{"id":47658,"date":"2025-05-08T14:35:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T18:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=47658"},"modified":"2025-05-12T11:04:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:04:06","slug":"altstore-pal-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/08\/altstore-pal-2-2\/","title":{"rendered":"AltStore PAL 2.2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@rileytestut\/114462477676511209\">Riley Testut<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@rileytestut\/114462477676511209\">\n<p>Guess what &mdash; you can now self-publish your apps on AltStore PAL completely FREE!<\/p>\n<p>Just connect your Apple Developer account with PAL and make an AltStore source. Then you can distribute notarized apps by simply uploading them to your web server like the good ol&rsquo; days &#x1F44C;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/faq.altstore.io\/developers\/distribute-with-altstore-pal\">AltStore<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/faq.altstore.io\/developers\/distribute-with-altstore-pal\">\n<p>The only major difference is that your apps will only be available in the EU.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>You <em>do not<\/em> have to be located in or have a business in the EU to distribute your apps with AltStore PAL.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@bwebster\/114468796725903884\">Brian Webster<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@bwebster\/114468796725903884\"><p>Welp, looks like today I get a taste of what it&rsquo;s like not being able to ship an update to the App Store.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Blocked by a notarization outage, so not quite like the good old days.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/13\/alternative-distribution-for-ipad-apps-in-eu\/\">Alternative Distribution for iPad Apps in EU<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/10\/eu-ios-envy\/\">EU iOS Envy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/15\/epic-games-pays-altstore-pals-ctf\/\">Epic Games Pays AltStore PAL&rsquo;s CTF<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/30\/bittorrent-apps-in-altstore-pal\/\">BitTorrent Apps in AltStore PAL<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/02\/altstore-pal\/\">AltStore PAL<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"altstore-pal-2-2-update-2025-05-12\">Update (<a href=\"#altstore-pal-2-2-update-2025-05-12\">2025-05-12<\/a>): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manton.org\/2025\/05\/09\/i-dont-think-i-realized.html\">Manton Reece<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.manton.org\/2025\/05\/09\/i-dont-think-i-realized.html\">\n<p>I don&rsquo;t think I realized that you didn&rsquo;t need to be in the EU to distribute apps via AltStore PAL. If Apple relaxes their notarization review in the future, I might use this to ship early iOS builds to the EU.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riley Testut: Guess what &mdash; you can now self-publish your apps on AltStore PAL completely FREE! Just connect your Apple Developer account with PAL and make an AltStore source. Then you can distribute notarized apps by simply uploading them to your web server like the good ol&rsquo; days &#x1F44C; AltStore: The only major difference is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2025-05-08T18:35:05Z","apple_news_api_id":"7129b1ca-f93e-42e8-a8fd-a2383361eb52","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-05-12T15:04:08Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AcSmxyvk-Quio_aI4M2HrUg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1878,2542,1927,31,2586,1842],"class_list":["post-47658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-altstore","tag-app-marketplaces","tag-european-union","tag-ios","tag-ios-18","tag-notarization"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47658"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47678,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47658\/revisions\/47678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}