Back in 2008, Jay Freeman first released Cydia as an app store designed for the iPhone, offering apps a few months before Apple had its own App Store. Since then, Cydia has served as an app repository ...

Long before the launch of Apple’s official App Store, Jay Freeman (otherwise known as Saurik) unleashed Cydia, an open repository of third-party applications for jailbroken iPhones and iPod Touches.

Apple is the exclusive gatekeeper to its iPhone App Store, able to reject apps at will – as it did July 28 with Google Voice. But some developers aren't taking the rejection lying down: They're ...

After many years of being available to users as a way to fully customize the operating system, the backbone that handles purchases on Cydia (which was only available to jailbroken devices) is today ...

For years the Cydia Store was a key component of the iPhone jailbreak scene — jailbreaking an iPhone or iPad gives you access to files, settings, and features that would otherwise be unavailable, but ...

Devices equipped with iOS, known as iPhone and iPad OS, can only install applications via Apple's App Store. However, by jailbreaking the iOS vulnerability etc., it is possible to install an ...

There are a lot of people out there who like iPhone hardware and software, but don't like the way Apple locks them inside the App Store walled garden. For these folks, the alternative to the App Store ...

Cydia, a platform commonly thought of as the alternative app store for jailbroken iPhones and iPads, has just today arrived on Android of all places, in the form of Cydia Substrate*, a tool for ...

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If you have ever jailbroken your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch, then you will know about Cydia, which lets you download a range of apps that aren’t available in Apple’s official App Store. Cydia was ...

As previously reported, users of jailbroken phones and the developers who cater to them now have an avenue for commerce in apps: the Cydia Store. Smoking Apples visits the store and has a solid ...

When you jailbreak your phone you get access to Cydia, the iOS app store that exists outside of Apple's reach. There are a number of cool apps and tweaks available there, from apps that turns your ...