Lastly, the Amazon Prime Video app is offered within the Mac App Retailer as a local macOS app. Prime Video subscribers beforehand utilizing the TV streaming service on their Macbook browsers can now use a devoted desktop app as an alternative, both for streaming content material or downloading for offline use.
The Amazon Prime Video app for macOS has all its customary options together with native Image-in-Image assist in addition to AirPlay assist. It permits for in-app funds for leases in addition to on-demand content material. This implies customers needn’t change to the browser to finish funds.
Different options within the app embody retaining monitor of what customers are watching and the place they’re in a TV collection or film in order that it may be watched on one machine after which continued seamlessly on one other – that means your Amazon Prime Video app will stay in control along with your viewing habits elsewhere (say, on a Fireplace TV Stick or sensible TV) and vice versa. It additionally helps Spatial Audio for AirPods Professional and Airpods Max.
Going by the responses to the brand new app, one can see {that a} majority of people that have used the app really feel the choices for obtain and the streaming high quality is a welcome one. However there have been complaints concerning the consumer interface, which isn’t precisely stunning – or restricted to the desktop app of the service.
Nonetheless, the arrival of a macOS desktop app for Amazon Prime Video does mark a definite distinction from Netflix, which has but to supply a desktop app on Macbook in the identical vein as its cellular/pill apps for iPhone and iPad.
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Watching in-app is a good possibility for these wanting a standalone utility for his or her streaming wants – that means you will not get misplaced amid tabs or distracted by a browser notification. Desktop apps have a tendency to supply increased decision streaming, too, than is obtainable in streaming service browsers; Netflix’s Home windows 10 app can stream in 4K decision, in case your PC monitor helps it.
So it’s a disgrace to not see Netflix (or Disney Plus, for that matter) provide the identical on Macbooks simply but.
It is the identical factor on the planet of sensible shows. Netflix is kind of uncommon in that space, with its arrival on Google Nest Hub Max final yr making headlines. Amazon, with its varied traces of Echo Present sensible shows, has ensured that its personal streaming service is extra widespread there.
Amazon Prime Video for macOS is offered on the Mac App Retailer as a free obtain. It’s appropriate with macOS Large Sur 11.4 and later. Naturally, an Amazon Prime subscription is required to view the streaming content material.