Jailbreak Apps

Jailbreakers’ Choice: Your 5 Picks, Vote for the Best

On Friday we asked you for your top five favorite paid products from Cydia. We received a large amount of responses, tallied up every vote, and determined what the five most popular paid packages are from our readers.

So now we present to you the final vote. Here are your five favorite apps and tweaks. Vote on the included poll for your favorite amongst the five.

Here are the nominees...

‘CallNow’ Mates Activator Actions With Phone Calls

Is there one number that you call all the time? Maybe you call to check on your husband, wife, mom, or dad each day?

CallNow is a jailbreak tweak that can make the hassle of searching for a specific contact a thing of the past.

Sure, the iPhone has favorites, but CallNow takes the concept of favorites to the next level.

Why is that? Well that's because with CallNow, there is no plural interpretation of favorites. It's favorite, as in one phone number, and that's it...

ToneFXs 2.0 is Your Complete Solution to iOS Sound Customization

One of the missing features in the iPhone is the ability to customize sounds on the device. Compared to the competition, this is a field where the iPhone fails, badly.

Enter ToneFXs. ToneFXs 2.0 is a jailbreak app that lets you customize all the sounds on your iPhone. That includes anything from custom push notification alerts, custom email alerts, custom email alerts for specific contacts, custom text message alerts for specific numbers, custom calendar alerts and much more.

‘DreamBoard’ Brings Advanced Theming to the iPhone

Do you feel like WinterBoard is getting a bit long in the tooth? Tired of its limitations?

Perhaps this new jailbreak app might pique your interest then. It's called DreamBoard, and it promises to bring advanced theming to your iPhone.

Those are pretty big promises, especially considering how the mighty WinterBoard has pretty much dominated iPhone theming over the last few years.

Can DreamBoard live up to its aspirations for greatness?

Need a New Way to Navigate Your iPhone’s Screens? Try ‘SwipeNav’

SwipeNav is a jailbreak tweak that enables swipe navigation on apps that support UINavigation. Got all that?

Yeah, I was about as confused as that sounds when reading the description for SwipeNav, but after actually trying the tweak, I was able to understand the concept behind it.

In a nutshell, SwipeNav will allow you to use swipe motions to navigate to a prior page on apps that feature the blue navigation bar at the top...

Top Five Paid Jailbreak Apps/Tweaks: Vote for Your Favorites

Most people tend to jailbreak for the packages and features that don't require payment. Among the many, SBSettings, Mobile Substrate, Cydia, OpenSSH, ActionMenu, SwitcherMod, and others stand out for functionality the iPhone should have. But which apps are truly worth buying in Cydia?

We're calling for a vote for the top five paid packages and products available from Cydia. If you were to lose all of your purchases, what would be the first five jailbreak tweaks that you spend money on to perfect your iPhone's configuration?

‘Springboard Enhancer’ Promises Cramped iPhone Home Screens

It seems like we've been down this road before, doesn't it? Springboard Enhancer is a tweak that promises springboard customization, and it generally focuses on adding 5 app icons on your springboard, in your folders, in your dock, and in your app switcher.

If you've been using tweaks like Five Icon Dock, Five Icon Folder, Five Icon Switcher, etc., Springboard Enhancer can outright replace all of those jailbreak tweaks, and it's free just like the aforementioned tweaks as well.

Springboard Enhancer is all tweak, there are no app icons, and no settings section to worry about configuring; just install it and go...

AT&T Cracks Down on MyWi Tethering Users

If you're a heavy user of MyWi, the most popular jailbreak app that allows tethering, then watch out because AT&T is coming after you. According to various reports from MyWi users, AT&T has been sending SMS and emails warning them that they have to activate the official tethering option if they want to tether their iPhone.

Additionally, the email AT&T sent to some MyWi users warns them that if they don't hear from them before March 27, those users will automatically be enrolled in the 4 GB DataPro plan, which is required for activating the official tethering option...

IconNotifier: Another Unique Alternative to iOS Notifications

Late last month, developer Peter Hajas introduced MobileNotifier, a complete replacement of Apple's aging iOS notifications system. The jailbreak tweak became incredibly popular, showing how much iPhone owners are longing for a better notifications system.

Following MobileNotifier comes another alternative to the iOS notifications system courtesy of the jailbreak community, called iconNotifier.

Celeste Bluetooth File Transfer App Now Available in Cydia

It's finally here! The team behind Celeste, CocoaNuts, has officially released Celeste, the long awaited Bluetooth file transfer app for iOS4.

As a refresher, Celeste is a jailbreak app that allows your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch running iOS 4.2 or later and receive files from any mobile phone and any computer (Mac or PC) that supports OBEX Bluetooth file transfers.

‘PowerUp’ Supercharges Your iPhone’s Power Options

Are you power hungry? Well then, I have the perfect jailbreak tweak for you.

PowerUp is a free jailbreak tweak available on Cydia that maps additional options to your iPhone's sleep button.

Normally when you press and hold sleep you get the "slide to power off" dialogue, but with PowerUp installed, your options just got a tad more robust...

New Cydia Tweek Makes Your LockScreen Keypad Transparent

If you are looking for the latest tweak for your jailbroken iPhone, check this out. This new Cydia tweak is called 'Keypad Transparency', and I'll give you 3 guesses what it does. Give up? It gives you complete control over the opacity of your lock screen keypad.

The default opacity is set at 40%, which is what it is in the screen shot above. But the nice little feature about this app is, it allows you to customize it from up to 100% and down. Just how light can it get?