UNSIGNED IPA
Installing it without a store
Anonycord ships as an unsigned IPA built from public source by GitHub Actions, and you sign it yourself on your own device with a sideloading tool. Below is what that means, the three routes in, and the annoying parts of each, which are worth reading before you need the app rather than after.
Every iOS app must carry a cryptographic signature before the system will run it. App Store apps are signed by Apple. Anonycord’s releases are deliberately not signed at all. The CI pipeline stops one step short, and your sideloading tool adds the signature using your own Apple ID at install time.
There is a second reason beyond the technical one. A store listing is a public catalogue entry, and a catalogue entry advertises what an app does and how many people are carrying it. Staying out of the catalogue keeps that quiet, and it leaves no listing to revoke, no certificate of mine to pull, and nothing standing between the public source and the binary on your phone. Verify the SHA-256 digest of any asset against the release page, or skip the IPA and build it in Xcode.
A Mac or PC on the same network for AltServer
Auto-refreshes in the background every 7 days
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Install AltServer on your computer
Download AltServer from altstore.io and run it on your Mac or PC. It stays in the menu bar / system tray and handles signing.
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Install AltStore to your iPhone
From the AltServer icon choose “Install AltStore”, pick your device, and enter your Apple ID. iOS will ask you to trust the developer certificate under Settings → General → VPN & Device Management.
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Download Anonycord.ipa
Grab the IPA from the latest GitHub release on your phone, or AirDrop it from your computer.
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Open the IPA with AltStore
Share the file to AltStore (or use the + button in My Apps). AltStore signs it with your Apple ID and installs it. Camera, mic, photo, and Face ID permissions are requested on first use.
NOTE Free Apple IDs allow 3 sideloaded apps and 7-day certificates. AltStore refreshes automatically while your computer is reachable; SideStore does the same without a computer after setup.
v3.1
29 Jun 2026Anonycord.ipa (6.6 MB)sha256 e9424316…13ee2270Releases are not built on anyone’s laptop. The build.yml workflow runs on a GitHub-hosted macOS runner: it pins a recent Xcode, produces an unsigned archive, packages the IPA, and attaches it to the release. Signing is intentionally left out. The uploader on every release asset is github-actions[bot], and the logs are public.
Inspect the workflow runs ↗| Trigger | Result |
|---|---|
| Push to main | Unsigned IPA uploaded as a workflow artifact |
| Tag matching v* | IPA built and attached to a GitHub release |
| Manual run | Same as a push, triggered from the Actions tab |