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There's a new way to run Android apps on Mac

AppleInsider • Fri, 02 Oct 2026

There's a new way to run Android apps on Mac

There's a lot of crap to wade through on the assorted Android app stores, but there are some gems too. The "Mac.apk" project installs Android apps into your Applications folder, like any other Mac app. It's early yet, and the developer says that a lot of stuff doesn't work properly, particularly games with anti-cheat. My quick trial with the software has been pretty smooth, though. We'll be keeping an eye on this one. https://github.com/kksimp/Mac.apk-Releases Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

What happened?

There's a lot of crap to wade through on the assorted Android app stores, but there are some gems too. The "Mac.apk" project installs Android apps into your Applications folder, like any other Mac app. It's early yet, and the developer says that a lot of stuff doesn't work properly, particularly games with anti-cheat. My quick trial with the software has been pretty smooth, though. We'll be keeping an eye on this one. https://github.com/kksimp/Mac.apk-Releases Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums

Story details

There's a lot of crap to wade through on the assorted Android app stores, but there are some gems too.

The "Mac.apk" project installs Android apps into your Applications folder, like any other Mac app.

It's early yet, and the developer says that a lot of stuff doesn't work properly, particularly games with anti-cheat.

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