Your ears, your mix: Personalised Dolby Atmos headphone monitoring lands on mobileSonarworks has teamed up with Dolby to launch SoundID Tools, a free mobile app that allows you to generate Dolby Atmos personalisation profiles for headphone monitoring.
Available now on iOS and Android, SoundID Tools brings a surprisingly advanced piece of studio tech into your pocket. Using your phone’s camera to scan your head and ears, the app captures your unique physical characteristics and applies Dolby’s personalisation technology to generate a Dolby Headphone Personalisation profile – a calibration file tailored to how you perceive spatial audio.

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That distinction is key. Immersive audio isn’t just about speaker placement or binaural rendering. It’s shaped by the listener’s anatomy.
As David Gould, Senior Director of Content Creation and Distribution at Dolby Laboratories puts it, “Every creator’s physical characteristics are unique, which affects how they experience immersive audio over headphones. By combining Dolby’s technology with Sonarworks’ calibration expertise, the app enables more accurate Dolby Atmos monitoring.”
The process itself is designed to be frictionless. After a quick scan, the app generates a profile in minutes, ready to be loaded into the Dolby Atmos Renderer standalone app or used within supported DAWs via native Dolby Atmos rendering. No additional hardware is required beyond your phone and a pair of headphones.
Once applied, the improvements land where they matter most. Direction, distance, and height in a headphone mix become more accurately perceived, giving you greater confidence that your spatial decisions will translate. In practical terms, that means fewer surprises when checking your immersive mixes across different playback systems.
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The app’s promise is simple but ambitious: create a monitoring baseline that travels with you. Whether working in a professional studio or a makeshift mobile setup, the personalised profile aims to deliver consistent spatial accuracy, tonal balance, and mix confidence. No two creators hear a soundstage the same way, and SoundID Tools is built around correcting for exactly that.
For Sonarworks – whose SoundID Reference calibration software is used in over 300,000 studios worldwide – the collaboration marks a natural step into immersive workflows.
“At Sonarworks, our mission has always been to help creators hear their mixes accurately and with confidence, no matter where they work,” says Sonarworks CPO and co-founder Martins Popelis. “We are thrilled to partner with Dolby to help Dolby Atmos creators make great-sounding immersive mixes on headphones – and to deliver more value to the broad community of users who rely on SoundID Reference calibration for accuracy.”
With SoundID Tools free to download and Dolby Atmos profile creation available at no cost, personalised immersive monitoring is no longer a high-end studio luxury.
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