How to Get Apps for Amazon Echo show? – Download on Alexa

The Amazon Echo Show is a smart HD display that has Alexa built in. From it you can view Amazon options, follow your packages, browse the web, among other functions.

However, what many have wanted to achieve is the fact of downloading applications without success, something that has been solved thanks to the Alexa App from where third-party applications have been obtained that are known as ‘Skills’. Today we will talk a little about it.

What is the difference between skills and apps for Echo Show?

The marked difference between Alexa skills and normal applications is that these skills, despite being third-party applications, allow them to be downloaded so that Alexa can obey new commands based on the knowledge that is acquired with each downloaded application.

The Echo Show has a lot of skills downloaded however even more can be downloaded from the Alexa App in order to expand their knowledge. Downloadable apps range from games and cooking recipes to YouTube videos and weather forecasts.

Also all the knowledge of the Echo Show can be nurtured through applications of music like Amazon Music from which you can not only listen or download songs but come across great information about the artist, in the same way it happens with the Amazon video application from which you can watch countless movies.

How do I download apps for the Echo Show?

The only way to download apps for the Echo Show is through the Alexa App, for which you need to have it downloaded on your mobile device. After having her on the phone you can then configure new skills to be transferred to the Echo Show.

From the Alexa app

All the skills that are available to Alexa and can be used on the Echo Show are available in the Alexa App from the settings menu. After having them you can enable or disable them depending on your tastes. There are more than one hundred thousand skills and this number is growing a little more every day, and due to the fact that you want to seek perfection from Alexa.

How to set each skill to customize the Echo Show?

To set up a skill in Alexa that works both for customize the Echo Show you have to download the app either in the Play Store and then locate the skills and games menu. From there you will be able to know all the options available to users. We explain how to do it step by step below.

Enable skill for Alexa

• Start by opening the app on the phone.
• Enter the menu and Locate the ‘Skills and Games’ option.
• A list of skills will appear from which you only have to choose the one you want to interact with.

Select it to see what the application is about and if you like it you just have to press the option that says ‘Activate Skill’ after this it will be downloaded and ready.

You can carry out these same steps but in order to disable a skill that you don’t want to use because you don’t like it, you only have to locate it in the ‘Skills and Games’ option and then press the ‘Disable’ option and not only will forgotten but also Alexa will cease to carry out orders relating to it.

How to know which skills require subscription?

Like all applications, there are skills that also require subscription such as Apple Music and Spotify; however, these can be used from their free version without presenting any problem.

To find out if any skill requires a subscription, you just have to enable it and it will tell you if you want to use the paid version or prefer the free one. The free version will always try to satisfy all the demands of the user so that Alexa learns much more than she already knows and the same in the case of Amazon Echo Show.

Among some useful skills that can help you in the world of Alexa and the Amazon Echo Show you can count on: Audible that is especially for book loversUber that will be used to plan trips directly from the Echo Show and Allrecipes that is a huge open book of recipes that will help you to have the best ideas when cooking.