In what can only be described as big news for the AltStore PAL community, the AltStore Team announced in a post shared to X (formerly Twitter) on Wednesday that Epic Games has provided the platform with a MegaGrant grant that will be used to cover Apple’s Core Technology Fee from now on.
In a post shared to social media platform X (formerly Twitter) on Thursday, the AltStore team announced that it had released an update to the AltStore PAL alternate App Store in the form of version 2.1.1.
iPhone and iPad owners who live in the European Union can now install torrenting apps like iTorrent and qBitControl, but not from the App Store.
There was once a time when iPhone and iPad owners could download the popular Fortnite battle royale game from the App Store. But after Apple claimed that the game had violated the App Store’s terms and conditions, the game was pulled from it, resulting in one of the most closely watched and drug-out lawsuits ever between Fortnite creator Epic Games and Apple.
Back in April, AltStore sideloading platform developer Riley Testut released AltStore PAL, an Apple-approved alternative app marketplace that the iPhone maker was essentially forced to allow into existence by new regulations approved in the European Union. And today, AltStore PAL is getting even better.
The AltStore PAL alternative app marketplace has launched, letting users in the Europen Union (EU) download and install apps not found on Apple’s App Store.