# Google Play won't allow Plexamp **URL:** \ **Category:** Plex Labs\ **Tags:** plexamp\ **Created:** [September 2, 2026, 7:23pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/google-play-wont-allow-plexamp/942430 "2026-09-02T19:23:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dezbs666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@dezbs666](https://forums.plex.tv/u/dezbs666)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2026, 7:23pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/google-play-wont-allow-plexamp/942430/1 "2026-09-02T19:23:32Z")
Took the time to get my home server set up for music streaming, went to download Plexamp on my android and Google Play says “This app isn’t available for your device because it was made for an older version of Android.” That means I just wasted half of a day organizing my library for the plex server for nothing. I’m glad I didn’t purchase a subscription before this step. If I don’t find a functioning alternate service in the meantime, I am looking forward to this being fixed. Update to add that I’m on a Google Pixel 8a running Android 17 ---
**Author:** ![Lazarus\_Long](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/lazarus_long/32/333009_2.png) [@Lazarus\_Long](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Lazarus_Long)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2026, 7:31pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/google-play-wont-allow-plexamp/942430/2 "2026-09-02T19:31:30Z")
What device/Android version are you trying to use it on? ---
**Author:** ![jesus\_exposito](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bc8723/32.png) [@jesus\_exposito](https://forums.plex.tv/u/jesus_exposito)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2026, 8:13pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/google-play-wont-allow-plexamp/942430/3 "2026-09-02T20:13:27Z")
Yo En un s24 ultra o tab s8+ me dice que no es compatible ---
**Author:** ![dezbs666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@dezbs666](https://forums.plex.tv/u/dezbs666)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2026, 8:17pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/google-play-wont-allow-plexamp/942430/4 "2026-09-02T20:17:41Z")
Google Pixel 8a running Android 17 ---
**Author:** ![FordGuy61](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/22d042/32.png) [@FordGuy61](https://forums.plex.tv/u/FordGuy61)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2026, 9:17pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/google-play-wont-allow-plexamp/942430/5 "2026-09-02T21:17:27Z")
Try the beta release. See announcement for details. It runs on my Pixel 6a / Android 17. > [@Plexamp v4.50.3: Ready or Not](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexamp-v4-50-3-ready-or-not/942338): > > It’s been a hot minute. A really long one, the last release was over a year ago, and we’re sorry about that. There is a famous and frequently-cited piece of advice about never rewriting your software from scratch. We read it. We took it seriously. And so we did not rewrite Plexamp from scratch. We merely upgraded every dependency it had, moved the mobile apps onto Expo, replaced Electron with Tauri, and rebuilt the native bridges underneath. Which is a completely different thing, and we’d like … ---
**Author:** ![elan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/elan/32/5_2.png) [@elan](https://forums.plex.tv/u/elan)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2026, 3:49pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/google-play-wont-allow-plexamp/942430/6 "2026-09-03T15:49:59Z")
No clue why Google takes so long to review betas, so silly. ---
**Author:** ![dezbs666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/49beb7/32.png) [@dezbs666](https://forums.plex.tv/u/dezbs666)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2026, 4:09pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/google-play-wont-allow-plexamp/942430/7 "2026-09-03T16:09:58Z")
Im getting blocked with that old version notice on both the beta and public versions ☹ ---
**Author:** ![pjv](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/pjv/32/4621_2.png) [@pjv](https://forums.plex.tv/u/pjv)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2026, 6:16pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/google-play-wont-allow-plexamp/942430/8 "2026-09-03T18:16:57Z")
> [@elan](#): > > No clue why Google takes so long to review betas, so silly. Put APK’s on github or codeberg or some place else that we can sideload with [obtanium](https://obtainium.imranr.dev/). Many people never install anything via Google Play on their Android devices. ---
**Author:** ![abe2711](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d2c977/32.png) [@abe2711](https://forums.plex.tv/u/abe2711)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2026, 2:40am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/google-play-wont-allow-plexamp/942430/9 "2026-09-05T02:40:24Z")
Same for me, same message for both versions. OnePlus Nord 3 5G OxygenOS 16.0.5 Android version 16 (Security update Aug 2026) ---
**Author:** ![HandsomeSimon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/4da419/32.png) [@HandsomeSimon](https://forums.plex.tv/u/HandsomeSimon)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2026, 11:50pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/google-play-wont-allow-plexamp/942430/10 "2026-09-14T23:50:52Z")
I would really appreciate this. I really don’t want to use the play store. ---
**Author:** ![lapor86](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8797f3/32.png) [@lapor86](https://forums.plex.tv/u/lapor86)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2026, 4:59pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/google-play-wont-allow-plexamp/942430/11 "2026-09-19T16:59:58Z")
There is a new page where the latest .apk is posted now! > [@Plexamp Release Notes](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plexamp-release-notes/221280/95): > > **Android APK** > > There is now a downloadable APK, for people who cannot or will not use the Play Store: [https://plexamp.plex.tv/downloads.html](https://plexamp.plex.tv/downloads.html) However I am having a hard time configuring via Obtainium: HTML doesn’t detect the .apk because of JS, at least Direct Link works put it becomes a manual pain to update it by hand and relogging in. Anyone found a solution for that?