My favourite streaming app simply bought an overhaul

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Plex’s cell app has undergone an entire redesign, providing a contemporary and streamlined person expertise, and is on the market now.
Improved navigation makes accessing private media libraries, and different Plex content material, extra handy. The Watchlist characteristic is now simply accessible within the top-right of the app.
A revamped Plex TV app can be coming quickly. Plex is elevating the value of its Plex Cross on the finish of the month to $7 a month.

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

The brand new replace for Plex’s cell app is rolling out now on iOS and Android, fully reworking the app’s design from head to toe. It affords a way more trendy and streamlined look, just like different streaming services. Standout modifications embody a redesigned navigation system, expanded use of art work, 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 by 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 world neighborhood the place everybody can uncover, expertise, and share the entire leisure that issues to them,” Plex mentioned in a blog post. “This rebuilt expertise is simply one other method we’re staying true to our mission.”

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Plex will enhance the value of its Plex Cross subscription in April whereas additionally implementing modifications to distant video playback.

Plex’s new cell app expertise pops

A redesign replace is coming quickly to its TV app as properly

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After downloading and making an attempt out Plex’s cell app redesign, I need to say I am impressed up to now. Plex’s expanded use of art work throughout your complete app is noticeable, and I like how the pages for exhibits and films pop now. Plex has additionally added title art work for exhibits 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 inserting 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 properly, corresponding to “improved load occasions and scrolling efficiency” and “improved audio playback quantity for iPhone audio system.”

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