SideStep

Apps you can install

Every app in the SideStep catalog, each with its own install button. On a Mac with SideStep, a click opens it straight to that app. Without SideStep, most buttons download a one-file installer that sets everything up for you.

iWish

John Buckman · iPhone and iPad

Tcl/Tk on iOS: a full scripting language and GUI toolkit running on the device, with over 100 bundled extensions, Bluetooth LE and demo apps.

Website · GitHub

Magnatune

Magnatune · iPhone and iPad

Stream and download the whole Magnatune catalog of independent, artist-friendly music.

Website · GitHub

Stay on Track

John Buckman · iPhone

A fully offline hiking companion: a voice calls out "left", "right" or "straight" at every trail junction.

Website · GitHub

dcamp

Decent Espresso · iPhone and iPad

The Decent Espresso owners' forum: read and post, chat and message other owners, and get AI summaries of long threads.

Website · GitHub

de1app

Decent Espresso · iPad

The original controller app for the Decent espresso machine, running on Tcl/Tk through iWish. It updates itself in place.

Website · GitHub

Decaid

Decent Espresso · iPhone and iPad

The open-source controller app for the Decent espresso machine (formerly "reaprime").

GitHub · needs SideStep installed first

Decent Cocktails

Decent Espresso · iPhone and iPad

Every cocktail from The PDT Cocktail Book and Death & Co, weighed to the gram and working offline.

Website · GitHub · needs SideStep installed first

Decent Timer

John Buckman · iPad

A simple kitchen timer for older iPads the App Store no longer supports: a good way to keep an old device useful.

Website · GitHub

Decently Fluent

John Buckman · iPhone and iPad

A graded reader: classic books, or your own, rewritten at your level in English, French, German, Spanish or Italian, with your own language beside them.

Website · GitHub

How the buttons work

Three steps, the first time

1

Click on a Mac

If SideStep is installed it opens and asks to install the app. If not, the button downloads that app's installer.

2

Plug in the device

The installer gets SideStep, then walks you through the cable, Trust and Developer Mode, and signing in with an Apple ID (a free one works).

3

Trust it once

On the device, open Settings ▸ General ▸ VPN & Device Management and trust your Apple ID. SideStep keeps the app signed and up to date from then on.

Making an app of your own? SideStep Wizard builds the same one-file installer and button for any GitHub project. To add an app to this catalog, open a pull request on GitHub.