altkeeper
AltServer for iOS 17+ that runs on your home server (Docker): renews and installs sideloaded iPhone apps over Wi-Fi, no computer or VPN
Details
- External ID
- 1380643020
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- altkeeper
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 21, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 23
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.6508455034588778
- Tags
- altserver, altstore, docker, ios, linux, rust, self-hosted, sideloading, sidestore
- Fetched at
- Sept. 25, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 25, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- cross-device control and OS utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- docker-based altserver for sideloading ios apps over wi-fi
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No It requires deep reverse engineering of Apple's proprietary MobileDevice/usbmuxd protocols, Wi-Fi pairing/tunneling (RemoteXPC/CoreDevice in iOS 17+), and cryptographic app-resigning flows inside a containerized Linux environment.
What it would actually take: Implementation requires reverse-engineering Apple's iOS 17+ pairing and developer disk image mounting protocols (such as pymobiledevice3/libimobiledevice stack running inside Docker). The hardest component is handling iOS 17's shift to RemoteXPC over IPv6 tunnels without relying on macOS developer tools, along with Anisette data generation and Apple ID authentication. A systems/security engineer familiar with low-level iOS internals and network daemon protocol emulation is required.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 109 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #48 of 110 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 317 days after the earliest competitor.
- Family sync with no server · hn · 2026-08-26 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Proxee · hn · 2026-06-08 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Ripley · github · 2026-09-16 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- NetBridge · github · 2026-09-13 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Never miss another critical iOS security update again · hn · 2025-11-08 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- AppleFileViewer · ph · 2026-09-27 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- airlift · github · 2026-09-14 · 181 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- ExtraDock 4.0 · hn · 2025-11-18 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.41
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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