for listening to your own music, with YouTube integration for tracks you don't own.
Try it free. Let us know how it handles on your hardware.