How to download incompatible or restricted Android apps from Google Play

posted by Luis D. / Sep 15, 2015, 8:36 AM

How to download incompatible or restricted Android apps from Google Play

Sometimes you find that Android app you've been longing for, but Google Play won't let you download it for whatever reason. Maybe it thinks your device is outdated, or you happen to be in the wrong country. Anyway, this isn't something you'd expect from Android, the land of the free, right? Nuh-uh! Of course there's a way to work around that if you happen to want a particular app so badly! At least three ways, in fact!

All of the options proposed below are legal and don't require mingling with your device, rooting it, or downloading pirated stuff. So if you are in the situation described above, give these solutions a shake!

How to download incompatible or restricted Android apps from Google Play

Use an .apk downloader website

Use other app stores

How to download incompatible or restricted Android apps from Google Play

Google Play is rich with free VPN apps, able to mask your device's online identity through hundreds of servers spread throughout many different countries. In most cases, installing a solid app like VyprVPN and letting it do its thing is enough to fool the Google Play store into letting you download whatever app it is that you're after. There are no legal or security risks to the ordeal, unless you're using a shady VPN app (stick to ones that have the most Google Play downloads) and you're downloading a malicious APK. It's usually hard to come by these in the Google Play store, but it's definitely not impossible!

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7 Comments

1. gaming64 unregistered

Third-party appstores.

posted on Sep 15, 2015, 8:42 AM 0

2. Shocky unregistered

.Torrent

posted on Sep 15, 2015, 9:01 AM 3

3. Michael.Parker

Posts: 273; Member since: Aug 22, 2015

I'm liking these dummy's guide to Android features PA are putting out every day as it's good for the Android noobs.

posted on Sep 15, 2015, 10:29 AM 0

4. TheOldOne

Posts: 196; Member since: Mar 29, 2012

what if you find the app, you got the apk, even manage to install it and on startup is says "not compatible with this device" ;)

posted on Sep 16, 2015, 1:32 AM 0

5. Blazers

Posts: 719; Member since: Dec 05, 2011

That apk-dl site seems kind of sketchy

posted on Sep 16, 2015, 9:54 PM 0

6. apkdownload

Posts: 1; Member since: Dec 21, 2015

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