Xbox for PC

★ ★ ★ Xbox Overview

What is Xbox? The Xbox app is a mobile application that allows users to stay connected to their friends, games, and console from their phone or tablet while on the go. It enables users to share game clips and screenshots, use integrated voice and text chat with friends on console or PC, play games from their console straight to their phone over the internet, and get notifications for new game invites, party chat messages, and more.

Software Features and Description

1. Learn more at xbox.com/mobile-app. Online console multiplayer (including via Xbox remote play) requires Xbox Game Pass Ultimate or Xbox Live Gold, memberships sold separately.

2. You also give to third parties, without charge, any patent rights needed for their products, technologies and services to use or interface with any specific parts of a Microsoft software or service that includes the feedback.

3. If you give feedback about the Xbox App to Microsoft, you give to Microsoft, without charge, the right to use, share and commercialize your feedback in any way and for any purpose.

4. You will not give feedback that is subject to a license that requires Microsoft to license its software or documentation to third parties because we include your feedback in them.

5. The all new Xbox app keeps you connected to the fun with your friends, games, and console from your phone or tablet while on the go.

6. The following terms supplement any software license terms that accompany the Xbox App.

7. Easily share game clips and screenshots from your console to favorite gaming & social networks.

8. Friends and parties follow you with voice and text chat, even if they’re on console or PC.

9. The free Xbox app is the best way to stay in the game—wherever you like to play.

10. *Requires supported phones or tablets (mobile data charges may apply) and supported Bluetooth controller, with supported games.

11. Xbox One or Xbox Series X must be turned on or in Instant-On mode.

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Download and install Xbox on your computer

GET Compatible PC App

App	Download	Rating	Maker
Xbox	Get App ↲	1,495,765 4.67	Microsoft Corporation

Or follow the guide below to use on PC:

Select Windows version:

Windows 10
Windows 11

Install Xbox app on your Windows in 4 steps below:

Download an Android emulator for PC:
Get either Bluestacks or the Nox App >> . We recommend Bluestacks because you can easily find solutions online if you run into problems while using it. Download Bluestacks PC software Here >> .

Install the emulator:
On your computer, goto the Downloads folder » click to install Bluestacks.exe or Nox.exe » Accept the License Agreements » Follow the on-screen prompts to complete installation.

Using Xbox on PC [Windows 10/ 11]:

Open the Emulator app you installed » goto its search bar and search "Xbox"
The search will reveal the Xbox app icon. Open, then click "Install".
Once Xbox is downloaded inside the emulator, locate/click the "All apps" icon to access a page containing all your installed applications including Xbox.
Now enjoy Xbox on PC.

Download a Compatible APK for PC

Download	Developer	Rating	Current version
Get APK for PC →	Microsoft Corporation	4.67	2024.9.1

Download on Windows 11

For Windows 11, check if there's a native Xbox Windows app here » ». If none, follow the steps below:

To get started, Download the OpenPC software »
- Upon installation, open OpenPC app » goto "Playstore on PC" » click "Configure_Download" button. This will auto-download and install PlayStore on your computer.

To use Xbox,
- Login to the PlayStore we just installed
- Search for "Xbox" » then Click "Install".
- Xbox will now be available on your Windows start-menu.

Minimum requirements	Recommended
8GB RAM SSD Storage Processor: Intel Core i3, AMD Ryzen 3000 Architecture: x64 or ARM64	16GB RAM HDD Storage

Get Xbox on Apple macOS

Download	Developer	Reviews	Rating
Get Free on Mac	Microsoft Corporation	1495765	4.67

Xbox functions

- Stay connected to friends and games

- Share game clips and screenshots to favorite social networks

- Use integrated voice and text chat with friends on console or PC

- Play games from console straight to phone over the internet

- Get notifications for new game invites, party chat messages, and more

- Requires supported phones or tablets and supported Bluetooth controller with supported games

- Xbox One or Xbox Series X must be turned on or in Instant-On mode

- Online console multiplayer requires Xbox Game Pass Ultimate or Xbox Live Gold memberships sold separately

- Feedback given to Microsoft may be used, shared, and commercialized without charge

✔ Pros:

- Interconnected with Microsoft products

- Can see who's online and what they're playing

- Messaging works well

- On-screen keyboard feature is extremely convenient when it works

☹ Cons:

- Data on console and game not always synced

- Remote function is unreliable

- Need wifi connection to access the app

- App crashes frequently

- On-screen keyboard feature does not work consistently

- Party audio bugs out and app crashes frequently

Top Pcmac Reviews

Great but has some bugs

By Main_Tain22 (Pcmac user)

I really really like smartglass. It's interconnected with Microsoft products and for the most part works pretty well. On the other hand, there are definitely some issues. Data on the console and data on the game are not always synced. You may have deleted a msg on console but that same msg may appear unread on the app. The remote function is iffy at best. Sometimes it will connect and sometimes it tells you to turn features on in the settings of your console. Not only that, the setting feature that it directs you to does not exist. Well it exist, but it is not setup to change device settings. And yes I am on the same network, in case you were asking yourself that question. The app also crashes ALOT. Leaving the app running in the background of my iPhone 6+ is a sure way to an app crash around the second or third reopen without clearing running apps. Regardless of these minor hiccups in functionality and usability, the this app app is likely my top 3 favorite apps. It's fast. It's responsive. It's involved. Furthermore, does exactly what I want it to do and that is to connect with online friends, family and game community. The bugs, to say the least, are neck and neck to tie last place on a long list of "Things that give me a headache each day." I'm sure an entry level software engineer could fix the lows with some testing. Later. And give me a job lol😐😬
Good concept, but incredibly broken.

By +Killer47+ (Pcmac user)

The this app app is amazing the first time you see it. You can access you account on the go and do so many things. However, the app’s downfalls become apparent very soon. First of all, you need a wifi connection to access the app, it will not work with cellular data. So, the whole aspect of this app on the go is completely thrown out of the window. Secondly, you’ll be very luck if you can actually use the app. For at least one week out of the month the app just doesn’t work. You try to launch it, but you are met with either a blank green screen or a n infinite loading wheel. I’ve tried restarting, redownloading, and even costumer support, but nothing can fix it. Over time it will just fix itself and one day you’ll try to launch the app and it will just work for no reason just as suddenly as it stopped working. My final issue it the built in keyboard. this app has a wonderful system that detects the keyboard on your this app and allows you to type on your phone. This is great for multiplayer games with a chat system. However, like the app itself this feature is very spotty. Sometimes the keyboard on the app will just stop popping up and it won’t ever pop up for the next week to month. Then it will just magically fix itself again. There are also tons of little bugs that litter that app that at sometimes, makes the app completely unusable. The this app app definitely doesn’t deserver the 4.7 out of 5 that it currently has.
Does some things reliably; some things rarely.

By PolarSpectram (Pcmac user)

You can always see who’s online from your friends list, and what they’re playing. Messaging works well too. However; the ONE THING the app is absolutely advantageous over a controller for accessing your console with - does not work consistently. The on screen keyboard, lets you type quickly on your phone - much faster than using a controller. When it works, this feature is extremely convenient, letting you input text to your this app or games in time spans you never could without the app. But good freakn’ luck getting the keyboard on the app to come up when you have an on-screen keyboard on your console. It’ll work sometimes, and other times you can pull up the keyboard on your this app again and again and again - to have the app do nothing. Which, needless to say - is very frustrating. To have such a convenient feature work intermittently and be completely unusable at other times is maddening. If that singular function worked reliably, I would say this is a magnificent app. But right now; it just doesn’t.
Soooo many problems... Where do I begin...

By -PIEthegreat- (Pcmac user)

I loved this app but I switched to PS4 for a change and my god is it great! but I later found out that most of my friends are on this app One so until recently they started implementing cross platform play, i’ve “tried” using the this app app to talk to them in the party but it’s literally the worst thing possible. there are so many issues with the app that I don’t even know where to begin. first off, the apps party, if you want to call it that, is pretty bad itself. Being that when you try to listen to your friends talk the audio bugs out like some kind of clicking sound that cuts my friends off for me to stop listening and plus a black screen that flickers on and off in a rapid rate. Second, the app crashes WAY too much. It’s so bad that the app can’t even handle the startup at times. I know that Microsoft will most likely ignore all of these reviews for the app because, well, it’s Microsoft they don’t really listen to their consumers much but it’s just annoying that I can’t talk to my friends sometimes. We would use Discord but we have network issues with it so yeah.