A little help goes a long way
Keep the good stuff going.
Updater CE is free to use and built by people who care about keeping Y1 and Y2 players useful. Your support helps pay for the archive, the servers, and the time it takes to keep everything working — and this page shows the real people and projects behind it.
This is a people-powered project.
Every contribution helps someone find a working firmware, try a new project, or keep an old player alive a little longer. Thank you for being part of it.
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It takes you.
Our projects rely on donations from the communityHey! I'm Ryan, the developer behind Innioasis Updater CE, the Community Firmware Archive for Y1 and Y2, and the Themes Gallery. I pay for these hobby projects out of my own pocket with my own money to keep them free and accessible for everyone. Server hosting, firmware archive storage, domain renewals, and ongoing maintenance cost around $200 each month, so any support you can share helps take the weight off and keeps the project thriving for the community!
Choose your way to help
Whatever works for you.
A coffee, a one-off gift, or simply sharing 100MB on Honeygain — it all adds up. Pick your favourite and you’ll be taken straight there.
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Small contributions make a real difference.
They keep the archive online, help community projects ship, and make it possible to keep sharing this work without a paywall.
People and projects your support reaches
Your support doesn’t stop here. It also helps independent people build Rockbox, Solar, JJ Launcher, themes, and other brilliant little projects.
A Thank You to all of our supporters
A proper thank-you to everyone who has helped. Whether you bought one coffee or kept coming back, you’re part of the reason this is still here.
Top Supporter — more than one contribution or a gift at least twice the average
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Developer documentation
Publishing custom software? Read the developer guide for adding Y1 and Y2 releases to Updater.
Project links
Where the money goes
Here’s the plain-English version of the running costs. The baseline is $200 for every calendar month since July 2025, plus the annual Apple Developer certification and a one-off Mac mini for platform testing on macOS. Community project donations are shown as expenditure, not as money raised.