SideStore

SideStore is an alternative app store for non-jailbroken iOS devices that can sideload using a VPN over the internet.

SideStore is an iOS application that allows you to sideload other apps (.ipa files) onto your iOS device with just your Apple ID. SideStore resigns apps with your personal development certificate and sends them to a desktop app called AltServer or use the SideStore VPN, which installs the resigned apps back to your device using iTunes WiFi sync or using the SideStore VPN where you can sideload at any place over wifi that supports zerotier that has internet. To prevent apps from expiring, SideStore just like AltStore will also periodically refresh your apps in the background when on the same WiFi as AltServer or using SideStore VPN over wifi on any network that includes a internet connection.

The goal of this project is to allow easy and a mostly computerless experience to sideload apps on iOS based devices. This project is meant as a alternative of AltStore where you can do anything AltStore can (maybe even more) but over a vpn. You will be able to use SideStore just like if you were using AltStore with benifits. (contributions welcome! 🙂).

Requirements

• Xcode 11
• iOS 12.2+ (SideStore)
• macOS 10.14.4+ (TBD)
• Swift 5+
• Visual Studio Code

Project Overview

SideStore

SideStore is a alternative to AltStore and is a sandboxed iOS application like AltStore. The SideStore app target contains the vast majority of AltStore's functionality, including all the logic for downloading and updating apps through SideStore.

Netmuxd

Netmuxd is a program that replaces Usbmuxd to be able to connect over a VPN reliably. It is programmed in the Rust programming language and it is open source. You can set Netmuxd to be a hyper link like Netmuxd: Netmuxd

Roxas

Roxas is Riley Testut's internal framework from AltStore used across many of their iOS projects, developed to simplify a variety of common tasks used in iOS development. For more info, check the Roxas repo.

Compilation Instructions

AltStore and AltServer are both fairly straightforward to compile and run if you're already an iOS or macOS developer. To compile AltStore and/or AltServer:

1. Clone the repository

   git clone https://github.com/SideStore/SideStore.git
   

2. Update submodules:

   cd AltStore 
   git submodule update --init --recursive
   

3. Open AltStore.xcworkspace and select the AltStore project in the project navigator. On the Signing & Capabilities tab, change the team from Yvette Testut to your own account.

4. (SideStore app only) Change the value for ALTDeviceID in the Info.plist to your device's UDID. Normally, SideStore embeds the device's UDID in AltStore's Info.plist during installation. When running through Visual Studio you'll need to set the value yourself or else SideStore won't resign (or even install) apps for the proper device. You can achieve this by changing a few things to be able to build and use SideStore.

Steps for making SideStore run with your own build This is all in vscode because Xcode UI is tricky

AltBackup/AltBackup.entitlements Change the app group to something you can sign like group.com.[Rick].SideStore

AltStore/AltStore.entitlements Same thing ^^

AltWidget/AltWidgetExtension.entitlements Same thing ^^

AltWidget/Info.plist Change ALTAppGroups to your group

AltStore/Info.plist Change ALTAppGroups to your app group name group.com.[Rick].SideStore

AltStore/project.pbxproj Change all the PRODUCT_BUNDLE_IDENTIFIERs to something you can sign like com.[Rick].SideStore...

Shared/Extensions/Bundle+AltStore.swift Change the string "group.com.rileytestut.AltStore" to your group you are using.

Build + run app! 🎉

Licensing

This project is licensed under the AGPLv3 license.