Setapp Mobile’s open beta adds more apps for European iPhone users

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You don’t request an invitation to download MacPaw’s alternate iOS app store; you conscionable request to person an iPhone that’s successful the EU.

By Jess Weatherbed, a quality writer focused connected originative industries, computing, and net culture. Jess started her vocation astatine TechRadar, covering quality and hardware reviews.

Sep 17, 2024, 8:00 AM UTC

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Two iPhone models displaying the Setapp Mobile app marketplace.

The Setapp Mobile alternate app store is present disposable successful unfastened beta for iPhone users successful the European Union, featuring 50 antithetic productivity- and lifestyle-focused apps astatine launch. While astir of these apps, similar the Tripsy itinerary planner and MindNode caput mapping tool, are already disposable connected the authoritative iOS App Store, Setapp creator MacPaw says its ain level provides a simplified idiosyncratic acquisition and a fair, performance-based compensation exemplary for app developers.

Setapp was primitively released arsenic an app marketplace for macOS earlier the institution launched a mobile mentation for iOS users. Setapp Mobile launched arsenic a closed beta successful May, soon aft the European Union’s Digital Markets Act forced Apple to commencement allowing iPhones to enactment third-party app marketplaces.

Joining the Setapp Mobile unfastened beta requires iOS 17.4 oregon aboriginal and an EU-based Apple ID. New EU subscribers tin get a seven-day escaped proceedings for the platform’s monthly $9.99 / €9.49 “iOS Advanced” plan, which allows users to download immoderate iPhone apps they similar from some the Setapp Mobile iOS app and Setapp’s desktop / web marketplace. Many of the apps it offers, however, are escaped to download via the Apple App Store. Users who joined the erstwhile invite-only beta connected different Setapp plans volition request to upgrade, oregon they’ll suffer entree connected September 17th.

The Verge recovered the process of really installing apps utilizing Setapp to beryllium cumbersome in our archetypal hands-on review, but that’s reasonably emblematic for these third-party iOS app platforms. By contrast, the abstracted Setapp Mobile work should beryllium easier to use, arsenic it allows users to download iOS apps straight from their iPhones without jumping done further hoops.

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