BlueStacks Reviews 639

Probably the worst Android emulator I've used by far. It is very buggy and has no management for switching from landscape apps to portrait apps and just crashes.

the application runs, minimized to the task tray, when you turn on your PC (most apps do this..). BlueStacks confirmed on Reddit that there is NO option to turn this off. So as long as it is installed, it will always start when you turn on your PC. That alone is enough reason for me to not install this software on my PC. To me, this is intentional, intrusive and borderline maleware-ish design choice. The app has been around for a while, so clearly they just don't care to add a simple fix. Most people probably would never notice or even care, but this is just a major annoyance for me personally. Please fix this! I will not use it without that option.

its extremely laggy app, even Google play crashes this

when I downloaded, I thought everything was normal until I started getting warning from my anti-virus software saying malware block, but this had never happened before then I read where it came from it came from the (bluestacks.webplayer) something like that like what??? it's like when a ran blue stacks it was a trojan in it trying to install malware so idk

I just installed today and what a nightmare.

1) It keeps kicking me out of my game constantly. I'm playing word chums on my PC. I play 1-2 words back page and it kicks me out.

2) It won't give me full screen like a pc - only a mobile view/width so my computer screen is 25% game, the rest ads or blank screen.

3) I add a single letter and the screen zooms. Now I can't see the board so must double click to return to a regular size and repeat per letter, doubling my time to play.

4) The enter key no longer works on chat (with friends) I must click send. People used to computers do use enter keys - duhh.

5) Support: Incompetent. First I get a bot. The bot passed me a url for support. Sure they "replied" within a few hours, except the rep EVA didn't read a word I wrote - ignored my screenshot and just sent a link to help files that are irrelevant for my issues. This is the sign of a company that doesn't care about its users.

It's the worst gaming package I've ever seen.

SO BADD... I WANT 10 GRAND AND A SCHOLAR TO HARVARD NOWWWWWWWWWWWW. THEY MADE IT SO I COULDN'T GRADUATE... I COULDN'T SUBMIT A TASK BECAUSE BLUESTACKS HERE MADE MY LAPTOP BREAK.

IN THE MIDDLE OF A GAME THEIR SETTINGS COMES ON DOES IT ALL THE TIME AND SEEMS AT THE MOST CRITCAL TIMES IN THE GAME ITS ALMOST LIKE THEY TAKE CONTROL OF MY DEVICE SOUNDS CRAZY BUT I KNOW WHEN I'M BEING HACKED IN BEEN AT THIS TOO LONG

Used to really enjoy this and found it handy but now it's terrible. It boots up some useless gaming interface first before you can go to the app player. I have a brand new gaming PC yet I can only use Bluestacks for an hour or so before it grinds to a halt and I have to restart it. It's super fast at first, then dies every time. I have an i7-14700k with 64GB RAM and RTX 4080 Super GPU so there's no excuse for it.

This software has REALLY gone downhill, and when I say downhill, I mean corrupt, clunky, and shady. I would STRONGLY suggest using an alternative. Here's why...

To start, they hide their settings from you, and do some VERY intrusive things. For example, for some odd reason, they have "wake up alarms" set up in Bluestacks, where their software can wake up your computer. I was wondering why my computer kept turning back on when I was shutting it off, looked into it in cmd.exe, and guess what program it indicated was waking my computer up? Yes, Bluestacks!!! To make it worse, they have NO settings in their software to change this. In fact, they have practically no settings AT ALL in their "settings section of the software. Everything is hidden from you.

To add to things that are hidden, they take it upon themselves to automatically add their software to your start up programs. Why would I want Bluestacks loading up every time I start my computer??? It's just a waste of resources and memory! But again, there's no settings in the software to change it, so you have to use other software (or Windows settings) themselves to turn it off. Again, shady!!!

Now, if you look past all the shady things their software does, and evaluate the software for performance, it is STILL very disappointing. Sure, there are a few things you can do with the software that's nice, but it's EXTREMELY slow, like unreasonably, "what could it possibly be doing in the background that's taking so long" slow. As others have stated, it's intrusive, and they run things in the background that snoop, and bog your computer down in the process.

This software used to be decent, but it has seriously fallen apart over the years. I'm actually posting this as I was looking for an alternative to Bluestacks, as personally, I'm going with something less shady and more transparent. I strongly advise you do the same

it good and no virus i have scan 3 times and faunt non

this is horrible, it added viruses to my computer and now my google chrome wont work. I've tried everything, even resetting my whole computer but nothing works. never download this.

This App is rubbish,, get LDPlayer it is much better that this pile of poo

literally trash take 30 40 hours to start and play store is not opening dont dowload this trash

worst I install it and VIRUSES everywhere never trust this website/app it is a FAT LIE when it says safe.

Downloaded Bluestacks, installed and played Brawlstars, found out something was fishy, my cursor tracers when aiming were moving alone.

I had an aimbot. I didn't see any similar cases, but for me, Bluestacks installed a hack on my game.

The worst app, I have ever used. Too many crashes while launching the game. how can anyone play games at this app. BC, MC, BKL. To the bluestack makers.

OH, guess who crashes while launching an app, unstability more than any line of code. THANKS FOR THE GAMEGUARDIAN SUPPORT (doesnt at all), am I the only one to experience this in "good" stuff, forget the ROOT access for "eco boost". waste of lies and code, get a phone instead.

EDIT: yeah, this is in fact happening to everyone. FIX YOUR PROGRAM, now.gg

Thank you so much for your software, I read many rude comments here, I will try to recommend everyone to watch all tutorials for perfect ratio, I use this in win 11, must enable virtualization in bios, for me run so fast.... Again thank you for your development

this emulator is only good if you use a foss app store but will be still bad that's why I don't use it on my PC

This platform lags when i fullscreen it and when i click or press the spcebar, it waits like 0.5 seconds and then act
NOT A GOOD PLATFORM FOR GAMING, AVOID IT!