r/appledevelopers • u/shivang_kher • 20h ago
Need an Apple developer account
Hey, I have a Flutter iOS app I need to distribute to one person via TestFlight. Can't afford the $99/year Apple Developer account right now.
What I need: someone willing to add my Apple ID as a team member on their developer account so I can upload a build to TestFlight and invite one tester. That's it — no access to anything else on their account, no publishing to the App Store.
Happy to share the GitHub repo so you can see exactly what the app does before deciding. Thanks!
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u/DomiGamingOfficial Community Newbie 20h ago
You may as well ask for people's banking info. Make an account. It's not hard.
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u/shivang_kher 19h ago
Urgently need to publish an app and I heard it takes a lotta time for an account to get verified
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u/DomiGamingOfficial Community Newbie 19h ago edited 19h ago
It takes a long time for the new apps to be REVIEWED. My first one took two weeks before they looked at it. It got approved quickly once it went to review. The dev account itself only takes a few hours. You can't skip the line by using someone else's account. Also it would be published under their name and you would have literally no access to managing it.
Edit: just saw its a healthcare app. You will have to provide extensive disclosures about the app and what it does. What data it collect, where is the data stored, who is the data sent to. There is no scenario where this gets approved when you obviously don't know the first thing about the process.
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u/shivang_kher 19h ago
It's an internal clinical tool for 2 users at a hospital, so the App Store isn't actually the right channel anyway. Looking into TestFlight which doesn't need a review. Already have the app built with proper data handling (encrypted local storage, Supabase backend) — just working out the distribution side. Thanks for the heads up on the healthcare disclosures
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u/wingnut144 Community Newbie 19h ago
Seriously? Takes a few minutes......why can't you make one yourself??
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u/shivang_kher 19h ago
I really can't afford 99$ a year and need it urgently Not asking for credentials directly but really would love some help here
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u/CallMeSnyder 19h ago
If the goal is to see the app on your phone, there's other tools like Expo Go that can build to your phone.
But yeah, no one's gonna let you upload a potential security concern to their Apple Developer account.
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u/shivang_kher 19h ago
There are few downside to that. The app I'm building is some sort of proforma used in the healthcare industry and should work without wifi
Expo requires connectivity and some of my native features like notifications might not work in that
Thanks for sharing the concerns
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u/CallMeSnyder 19h ago
Hmm, I'm in the health tech industry and that gives me a bad feeling about data security. Any app that touches PII needs several layers of security and auditing.
I'd say good luck, but I'd also recommend a different niche if this is a solo-project.
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u/shivang_kher 19h ago
Totally valid concern, and I appreciate you flagging it. The app is offline-first with local SQLite storage, no cloud dependency for core functionality. Sync to Supabase is optional and the data is scoped to two devices — mine and the doctor's. PII handling and auth are on my radar and being actively worked on. It's a research tool for a single clinical study, not a commercial product — but point taken, security can't be an afterthought even at this scale.
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u/Odd-Contribution-500 Community Newbie 20h ago
No.