Many jailbreakers and non-jailbreakers alike are familiar with the TrollStore perma-signing utility, which utilizes a CoreTrust exploit in iOS & iPadOS 14.0-16.6.1 and 17.0 to permanently install .ipa files as System apps with elevated permissions.
But recently, TrollStore developer Lars Fröder (@opa334dev) released a new app called TrollStore Lite that works specifically on jailbroken devices. It’s a tool that can be used on firmware where no CoreTrust bug exists, and works as a front-end for installing .ipa and .tipa files.
In today’s tutorial, we’ll not only show you how to install TrollStore Lite on a jailbroken device, but we’ll show you how to transfer all existing TrollStore apps to TrollStore Lite.
What you need to know about TrollStore Lite
TrollStore Lite differs from TrollStore in that it doesn’t make use of a CoreTrust bug to install apps. In fact, it seems to be specifically useful for installing .ipa files on jailbroken devices that don’t have access to the CoreTrust exploit that TrollStore uses, such as on those jailbroken via palera1n on iPadOS 17.0.1 and later, as an example.
TrollStore Lite requires a jailbroken device first and foremost. If you’re using it in conjunction with AppSync, then you can install and register apps as User instead of System as the regular TrollStore does. If you’re not using AppSync, then TrollStore Lite will install and register apps as System but it will do so ad-hoc instead of utilizing the CoreTrust bug to do it.
If you have a device that supports TrollStore and the CoreTrust bug, such as iOS & iPadOS 14.0-16.6.1 and 17.0, then you can still use TrollStore Lite, but the benefits are a little less pronounced. You should keep TrollStore on your device while using TrollStore Lite and you will have the option of transferring installed apps to TrollStore Lite to take advantage of the ad-hoc app installation and registration (a purportedly cleaner method).
Since TrollStore Lite requires a jailbreak, this means whatever you’ve installed with it will only work while you’re in a jailbroken state. Whether you have a perma-signed jailbreak with TrollStore, or you use palera1n, both make it easy to get re-jailbroken and access the apps you’ve installed and registered with TrollStore Lite. So be sure to keep TrollStore installed if you have it.
It’s easy to install TrollStore Lite and transfer your current perma-signed apps from TrollStore to TrollStore Lite. You will need TrollStore v2.1 or later in order to do this, and in today’s piece, we’ll show you how to do it in the simplest way possible.
How to install TrollStore Lite
To install TrollStore Lite, follow the steps below:
1) Launch your preferred package manager app (we’re using Sileo):
2) Tap on the Search button in the Tab Bar:
3) Search for TrollStore Lite and tap on the first option that pops up:
4) Tap on the Get button:
5) Tap on the Queue button:
6) Tap on the Confirm button:
7) When finished, tap on the Done button:
Congratulations, you now have TrollStore Lite installed:
You can begin using it to install apps similarly to if you were using regular TrollStore by finding .ipa files and opening them in TrollStore Lite. If you have AppSync, then you can install apps as User. If you don’t, then apps will be installed as System ad-hoc instead.
Transferring apps from TrollStore to TrollStore Lite
If you’re ready to transfer apps from TrollStore to TrollStore Lite, then you can follow the steps outlined below. Note that this isn’t required, but it is a cleaner installation method as it works ad-hoc and may exhibit fewer issues in certain apps:
1) Launch TrollStore Lite from the Home Screen:
2) Tap on the Settings tab in the Tab Bar:
3) Tap on the Transfer (#) TrollStore Apps button.
Note: The # changes depending on the number of apps you have installed via TrollStore that will be transferred. In our case, that number was 2.
4) Tap on the Transfer button in the pop-up that ensues:
Congratulations, all your apps have now moved to TrollStore Lite:
Transferring apps from TrollStore Lite to TrollStore
If you ever need to transfer apps from TrollStore Lite back to TrollStore, such as to use a jailbreak app that you transferred over so that you can re-jailbreak, then you can follow the steps outlined below:
1) Launch TrollStore from the Home Screen:
2) Tap on the Settings tab in the Tab Bar:
3) Tap on the Transfer (#) TrollStore Lite Apps button.
Note: The # changes depending on the number of apps you have installed via TrollStore Lite that will be transferred. In our case, that number was 2.
4) Tap on the Transfer button in the pop-up that ensues:
Congratulations, all your apps have now moved to TrollStore:
Installing new apps with TrollStore Lite
The process to install new .ipa files with TrollStore Lite is almost identical to installing apps with the regular TrollStore utility. We show you how to do it below:
1) Find an .ipa file (or .tipa file) online that you wish to install with TrollStore Lite. We’ll use TrollDecrypt by iOS developer Donato Fiore from their GitHub page for our example:
2) Tap on the .ipa file to download it.
3) Tap Download in the prompt that ensues:
4) Tap on the Downloads button in the Safari URL bar:
5) In the pop-up menu that appears, tap Downloads:
6) Tap on the item you just downloaded from the Downloads list:
7) Tap the Share button:
8) Tap on TrollStore Lite from the Share Sheet menu:
9) Tap on Install from the pop-up in TrollStore Lite:
10) The app appears in your TrollStore Lite installed apps list:
Congratulations, the app has been successfully installed via TrollStore Lite:
Conclusion
You now know how to install TrollStore Lite, transfer apps between TrollStore and TrollStore Lite, and install new apps with TrollStore Lite.
Armed with this knowledge, you’re ready to install any .ipa or .tipa file that you might find anywhere across the internet on your jailbroken device, even if you don’t have access to the CoreTrust exploit that TrollStore uses.
Have you tried TrollStore Lite yet? Let us know in the comments section down below.