In an attempt to make sideloading apps a more positive experience for the end user, iOS developers Exid and Dyllie have created an online application library called Syde from which sideloaders can discover apps and quickly sideload them using whatever utility they might have available for their device.
When visiting the Syde website on your iPhone or iPad, a prompt recommends using the page to your Home Screen as a web shortcut. Doing so creates an app-like icon on the Home Screen that launches to provide an app-like user interface rather than a website-like user interface, as shown above.
Syde is separated into three different tabs, including the Items tab, where users can discover apps to sideload, the Categories tab, where users can easily filter available apps by category, and lastly the Settings tab, where users can find out more about Syde and configure options relating to it.
Important to note is that Syde isn’t a sideloadling utility in and of itself, but rather it provides faster access to popular .ipa files that you can sideload with a secondary tool.
By far the most convenient way to install .ipa files through Syde is with TrollStore on a compatible device, but there are alternatives if you don’t have a compatible device at your disposal.
Also see: How to install TrollStore on iOS 15.2-17.0 with TrollRestore
The Syde developers recommend the paid Kravasign signing service for use with Syde, which lets you install .ipa files on your device for one year for a fee. Alternatively, you can sign apps yourself with your own Apple Developer certificate and pay nothing. You can utilize one of those certificates in something like Feather.
While users can still source and download .ipa files themselves without Syde, the whole point of this project is to create a larger and more centralized app library from which users can get their apps. At the moment, the library isn’t that large, but as the project is quite young, we expect that will change in the future.
Several comments on the /r/jailbreak release post have already requested things such as modded .ipa files. So it will be interesting to see what becomes of Syde as the developers continue to polish the platform in the coming weeks and months.
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