My Top 10 iPhone Cydia Applications of 2008

by Simon Ng on December 30, 2008

It’s only two days before year 2008 comes to an end. I’m hopping on the bandwagon to select my top-10 iPhone applications of 2008. But they’re from Cydia, not App Store application!

Since the debut of iPhone App Store in early July, the number of iPhone applications is increasing dramatically. The online store is now hosting more than 10,000 applications for download. That’s really awesome!

But as a jailbreak iPhone user, you shouldn’t forget other third party applications available on Cydia. 99% of the applications put on Cydia are available at no cost. I’d like to take this opportunity to thanks all developers for putting up so many great applications that enrich my iPhone life. And, here comes to my top 10 Cydia applications:

Cydia – I will say Cydia is the heart of jailbroken iPhone (as well as iPod Touch). A big thanks to Cydia’s creator, Jay Freeman. Cydia enables you to download third party iPhone applications that you probably can’t find in iPhone’s App Store.
Winterboard – Again, thanks for Jay Freeman to bring us this application. Winterboard is the theme manager of iPhone. You can use it to skin the iPhone with awesome icon sets, keyboard, SMS bubbles, etc. It can really make your iPhone stand out from others.
Cycorder – Oh! It’s Jay Freeman again. Cycorder turns your iPhone camera into video recorder. You can capture video using iPhone’s camera. It’s simply awesome.
Netatalk – If you’re Mac user, this would be a great application. In technical term, Netatalk is an open source implementation of AppleTalk networking protocol. With Netatalk installed on iPhone, you can connect to iPhone from your Mac and transfer files between each other wirelessly. iPhone will appear as a networked drive in Mac’s Finder. So, transferring file is just a matter of drag & drop.
OpenSSH – OpenSSH is a suite of networking tools for establishing secure network connection. The implementation of OpenSSH on iPhone powers you to connect to iPhone and gain access to the file system remotely. You can also use OpenSSH to transfer ringtones or photos between the device and computer remotely. This application is not designed for jailbroken iPhone beginner. You’ll have to familiar yourself with OpenSSH first.
SBSettings – A full replacement of BossPrefs and it brings all important toggles (which may be hidden under Settings) directly into your iPhone Home Screen. With SBSettings, you can directly control brightness and toggle WiFi / EDGE / Bluetooth at home screen or while you’re using other applications. That’s really great for me as I used to turn off WiFi for battery saving.
MySMS – A replacement of iPhone’s default SMS application. MySMS lets you type SMS in landscape mode and forward SMS to other recipients. It also enables iPhone to send or receive encrypted SMS. If you’re a frequent user of SMS, MySMS is a great application to put it on iPhone.
Snapture – A replacement of iPhone’s default Camera application. With Snapture, you can turn iPhone camera into an advanced digital camera that extends the possibilities of iPhone photography. Snapture lets you shoot black/white photos and in burst mode. It also features a timer, digital zoom and silent mode.
Podcaster – This application lets you download and stream all your favourite postcast directly into iPhone.
CallMe – CallMe brings speed dial to iPhone at no cost. You can easily add your favourite contact on iPhone home screen as a dial icon.

What’s your favourite iPhone applications? Leave me comment and let other readers know about it.

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{ 35 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Andy December 30, 2008 at 7:34 am

These are my favorite cydia apps:
-Winterboard (themes)
-Backgrounder (run apps in background)
-SBSettings (toggle apps)
-Mysms (full sms replacement – landscape sms)
-NemusSync (sync google calendar)
-Cycorder (video recorder)
-Flashlight (best flashlight app)
-Five Icon Dock (gotta have five icons!)
-Lockdown (password protect apps)
-OpenSSH (remote access)

2 Charlie January 5, 2009 at 4:16 am

Is Mysms free?

3 Pokerbot February 1, 2009 at 2:36 pm

Hello,

Forgive me, I’m new at this jailbreak stuff. Anyway, here it goes..

My brother came by and jailbroke my 3g iphone. All went swimmingly. One problem, my wifi works but when I’m on the road or do not have access to wifi by 3g doesn’t work. I get an error msg saying ’safari can not connect..blah, blah”

Any ideas how to solve this? Did something go wrong in the install?

Many thanks in advance.

4 zach February 16, 2009 at 3:48 am

Pokerbot:

your gonna want to go into settings>general>reset(at the bottom)>reset network settings. it’s something to do with turning wi-fi on and off. turn it off when you dont need it or you’re not in a wi-fi area.

5 ozzy February 19, 2009 at 8:53 am

Hi Could you please tell is there anyway of unblocking iphone 3g 2.2.1?

6 Simon Ng February 20, 2009 at 12:58 am

@ozzy, presently there is no software application available to unlock iPhone 3G with firmware 2.2.1. I think iPhone Dev team is working hard to bring us the solution. You’ll have to wait for a while.

7 green October 20, 2009 at 1:51 pm: WRONG , I just did it lookup ih@tesn0w. the program worked for me with custom firmware 1_1.2.3 GOOD LUCK!!

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8 shailen November 3, 2009 at 4:07 pm

update your iphone to 3.0 and then jailbreak with redsn0w ok

9 Jared February 21, 2009 at 1:00 am

I just jailbroke my 3G 2.2.1! The iphone dev team must have finished. You can google “jailbrake iphone 2.2.1″ and it comes up as the first in Google’s Cache. No problems so far…I love it!

10 shaik March 22, 2009 at 10:34 pm

anyone else have other interesting apps 2 share bout?

11 ATC April 9, 2009 at 8:11 am

i just jailbroke my iphone 3G v2.2.1 had no probs just make sure you reset to factory default settings on itunes before doing it, it will then update you to the latest version in my case 2.2.1, then run quick pwn then bingo customize your iphone to the max!!!!

Must have apps are

Winterboard: custom themes etc etc

MX tube: download vids from youtube and watch them when you want, excellent video quality.

mew seek: search any song i bet it will find it and if thats not good enough it will let you download it FREE!!! to your Itunes!!!!

Backgrounder: lets you minimize apps to do other things! i wanted this for so long thanks cydia!!!!

categories: too many apps? why not create folders to keep them all in leaving your springboard free from clutter.

Iheroes: watch heroes when you want on your iphone!!!! similar apps include Lost, family guy, South park, American dad and many more!!!.

im sure ther are many more i am yet to discover if you have not jailbroken your iphone you must and i mean must do it now!!!!

12 Haris May 19, 2009 at 3:09 pm

Thanks for sharing.
I have:
CallClear –> to delete a single incoming or out going call entry
ClearCam –> to HQ camera
Cycorder –> video recorder, excellent video quality
hClipboard –> to have Copy & Paste functionality in iPhone
iSutra –> find out ur self what it is ^_^
Lock Calender –> to show you Calender entry on the Lock Screen
Lockdown –> to lock & password protected any apps in iPhone
Poof –> to hide any apps icon
SMSTool –> SMS forwarding as SMS or email & save SMS to Note
Installous, miPatch Firmware 2.2.1, & Source GUI –> not sure what they are, but I need them to run cracked apps which I download from http://appulo.us/appdb/

13 Simon Ng May 21, 2009 at 12:22 am: @Haris, thanks for sharing. But I prefer Clipper to hClipboard. Remember to give it a shot.

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14 aron May 30, 2009 at 10:40 pm

hi, good compilations,

my personal choices are
cycoder – vdo recording
mxtube – download utube videos
backgrounder – run in background
callclear
sms tool
sms counter

and the best of all is winterboard

15 aron May 30, 2009 at 10:42 pm

i missed mentioning lockdock – brings call, mail icons to the lock screen

16 ronald villegas June 5, 2009 at 11:38 am

were can i downloud installous

17 dali petrov June 10, 2009 at 12:43 am: go to cydia and then manage and then sources and add “http://cydia.hackulo.us/” and then go in there and find installous and download it. in installous you can download and then install apps for free instead of paying for them in the app store

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18 Jane June 15, 2009 at 3:17 am

Hi I have a jailbroken iphone and have installed callclear through cydia. When I delete a call I receive a message stating that this function is only available in registered version. When I go to register it I have a register key code and then it wants me to put in activation key code. How do I get this app to work???? Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!!!!

19 Moazzam June 16, 2009 at 11:23 pm

Can anybody help me finding the activation key for callclear??

20 Haris June 18, 2009 at 3:39 pm: I use the free version of CallClear. No activation key require.

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21 Moazzam June 18, 2009 at 5:09 pm

Has anybody jailbroken 2G 3.0??

22 diegolocs August 27, 2009 at 8:02 am: ME its easey but be caerfully I learned in taringa.com a spanish website but very good!
I love Mx tube
someone has good iphone games?? please help!

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23 Jane June 19, 2009 at 7:15 am

How did u install the free version????

24 Haris June 19, 2009 at 8:56 am: I download it from Cydia (source: BigBoss). CallClear 2.4. It is free!

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25 Oscar June 21, 2009 at 2:32 am

Moazzam: Yes
- MacBook Air Keyboard, Great looking keyboard skin.

26 Alex June 24, 2009 at 11:39 pm

My Backgrounder doesn`t work with Cydia has anybody an idea why not?
It is really helpfull with cydia so it can load bigger applications in the background!

27 BJ June 25, 2009 at 6:22 pm

Dears All thanks for posting cool applications of cydia, dear i ve one problem after installing any application i cant see it on iPhone 3G screen and secondly all applications are not in order too on iPhone …
Please!!! help me any one teach me how to fix this problem

28 chace July 29, 2009 at 3:29 am

im download macbook air keyboard and click in winterboard y still cant change it???

29 Anon July 29, 2009 at 6:38 am

http://cultlogssg.wordpress.com/2009/07/28/my-top-cydia-apps-for-iphone-3-0/

30 w00cash July 29, 2009 at 11:47 pm

chace
if u go to winterboard u will notice that u can move stuff either upwards or downwards. the setting at the top takes first pace also in ur theme like a layer. try moving the keyboard setting to the top of the list.

p.s. to move settings simply drag it to preferred position

31 Taylor August 30, 2009 at 6:55 am

Ok here are my top apps:

1) dtunes- download free music, videos, and torrents

2) hclipboard- let’s me copy and paste

3) logome- let’s me change my bootlogo to any picture I want

4) mxtuve- download YouTube videos and watch them later

5) icy- a cleaner version of cydia

32 Dr. Olga Blogowich September 17, 2009 at 2:11 pm

Here are mine
1) Auto Silent – you can configure to put phone into silent mode automatically during meetings or according to schedule.

2) MIM – Ability to change carrier.

3) IBlackList – Ability to black list contacts so that no call from them

33 Simon Ng September 17, 2009 at 11:52 pm: @Dr. Olga Blogowich, thanks for your sharing. I haven’t tried Auto Silent. How can it automatically switch to silent mode during meeting?

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34 Kalyan September 25, 2009 at 1:29 am