Earlier today, third-party app store AltStore PAL, announced that a porn app called Hot Tub was now available to iOS users in the European Union. The marketplace, which enables people in the EU to ...

The European Union (EU) used the new Digital Markets Act (DMA) to force Apple to allow third-party App Store alternatives on the iPhone. The DMA also brings third-party payments and sideloading to the ...

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 ...

In a response to the looming regulations in the European Union, Apple is reportedly working on deep changes to how iOS and the App Store work. According to Bloomberg, the company is even considering ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Image: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac Apple bans apps like emulators and clipboard history on your iPhone, but there’s a clever way to sideload these apps without jailbreaking. The official App Store is ...

Apple’s been forced by European Union regulators to open up access to its iPhones and iPads so that users can download apps from sources other than Apple’s App Store–until now a system that Apple has ...

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 ...