Overview

• Pace Capital’s Series A investment gives it roughly a 15% stake, with partner Chris Paik and Flipboard CEO Mike McCue joining AltStore’s board.
• AltStore plans to bring its iOS marketplace to Japan, Brazil and Australia before year‑end, with the UK targeted for 2026, contingent on Apple’s implementation and local rules.
• An ActivityPub-based Mastodon server will automate app‑update posts from developer‑provided JSON, and user interactions from the fediverse will appear natively in AltStore.
• The company pledged $500,000 to open social projects, including $300,000 to Mastodon gGmbH and support for Bridgy Fed, Tapbots’ Ivory and Phoenix, and The Iconfactory’s Tapestry.
• AltStore reports more than 100 developers and hundreds of thousands of users, touting self‑publishing and apps excluded by Apple’s policies, alongside prior additions like Fortnite and the adult app Hot Tub.