How to Share Purchased App with Family Members in Android

You must have learned so many interesting things today, so along with it add one more useful detail of how to share purchased apps with other android users into your pocket of knowledge. As we are in a fast moving world of technology, we see a family owns a smartphone each for everyone. In this process we do things differently, according to our wishes. What we store in our phones will always be private for others. We highly secure the phones, though we have useful stuffs to maintain or even if there are no confidential things in.

There is one thing in common that most of the android users use is the apps. We all get different apps for our desire and use it for our own need. Most of the instances, all of us get free apps. When we use free apps, we will not have to worry about anything, as there is nothing that we have to pay back. But when it comes to paid apps, we have to purchase them and have a payment done annually. This is not going to be cheap when each and everyone in the family have to purchase it separately. This will be a problem until you come to know that you can share the purchased app.



Yes, now as you know that you can share the purchased app among your family members or friends, you can stay relieved. This method will not make all the users to pay. Only one person who initially purchases it will have to make the payments and others can enjoy it free. It can be any paid apps, wither a music player, games or any official apps, you can easily share it among the other android users officially. 

Sometimes, there are people who don’t hesitate to share the payment among each others, as it gets cheaper when you divide it among two or three of you. This purchased app sharing method is officially available in the playstore. For those who were not aware of this, now worry not. As I am going to give you a complete guide, on how to get it done in two easy methods, one using the android Smartphone and the other by the web browser. Let’s take a look at the process step by step.


Share Purchased Apps in Android Phone

To start with the android smartphone, you have to open up the google playstore and click on the three lines that’s available on the top corner of the screen and select the ‘account’ option.


In the account, you have to press on the ‘family accounts’.

Then, click on the ‘sign up for family library’. Using this you can open a library from which you can easily share any purchased apps to your family members who use android.


Next, it will provide you with terms and conditions to proceed with. press ‘accept’ to continue.

Then you will be able to add your family members by typing in the email id of all the members you prefer to add in the sharing part.

It will create up a shared cloud from where your purchased apps will be able to be shared.

To make the purchased apps available for the other members, you have to enable the apps while you purchase it. The payments options and other restrictions can be adjusted in there.

That’s it. Now using this method, you can easily share purchased apps with your family members or friends officially in your android smartphone.


How to Share Purchased App in Web Browser

To share apps using the web browser, open the google playstore and go to the settings and select the option ‘account’. Select the family option and ‘signup for family library’.


Invite the family members by entering in their email ids, and then go on with the same procedure we followed in the Android sharing method and complete the payment method settings.


And then, after all the implementations, all the other accounts that you added using the email id will have the access to use your paid applications.

Using this tool, you can also keep an eye on the accounts of your other members, and check what app they are purchasing.

That’s it. Now we have checked on how to share apps officially with the help of the google playstore both using the android smartphone and the web browser. Hope this was helpful for you to share your purchased app with your friends and family.