Amazon in the end has launched a local macOS app for Prime Video, which contains assist for offline downloads, in-app purchases, and films and TV present leases so that you can take pleasure in in your model new 16-inch MacGuide Pro (or an older Mac, so long as it’s working Big Sur or later).

Now obtainable as a free obtain within the Mac App Store, the brand new app grants customers entry to the complete library of Amazon Prime Video content material with basically the identical person expertise you’d have on the platform’s sister apps on iOS and Apple TV. A pop-up seems after set up asking in the event you’d prefer to obtain notifications and different alerts with really useful content material.

In-app purchases will let you make funds immediately within the Prime Video window utilizing no matter cost technique, if any, is linked to your Amazon account, as a substitute of getting to slog via to Safari to be able to pay (the free-with-Prime-subscription choice will nonetheless be there and nonetheless received’t require any type of cost, clearly). You’ll additionally have the ability to make a number of the extra commonplace settings tweaks from inside the desktop app, together with toggling subtitles on or off, tweaking parental controls or managing the opposite gadgets which have been registered to your Prime account.

If you do produce other Prime-linked gadgets, there’s excellent news on that entrance as properly, as the brand new app is able to syncing your content material throughout platforms to be able to let you choose up no matter film or present you had been watching precisely the place you left off.

The new app may also marry assist for native Mac options like Picture-in-Picture assist and AirPlay, alongside Prime Video mainstays, just like the X-Ray characteristic that gives casting information and trivia tidbits. While motion pictures and TV exhibits may be loved in full-screen mode, the app itself, curiously, can’t be maximized, which makes for a sort of weird expertise in our testing.