iВерни

Bring back apps that are gone from the App Store

What you bought with your Apple ID stays yours — even after the app is pulled from the store. iVerni finds those apps on your iPhone and puts them back: plug in the cable, press one button, and a couple of minutes later they are there.

macOS 14 or later · 23 MB · first 6 restores free

🔏 Signed with Developer ID ✅ Notarized by Apple 📵 No jailbreak
The iVerni window listing apps that are gone from the App Store
A folder on the iPhone: some icons are cloud placeholders

The familiar mess after moving to a new iPhone

Some icons came over faded, with a little cloud on them. Tap one and you get “App no longer available” instead of the app. It happens with banking apps, with anything the developer removed, and with plain old purchases.

The App Store will not help: what is not in the store does not exist for it. Apple, however, still keeps your copy — and hands it to whoever owns the purchase.

iVerni fetches exactly that copy and installs it right over the faded icon. Nothing to delete, nothing to hunt down by hand.

What the app does for you

  • Finds every placeholder on the iPhone — the apps that did not come across and will not open
  • Recovers each one's App Store number from the purchase data left on the device — without it Apple hands over nothing
  • Downloads your own copy from Apple's servers
  • Installs it over the placeholder, so the icon stays on the same home screen, in the same spot

What it can do

Fast, simple and clear — exactly what a move to a new iPhone calls for.

Simple

Plug the iPhone in and press one button. Nothing to configure, nothing to delete on the phone, nothing to look up by hand: the app finds the device, builds the list and puts the apps back.

Fast

The list is ready in seconds and an app is back on the phone in a minute or two. No backup required — no disk space, no hour of waiting before you can even start.

Clear

Every row carries an honest label — gone from the App Store, bought with another account — plus download progress in per cent and counters at the top. If something fails, the reason is in plain words, not an error code.

All at once, or one by one

“Restore everything” walks the whole list on its own. Or press the button on a single row and only that app comes back.

Several iPhones and accounts

Connect them in turn: the app recognises each device and warns you when it belongs to a different Apple ID. Family purchases are often scattered across accounts — switch in one click.

Leaves nothing behind

No configuration profiles on the iPhone, no background services, no Keychain entries. Changed your mind? Drag the app to the Trash.

Three steps

From plugging in the cable to a working app — a couple of minutes.

1

Connect the iPhone

By cable, unlocked, and tap “Trust”. The app finds the device on its own and shows the list.

2

Sign in to your Apple ID

The one the apps were bought with. Your password goes straight to Apple's servers, and the two-factor code is entered right there.

3

Press “Restore”

The rest is automatic: your copy is downloaded and installed onto the iPhone, over the placeholder.

You will need: a Mac running macOS 14 or later, a cable, and the Apple ID the apps were bought with.

About security, honestly

Typing your Apple ID password into someone else's app is a fair reason to pause. Here is what actually happens.

  • The password is never stored. It goes straight to Apple's servers, bypassing us: there is no server of ours and no database it could be written to.
  • The Keychain is left alone. The app writes nothing there and never asks you for its password.
  • Two-factor stays two-factor. Without a code from your own devices there is no way in, and we do not work around that.
  • Developer ID signature, notarized by Apple. macOS verifies the file was not tampered with on the way to you.
  • No jailbreak and no configuration profiles: the iPhone stays exactly as it came from the factory.
  • Open-source parts inside (ipatool, libimobiledevice). Their licences ship with the app.

What it does not do

It does not download other people's purchases and it does not get around paying: Apple only hands over what your account already owns.

It does not read your messages, photos or notes — it has no need for them and no access to them.

It does not send us your app names, your Apple ID or your device names.

Privacy policy

Pricing

Try it for free first — pay only if it actually did the job.

Free

$0
first 6 restores
  • Every feature, nothing held back
  • Any number of iPhones and Apple IDs
  • No sign-up, nothing to fill in
Download
full version

Licence

$10
per year
  • Unlimited restores
  • One Mac and up to five iPhones
  • Can be moved twice to another Mac
  • Updates included for the year
Start free

Pay from inside the app and the limit lifts by itself, right after payment — nothing to type in. The key still arrives by email: you will need it after a reinstall or on another Mac. Payments go through Stripe — your card details never reach us.

Common questions

How can the app be downloaded if it was pulled from the App Store?

Being pulled ends the sale to new customers; it does not undo purchases already made. Apple still has the record that the app belongs to your account, and still hands that copy to its owner on request — which is exactly what iVerni asks for, the same way your iPhone would.

Is this legal?

Yes. It only ever touches your own purchases on your own devices. Other people's apps are out of reach: Apple releases a file only to the Apple ID it is tied to.

Do I need a jailbreak?

No. The iPhone is left untouched — no profiles, no services, nothing added to it.

Will there be a Windows version?

Yes, it is being built. Drop us a line at support@iverni.me and we will tell you when it ships.

All questions and answers →

See what is on your own iPhone

Download it, plug the phone in and look at the list — it costs nothing and commits you to nothing.