Extensify brings custom app tweaks to non-jailbroken iPhones

Over the past seven and a half years since the App Store launched in July 2008, Apple’s mobile application market has blossomed from a size of just 500 applications at launch to more than 1.5 million as of last month. Unfortunately, even with all of these apps readily available, the company has been reluctantly strict in allowing developers the ability to change application functionality with their own third-party enhancements. Until last summer, the process was mostly restricted to jailbroken iOS devices and there have been few app tweaks available for non-jailbroken devices, until now.

A new application called Extensify promises to allow iPhone, iPod and iPad device owners the ability to change the properties of App Store apps without the need to install a jailbreak exploit. Extensify is made possible through the ability to side-load iOS apps in XCode 7, which Apple introduced to developers in June 2015. The company’s intentions behind app side-loading was to allow developers to test applications on their devices without having to pay for them. Last summer, developers also gained the ability to release iOS applications outside of the App Store, so long as they were released as “open source” downloads.