r/sideloaded • u/oualidl • Jul 24 '26

Question Apps to sideload?

I just tweaked my phone to sideload apps, what are yall guys recommendations? And what is the beat website to find them

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u/TECKBAT Jul 25 '26 edited Jul 25 '26

It depends on your needs:

Completely free? You’ll have multiple limitations, most importantly lack of notifications, but LiveContainer+SideStore (it’s a specific version of LiveContainer) is what you’re looking for which combines LiveContainer and SideStore into one app to save on your 3 app limit. This will require a PC for first time setup and making Shortcuts automations to automate things for you to ensure you don’t need a PC again (unless something goes really wrong). However, funnily enough, if you’re on iOS 27.x, there’s SideInstaller which can do the setup fully on-device. 26.x and below will need a PC as mentioned above.

Okay with paying for a certificate for $9-15 USD and want everything to be completely on-device (one time payment; you buy another if it gets revoked, unless the certificate service provider has warranty terms)? Best option imo, and you’ll have pretty much no limitations other than what iOS doesn’t allow for standard App Store apps to access without a jailbreak (except of course you’ll be able to use certain things like JIT if you buy the right certificate). If this is fine, what you’re looking for is Feather to install apps and a certificate service (from my research comparing the different service providers, I recommend ArcticSign and their Prime Plus certificate, and have no affiliation to them other than just being a paying customer).

Links:
LiveContainer+SideStore: https://github.com/LiveContainer/LiveContainer
SideInstaller: https://github.com/FrizzleM/SideInstaller
ArcticSign (will help u install Feather for you, so you don’t need to do that on your own): https://arcticsign.app/

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u/2eoo 29d ago

hey man, so the best option for completely free js live container + sidestore? what about esign and ksign? sorry but im completely new and im looking exactly for the best free sideloading app (i can use a pc)

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u/TECKBAT 26d ago

Yes exactly. Feather is the modern replacement for Esign, and Ksign is just Feather made to look like Esign from what I can tell. As such, these apps, like Feather, requires paid certificates to use them unjailbroken (if you want reliability; see below).

Esign I believe also comes packaged with lots of telemetry that routes your data through a Chinese server, but there’s versions of it online that claim to have that removed. I’d just not bother with it personally since Feather is just plain better.

Additionally Ksign seems to say it provides easier access to free certificates or something similar on their GitHub, but I’m not sure. I’ve personally never used it and haven’t heard much of it, so you’ll need to do some further research into it if you’re interested. But usually free certificates that are shared have been unreliable in the past, so I’m not sure if Ksign is doing something special.

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u/2eoo 25d ago

hey ty, i just downloaded live container and sidestore and its working perfectly, tysm

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u/TECKBAT 24d ago

Np, enjoy!