Feather

This app allows you to install and manage applications contained in a single app, using certificate pairs and various installation techniques to allow apps to install to your device. This is an entirely stock application and uses built-in features to be able to do this!

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Features

• User friendly, and clean UI.
• Sign and install applications.
• Supports AltStore repositories.
• View detailed information about apps and your certificates.
• Configurable signing options mainly for modifying the app, such as appearance and allowing support for the files app.
  • This includes patching apps for compatibility and Liquid Glass.
• Tweak support for advanced users, using Ellekit for injection.
  • Supports injecting .deb and .dylib files.
• Actively maintained: always ensuring most apps get installed properly.
• No tracking or analytics, ensuring user privacy.
• Of course, open source and free.

Download

Visit releases and get the latest .ipa.

<a href="https://celloserenity.github.io/altdirect/?url=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/claration/Feather/refs/heads/main/app-repo.json" target="_blank"> <img src="https://github.com/CelloSerenity/altdirect/blob/main/assets/png/AltSource_Blue.png?raw=true" alt="Add AltSource" width="200"> </a> <a href="https://github.com/claration/Feather/releases/latest/download/Feather.ipa" target="_blank"> <img src="https://github.com/CelloSerenity/altdirect/blob/main/assets/png/Download_Blue.png?raw=true" alt="Download .ipa" width="200"> </a>

How does it work?

Visit the HOW IT WORKS page.

Sponsors

| Thanks to all my sponsors!! | |:-:| | <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/khcrysalis/github-sponsor-graph/main/graph.png"> | | "samara is cute" - Vendicated |

Star History

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Acknowledgements

• Samara - The maker
• idevice - Backend for builds with this included, used for communication with installd.
• *.backloop.dev - localhost with public CA signed SSL certificate
• Vapor - A server-side Swift HTTP web framework.
• Zsign - Allowing to sign on-device, reimplimented to work on other platforms such as iOS.
• LiveContainer - Fixes/some help
• Nuke - Image caching.
• Asspp - Some code for setting up the http server.
• plistserver - Hosted on https://api.palera.in.

License

This project is licensed under the GPL-3.0 license. You can see the full details of the license here. It's under this specific license because I wanted to make a project that is transparent to the user thats related to certificate paired sideloading, before this project there weren't any open source projects that filled in this gap.

By contributing to this project, you agree to license your code under the GPL-3.0 license as well (including agreeing to license exceptions), ensuring that your work, like all other contributions, remains freely accessible and open.