Applesauce

Applesauce 0.4.1:

This update improves the library, game-session cleanup and AltStore Classic distribution. It keeps the same bundle identifier as 0.4.0, so it updates an existing Applesauce installation and retains its library and saves.

In AltStore Classic, open Sources → + and add:

Choose Applesauce from the source. Future releases appear in AltStore; you do not have to download a new IPA manually each time. Signing, refresh and JIT requirements still apply. The source does not enable JIT automatically.

Full installation and JIT guide.

Fixes:

• Importing copies files away from the main UI thread and coordinates access with Files providers such as iCloud Drive. A failed copy is cleaned up before it can appear as a partially imported game.
• Repeated taps cannot queue overlapping game launches. Library reloads are also suppressed while a game or import is active.
• Malformed game metadata that causes the HyperHLE parser to panic is caught at the native bridge. The library uses this parser regardless of the chosen gameplay core and falls back to a filename when metadata is unreadable.
• The FPS timer no longer retains the game-controls screen after exiting.
• The exit button respects the screen's safe area, and returning to the library uses the iOS 15 orientation fallback too.

• Building a second core copies only that core, avoiding accidental overwrite of a newer core with a stale file from another checkout.

• Migration instructions include saves and correctly explain which settings need to be reselected.

The AltStore source is checked against the unsigned IPA's version, build, minimum iOS, size, checksum and permissions. A release workflow updates the source for future published releases; prereleases and TrollStore packages are excluded from that automatic update.

Downloads:

• Applesauce-iOS-unsigned.ipa: AltStore Classic and other ordinary sideloaders.
• Applesauce-iOS-trollstore.ipa: the existing TrollStore route for supported older iOS devices, with JIT enabled through TrollStore.
• Applesauce-iOS-trollstore-permanent-jit.ipa: A11 and older only. Do not install this variant on A12 or newer devices.

The emulator versions remain HyperHLE v1.0.6 and touchHLE 0.2.3. This release does not claim additional game compatibility or fix the known Sims Medieval.

fresh device regression testing of 0.4.1 is still needed.

No games are included. Full credit for emulation belongs to touchHLE and HyperHLE. Applesauce is an independent, unofficial port.

Applesauce:

A playful emulator for iOS. It plays supported 32-bit iPhone games on modern iPhones — no jailbreak required, though JIT is. It installs and runs on iPadOS too, but every game runs as an iPhone guest for now: the core's iPad device families are not yet reachable from the app.

Applesauce is an unaffiliated fork. The emulation is entirely the work of touchHLE and its fork HyperHLE; this project is the iOS app built around them — the interface, the build system and the packaging. Neither project is connected to Applesauce or endorses it, so please report problems here rather than to them. No games or Apple software are included.