MacPaw’s Setapp Mobile launches today as an invite-only beta in the EU, giving European iPhone owners a far less difficult way to access apps through a single monthly subscription than the clunky American experience.
Better yet, for those lucky enough with the initial beta, it’s available for now. . .
The Verge was able to watch it for a week before today’s limited release and was impressed.
Setapp Mobile’s subscription-based technique opens up an exciting new way to use an iPhone, where you can play around with a variety of apps without being bothered by reduced features, ads, update issues, or spending money on anything you might not even use. . . . Well, if you live in the EU, that is.
Callum Booth, compared to the obstacles, Apple forces American iPhone users to use the same service.
[In the U. S. ], installing the apps on your phone is a terrible experience. The procedure requires opening your Setapp account in a browser, going to your apps segment, following a link that opens the iOS App Store, and installing said software before returning to your account and activating it.
In the EU, Apple still makes the installation procedure of a chosen app store as confusing as possible, but once Setup Mobile is installed, all you have to do is on the app you want, press a button to install it, a confirmation, and then wait a few seconds for activation.
Right now, there are a lot of apps to choose from, but that will change.
In the edition we tested, there were thirteen apps: Focused Work, CleanMyPhone, SideNotes, Itemlist, Taskheat, MonAI, Mindr, NeatNook, Subjects, BasicBeauty, Optika, Downie, and ClearVPN, all of which were high-quality and feature-rich. rich. .
Over the past week, that number has risen to 17, and MacPaw said there will be more than 30 when the beta opens to everyone this summer. Lately, there are more than 50 apps available in the U. S. version. They will most likely follow.
There’s no word yet on how much the monthly subscription will be. For beta users, it’s free lately, but the value in the full release has yet to be announced.
See The Verge for screenshots of the process.
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