majd/ipatool
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Command-line tool that allows you to search for iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, watchOS, visionOS, and macOS apps on the App Store, and download .ipa or macOS .pkg app packages.
4 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 1 story, 3 comments · first 2021-12-09 · latest 2025-06-05
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…Apple went back on their changes after 3 months. There are two main libraries, among others ipatool https://github.com/majd/ipatool/ and ipswm https://github.com/blacktop/ipsw/ , that are used to download the IPA files. (…
comment by ddxv · 2025-06-05 · in Apple re-enables iOS IPA Downloads (by third parties) again -
…but for now, it’s far from capable. For anyone interested in the issue, this one is active as well: https://github.com/majd/ipatool/issues/357
comment by ddxv · 2025-06-04 · in AI can't solve novel problems yet -
ipatool ( https://github.com/majd/ipatool ) + mremap_encrypted (syscall on Apple Silicon)
comment by cprecioso · 2022-11-11 · in Xcode 14 unintentionally increases app size