Plex’s upcoming app redesign is a big swing at going legit

Plex is beginning to test its “newly reimagined Plex experience,” which volition beryllium disposable archetypal connected mobile and is coming to TV platforms “very soon.” Plex says the caller acquisition has been successful improvement for astir 2 years and is “designed to bring everything you emotion into 1 seamless interface.” But don’t interest — portion the caller mentation of the app is presently missing immoderate features, Plex says it volition beryllium “closing those gaps” and volition support the existent app disposable during the preview, which volition hopefully forestall a Sonos-like debacle.

A large alteration for the caller app is redesigned navigation that much intelligibly delineates betwixt media you mightiness person connected your Plex server and the company’s streaming and on-demand offerings. The bottommost barroom has dedicated tabs for your media libraries, unrecorded TV, and on-demand movies and shows. The Watchlist, which lets you marque a database of things you privation to watch, has a spot astatine the apical of the app. And artwork is shown much prominently.

Under the hood, Plex says that it has rewritten its apps and unified its codebase to make a much accordant experience. “With this caller unified approach, our squad tin collaborate crossed platforms seamlessly, ensuring that each caller feature, update, and betterment is disposable connected astir platforms from time one, erstwhile the migration is complete,” according to Plex.

To start, features similar playlists, casting, and ticker unneurotic aren’t disposable successful the preview (you tin spot the afloat database of what’s not yet included in a forum post). But the institution plans to propulsion preview updates play up of afloat launching the caller apps successful aboriginal 2025.

If you privation to effort the redesigned Plex apps for Android and iOS, cheque retired the instructions on the company’s forums.