Testut has been working on AltStore PAL since Apple announced plans to support alternative app marketplaces in iOS 17.4.

AltStore PAL is one such app, and it’ll have to pay the €0.50 fee per app install once its store is downloaded more than a million times. Before the grant, AltStore PAL charged users an annual ...

To cover the CTF, AltStore PAL initially charged its users around €1.50 per year. Thanks to an Epic Games MegaGrant it just received, though, AltStore PAL will be free for all eligible users ...

EU third-party iOS app store AltStore PAL has dropped its yearly €1.50 subscription fee following a “MegaGrant” from Epic Games. This fee was previously a necessity for the app as it was charged that ...

AltStore, an alternative app store, has launched its first batch of third-party iOS apps in the European Union. The rollout comes a few months after the company launched an updated version of its ...

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 PAL developer Riley Testut says that Hot Tub, which describes itself as an ad-free “adult content browser,” has made it through Apple’s notarization review for fraud, security ...

AltStore PAL is finally available to iOS users in the EU (via The Verge), enabling them to download apps that don’t necessarily comply with Apple’s App Store guidelines. Those running iOS 17.4 ...

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 ...

Apple makes the installation of AltStore PAL on iOS just as onerous. The marketplace then requires users to add “sources,” which are URLs containing JSON files that hold app metadata.

He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Epic Games plans to bring Fortnite to the third-party iOS app store AltStore PAL, which is only available in the EU.