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Do you still need to pay Apple's extortionate $99/year developer fee if you're only developing apps for private/personal use?


Yes.

And it's explicitly not allowed to publish in the app store for such a small audience.


Technically you dont need it to develop and app for yourself. Practically the cert expires every 7 days without a dev license so its very annoying without one, vs being able to distribute to people you care about on test flight




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