[TobyTheDog123]

Apollo is one of the few reasons I shell out the $100/year for an Apple Developer Account.

If someone is even mildly technical I'd recommend going the Sideloadly route for getting Apollo, ad-free/background-play YouTube, ad-free/backgroun-play Twitch, and ad-free Spotify.

[hmcdona1]

The recent overhaul of Narwhal for version 2 reworked the entire app to operate pretty close to what Apollo was at its core. It's extremely customizable as well. Their new subscription plan for covering the API costs is pretty fair and would be cheaper than what you are doing here.

[TobyTheDog123]

I'm glad there's a spiritual successor to Apollo, but it's not entirely about comparing one cost to one cost.

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Spotify: $10.99/mo ($132/yr)

YouTube: $13.99/mo ($168/yr)

Twitch: $11.99/mo ($144/yr)

Narwhal: $6/mo ($72/yr)

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You'd be right, the $72/yr for Narwhal is less than the $100/yr developer certificate, but with all of the other sideloading opportunities it's no contest w.r.t cost.

[ec109685]

Why not pay for Spotify and YouTube Premium?

[Gareth321]

I can't speak for them but my YouTube experience is in the toilet as of late. I've been a Premium subscriber for years now and they just keep making the apps worse. I can't even turn off shorts anymore. Despite paying for an "ad free experience," they serve me this shit:

* In-feed ads. These include ads for content prominence (preferential placement for creators), articles with link-out, ads for Google products and services like purchasing movies and shows in their store, and ads for Google product features.

* Modal ads in videos which they facilitate. That is, pop-up ads in content.

* Ads for merchandise under the content.

* Ads for paid subscription to channels.

* In-content ads in the form of creator sponsorships. These are becoming egregious.

At this point my experience is infinitely better with another front end which bundles SponsorBlock. Why am I paying for a FAR worse experience on their app? Their family subscription is not cheap where I live.

[TobyTheDog123]

Why would I?

[ec109685]

Because it’s a pretty good deal and part of your fees go to the creators whose content you’re consuming.

[davkan]

You can use altstore to sideload those for free, or at least i know you can for uyou+.

[Gareth321]

I believe there are two large caveats with Altstore. 1) It requires the use of a local "server" to phone home on a weekly basis. That means setting up and running another computer in the home, then configuring a regular check-in. Remote check-in (such as while traveling) sounds even more complicated. 2) There is a limit of three apps.

[extraduder_ire]

There is (was?) a sideloadable app called "reprovision" that did the re-signing on your device without needing to do a reinstall every time. Was useful for keeping a jailbreak app on an ipad 6. Worked great as long as I didn't turn the device off for over a week.

Looking forward to the EU's sideloading rules coming in though, so I never have to deal with this.

[mattl]

That’s good to know. spez really dropped a bollock on this.