Installous and AppSync – Jailbroken Must Haves
If you have a jailbroken iPhone or iPad, Installous and AppSync are a couple apps that you absolutely must have. Why? Installous is like your App Store on your device. Use it to download cracked apps directly to your phone. No more having to download ipa files onto your computer and then syncing to iTunes. The last version of Installous has made a very significant improvement. It now notifies you via badges when one of your apps has an update. You no longer have to periodically search through the repository to see if there are any updates to be installed. AppSync allows you to sync your cracked apps to iTunes for peace of mind. No more worrying about having to re-install all those cracked apps you have anymore
If you haven't jailbroken your iPhone or iPad yet, you will need to do that first. See my posts on Jailbreaking the iPhone or Jailbreaking the iPad.
Ok, now that your device is all jailbroken, let's get started with Installous...
- Open up your Cydia app
- Tap on Manage in the bottom tab
- Choose Sources
- Now tap on the Edit, then Add buttons on your navigation bar
- Enter http://cydia.hackulo.us into the URL field
- Press Done in the navigation bar
- Tap on Search tab at the bottom menu
- Type in Installous into the search bar
- Now install the App
- Voila! Instant gratification!
Now install AppSync...
- Open up Cydia again
- Tap Manage tab on the bottom
- Tap Sources on the screen
- Tap Edit and then Add buttons on your navigation bar
- Tap on Search tab on the bottom
- Type AppSync into the search bar
- NOTE: You will want to install the proper version of this on your device. For iPad, it's 3.2 and iPhones it's most likely 4.0 or 3.1.*
