^ me going to another city because I fell asleep on the train and missed my stop

Ate the onion on not the onion?

Anything uploaded to the Apple App Store goes through a standard review process before Apple will let you release it on their store. Random DMG files you download from a website don’t.

Does that mean the app is more “secure”? Not necessarily. But you can at least be reasonably confident it’s not malware if nothing else.