My kids have their own Google accounts, but they’re part of my Family Group and under my control via Family Link.
If I purchase/unlock Plex on my phone under my account, will it also unlock on my kids tablets with their linked accounts?
Or am I expected to spend $6.09AUD on each tablet/phone.
It is an in-app purchase, right? They are not shared within the family, this is a Google limitation. So I guess each member would need to buy the app.
As an alternative you can obtain the Plex pass which will be shared with your Plex home users and therefore no buying of the apps will be necessary.
The Plex Pass doesn’t add anything that interests me and therefor a massive waste if money.
The one-time purchase isn’t a huge amount of money, but I would have bought it on my phone when I don’t even use Plex myself wasting money.
It really should be made clearer here: https://support.plex.tv/articles/203868088-unlocking-or-activating-plex-for-android/
Well Google (and apple) generally don’t share in-app purchases within the family, so this is not Plex specific. The article shows that it is an in-app purchase, so the info is there. Also family linked accounts are a special case and not everyone is using them.
What happen with other apps? If one of your kids buys an app/game/etc, is it available on your phone as well?
If they buy extra features/levels/etc does it apply to your account as well?
Not if they are in-app purchases.
If you buy an app as in the store, it is shared with your family. But I guess developers can also prevent that, not completely sure.
Whoever buys the app can choose to share it with the Family Group or keep it for themselves. My kids are young, so I do all the purchasing and approving of app.
I’ve never bought features/levels/in-app/etc before. I don’t believe in this micro-transaction nonsense, if I can’t buy the full app up-front, I look for an alternative.
Plex is a reasonable exception as it’s a genuine one-off purchase, just disappointed it doesn’t support the Family Group.
There are app that don’t support Family Library, so it’s up to the dev I’d imagine. Apps says “Eligible for Family Library” at the bottom and have a symbol that looks looks like a heart in a house.
I did recently for my kids, and I found out in-app purchase will not be shared 
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