{"id":221244,"date":"2025-10-13T10:12:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T10:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/221244\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T10:12:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T10:12:30","slug":"altstores-alternative-iphone-app-store-is-coming-to-more-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/221244\/","title":{"rendered":"AltStore\u2019s alternative iPhone app store is coming to more countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">AltStore PAL, which launched as one of the first alternative iOS app stores in the EU last year, is coming to more countries, <a href=\"https:\/\/rileytestut.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/07\/evolving-altstore-pal\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">developer Riley Testut announced today<\/a>. \u201cSpecifically, we plan to launch in Japan, Brazil, and Australia before the end of the year, with the UK to follow in 2026,\u201d Testut says. Launching in more countries is \u201cby far our number one request,\u201d though the AltStore team is still waiting to hear more from Apple \u201con exact timing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Testut also says that AltStore is making a big push into the fediverse by using the ActivityPub protocol to \u201cfederate apps, app updates, and news alerts from AltStore to the open social web.\u201d Here\u2019s how that will work, according to Testut:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup ewrhy38 _1xwtict1\">Each AltStore source will receive its own ActivityPub account, which can then be followed by any other open social web account. You\u2019ll be able to like, boost, and reply to everything, and most importantly all these interactions will appear natively in AltStore. In other words, you\u2019ll be able to comment on an app on Mastodon, like a news update on Threads, then open AltStore and view all these same interactions in-app.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The AltStore team is working with Mastodon gGmbH to \u201cmanage a custom Mastodon server on our behalf\u201d (it\u2019s available <a href=\"https:\/\/explore.alt.store\/public\/local\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in beta now<\/a>) and with the non-profit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/12\/17\/24322908\/a-new-social-non-profit-bridge-platforms\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A New Social<\/a> to support Bluesky using the Bridgy Fed tool. The fediverse features will come to AltStore PAL in \u201cthe next few months,\u201d Testut says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">AltStore is also getting a $6 million investment from Patreon board member Chris Paik\u2019s Pace Capital so the team can hire more staff and add \u201cthe necessary bandwidth to finalize Fediverse integration and expand AltStore worldwide,\u201d Testut says. Paik will join AltStore\u2019s board of directors, as will Flipboard CEO Mike McCue, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/12\/18\/24323903\/flipboard-surf-fediverse-social-web-app\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">who is a big fan of the fediverse<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AltStore PAL, which launched as one of the first alternative iOS app stores in the EU last year,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[517,8543,4535,165,3,172,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-221244","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-apple","9":"tag-apps","10":"tag-ios","11":"tag-mobile","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-tech","14":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}