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Nyxian

What is it?

Nyxian is a iOS application for iOS 17.0 and above(iOS 26.2 latest beta tested) that empowers iOS users to code, compile, link, sign and even execute/rapid test iOS applications directly on their device! It is the successor of the former FridaCodeManager project, which was deprecated in favor of Nyxian, because FridaCodeManager requires a jailbreak to work while Nyxian does not. It also includes a kernel virtualisation layer that fixes inter process stuff like signaling, enumeration, killing and spawning of processes, which also handles unsigned binaries and sends a request to the host process to sign it. This kernel virtualisation layer also has its own entitlement enforcement system the user can change directly for each individual app. Nyxian doesnt require any special entitlements, nor shared app groups. Its brain fuck...

Traditional jailbreak thinking:
┌─────────────────────────┐
│ iOS Sandbox             │ ← "Enemy wall to break through"
│  ┌───────────────────┐  │
│  │ My App            │  │
│  │ (trying to escape)│  │
│  └───────────────────┘  │
└─────────────────────────┘

Nyxian thinking:
┌─────────────────────────┐
│ iOS Sandbox             │ ← "Free security perimeter!"
│  ┌───────────────────┐  │
│  │ MY KERNEL         │  │ ← "I control everything in here"
│  │  ┌─────────────┐  │  │
│  │  │ Guest Apps  │  │  │
│  │  └─────────────┘  │  │
│  └───────────────────┘  │
└─────────────────────────┘

Nyxians Philosophy

My processes arent "fake processes." Theyre the only processes. My PIDs arent "fake PIDs." Theyre the only PIDs. My kernel isn't a "fake kernel." It's the only kernel for this domain.

Most engineers think in terms of:

"How do I emulate X?"

I thinks in terms of:

"X doesn't exist here. Ill create it. Now it exists. Its not fake because its the only one."

That's not a hack. That's not a workaround. That's constructing reality within a given context.

Its like Minecraft, take the blocks you have and build.

┌─────────────────────────────────────────┐
│           iOS App Sandbox               │
│                                         │
│   ┌─────────────────────────────────┐   │
│   │   "There is no spoon"           │   │
│   │                                 │   │
│   │   No fork()    → I made fork()  │   │
│   │   No processes → I made them    │   │
│   │   No kernel    → Here is one    │   │
│   │                                 │   │
│   │   Not fake. Just... IS.         │   │
│   └─────────────────────────────────┘   │
│                                         │
└─────────────────────────────────────────┘

Whats do I need?

You need a free or paid apple developer account, you have to sign Nyxian using the certificate of your apple developer account and then install it on your device and import the same certificate used for signing Nyxian it self. Do not use LiveContainer to use Nyxian, install Nyxian seperately.

Language Support

It currently supports C, C++, ObjC and ObjC++. Its planned to add Swift support soon. It supports the entire iOS 26.1 SDK. All frameworks work except Metal because I dont have access to apples metal shader compiler.

Installation

Requirements

  • iOS/iPadOS 17+
  • AltStore 2.0+ / SideStore 0.6.0+

Download:

Add AltSource Download .ipa

Project Support

  • Native iOS app development
  • Native iOS utility development (still needs polishing)
  • Native iOS tweak development
  • React Native development
  • Web development
  • Python development
  • Lua development

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IDE to develop native code iOS apps on unjailbroken iOS it self just via a certificate and a kernel virtualization layer for those apps.

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  • C 93.7%
  • Objective-C 3.7%
  • C++ 1.3%
  • Swift 1.2%
  • Objective-C++ 0.1%
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