Apptoide, the so-called first free App Store for iOS, is now available for free in the EU

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Apptoide, the so-called first free App Store for iOS, is now available for free in the EU

• Aptoide, the independent App Store, is now available for free on iOS for EU users
• While it calls itself the first alternative app store to arrive for free, the Epic Games Store did hit first
• But Aptoide may have a claim to being the first general, third-party storefront

If you’ve been looking for an alternative to the iOS App Store, you’ve mostly been out of luck as Apple has been enormously protective of their own personal walled garden. Fortunately though, after years of legal cases things began to open up last year, and following the arrival of the Epic Games Store to iOS a new player has arrived in the form of

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Eagle-eyed readers will recall that we previously covered Aptoide when we wrote about their initial beta back in mid-2024. But now, all users (in the EU) on iOS can download Aptoide for free and give it a try. While it does make the bold claim of being the first alternative storefront on iOS most of you will also recall the Epic Games Store pre-empting them (at least in full release) by a few months.

However, where Aptoide seems to differ is in the breadth of releases available. Not just focusing on gaming they also boast more general apps and an innovative feature where you can select the version of a release which you want to play that is apparently exclusive to their storefront and previously only available to Android users.

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While what I’ve written so far may sound like thinly veiled scepticism I do think Aptoide has a genuine claim to being the first (especially if you take into account their beta *******). The Epic Games Store, which I mentioned above, for example, is really third-party only in the sense it isn’t owned by one of the big two. But at its core, the EGS is still a storefront held by a major player in the industry.

So, for those of us who’ve been watching the ongoing Epic v Apple saga and the subsequent opening of the formerly closed realm of iOS to more storefronts, this is pretty good news. But now I think we’ll all be watching closely to see if Aptoide can really grab those dissatisfied with Apple.

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