BlueStacks 2 — Run any mobile app on PC.

Hey @_jacksmith, Great comment and question. The majority of apps created today are platform-agnostic - you see this especially in the gaming, social, and messaging space. So most games created for iOS are also created for Android to maximize audience. This strategy allows studios to cater to the majority of the mobile market. In this sense, our statement is not quite that misleading. We differ in a few key ways. For one, our technology stack is completely different which allows our product to have a much higher machine compatibility rate than our competitors. No one on the market today has the scale in running Android applications across PC's and Mac's. This position gives us the unique ability to become an app discovery platform for the non-traditional mobile gamers. These are the people that generally play PC games but now, given the better user experience, start exploring the mobile game ecosystem. Now we have a situation where users have their first experiences with a mobile game on their computers rather than their phones. They play games on BlueStacks at home and continue playing on the go with their Android devices. Besides that, the new release allows multiple applications to run simultaneously, exposes a new toolbar providing a more fluid user experience than our competition, and introduces app discovery functionality allowing users to discover new and popular apps from around the world. tl;dr: Most apps our users want to play are developed on both iOS and Android. Scale and a long, unrivaled feature set separates us from the competition.

Hey @tomharari, Thanks for giving us a shot a year ago. I can confidently say that over the last year we have significantly improved performance and user experience. We added software optimizations for the most popular Android apps which now allows high-demand apps to run smoother with lower memory requirements. We also added features that now provide a better experience than you would otherwise get on your phone. If you plan on testing anymore apps, we've made it easy to load APKs using the new toolbar on the left side of the application. You can drag and drop the APK onto the client or simply press the APK button. You can even double-click the APK from your desktop to launch it in BlueStacks. The other major difference is that you can now run multiple apps simultaneously. So while testing your app, you can go ahead and use messenger apps or play games without interrupting any one application.

Hi @peternikolow, We released a brand new BlueStacks version for Mac on July 1st, 2015. It's currently live on our site for Mac users. Prior to this release, the only Mac update we had out was an Alpha version. Give this new version a try. In the meantime, we're working on bringing all of our new features and functionality from BlueStacks 2 to our Mac users.