Introducing Sonarpad for iOS and Android: a light app to read documents, check news, subscribe to podcasts, listen to radio stations, and much more!

By Ambro, 9 June, 2026

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iOS and iPadOS

Hello everyone, dear AppleVis community.

I would like to present my project Sonarpad, which is now also available on iOS and Android.

After creating Sonarpad for Windows and Mac, which you can find on the website https://sonarpad.com, I have finally brought my ideas to the mobile world too. These ideas have already had very good success.

At the moment, the iOS version is still in beta, but it has already been tested by many Italian testers. For this reason, I am happy to share it with you too.

Sonarpad is a light app, but it has many features. You can read documents and books, and also edit them. You can read news, subscribe to podcasts and listen to them, with an automatic bookmark that starts again from the point where you stopped.

You can also check movies that are now in cinemas or coming soon, and listen to the trailer. Sonarpad also has route search, weather, calendar, and a file converter, which can convert audio and video files into different formats.

By default, the app divides these icons into categories, so everything is more organized and easier to find.

You can also share any file, document or media file with Sonarpad and play it inside the app.

The Sonarpad player lets you go forward and backward during playback. You can also choose how much time to skip. By default, it skips one minute. For video files, you can also turn the video on or off.

I know that, at first, it may seem like many features for one app. But this was exactly the idea of Sonarpad: to bring many features together in an accessible and simple app.

Sonarpad for Windows and Mac has already been downloaded all over the world.

At the moment, Sonarpad Mobile is translated into Italian, English, French and Spanish. More languages will be added in the future, depending on users’ requests.

For example, Sonarpad for Windows has also been translated into Polish, Portuguese, Swedish, Czech, Chinese, Hindi, and other languages.

After this short presentation, here are the links to try the app.

iOS:
https://testflight.apple.com/join/DDcsg87N

Android:
https://sonarpad.com/Sonarpad-android-apk.zip

Best regards,
Ambro

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Comments

By Enes Deniz on Tuesday, June 9, 2026 - 18:08

There once was such an app that gathered similar functions in one place, but then it was removed from the App Store, so this one will be great. I've not yet tested it, but I may come back here and give feedback once I do. It's also good that Sonarpad appears to have been designed with accessibility in mind, and we can use it on Windows and MacOS as well.

By Seamus on Tuesday, June 9, 2026 - 18:23

This app is only in Italian. Can you please translate it so it works in English?

By Ambro on Tuesday, June 9, 2026 - 18:40

Hi, the app is already translated into English, but maybe it cannot detect the language of your device.
You should look for the Italian word “Impostazioni”. There you will find “Lingua”, and then you can choose English.

By Ambro on Tuesday, June 9, 2026 - 19:54

I have sent a new version of the app. It will be available soon.
This version detects the iPhone language better, so this problem should not happen anymore on some iPhones.
I will let you know when the new version is uploaded. Then you should uninstall the old version and install the new one.

By Ambro on Tuesday, June 9, 2026 - 22:36

Hi, I have uploaded the new version to the App Store. It has improved detection of the user’s language.
In this way, the problem where the app appears in Italian even if your iPhone or iPad is set to English or another language should no longer happen.
I look forward to your opinions and comments.

By Diego on Tuesday, June 9, 2026 - 23:01

Hello Ambro and everyone.
First of all, I would like to congratulate you on the mobile version.
Now they have become even more powerful!
I would suggest, when opening a document, the option to search for texts, if that is possible.
Thanks!

By Ambro on Tuesday, June 9, 2026 - 23:15

Hi Diego, and thank you for your comment.
This is a very good idea, and it will be added to Sonarpad very soon.
For now, I suggest you try to edit the paragraphs. You only need to double tap on the paragraph you want to edit. You can also split paragraphs by pressing Enter.
Very often, for example, when you import books, some lines are joined together. In this way, you can split them and then save the book as you want. Of course, you can also correct any typing mistakes in the books.
There is also a slider that lets you move forward and backward in the document, and you can also add a bookmark.