SideRefresh

What it does

SideRefresh is an open-source Mac app for people using coding agents to build personal iOS apps. It rebuilds, signs, and reinstalls one app through your free Xcode Personal Team before signing expires, verifies the result, and schedules the next refresh. Your source stays on your Mac, and SideRefresh never collects your Apple Account password. There is no IPA catalog or remote signing service. Mac, Xcode, an Apple Account, and initial iPhone pairing are required.

I built an app my daughter needed. SideRefresh refreshes it before free Personal Team signing expires.

SideRefresh rebuilds, signs, and reinstalls that app before free Personal Team signing expires. Your source stays on your Mac. A signed Mac build will follow Developer ID notarization and release verification. The first install worked. The free signing window did not last. SideRefresh turns the weekly Xcode rebuild into a scheduled refresh, as long as the Mac is awake and the iPhone is reachable. SideRefresh schedules from verified installation and expiration evidence—not from a successful command alone. Select one Xcode project or workspace and the paired iPhone you use. SideRefresh uses your installed Xcode and free Personal Team—without collecting your Apple Account password. It records…from recrack.github.io

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