Personal iPhone application without paying?

Question

I want to develop a little iPhone application, just for my personal needs. I don't want to sell it or give it to anybody as it will not be useful to anybody.

Can I have this application on my iPod/iPhone, without having to pay/suscribe/be on the Apple store ?

Answer 1

You need to pay the $99 for the iPhone Developer Program in order to be able to install your application onto the iPhone/iPod.

Answer 2

You can, by Jailbreaking your iPhone and then installing the AppSync program from Cydia. Then you can either build your app as a release and drag it into iTunes and sync your phone or change some settings (look it up on google, putting Xcode project on jailbroken device) in the Xcode project settings and open the organizer window and click on the use for development button on the device's page.

Jailbreaking your device will void your warranty if Apple find out (ie if you go into a shop and ask them to fix your device if it ever breaks without clicking restore in itunes to unjailbreak it)

With the Spirit jailbreak, Jailbreaking is as simple as plugging in your phone and pressing jailbreak. (and the US Government has said that Jailbreaking is legal: http://www.pcworld.com/article/201892/us_government_iphone_jailbreaking_is_fair_use.html)