How to Install Android Games and Applications on your PC using BlueStacks

How to Install Android Games and Applications on your PC using BlueStacks

BlueStacks App Player let's you run Android Apps fast and fullscreen on PC.


Bluestacks is an American tech company that produces the BlueStacks App Player and other cloud-based cross-platform products. The BlueStacks App Player is designed to enable Android applications to run on Windows PCs and Macintosh computers. The company was founded in 2009 by Rosen Sharma, former CTO at McAfee and a board member of cloud.com.

Investors include Andreessen-Horowitz, Redpoint, Samsung, Intel, Qualcomm, Citrix, Radar Partners, Ignition Partners, AMD and others. BlueStacks is Sharma’s 8th company (five of Sharma’s company have been acquired by Google, Microsoft, Citrix X 2 and McAfee). BlueStacks exited beta on June 7, 2014.

The company was officially launched May 25, 2011, at the Citrix Synergy conference in San Francisco. Citrix CEO Mark Templeton demonstrated an early version of BlueStacks onstage and announced that the companies had formed a partnership. The public alpha version of App Player was launched on October 11, 2011.

App Player is a downloadable piece of Windows and Mac software that virtualizes the full Android experience. The software is free to download and use after adding a small number of sponsored apps, with the option to instead purchase a $2/month premium subscription. According to company sources, the App Player can run over 96% of the 1.4 million apps in the Google Play Store. It reached the 85 million download mark in April, 2014.

On June 27, 2012, the company released an alpha-1 version of its App Player software for Mac OS. while the beta version was released on December 27, 2012. The Mac OS version of App Player is no longer available for download on their homepage, as support for it was officially dropped in 2014. In April 2015, BlueStacks, Inc. announced that a new version of App Player for Mac OS was in development. In July 2015, BlueStacks, Inc. released the new version for Mac OS.


Steps To Install BlueStacks on your PC
  1. Dowload the Installer from the download button given above !
  2. Install it as you install any other software
  3. The installer will copy the necessary files
  4. Wait until the installation completes
  5. The installation is now done. You should continue by setting up your Google account so that you may access the Google Play store
  6. Now you're done and now you can install android games and applications to your pc