Amarra Play

Name: Amarra Play
Rating: 2.9 (31 reviews)
Author: Sonic Studio

By: Sonic Studio

High Resolution Music Player

Features & Capabilities

Amarra Play brings the highest quality playback to your IOS device. Now providing access to your Qobuz account and soon your TIDAL account, Amarra Play is the app that brings you the tools to get the music you love right at your fingertips.

As a stand-alone app you'll enjoy: • A free version to get superior sound for your audio files copied to your mobile device including FLAC files as well as your local Apple Music library. Spice it all up with a set of powerful EQ presets.

• Upgrade with the in-app purchase for MQA decoding, expand to a professional grade, customizable EQ and add access to your Qobuz and TIDAL accounts as well!

When used with Amarra Luxe, unlock the following features:

• Remote control of Amarra Luxe and Amarra sQ+ from Amarra Play.  Relax, sit back and enjoy!
	• Use Amarra Play to play your music on your IOS device
		Download files to your IOS device (local files only) 
		Stream files to your IOS device (local, Qobuz and TIDAL files) 
• Formats Supported
		MQA Decode up to 96 kHz      (Amarra Luxe license required)
		AIFF, AIFC, MP3, ALAC, FLAC, WAV, AAC, DSD->PCM real-time conversion

NOTE: Amarra Play must be running on same wireless network as computer.
Visit www.sonicstudio.com to get your free 15 day free trial of Amarra Luxe

User Growth & Download Statistics

App

By:

Sonic Studio

Rating:

2.90

(31)

Version:

1.32 Last updated: 2022-08-24

Version code:

851781311

Creation date:

2015-12-31

Compatible devices:

Size:

76.55MB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-07

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# 284,754 ▼ 889

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Developed by:

Sonic Studio

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/amarra-play/id1061144320

Website:

http://www.sonicstudio.com/amarra/amarra_play.php

User Reviews

Amarra Play delivers excellent sound quality and useful EQ, with solid FLAC/MQA support and cross-device control, making it appealing for audiophiles. However, it suffers from instability, a lack of ongoing maintenance, and several core gaps—local streaming limitations, unreliable Tidal integration, and weak library management. If sound fidelity is paramount and bugs are tolerable, it can be compelling; otherwise, stability and feature gaps limit everyday use.

Pros

Excellent sound quality, especially with external DACs; often described as sounding better than other iOS options.
Free version includes useful EQ presets.
Supports FLAC and non-Apple-purchased files, with support for MQA (and DSD, though processing can be slow).
Remote control capability for the Mac counterpart (Amarra Lux) enhances cross-device usability.
Provides a Tidal playback option on iOS as an alternative to the Tidal app, with strong perceived audio quality.

Cons

Frequent crashes and unresponsiveness; slow load times and stability issues across devices.
Not updated in a long time; appears abandoned by developers; compatibility with newer iOS versions is questionable.
Local streaming is not working as advertised (site says streaming local files, but users report needing to copy music into the app); not elegant or intuitive.
Tidal add-on is buggy/unreliable; purchases do not work reliably and support is unhelpful.
Weak library management UI (no global search, confusing organization/sorting); ongoing organization issues and inconsistencies in performance.

Recent reviews

If you have a full MQA DAC or you stream Tidal or Qbuz it is useful. If you have MQA, DSD the free version will at least play the music. The free version has useful EQ presets. It plays FLAC easily so purchased files from non-Apple stores will play. Their site says that it will STREAM local files; IT DOESN’T. Their help pages show copying music to the application on the iPad. Use VLC to stream from a local wireless hub or a connected wireless drive. It’s not elegant but it works better for the music that it can play or decode which is MOST file types. VLC will change the sample rate for HD music. Amara Play is easier to use than Apple Music, iTunes but you need disk space to store the music. It will change the DAC’s sample rate to match the music which Apple doesn’t. The playback controls are unresponsive. It feels like it is crashing. It will play MQA without the purchase but at CD quality and it takes forever to translate it. It will play DSD but it converts it to PCM very, very slowly. If you have FLAC music and don’t want to convert it and then move it iTunes Music this is convenient. If you want to play music from an external drive or networked drive then go elsewhere. VLC or the Stratospherix apps are worth looking over.

by eP*****, 2025-05-13

Either AP and/or AL needs fixes!

by Bj*****, 2024-10-26

The app hasn’t been updated in over a year. The developer seems to have left it behind. It doesn’t seem to work properly on updated iOS anymore. A shame since I could have used a functional eq on Tidal.