The best way to install apps from outside Apple’s App Store was only made possible because Riley Testut wanted to play Pokémon on his iPhone. Testut was still in college when he started building an ...

Riley Testut’s brilliant AltStore is an App Store alternative (kind of) for iPhone and iPad that allows you to install unauthorized third-party apps. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to install it ...

Apple’s chokehold on the App Store ecosystem for iPhone apps stifles competition, according to the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), so it’s now forcing the tech giant to open up to new rivals. As a ...

One of the first alternative app marketplaces went live in the European Union today, with developer Riley Testut introducing AltStore PAL, a version of his AltStore that can be accessed in EU ...

AltStore PAL, one of the first alternative app store available for iPhones in the EU after last years major DMA changes, has announced the release of AltStore Classic for AltStore PAL users – allowing ...

Japanese users can now download AltStore PAL and sideload apps on their iPhones and iPads. Here’s how. Yesterday, Apple announced a sweeping set of changes to the App Store and iPhone in Japan to ...

Even with the Epic Games Store set to launch in the EU on iPhone, Epic has announced its games will be coming to other alternative app stores that "give developers a great deal," like AltStore PAL.

It’s been ready for a while, but today, AltStore is finally available for iOS users in the EU. Riley Testus, one of AltStore’s founders, had this to say about the launch: This is a day I’ve been ...

The alternative iOS app store had cost €1.50 plus tax annually, but that fee is going away with the help of Epic Games. The alternative iOS app store had cost €1.50 plus tax annually, but that fee is ...

A new version of AltStore — AltStore PAL — has launched as an Apple-approved alternative app marketplace in the European Union. It’s an open-source app store made specifically for independent ...

AltStore, the original alternative app marketplace, just opened its doors further. Photo: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac AltStore PAL, the first third-party app marketplace to launch in the EU, is ...