My favourite streaming app simply received an overhaul

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Plex’s cellular app has undergone an entire redesign, providing a contemporary and streamlined consumer 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 worth 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 cellular app is rolling out now on iOS and Android, utterly remodeling the app’s design from head to toe. It provides a way more fashionable and streamlined look, just like different streaming services. Standout adjustments 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 by way of 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 stated in a blog post. “This rebuilt expertise is simply one other method we’re staying true to our mission.”

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notable reveals: Broadchurch, The Youngsters within the Corridor, The Fall
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Plex will improve the worth of its Plex Cross subscription in April whereas additionally implementing adjustments to distant video playback.

Plex’s new cellular 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 cellular app redesign, I need to say I am impressed to this point. Plex’s expanded use of paintings throughout your complete app is noticeable, and I like how the pages for reveals and flicks pop now. Plex has additionally added title paintings for reveals and flicks 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 most 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 cellular app, Plex can be engaged on a revamp of its TV app, which is at the moment nonetheless being examined however is predicted to roll out later this 12 months. Lately, Plex introduced it was rising the worth 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 shopping the Plex servers I’ve entry to has by no means been simpler. That is a win in my books.