My favourite streaming app simply received an overhaul

Plex’s long-awaited “newly reimagined Plex Expertise,” is lastly right here after testing began last year.

The brand new replace for Plex’s cellular app is rolling out now on iOS and Android, utterly reworking the app’s design from head to toe. It provides a way more trendy and streamlined look, just like different streaming services. Standout modifications embody a redesigned navigation system, expanded use of paintings, and a devoted tab for media libraries.

Many individuals use the Plex app to entry their media server remotely. Beforehand, accessing your server required navigating via a number of hamburger-style menus. Now, it’s positioned entrance and heart on the app’s navigation bar — a welcome quality-of-life enchancment.

“Our mission at Plex is to create a worldwide group the place everybody can uncover, expertise, and share all the leisure that issues to them,” Plex mentioned in a blog post. “This rebuilt expertise is simply one other manner we’re staying true to our mission.”

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Plex’s new cellular app expertise pops

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After downloading and attempting out Plex’s cellular app redesign, I have to say I am impressed to date. Plex’s expanded use of paintings throughout the complete app is noticeable, and I like how the pages for reveals and films pop now. Plex has additionally added title paintings for reveals and films the place obtainable, a pleasant contact that makes every web page stand out much more.

Moreover, Plex has made it simpler for customers to entry their Watchlist by putting a brand new shortcut for it within the top-right nook of the app, subsequent to the profile icon. In a Plex forum post, the corporate outlined lots of the behind-the-scenes enhancements it is made to the app as effectively, equivalent to “improved load instances and scrolling efficiency” and “improved audio playback quantity for iPhone audio system.”

Along with updating its cellular app, Plex can be engaged on a revamp of its TV app, which is at present nonetheless being examined however is predicted to roll out later this yr. Just lately, Plex introduced it was rising the worth of its Plex Move to $7 a month (up from $5) beginning on April 29, citing “rising prices” because the reasoning. As an enormous of Plex’s software program for organizing private media, I am fairly pleased with this replace, and looking the Plex servers I’ve entry to has by no means been simpler. That is a win in my books.

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