As Apple faces pressure to open up the iPhone to third-party App Store providers, one developer has been helping users sideload apps since 2019 — and has issues with overbroad legislation demanding users be able to sideload. Apple has been persistently consistent and clear on its view that sideloading brings malware risks , and it's going to take changes in the law to make it allow unapproved apps onto the iPhone . Yet developer Riley Testut has been using one of Apple's own tools to allow users to install apps from outside Apple's curated App Store. According to Fast Company , AltStore has been downloaded over 1.5 million times since its 2019 launch . It reportedly has over 300,000 active monthly users, and almost 6,000 of those contribute to Testut's Patreon, paying over $14,500 for him to work on the service full time.