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AltStore PAL drops its annual subscription thanks to a grant from Epic

A promotional image for AltStore’s MegaGrant.
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AltStore PAL, a third-party iOS app store that’s available in the EU, is dropping its annual €1.50 (plus tax) subscription after receiving a “MegaGrant” from Fortnite developer Epic Games. AltStore originally charged the subscription to help cover Apple’s Core Technology Fee (CTF), which is a fee third-party app marketplaces have to pay for each annual app install.

Epic uses MegaGrants as a way to “sponsor the development of exciting projects that may not otherwise have enough funding to fully realize,” the company says. The grants are typically meant for smaller teams using Epic’s technologies to “bring bold, challenging, and insanely creative dreams to life,” but in this case, Epic awarded the grant for “innovation in app…

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