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procinct | 8 months ago

I believe you only have to pay to put your app on the App Store. I’ve made apps for my iPhone before and never had to pay.

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mcpherrinm|8 months ago

It's the "for longer than a week" bit - Unless you have a paid developer account, you can only sign apps to sideload that last one week.

There's some tools to automate "refreshing" the app, but that requires you have some other computer that pushes a new app every week.

The "1 week" restriction is usually fine when you're developing (as you typically are continually rebuilding and updating when actively working on an app) but is clearly intended to avoid being a way to sideload apps without the developer account "nearby".

tech234a|8 months ago

If you trust it, SideStore manages to do it on device by using a local VPN to make an on-device server appear to be an external device on the network.

sheepscreek|8 months ago

I’m not a 100% on this, but I believe you need to pay them to “sign” your app. For iOS, that means there is no way anyone else will be able to use your app unless they side-load it themselves (and we all know how cumbersome that is, Apple doesn’t want to make it easy).