AltStore

Raised as a usability problem by 10 people on Hacker News over 6 years (2019–2024), in 8 threads.

People raised many different problems with AltStore, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 10 complaints

Download button doesn't work the first time; user must repeat checkout to reach it2024-04-20
Website copy is confusing to non-technical readers2024-04-20
Install requires an unexplained setting, with vague messages and no way to find it in settings2024-04-18
Subscriptions are hard to cancel, with unsubscribe errors and phone-only cancellation2024-04-02
Spent an hour unable to get a source configured successfully2023-03-20
Requires a Mail.app plugin and a VPN client, and is buggy and unreliable2023-03-20
Apps stop working after restart unless Mail/AltStore server is reopened, requiring reinstall2023-03-20
Windows AltServer is unreliable and apps don't auto-renew, needing a second Mac to work2022-01-13
Installing apps requires many hoops, certificates, and iCloud password sharing2020-11-18
Sideloaded apps expire every seven days and the three-app limit forces repeated reinstalls2019-09-28