iPASide

Put any app on your iPhone, from Windows, with just your Apple ID.

No jailbreak. No paid developer account. No closed-source middleman.

Open source, end to end. Nothing between your Apple ID and Apple.

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Get started

1. Install iPASide. Download the installer from the latest release and run it. It installs just for you and never asks for administrator rights.

You also need Apple's Apple Devices app (or iTunes) — that is what lets Windows talk to your iPhone over USB.

Windows will warn you. It says "Windows protected your PC" because the installer is not code-signed, and a signing certificate is a recurring cost this project does not have. Choose More info ▸ Run anyway. If you would rather not trust a prebuilt file, every build step is scripted — see Build it yourself.

2. Sign in. Open iPASide and sign in with your Apple ID, then enter the code Apple sends to your other device. A spare Apple ID is a good idea rather than your main one.

3. Plug in your iPhone, unlock it, and tap Trust.

4. Sideload. Go to Sideload, drag an .ipa onto the window, and press Sideload to iPhone.

5. Trust the app on your phone. Open Settings ▸ General ▸ VPN & Device Management on the iPhone and trust your developer profile. The app will now open.

6. Turn on auto-refresh in iPASide's Settings. Apple's free signatures expire after 7 days; this re-signs your apps before they do, in the background, without iPASide needing to be open.

What it looks like

Home — your phone, your Apple ID, and how the two are connected.

Sideload — drop in an .ipa and it reads the app's own icon and details, then tells you exactly which device it is about to install to.

Library — everything you have sideloaded, and how long each has left. Refresh one or all of them.

LiveContainer — install it in one press, then add apps to it from here. They run inside it rather than on your phone, so the three-app limit stops being the thing you plan around.

Jailbreak — iPASide checks whether Dopamine supports your iPhone's chip and iOS, then installs the latest release in one press. It is an ordinary sideload; the jailbreak itself only runs on your phone the first time you open Dopamine.

Account — every certificate on your Apple ID and which tool registered it, so you can tidy up without breaking something you did not know was there.

Settings — pick your connection, manage this PC's pairing file (create keys, place into EscapeOS and other apps), decide whether to keep signed .ipa files and where they go, and turn on background refresh.

Diagnostics — one page that tells you whether everything it needs is working.

There is a full light theme too, and the sun in the title bar switches to it.

What it can do

• Sign and install any .ipa with a free Apple ID, over USB or Wi-Fi — and you choose which, or let it prefer the cable.

• Drag and drop anywhere in the window. It reads the app's icon, version and contents straight from the file.

• Inject tweaks — drop in .deb packages (rootful, rootless or roothide) or raw .dylib files, as many as you like. Dylibs are pulled out of .debs for you.

• Get past the three-app limit, with LiveContainer. One press installs LiveContainer, signs it with the entitlements it needs, and hands it your signing certificate so it can sign apps on the phone itself. Then put apps inside it straight from iPASide — they are never installed on the phone, so they use none of your three slots, and they have no 7-day expiry of their own. Verified end to end on an iPhone 8 Plus with a free Apple ID.

• Refresh on the phone, no PC. iPASide installs the LiveContainer build that carries SideStore and hands it this computer's pairing file, so the phone can re-sign its own apps. It needs a local device VPN connected, and an iOS Shortcut named TurnOffData that iPASide cannot create for you — the app says so rather than letting you find out.

• Place a pairing file on the phone. Settings does the same job as iLoader: USB Trust keys for SideStore / AltStore / LiveContainer on iLoader's iOS range (15–26), plus Remote Pairing keys over USB for EscapeOS and StikDebug on iOS 26.4+. Import an iLoader file if you already have one. After Place, unplug — those apps talk to the phone over LocalDevVPN, not a live USB cable.

• See and manage your Apple ID's account. Certificates, App IDs and devices, for any Apple ID you have signed in. Each certificate says which tool registered it, because Apple counts them per machine and revoking the wrong one breaks a different tool's apps.

• Keep your apps working. The Library counts down each app's 7 days, and a daily background task re-signs whatever is due — no need to leave iPASide open.

• Use more than one Apple ID. Keep several signed in and switch without typing a password again — useful when one account has used up its ten App IDs for the week. A refresh always re-signs as the account that signed the app, because a different one produces something your phone will not install over it.

• Provisioning, signing and installing are reported as they occur, down to the upload's byte count and the phone's own install steps.

Your Apple ID is used only to sign in to Apple, over a connection pinned to Apple's own certificate authority. It is never sent anywhere else, and there is no iPASide server.

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