Jailbreak Apps

iWindows: A Simple Windows 7 Simulator for Your iPhone

Cody Lee ∙ Updated February 6, 2016

A lot of folks jailbreak their iDevices to add functionality to iOS. Maybe they do it to download SBSettings to access toggles quicker, or to install Xpander to save time typing. For the most part, though, people tend to jailbreak for productive reasons.

But Cydia also has a lot of non-productive apps. Not just games, but entertainment-type apps that are more likely to be used in a round of "look what my phone can do," rather than actually used. Now that I've preempted what category this one falls into, here's iWindows...

Quick Cydia Tip: Sharing Links to Your Favorite Apps and Utilities

Cody Lee ∙ August 7, 2011

Have you ever wanted to share a jailbreak app or utility with a friend, but didn't know how to send them a direct link? The App Store has an easy way to share apps with its 'Tell a Friend' button, shouldn't there be something similar in Cydia?

Our friends over at Redmond Pie just passed on this great tip on how to do just that. While it's not as cut and dry as the App Store method, it does allow you to quickly share links to your favorite Cydia packages...

GroupTones: Assign Ringtones to Your Contact Groups

Cody Lee ∙ Updated January 24, 2016

If you've gone through the process of dividing your contacts into groups on your iPhone, you'll love this next jailbreak utility. Though there's not a direct way to create groups on your device, you can create them on your Mac or PC and sync them using iTunes.

GroupTones allows you to assign specific ringtones for each of those groups, so you can tell callers apart without looking at your phone. This would help you to instantly identify if the person calling you is a friend, a co-worker, or one of your kid's playmates...

KillBackground: Kill All Running Apps from Your Multitasking Bar

Cody Lee ∙ Updated August 15, 2011

Although Apple took a couple of years to implement system-wide multitasking in iOS, it seems to do the trick. It's easy to access the multitasking bar from any application, and for the most part, apps running in the background don't slow you up.

Note that I said for the most part. It seems like once you have 10 or more apps running, your iPhone starts to feel a bit sluggish. And to close them all one by one can be a tedious task. So why not download a jailbreak utility that'll do it for you in one step?

Put Your Apps in Stealth Mode With ‘Empty Folder Icons’

Jeff Benjamin ∙ Updated January 24, 2016

Empty Folder Icons is a new jailbreak tweak for the iPhone that makes your iPhone's folders appear as if they contain nothing. For someone new to the world of iOS, this may seem like a pointless tweak, but all of us iOS users know that it is otherwise impossible to create an empty folder on the platform.

That is, of course, still impossible to do -- all that this tweak does is give the appearance of an empty folder.

If you're looking to add something different to your iPhone, or you're just tired of those nearly indistinguishable mini representations of your apps cluttering your folders, then you may want to check this free jailbreak tweak out...

Clear Your iOS App Icons Badges with BadgeClear

Sébastien Page ∙ August 5, 2011

BadgleClear is a new jailbreak application, and I'd put in the same category as No Badges and No Folder Badges. Just like its name implies, BadgeClear will clean up your iPhone or iPad apps icons badge notifications at the tap of a button.

Unlike the 2 apps mentioned above, BadgeClear actually lets you choose what badges you want to clear up. Simply bring your icons to wiggle mode (tap and hold), then tap any badges you wish to remove. BadgeClear will even clean out all the icon badges inside Folders if you tap a Folder's badge...

Jailbreak Tweak Adds Speedometer to Your Maps App

Cody Lee ∙ August 5, 2011

The jailbreak community is responsible for creating many extremely useful utilities for our iDevices. This however, is not one of them.

Speed for Maps more likely falls in the "Hey, that's kind of cool" category. This new jailbreak tweak installs itself in your native Maps application, and it places a speedometer in the bottom right corner...

AT&T To Begin Moving Jailbroken Hotspot-ers to Tiered Data Soon

Cody Lee ∙ August 4, 2011

AT&T got rid of their unlimited data plans quite some time ago. However, folks who had unlimited data before the plan was removed are likely still enjoying the all-you-can-eat option.

Thanks to the grandfather clause, customers should get to keep those unlimited plans until they sign another contract — unless their iPhone happens to be jailbroken and they're using an application like MyWi...

‘Webscrollian’ – Funny Name – Awesome Functionality

Jeff Benjamin ∙ August 4, 2011

Webscrollian is a brand spanking new jailbreak tweak from a staple in the jailbreak community, @chpwn.

Webscrollian is his latest concoction, and it brings significantly faster page scrolling to web views, i.e. Mobile Safari.

Want to see how a stock Safari browse stacks up against a a supercharged Safari browser with this TweakWeek entry installed? Check inside for the head to head comparison...

TwitkaFly 2.0 Adds a Slick New Interface and Support for Tweetbot

Alex Heath ∙ Updated April 25, 2017

As Jeff highlighted in the latest edition of "What's On My iDevice?," TwitkaFly has been updated to version 2.0. If you haven't heard of TwitkaFly, it's a jailbreak tweak for the iPhone and iPad that lets you tweet quickly through a super fast and easy Activator shortcut.

TwitkaFly 2.0 brings a slick redesign of the tweet compose window, and it also adds support for Tweetbot. If you like to tweet from a jailbroken iDevice, TwitkaFly is an essential tool...

Chinese Military Bypasses Apple and Releases a Jailbreak App

Sébastien Page ∙ Updated March 18, 2019

People's Liberation Army (PLA), aka the unified military organization of China, has been under scrutiny for the past few years for being the second largest military in the world in terms of budget, right behind the US.

To relieve stress from neighboring countries and also the rest of the world, the PLA thought it wouldn't be a bad idea to be more transparent about its military capabilities and intentions, and so they decided to create an iPhone application.

This news itself is interesting, but maybe the most interesting part is that the app will not be available on the App Store. It will only be available on jailbroken devices...

‘Safari Upload Enabler’ Lets You Upload Files from Your iPhone

Cody Lee ∙ Updated January 24, 2016

With jailbreak utilities like iFile and Safari Download Manager, your iDevice can seem more like an actual computer than a phone or MP3 player. The two apps allow you to manually download files, edit them, and move them around from folder to folder.

However, there hasn't been a convenient way to natively upload files in iOS (that I've known of), until now. Safari Upload Enabler just surfaced in Cydia, and it allows you to upload content from inside Mobile Safari...