Amazon releases Prime Video app for Mac with downloads, AirPlay, and extra

Better late than by no means, as they are saying: Amazon in the present day launched a Prime Video app for macOS that’s obtainable as a free download in the Mac App Store. Prime Video for Mac consists of assist for offline downloads, and you’ll select your most well-liked video high quality each for normal streaming and downloads. (At the “best” setting, Amazon estimates round 5.8GB of knowledge utilization per hour when streaming. The determine is barely decrease for downloads, with Amazon quoting 2.9GB per hour of downloaded video.)

When you first open Prime Video for Mac, the app asks whether or not you wish to obtain notifications for content material suggestions and different alerts. But from there, it’s a lot the identical expertise as on different platforms. Oddly, the Prime Video app itself can’t be made full-screen — however that modifications as quickly as you begin taking part in a film or TV present. Amazon is supporting native macOS options like picture-in-picture and AirPlay, and it’s additionally baked in its personal extras like X-Ray with solid and behind-the-scenes information.

Aside from the common free-with-Prime-subscription choice, there’s additionally a devoted retailer tab the place you possibly can lease or buy content material. Amazon will use your account’s saved cost information when making prices. Other settings within the app embrace auto play and subtitle preferences, parental controls, and you may also view different units which were registered to your Prime account. Any deeper account administration than that may require going to Amazon’s web site in a browser.

From a performance standpoint, most of what you’d need out of a Prime Video app is now on the Mac. That new 16-inch MacE-book Pro makes for fairly a conveyable movie-watching expertise. Amazon’s Prime Video app for Mac is appropriate with macOS Big Sur and later.