iPhone torrenting apps are now available in the EU

Jul 25, 2024 12:02 AM - 6 months ago 149414

The first batch of third-party apps are making their measurement onto AltStore PAL, conscionable complete 3 months aft nan replacement iOS app marketplace first launched successful nan EU. Three retired of nan 4 apps being released coming are exclusive to AltStore PAL and can’t beryllium recovered connected Apple’s charismatic iOS App Store. The apps developed by group different than AltStore PAL co-creator Riley Testut see 2 torrenting apps and a societal find app for dating.

Specifically, nan caller additions see iTorrent, an iOS torrent customer that tin beryllium utilized without jailbreaking iPhones aliases iPads, and qBitControl, a qBittorrent distant customer for iOS devices. PeopleDrop is simply a dating-focused “social find platform” that connects you pinch different users successful nan existent world arsenic they walk by. And finally, there’s nan UTM SE app for emulating different operating systems for illustration Windows, Linux, and macOS connected iOS.

Four iPhones moving qBitControl against a bluish background.

The qBitControl qBittorrent distant customer for iOS devices is 1 of nan caller third-party torrenting apps launching connected AltStore PAL.

Image: qBitControl / Michael-128

UTM SE is nan only app from this batch that’s already disposable connected nan charismatic iOS App Store, having gained support from Apple earlier this month. UTM SE credited nan AltStore team for helping it pinch nan support aft Apple antecedently rejected nan app successful June.

Apple bans each torrent apps connected its ain iOS store, claiming that they’re “often utilized for nan intent of infringing third-party rights.” But now that nan EU’s Digital Markets Act has weakened nan tech giant’s expertise to constabulary its walled garden, iOS users wrong nan bloc tin workout a spot much state — and judge much consequence — complete nan apps they take to install.