Select from thousands of Sinclair ZX Spectrum games and play their loading sound
About PlayZX
PlayZX is a productivity app developed by Baltazar Studios, LLC.
How many times has PlayZX been downloaded?
PlayZX has been downloaded 44 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 270 times.
What is the rating of PlayZX?
PlayZX is rated 4.40 out of 5 stars, based on 670 ratings.
Is PlayZX free?
PlayZX is free to download. The APK download size is 97.34 MB. The latest version available is 3.9. The last update was on April 20, 2026.
What are the requirements for PlayZX?
PlayZX requires Android 4.1+ or higher. The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play September 2015.
Description
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Select from thousands of Sinclair ZX Spectrum games and play them through the headphone jack to load them onto your Speccy. You can also select your local (on the device) TAP or TZX files, convert them to sound files and play them. This way you can load games for not only the ZX Spectrum micro but also any other retro computer that have compatible audio jacks.
IMPORTANT: 1. This is not an emulator, *it* will not play those games! You need an actual ZX Spectrum.
2. If you cannot browse and select your own files, it is likely caused by new Android permissions that Google changed with their newer development kits. Please try this: Go to "System" -> "Apps & Notifications" -> Select "PlayZX" app -> scroll down to "Permissions" and allow "Storage" permission.
3. Make sure that your Android device is *not* connected to USB (for example, to charge it), while using this app. (Electrically, its ground needs to be floating with respect to the ZX Spectrum power supply)
4. Put your Android device in "Do Not Disturb" mode (*not* the Airplane mode as it needs internet access). This will prevent random notifications to disturb the signal output.
5. Use a good quality, preferably short, audio cable. For best results, use a stereo cable and turn the option to invert one stereo channel. Play with the volume: you may get different results on your phone vs. on your tablet, for example.
Recent changes: What's new in 3.9 - Settings page: pick any detected audio device (USB DAC, Bluetooth, speaker…) - About page now shows the app version - Fixed stereo setting getting stuck in stereo after playing a ZX81 .P file - Playback errors (bad WAV, etc.) now surface in the UI instead of failing silently - Player progress timer stops when nothing is playing — lower idle battery draw - Qt 6.10.3, Android 15/16-ready (16 KB page size) - Misc. cleanup: memory leak on repeated plays, minor robustness fixes
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Not only is this a wonderful app but the developer Goran will go out of his way to reply to you immediately if you run into an issue. Incredible for a free app. I use a real ZX Spectrum +2 with a Cassette Adapter to load the games, and it works great. Thank you, Goran!!
★★★★★Dennis Lloyd· Apr 9, 2024
Fantastic source of old retro speccy programs. Use it lots to load my Spectrum+3 to re live my 80’s games. Also, can change waveform and change from stereo to mono. Perfect
★☆☆☆☆Paulo Silva· Jun 25, 2020
TestPilotTone.tzx is too short for testing - another missing feature is being able to manage a kind of timestamp "playlist" for those multiload games (those we need to locate and load each stage from tape), which can be a kind of collaborative online text file somewhere else
★☆☆☆☆Mark R. Jones· Jun 8, 2021
Doesn't work. Wouldn't load a single thing into my real Spectrum. Uninstalled!
★☆☆☆☆chris· Nov 30, 2023
I've tried everything. Doesn't load any game.ive tried dummy tape in cassette recorder plugged into phone, no luck. Phone plugged into amp.no luck. Real tapes load perfectly, even after 40 years
★☆☆☆☆Sol The Gardener· Aug 2, 2022
Isn't loading properly and when I looked through ratings to see if anyone had the same issues I noticed the makers being rude to someone who had downloaded it mistakenly and didn't get what it is for. Fact is truly intelligent people don't undermine others over their intellect, I don't like companies who troll people that way it's not appropriate from individuals and definitely not from companies so app deleted
★☆☆☆☆Rob Adams· Aug 19, 2020
Does nothing, used from my phone doesn't even register as loading on my spectrum +2A.
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