You’ve taken the plunge. Your iOS device is jailbroken. And now it’s time to head straight to Cydia and download all those illicit apps that’ll supercharge your iPhone or iPad.
Activator: Free
A shortcut, gestures, and button management tool. A great way to enhance how you interact with your device. Use a gesture to launch an app, hold down the volume key to make a call. It’s total control, and it feels like magic.
WinterBoard: Free
Change the default look of your iPhone with WinterBoard themes. Video wallpaper, customised keyboards, a world of backgrounds to choose from. This should be one of your first stops to make your phone look exactly how you want it.
MyWi: $US20
Tethering your iPhone without getting dinged by your carrier is one of the main reasons people jailbreak. Here’s the app that’ll help you do it. Warning, if your carrier realises what’s happening, they’re gonna be pissed.
iKeyEx: Free
A keyboard extender that adds the number buttons to the top of your iOS devices keyboard. A real time saver especially if you need to input alpha-numeric information on a regular basis.
My3G: $US4
Trick your iPhone into thinking your 3G connection is actually a Wi-Fi connection. Now you can do FaceTime anywhere.
iBlacklist: $US12
Block calls and texts from people you don’t want to talk to anymore. I’ve been getting a load of SMS spam lately and this is a lifesaver.
LockInfo: $US8
If you’re envious of Android owners and their fancy lock screens, give LockInfo a download. You can peruse the weather, time, calendar events, and more, all without diving into your phone. And there are enough themes and plugins available for Lockinfo that the sky’s the limit.
SBSettings: Free
Add settings to iOS 5′s Notification centre. That’s just one of the tweaks you can make to your device with this Springboard settings app.
Multiflow: $US5
Show all the open apps in a single screen for fast switching. It’s Expose for your iPhone and iPad.
Gridock: Free
Put icons anywhere on the screen without having to adhere to the slide-to-fill rows and columns on your iOS device. Want icons only in the four corners of a home screen? You’re crazy. I love it. Use Gridlock.
Trent
Saturday, January 21, 2012 at 6:48 PM“Gridock: Free”
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It’s showing as $1.99
barry
Saturday, January 21, 2012 at 9:25 PMSo.. Basically Jailbreak to load these apps to turn your iDevice into android?
Corey
Saturday, January 21, 2012 at 10:35 PMWinterboard – no Android equivalent without rooting (changing system icons, not just launcher). Multiflow – this is based of webOS and Mac style of multitasking. Idiot.
barry
Sunday, January 22, 2012 at 10:25 PMOh Corey. Did I get a rise out of you?
Matt L
Monday, January 23, 2012 at 10:58 AMAs this article raised you.
James
Monday, January 23, 2012 at 6:01 PMI have an iPad and there’s not one thing here that interests me in wanting to Jailbreak it. It does everything I need no problem.
Things like Gridlock Free where you can put icons wherever you want…I mean seriously? That extra flick to the next screen that painful is it. Talk about useless.
philthy
Monday, January 23, 2012 at 11:02 PMlooks like no-one cares. huh.
praz
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 10:37 AMJames: The only difference between you and others would be YOU PAY FOR THEM ! Well If you already “fool” others to make money; then i would recommend you to never actually Jailbreak your iPad, but if you’re a comman man who works hard to earn money then you’ve got an Option.
All
Monday, January 23, 2012 at 6:34 PMI always wonder why people read a tech blog/website and then left with a bad comment. If you are into tech and owned an iphone/ipad or equivalent, rooting(android) and jailbreaking(iOS) is a must; even if you dont need anything :) just jailbreak and have fun.
To James, its not useless, you just dont know it until u try :)
Just saying :)
All
Monday, January 23, 2012 at 6:35 PMoh by the way, try zephyr and intelliscreenx. Its not free but its a tweaks that I like :)
praz
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 10:35 AMInstall “Installous” and “Sinful iPhone Repo” from Cydia and download most of these Apps for free (Cracked) !
Barrel is the most beautiful app i’ve come across ! It makes my Icons dance when i swipe !
Tim
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 1:26 PMI don’t believe ikeyx works with ios5 unfortunately.
And really have to disagree with downloading cracked apps – they just don’t cost that much money, pay for them! Why should the developers get nothing for the amount of time they’ve spent creating them, made even harder by having to work on a hacked operating system?
CHUMMPY
Friday, April 6, 2012 at 5:18 AMAdd this source to Cydia to get a good choice of the best working Repos : http://bestcydiasources.myrepospace.com/