Jailbreak Apps

Best jailbreak apps for iPhone

By Allyson Kazmucha, Tuesday, Feb 19, 2013 a 11:06 pm

While Apple continues to improve iOS with every iteration, even with iOS 6, there are remain some feature gaps left to be filled. That's where jailbreaking, like always, comes to the rescue. Whether it's actionable notifications, gesture shortcuts, faster toggles, or something else, jailbreak makes a great OS even better.

Add page animations and transitions to your iPhone or iPad with DisplayCandy [jailbreak]

By Allyson Kazmucha, Monday, Sep 3, 2012 a 12:25 pm

If you've got a jailbroken iPhone or iPad and you've grown bored with the stock page transitions (or lack thereof), DisplayCandy can make things a bit more interesting by adding animations for opening, closing, and switching between apps.

Dash brings fluid card style multitasking to your iPhone [jailbreak]

By Allyson Kazmucha, Monday, Aug 27, 2012 a 2:38 pm

Dash, a relatively new jailbreak tweak, switches up multitasking on your iPhone and iPad by replacing the current multitasking switcher with an elegant card like interface that you can swipe through.

Make notification banners less obtrusive with MiniBanners [jailbreak]

By Allyson Kazmucha, Thursday, Aug 23, 2012 a 3:37 pm

If you've got a jailbroken iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch and have never been a fan of notification banners or how they take up the entire top of the screen until they decide to roll away on their own, MiniBanners may be for you.

IconToggles adds system shortcuts right to your Home screen [jailbreak]

By Allyson Kazmucha, Monday, Aug 20, 2012 a 12:13 pm

The best part of having a jailbroken iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch is the ability to access things like system settings quicker than you can stock. IconToggles adds beautiful system toggle icons straight to your Home screen for even quicker access than apps such as SBSettings offers.

Draw and handwrite iMessages and texts with Grafiti for iPhone [jailbreak]

By Allyson Kazmucha, Monday, Aug 13, 2012 a 2:32 pm

If you've got a jailbroken iPhone and fancy being able to draw or sketch pictures that you can text or iMessage to your contacts, you may want to check out Grafiti in Cydia. It'll allow you to do just that without adding an extra icon to your Home screen. Instead it integrates with the existing stock Messages app.

Share photos directly from your Photos app with FacebookThis [jailbreak]

By Allyson Kazmucha, Thursday, Jun 7, 2012 a 2:01 pm

FacebookThis is a jailbreak tweak for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch that will allow you to share images directly from your Photos app to Facebook. iOS lets you send pictures to Twitter but not Facebook. Maybe we will see Facebook integration in iOS 6 but if you're already jailbroken you can have this functionality now.

Tweak of the week: Fullscreen for iPad [jailbreak]

By Allyson Kazmucha, Sunday, Jun 3, 2012 a 10:30 am

Fullscreen for iPad is a jailbreak tweak that allows you take full advantage of the iPad's screen real estate complete with multitouch and gesture support. It integrates right into Safari so there's no second browser to download or deal with. Just install it and start enjoying fullscreen browsing.

NCSettings for iPhone and iPad review [jailbreak]

By Allyson Kazmucha, Friday, Jun 1, 2012 a 11:35 am

NCSettings for iPhone and iPad adds a row of system toggles to Notification Center for commonly used settings such as Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, brightness, and airplane mode. It's very similar to the system toggles you'd find in SBSettings but integrated a way that may be more appealing to some users.

iMore Picks of the Week for March 10, 2012

By Leanna Lofte, Saturday, Mar 10, 2012 a 12:13 pm

Every week the editors at iMore carefully select some of our favorite, most useful, most extraordinary apps, accessories, gadgets, and websites. This weeks selections includes a musical game, a jailbreak tweak, an accessory and app to accept credit card payments, a music identifier, a news readers, and a photo editor.

To see what we picked, and to tell us your pick, follow on after the break!