Use Android apps on Windows

You can also use Android apps on Windows. We show you how to bring the apps to your screen in our step-by-step instructions.

Use Android apps on Windows - Bluestacks makes it possible

1. Download the free Bluestacks player from our download portal and install the tool.
2. Next, log in to the software with your Google account and activate "App synch". Here, too, you have to enter your account data again.
3. Click on "Let's go" and search for the app from the Google Store.
4. Before starting the download, you have to confirm the access rights (as with the smartphone).
5. On the Bluestacks homepage you will now find the downloaded app under "All Apps". You can now start this.
6. Note: If an app needs a certain control, you will be shown this when you start the app. For example, tilting movements are replaced by arrow keys.

Call the Android app again later

1. With the installation of Bluestacks you also received a new library - "Apps" (see picture). This hides all installed apps that you can open with a double click.
2. Alternatively, you can call up the apps again via the Bluestacks start page and "All Apps". In both cases, continue working where you left off last.

Note:

Because the BlueStacks app is still in beta, it sometimes crashes and runs quite slowly. A good alternative is the free tool "Manymo".

Read also how you use Android as an operating system, for example on a notebook or ultrabook.