Mast for Bose SoundTouch systems
Independent app · local · no cloud

The cloud went dark.
Your speakers keep broadcasting.

No account. No cloud. Just your wifi.

Mast brings internet radio back to your Bose SoundTouch systems — straight over your own wifi. No account, no server, nothing on a cloud service that can be discontinued.

Download on theApp Store Get it onGoogle Play

Now on Google Play. The App Store version is with Apple for review.

The Mast home screen: six numbered preset buttons above a list of favourite stations, with a playback bar at the bottom.
No accountNothing to sign up for.
No trackingNothing that follows you.
No server of oursNothing of ours to switch off.
Works after the shutdownBuilt to keep working.
Works only on your own wifi, with Bose SoundTouch models that speak the local API. There's no control away from home or over 4G/5G — the app talks straight to the speaker in your house.
The reason

Your speaker is fine. It just lost its connection.

On 6 May 2026, the SoundTouch cloud was shut down.

The official app relied on Bose servers. When they went dark, presets, music-service browsing and TuneIn internet radio all vanished — even from the physical buttons on your speaker. The speaker itself isn't broken; only the cloud around it is gone.

Mast takes over that role locally. Everything the app does happens between your phone and your speaker, on your own network. There's no server of ours to ever switch off.

Bose published the SoundTouch Web API in January 2026, under public terms of use that permit independent apps. That publication is what makes Mast both possible and permitted: it speaks that documented local API to control the speakers you already own, over your own wifi.

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18 Feb 2026Original shutdown dateLater postponed by Bose.
2
6 May 2026SoundTouch cloud effectively shut downPresets, music-service browsing and TuneIn stop working.
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15 May 2026Account data deletedThe account and the data held with it are removed.
How it works

The conversation stays inside your walls.

Before, a preset or radio request travelled to a Bose datacenter and back. Now the app talks straight to the speaker — one hop, on your own wifi.

Until 6 May 2026

Via the Bose cloud

Phone Bose cloud ✕ Speaker

Presets, music services and TuneIn ran through a Bose server. When it shut down, they died with it — only Bluetooth, AUX and AirPlay survived.

→ Cloud gone = radio and presets silent.

Now, with Mast

Straight over your wifi

Phone Speaker

The app finds your speaker on the network and sends commands right to it. No stopover, no account.

→ Works over your own wifi — no cloud of ours to go dark.

Honest about the internet: control is fully local, but the radio stations themselves stream from the internet — that's what internet radio is. Searching for stations uses the public radio-browser.info service. The difference from before: no middleman logging what you play, and no account.
What it does

Everything you need. Nothing you don't.

Your 6 presets are back, in the app

Tap to play. Press and hold to save.

Mast gives you 6 preset buttons of its own: tap one to play that station, press and hold to put whatever is playing on that button. They live in Mast, on your phone. Setting one takes seconds. A station needs a plain-HTTP stream; most have one.

Mast's own 6 buttons — tap to play, press and hold to save

Thousands of stations

Search, tap, playing.

Search tens of thousands of internet radio stations and play them on your speaker instantly — as long as the station offers a plain-HTTP stream (most do).

Via the public radio-browser.info service

Multi-room

The same song in every room.

Group several Bose SoundTouch speakers into one zone and play the same thing everywhere.

Play Everywhere, hardware-synced

Private by nature

Nothing leaves your phone.

No account, no analytics, no server of ours. Your settings stay on your phone.

Nothing is ever sent to us

Live on screen

The app follows the speaker.

Change the volume on the speaker itself and the slider in the app moves with it.

Real-time, straight from the speaker

Finds your speaker on its own

No setup wizard to sit through.

The app discovers Bose SoundTouch speakers on your network — over mDNS and, if needed, by scanning your subnet. If it still can't, you enter the IP address.

mDNS + subnet scan + manual entry
A look at the app

This is all of it.

One screen to play something, one screen of settings. No dashboard, no feed, nothing to sign in to.

Six presets at the top, your favourites below, and what's playing always in reach.
Five languages, light or dark, and a speaker found on your own network — not in an account.
The same app on a tablet, laid out for the bigger screen.
Getting started

Playing in three steps.

1

Install the app and find your speaker

Open Mast, tap “Find speakers” and pick your device. If the app finds nothing, the checklist below sorts out almost every case.

On iPhone: the first time, iOS asks for Local Network access — tap Allow, or the app can't see your speaker. You can turn it on later under Settings → Apps → Mast → Local Network.
Not on your wifi yet? Mast finds a system on your network but cannot put one there. A new, second-hand or factory-reset system does its first wifi setup in the official Bose SoundTouch app, which is still available — the steps are on the support page.
2

Play

Search for a station and play it. The speaker fetches the stream itself — so your phone can then lock or leave the network.

Phone and speaker have to be on the same wifi network (not a guest network).
3

Put your 6 presets back

Playing something you want to keep? Press and hold one of the 6 preset buttons to put that station on it. Tap it to bring it back — the buttons live in Mast, on your phone.

Where they live: Mast's 6 presets sit in the app, on your phone — not on the speaker's own buttons. A station needs a plain-HTTP stream; most have one.

App can't find your speaker?

  • Is the speaker on your wifi at all? A new or factory-reset system has to be put on the network once with the official Bose SoundTouch app — the support page walks through it. Mast only finds systems that are already there.
  • Are the phone and speaker on the same wifi network (not guest wifi)?
  • On iPhone: is the Local Network permission on?
  • Is “client / AP isolation” off on your router? It stops devices from seeing each other.
  • Is a VPN active on your phone? Turn it off for a moment.
  • Is the speaker on and not in standby?
  • Still nothing? Enter the IP address by hand. On iPhone this still needs the Local Network permission — iOS routes all local traffic through it. Denied it? Settings → Apps → Mast → Local Network.
  • Typed the IP in by hand? Give the speaker a fixed address in your router — a “DHCP reservation” — so it can't move again.
Compatibility

If the old app could reach it, Mast probably can.

Works with Bose SoundTouch systems.

Mast talks to a Bose SoundTouch system directly over your wifi, using the same local API the old app used. Any system that app could control on your home network is a candidate if it's on firmware 27.x — so try it with yours.

Your speaker

Requires firmware 27.x — every speaker that kept receiving updates until the shutdown has it. No firmware has been published since. Whether an older speaker can still update itself is untested, so try yours before assuming it can't.

Requirements

iPhoneiOS 15 or later
AndroidAndroid 7 or later
NetworkSpeaker on your wifi
CostOne-time purchase, not a subscription
Honest about what it does (and doesn't)

We'd rather you knew now.

What Mast does

  • ✓Play and save your 6 presets in Mast — tap to play, press and hold to save
  • ✓Search and play thousands of internet radio stations
  • ✓Volume, mute, power, play/pause
  • ✓Group multiple speakers (multi-room), with group and per-speaker volume — your group is restored when you reopen the app
  • ✓Adjust the bass (on speakers that support it) and rename the speaker
  • ✓Organize stations with Favorites (♡), across the Recents, Favorites, Suggested and Search tabs
  • ✓See popular stations for your country, cached for offline use
  • ✓Remembers your speakers: tap to reconnect, and it survives your router's IP changes

What it doesn't do

  • —Automatically restore your old cloud presets
  • —Control away from home or over 4G/5G
  • —Sleep timer
  • —Live track titles (station name and logo, yes)
  • —Log in to Spotify or other streaming services
  • —Play stations that stream only over HTTPS (a speaker-firmware limitation)
  • —Back up presets or sync them between phones
  • —Bring the physical preset buttons on the speaker back to life — Mast is the remote

Two of those are built this way on purpose

Controlling your speaker from outside the house, and having your presets turn up on a second phone, both need a server in the middle that has to keep running forever. That's exactly the arrangement that fell silent when the SoundTouch cloud shut down on 6 May 2026.

Mast is built the other way round: your phone talks straight to the speaker on your own wifi, so there's nothing of ours that can be switched off. If a lot of people ask for it, it may land on the roadmap later — as an optional extra, never as something local control depends on.

This list is up front on purpose: knowing what the app does beforehand means no surprises. Mast is an independent product and depends on hardware, firmware and interfaces controlled by Bose that can change without notice.

Frequently asked

Straight answers.

Does Mast still work now that the SoundTouch cloud has been shut down?
Yes — that's the whole point. Mast talks straight to your speaker on your own network and needs no Bose server at all. As long as your wifi and speaker work, Mast works.
Do I need an account or internet?
No account. Controlling your speaker needs no internet, just your local wifi. The internet only comes in to receive the radio streams themselves and to search stations via radio-browser.info.
Are my old presets restored?
No — your old presets lived in the Bose cloud and can't be brought back: they pointed at a cloud ID, not a stream URL. Mast gives you 6 preset buttons of its own instead, kept in the app on your phone, and you set each one once: play a station and press and hold that button. One condition: the station needs a plain-HTTP stream, because the speaker's firmware can't fetch HTTPS.
Do you collect my data?
No. There's no account, no analytics and no server of ours. Your settings stay on your phone. What the app does send out is transparent: your search term goes to radio-browser.info and the radio streams come from the stations themselves. The details are in the privacy statement.
Will Mast work with my speaker?
If the old Bose app could control your system over your home network, Mast is worth trying — it speaks the same local API. The hard requirement on the speaker side is firmware 27.x: every speaker that kept receiving updates until the shutdown has it, and no firmware was published after that. Whether a speaker that was never updated can still update itself is untested. See compatibility.
What does it cost?
Mast is a one-time purchase, not a subscription. No account either. The exact price is shown in the App Store and Google Play — it differs from country to country.
Are you affiliated with Bose?
No. Mast is an independent app. Bose is in no way involved in, connected to or responsible for this app. Mast uses the SoundTouch Web API that Bose made publicly available on 7 January 2026.
Why won't one particular station play?
Most likely it only streams over HTTPS. The speaker's firmware can't fetch HTTPS streams; Mast automatically uses a station's plain-HTTP stream when one exists, but a station without one can't play on a SoundTouch speaker. That's a firmware limitation, not something an app can fix.
Can Mast set up a second-hand or factory-reset speaker?
Mast can't put a speaker on your wifi — the local API only works once the speaker is already on the network. The first wifi setup still works with the last official Bose SoundTouch app, without an account or cloud: it is still in the App Store and on Google Play. Once the speaker is on your wifi, Mast takes it from there.
Why can't I control my speaker when I'm not at home?
Because that would need a server of ours in the middle, permanently online — the same construction that fell silent when the SoundTouch cloud shut down on 6 May 2026. Mast keeps the connection between your phone and your speaker on your own wifi, so there's nothing in the middle to fail or be switched off. The same applies to getting your presets onto another phone.
Can Mast do what the Bose SoundTouch app no longer does?
Part of it. Mast takes over local control of the speaker, internet radio, 6 presets kept in the app, and multi-room groups — everything the speaker can do on your own wifi. It does not take over the first wifi setup (the last official Bose SoundTouch app still does that), browsing music services, the speaker's own preset buttons, or control from outside the house. If those four were never what you used the app for, Mast covers most of the rest.
Ready to listen

Give your Bose SoundTouch system a second life.

Buy once. On your own wifi. With no cloud of ours to fail.

Download on theApp Store Get it onGoogle Play

Now on Google Play. The App Store version is with Apple for review.

What Mast is

Mast is an independent app from KEVALO BV, a small company in Belgium. It controls Bose SoundTouch speakers locally, over your own wifi: internet radio, 6 presets kept in the app, multi-room. You buy it once — no subscription, no account, no server of ours, no tracking.