Comment by kall
4 years ago
Since apple stuff is expensive anyway, you can just consider the developer program a 99$/year sideloading feature unlock. I use TestFlight to push some private apps to my own and friends devices and find it quite convenient. It even updates in the background for them. 90 days is still kind of a chore but doable.
There are only 1-2 apps I want that are locked out of the App Store due to Apple's policies, so at that point it's cheaper to subscribe to the developer's Patreon to get access to their private beta TestFlight (which I might do, it's not expensive).