The company has addressed these criticisms by optimizing the player for low-end computers, and by offering a "lite" version of the player that uses fewer resources. The player is free to download and use, but there is a premium subscription that allows users to use the player without advertisements, and to access premium features such as the ability to run multiple instances of the player.īlueStacks has been criticized for being resource-intensive, and for running slowly on low-end computers. The player has been downloaded over 210 million times, and has been used to run over 1.5 billion Android apps.
The player also has a built-in Google Play Store, which allows users to purchase and download Android apps and games directly to their computer. The player uses a virtual machine to run the Android apps, and the apps are downloaded from either the Google Play Store or the Amazon Appstore. You brew coffee at home, you don’t walk into Target and you refuse to order avocado toast. The BlueStacks App Player is a platform that allows users to run Android apps on Microsoft Windows and macOS. To install Bluestack, Normally it takes 1530 minutes only, But if your PC is very much low end, then it may take LITTLE more Kyle Taylor Founder at The Penny Hoarder (2010present) Aug 16 Promoted You’ve done what you can to cut back your spending. While you can use BlueStacks to run almost any Android app (it’s compatible with about 97 of the apps in the Google Play Store), the app has found its largest audience with Android users who want to play mobile games on their desktop computer. The company was founded in 2009 by Jay Vaishnav, Suman Saraf, and Rosen Sharma, former CTO of McAfee and a board member of . BlueStacks is free to download, install, and use. BlueStacks is an American technology company that produces the BlueStacks App Player and other cloud-based cross-platform products.