Jailbreaking your iPhone allows you to install unauthorised apps that Apple have not yet allowed (for example unlocking or video recording).
Once you’ve jailbroken your iPhone you’ll notice a new app in your Springboard, called CYDIA. Cydia is the hackers version of the iTunes App Store. Once you open Cydia, you’ll be bombarded with the biggest list of apps EVER most of which are free. Whilst this is awesome, the sheer volume of apps makes it very hard to make educated choices on what apps to install, and it’s very easy to install totally useless apps and waste your time. So we’ve compiled a beginners guide to Cydia, 10 apps that will get you going with your jailbroken device and make your iPhone life easier and more useful in the process.
Winterboard
Winterboard is the ‘control’ app for the way your iPhone looks and sounds, once you’ve installed winterboard, you can then go back in to Cydia and choose from the plethora of themes that range from Lock Screens, to wallpapers to soundsets.
Upon installing these Themes, you won’t actually notice anything, until you go back in to Winterboard and ‘tick’ the themes ACTIVE. On hitting the home screen, the Springboard will freeze and then restart, and your new theme settings will be active.
*Featured theme at top of this article is GRADIANCE V3
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MxTube
Simply put, MxTube is YouTube with the ability to download videos for offline viewing. This is great because it downloads the high quality streams and plays back at a higher quality than the iPhone’s native YouTube app. MxTube is in beta, and sometimes crashes, which is a little frustrating, however it’s quite possibly our favourite Jailbreak app.
SwirlyMMS
MMS Picture Messaging is not a feature of the iPhone as standard. SwirlyMMS fixes this problem and allows you to send and receive photos to any mobile that has Picture Messaging. The latest version of SwirlyMMS contains all the access settings for all networks.
Video Recorder 3G
The iPhone is remarkably good at playing back video, but sadly it lacks the processing power to record video well. iPhone Video Recorder 3G is the answer. Whilst the quality is still very blurry and at maximum records at 15 (blurry) frames a second, it’s better than nothing. Don’t bank on be able to use this to capture those special moments with clarity though. We’ll have to wait for a good camera in the next iPhone for that…
LogoMe
Select any image and LogoMe will replace the Apple logo on start up with an image of your choice. It’s a little bit of fun, and really serves no purpose, but we’re nerds and it’s fun!
Reminder (aka Notifier)
Once you’ve installed iBlackList and turned on your Notifications Privacy you will need a way to see if you have messages at a glance. This is where Reminder comes in to play. This app adds some small icons to the top bar of your iPhone and shows when you have an SMS, Mail, MMS, Missed call or IM.
KeyVib
KeyVib makes your iPhone vibrate on every key click when typing emails or SMS. Whilst it drains the battery a little bit more than usual, it makes typing that little bit more responsive. Try it out, some people love it, some people hate it.
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February 9th, 2009 at 4:55 am
Note that SwirlyMMS does not work on the AT&T network in the US. Apple and AT&T need to fix the terrible user experience using MMS on the iPhone in the US. I make the case here: http://blog.mcmanus-family.com/2008/09/the-case-for-mms-on-the-iphone.html
February 19th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
How can i change the remind sound alert in reminder.app?
March 14th, 2009 at 10:39 am
I am brand new to J-breaking. How do I find these apps through the Cydia app on my iPhone…….I know…..what a nube. Thanks though
March 14th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
Forget it I figured it out Thanks again.
April 28th, 2009 at 11:56 pm
What theme is the one shown at the top?
April 29th, 2009 at 9:52 am
Gradience V3
May 11th, 2009 at 3:42 am
What source repository has the gradience theme? I can’t seem to find it with the current default repositories.
May 20th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
SBSettings, Icy, MobileTerminal, OpenSSH server, Backgroundr, VOIPover3g…
May 25th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
The gradience theme repository is already in cydia
May 28th, 2009 at 5:45 pm
i added swirly mms but it wont give me a demo licence keeps saying failed what do i do im only new i have no idea!!!
June 2nd, 2009 at 9:58 am
gradience should be in the standard repositorys the minute you open up cydia.
June 4th, 2009 at 7:33 am
logome made my ipod go into dfu mode and now it wont start
June 24th, 2009 at 1:21 pm
pls email me at spongedude16@hotmail.com
itunes is pissing me off
ok i am trying to jailbreak my ipod touch 2g and in itunes it keeps saying cannot sync error (13)
June 27th, 2009 at 8:28 am
hey how do you fetch the correct license for the swirlymms app it wont let me use it because it says it needs the correct license
July 1st, 2009 at 8:15 am
poof! is obsolete, you can hide icons with SBS settings, which can also toggle wifi,buetooth and much more
July 1st, 2009 at 2:14 pm
Are all these free???
July 4th, 2009 at 6:28 am
how do you delete a theme after downloading it and not likeing it?
July 7th, 2009 at 3:20 am
I want to use Winterboard on my 2g 3.0 but if I don’t like it or get tired of it, how do I get back to the default look? Uninstall the Winterboard app? Use a “default theme” setting inside of Winterboard?? Thanks!!!
July 9th, 2009 at 4:50 am
You can turn off winterboard through SBSettings, which should be your first install anyway.
July 11th, 2009 at 5:30 am
I like it how it says “stocks” is a useless app haha, shows how some people care about what happens to the rest of the world
July 16th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
Can you design your own background with Winterboard or do you only have the themes you can download?
July 17th, 2009 at 2:05 pm
*most of these still run on firmware >3.0 so basically you can have these badass apps, or you can have landscape text, copypaste, etc.(all of which you lived fine without before the update). just saying.
July 25th, 2009 at 9:30 am
how to turn off mediaplayer on iphone 3g 3.0 is been jailbreak and i try watch same videos is working diferent way mediaplayer takes long and i don´t know where the download going..replay me back thanks
July 25th, 2009 at 9:58 am
Do all of the apps work with 3.0 jailbreak?
July 28th, 2009 at 3:37 pm
http://cultlogssg.wordpress.com/2009/07/28/my-t...
August 2nd, 2009 at 3:31 pm
use quick pawn
August 23rd, 2009 at 2:33 am
add hppt.///xseille/youtube893/youtube it gives u free cydia apps i dont think the soucer is right !!!!!!!!!!!!
August 27th, 2009 at 11:07 am
I bought the iPhone 3gs it runs on 3.0.1. I've been trying to jailbreak it. Can anybody help me? Redsnow doesn't seem to work it says wrong ipsw???
September 25th, 2009 at 4:26 am
Thanks guys (experts) this is very informative and thoughfully created, are their any apps through Cydia offering free music video/ or music downloads? I have been looking for F.A.S.T. any of you guys now if its a jailbroken availability? If not its a great game!
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April 8th, 2010 at 7:54 am
Everybody has figured out how to unlock 3.1.3 for all ipods except 3g. Congratulations dipshit you suck!!!!!!!
April 16th, 2010 at 3:53 am
Great list of apps thanks
May 7th, 2010 at 10:54 am
everybody has now figured out how to jailbreak new 3.1.3 iphone 3gs with new bootrom now too dipshit, get a life u loser
May 11th, 2010 at 8:38 am
hi can anyone help got a wifi sciphone dual sim how can i put more apps on it got a disc wiv hundreds on it dontknow how to install on phone
May 23rd, 2010 at 8:04 am
i'd add ibluenova – lets you share files with other mobiles (not iphones)
May 24th, 2010 at 4:50 pm
i cant find that app on cydia? ,..
May 26th, 2010 at 3:24 pm
CONGRATS, WHO CARES!!!
May 29th, 2010 at 2:10 am
some apps blocked on my iPod?
May 29th, 2010 at 2:24 pm
use wifi
May 30th, 2010 at 12:06 pm
MINE IS…. I ONLY HAVE 5 APPS!
NERD
May 31st, 2010 at 7:47 pm
Thanks for the list! Very useful!! Here are others that I think are worth looking at:
Installous – download and install apps seen in AppStore
Insomnia – keeps your wifi connection on while iphone is in sleep mode
mAdvLock – Locks applications on iphone for security
AppSync – syncs apps without DRM (“cracked”) between iphone and itunes
June 1st, 2010 at 4:01 pm
u need to add this source to Cydia in order to get Installous
http://cydia.hackulo.us/
June 3rd, 2010 at 3:40 am
i jailbreoke mt ipod touch 3.1.3 firmware.
June 4th, 2010 at 4:08 pm
If you can't find it, you don't have the source added. Just add the source: “cydia.hackulo.us”
June 5th, 2010 at 3:44 am
Lol do realise there's a jailbreak out for ipod touch 3.
June 5th, 2010 at 4:10 pm
Its actually blackra1n
June 6th, 2010 at 9:51 am
try using rock, a cydia alternative
June 13th, 2010 at 12:46 am
anyone can jailbreak 3.1.3 its unlocking thats difficult :p
June 19th, 2010 at 10:48 pm
use redsnow i have used redsnow to unlock the iphone and it worked beleive me its great…!!
June 24th, 2010 at 6:37 am
Spirit hack for new ipod jailbreaks
June 25th, 2010 at 6:43 pm
I HAVE A QUESTION… when i download apps on cydia where the hell does it GO?? i mean where can i PUT IT TO ACTION?
June 27th, 2010 at 3:03 am
obviously you cant get verizon with your iphone,
makeitmine makes it look like it though…. fail
July 4th, 2010 at 1:55 am
it DOES void the warranty and can mess up your phone but if it messes up you can open up iTunes, hook it up to the PC or Mac then press and hold Sleep and Home for 10 seconds, then release the Sleep button and keep holding the Home button for 10 seconds. then iTunes will say it has detected an iPhone in recovery mode and just click restore. it will reset your iPhone to factory settings and it will work.
July 4th, 2010 at 1:56 am
Cydia is like a system app than cant be moved/deleted.
July 27th, 2010 at 2:53 pm
@ricky look here http://www.cydia-iPhone.fr , you CAN do the how two
August 1st, 2010 at 7:22 pm
I really like this webpage. I really want good content like this blog for my own.
August 3rd, 2010 at 3:09 am
loving poof and logome – just jailbroken my phone and was overwhelmed withn the amount of fun stuff I can do to it!!
August 3rd, 2010 at 10:10 pm
Loving iBlacklist. It’s going to come in really handy. Thanks for listing all of these cool app! Who said jailbreaking was only for multitasking?
August 5th, 2010 at 12:14 pm
how can i add facebook and twitter (what’s the bundle) in Reminder (Notifier) ?
August 5th, 2010 at 5:28 pm
Found Facebook; com.facebook.facebook
Mail; com.apple.mobilemail
Haven’t found anything on Twitter, but Fring works very well (twitter & facebook)
August 8th, 2010 at 9:50 am
You have missed on the most important ones such as OpenStreamer, SbSettings, OpenSSH..
Here is a good list:
http://gizmodo.com/5605827/16-reasons-to-jailbreak-your-iphone-or-ipod-touch-now/gallery/
August 9th, 2010 at 1:27 pm
please i need the reminder source i can found it
August 13th, 2010 at 3:49 pm
@itech its real name is notifier not reminder
August 23rd, 2010 at 9:20 am
hi can any one tell me please..i cant download almost any thing form cydia .. it keep telling timeout or host not availble or hash sum mismatch or such stuff .. am new to all this and i cant get out of this mess,,sos
August 23rd, 2010 at 9:21 am
may be i have an old version?
August 25th, 2010 at 12:37 pm
Thanks for all the great apps ideas
August 28th, 2010 at 4:22 pm
for those who still need help contact me at seeingxsounds on aim or email
and for those who want to get 4.0.2 jailbroken on your 2ng ipod touch check this link out it works perfectly and the guy does it himself so you know it works takes time but its amazing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxuD1SA5nvk
August 28th, 2010 at 4:24 pm
Edit: it also gives you Cydia,Multitasking and Wallpapers (Multitasking and Wallpapers are only available for iPhone 4 and 3GS but somehow it gives it to you regardless no glitches)