As someone who uses Android as their primary mobile OS, I tend to focus on alternative apps/service to Google’s products, but that doesn’t mean I don’t also enjoy the third-party replacements for ...

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 ...

AltStore PAL is the first Apple-approved alternative iOS app store in the EU. Eligible iPhone users can utilize AltStore PAL for a symbolic fee that covers Apple’s CTF. Developers must host their apps ...

Epic Games has granted AltStore PAL a MegaGrant for innovating in app distribution. AltStore PAL will use this grant to cover Apple’s Core Technology Fee and let EU users access its digital storefront ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Yesterday, AltStore co-creator Riley Testut posted on Mastodon that the ‘cat’s out of the bag.’ That cat was the announcement from Epic Games that their hugely popular game ‘Fortnite’ would be coming ...

With iOS 17.4, Apple began supporting alternative app marketplaces in the European Union, and the first of these stores will be launching soon to give consumers new ways to install apps without having ...