What Alternative iPhone App Stores To Look Like

What alternative app stores for iPhone will look like, The Verge portal showed.

The Epic Games Store and MacPaw Setapp have been announced, but perhaps the first to appear on the phones of EU users is AltStore from Riley Testut, the developer of the App Store alternative of the same name, which was launched in 2019 and did not even require jailbreak. Now the official version of AltStore is being approved by Apple and will be ready for launch upon completion of the procedure. Journalists from The Verge were able to test a preliminary version of the platform.

One of the factors hindering the development of alternative app stores is the high cost of these projects: for each first installation of an app from third-party stores in a year, if the downloads exceed one million, the developer must pay Apple a “Core Technology Fee” (CTF) in the amount of €0. 50. The same applies to the installation of application stores themselves. Mobivention has shifted this burden onto its clients, and AltStore has not yet announced how it intends to resolve this issue, although the current version of the site has already been installed more than a million times.