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How to convert *app to *ipa
1. Create a folder called Payload
2. Place the .app folder inside of that
3. Zip up the Payload folder using normal compression
4. Then rename the file with a .ipa extension
@refriedfood

refriedfood commented Dec 5, 2017

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It may be more beneficial to elaborate on this, eg. Commands and directories and examples.

@darrellbear112

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how to convert ipa to app?

@dsp1589

dsp1589 commented Apr 24, 2018

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@darrellbear112 change the extension to .zip and unzip it. you will find Payload/YOUR_APP_NAME.app

@MacKaSL

MacKaSL commented May 1, 2018

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Can you explain the difference between exporting build from organizer and using this method?

@Victor-Lerman

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Very interesting

@jx13xx

jx13xx commented Jul 14, 2019

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What is the .app folder?

@vdkuipb

vdkuipb commented Jan 21, 2020

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Hero

@sherin80

sherin80 commented Mar 9, 2020

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but cant install on iphone

@hesampour

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can it be installed on iphone? and
then how to install .ipa to iphone?

@shinriyo

shinriyo commented May 5, 2020

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mkdir Payload?? is it actually Payload name?

@deqline

deqline commented Jul 3, 2020

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I made an easy-to-use windows tool for this purpose, you can check it out here: apptoipa-converter.

@Victor-Lerman

Victor-Lerman commented Aug 26, 2020 via email

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@Big-coconut

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Would you do this on a mac? Or on a different device?

@shinriyo

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mkdir -p ios/iphoneos/Payload
mv ios/iphoneos/youe_app_name.app ios/iphoneos/Payload
cd ios/iphoneos
zip -r app.ipa Payload
rm -rf Payload

rename youe_app_name

@spacebytee

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If you're on windows, you can use this program I made a long time ago. http://fumacrom.com/3hfQl

@joeyfigaro

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Looks like this doesn't deal with the required info.plist in an IPA.

@ikilobyte

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Thank you

@TechUnRestricted

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This gist was created 11 years ago but it's still useful πŸ‘πŸ».
Thank you very much! πŸ‘

@LuisDiaz-ipsilon

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Muchas gracias!

@Sulaimaansheriff

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is there any way to convert apk to ipa?

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