I just got a new tablet specifically for reading and was hoping to use LingQ on it since I saw someone demo it on a sibling device on YouTube, but LingQ doesn’t show up in Google Play.
On my computer I can see
This item is not compatible with your device
The tablet is an Onyx Boox Poke4 Lite, running Android 11.
I managed to sideload the APK and install it that way and it appears to work. Would feel safer and more convenient to get it via the Play store however.
This is not a tablet, but an e-reader.
You can download certain apps on e-readers, but all apps from the Play Store won’t be available on this kind of device.
You probably should have got a proper tablet instead. They all come with adaptive brightness these days, so the LED screen is not such
a problem for the eyes anymore.
Software-wise there is no difference. The device is running Android and it has the Play store.
There is no filter in the app store for “make my app available on real tablets and not e-readers” (I have several apps published in the play store).
Not sure if there’s anything we can do, but I’ll check with our developers.
@cowboyprogrammer not sure if you got this to work with your onyx, but i just bought a meebook m7 - which is very similar, and lingq works fine on it
OK. Now, seven months later, did you get an opinion of your developers to pass to your customers?
Can you use the website? I use it as it works for shortcuts (LingQ, please make shortcuts do multiple things; next, audio, translation).
So It seems there has never been an answer to this… right?
I had to sideload the LingQ app on my Boox Note Air4 C, which is fine but would really like to just be able to install it via the play store and get automatic updates. The app works perfectly imo, and it is essentially an android 13 tablet, so I can’t see why it wouldn’t be possible to enable installation on this type of device? Or maybe I’m missing something?
I use Lingq on a Boox note Air2 Plus using Chrome. Shortcuts work on browsers, not on the app.
I stumbled upon your posting because I have the same problem with the same device. My solution was using the Aurora store, an open source frontend for the Playstore. It has an option to spoof the device. I used the setting for a Google Pixel tablet and LingQ could be installed on the Note Air4 C afterwards. It also appears in the Playstore app afterwards and should get updates.
I guess the problem is the DPI value the eInk tablet returns to the Playstore. They are way different than the ones from LCD tablets. Changing the DPI value to something common like 240 dpi for Playstore app doesn’t help btw.
Thanks! I Will definitely have a look at this. If it starts getting the updates from the play store that would be perfect! 
I have a Boox Note2 plus, which I got for Lingq.
As the app doesn’t have good shortcuts, I use an external keyboard (or bluetooth keyboard mapper) and the web version. Then I can read with Lingq on an eye friendly screen.
There is a setting somewhere where lingq and new words can have underlines (that can show up if you tweak contrast type setting) rather than colours, that don’t show up on my Boox tablet.
I checked with the latest LingQ app update and unfortunately it can not be updated with the Play Store (it is still shown as incompatible) and therefore is also not updated automatically. But I could update it with one button click in the Aurora store app.
Not ideal but not that bad either as I’m using Aurora Store for some other “incompatible” apps too.
Would still be nice if the LingQ team fixes it on their side. The issue seems to be the DPI value. eInk works somewhat different than LCD/OLED in that regard. And LingQ is quite usable on a Kaleido 3 eInk screen (Kaleido 2 was horrible). For a long reading session in a language where you only have to look up one or two words per page, it is a pleasant experience because of the paperlike look.
The only improvement I would really like would be colors that can be defined by the user. The color choice of the app is not ideal for eInk as they are quite low contrast (which is good on LCD) but eInk itself is low contrast so they are not that good to see. I would like to configure very vibrant colors so they stick out more on color eInk.
Yes I saw that unfortunately, but I updated through Aurora as well. Thanks for letting me know about it because I’m not a fan of 3rd party app stores, for security reasons mostly, but looks like Aurora is essentially just a frontend for the play store so that’s great. Would be great for LingQ to fix the app to be “compatible” with Boox though. There should be no reason for it not to be.
I found that using the high contrast setting on my note air4C makes the highlight colours in LingQ more that enough for me, in case you haven’t tried it.