Stay up-to-date with the latest news, releases, and tutorials about AltStore, an alternative App Store allowing you to sideload apps on your jailbroken or unjailbroken device. AltStore is the best way to install a semi-untethered jailbreak such as Odyssey or unc0ver.
The AltStore Team on Saturday celebrated the fifth anniversary of the day when it launched AltStore Classic for all iPhone and iPad owners worldwide who sought an easy way to sideload apps on their devices via an Apple Developer-registered Apple ID with the release of AltStore version 2.0.
AltStore PAL, the widely popular alternative App Store available to iPhone and iPad users in the European Union, received an update on Thursday bringing it up to version 2.1.2.
The romance between AltStore PAL and Epic Games only continues to deepen this week following Epic Games’ MegaGrant to the AltStore team ahead of the company’s plans to host its popular Fortnite mobile game on the platform.
Sideloading apps has become a popular pastime for iPhone & iPad owners because it allows them to install apps that are otherwise restricted from being distributed on the App Store. Unfortunately, installing apps in this manner can be a double-edged sword because you’re limited to sideloading a certain number of apps with a free Apple developer account.
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.
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.
While AltStore works great for sideloading apps onto iPhones and iPads from Mac and Windows PCs with AltServer installed on them, Linux users find themselves with no official support, and many third-party forks exhibit Wi-Fi reliability issues. This is a major problem considering AltServer’s dependence on Wi-Fi.
AltStore is a well-known piece of software that allows iPhone and iPad users to sideload apps on their device, effectively sidestepping the App Store. The main benefit there is that users can install apps that Apple would never permit on the App Store.
So you’ve decided that you want to learn more about AltStore, a sideloading application for iPhones and iPads that lets you install .ipa files (raw iPhone application files) on your device with your own Apple ID. Well, you’ve come to the right place.
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.