Installer 5 Revealed: A Cydia alternative alternative that could potentially reboot the iOS jailbreaking scene!
As more time goes by, the amount of people that jailbreak their iOS devices has been decreasing drastically. Now, Installer 5 has been revealed in the hopes of providing a modern alternative to Saurik’s Cydia!
What is Installer 5?
Cydia currently suggests you install packages that were designed for iOS 6…
As its name suggests, it’s a package manager for jailbroken iOS devices that lets you install jailbreak-related software. These include applications that need a jailbreak, tweaks, themes and many other packages that Apple doesn’t want you to be installing.
Without a doubt, the first thing that most will think of when hearing of Installer 5 is Cydia, Saurik’s package manager that has been with us since iPhone OS 1.1!
Unfortunately, Cydia hasn’t evolved too much since its initial release back in 2008 and while it does its job, it’s become quite a relic of the past nowadays. To fix that, the AppTapp team have come to the rescue so that jailbroken iDevice will finally have a store front that’s suitable in this day in age!
What do we know? Is Installer 5 better than Cydia?
Today, Sammy Guichelaar, a member of AppTapp team and one of the Installer 5 developers, has posted a pretty lengthy reveal post on Reddit telling us virtually everything we need to know about this brand-new package manager. While there are a lot of great things in Installer 5’s reveal post, let’s go through the most important ones which are:
- Installer 5 will support every jailbroken iDevice running iOS 8-11.1.2. This includes support for both 32-bit and 64-bit devices according to a recent tweet by the AppTapp team.
- The interface has been greatly revamped and now resembles that of iOS 11’s App Store, even including the huge title banners in some places.
- Other than offering a better and more modern look, the new UI provides packages with a page that looks like official iOS App Store listings. This means that packages will have screenshots, a general description about what they do and the ability to rate them by default!
The new UI gives jailbreaking the store front it always deserved but do keep in mind that the new UI isn’t only about its looks!
- Other than offering a better and more modern look, the new UI provides packages with a page that looks like official iOS App Store listings. This means that packages will have screenshots, a general description about what they do and the ability to rate them by default!
- A totally new way to install packages is used. Instead of using DEBs, Installer 5 uses ZIP files that contain the files needed and no extra dependencies are needed. This is a major advantage when it comes to porting Installer 5 to new jailbreaks since Cydia is often considered to be a headache to port due to its various dependencies.
- Another important feature is that Installer 5, by default, only shows you packages that are compatible with your version of iOS! This will save you the time of scrolling through walls of incompatible packages and will ultimately make installing jailbreak stuff much more enjoyable!
- Thankfully, it can work simultaneously with Cydia and installed packages are even synced up between the two to prevent conflicts!
- Many other great features including no advertisements, a totally new repository system, enhanced security, Palert support and a Featured page so that you can check out what’s hot on that particular day!
- It is important to note that Installer 5 is currently in beta testing so it won’t be released to the public immediately and no specific release date has been given yet!
Conclusion
With all of the above, Installer 5 may be what it takes to get the ball rolling again in the iOS jailbreaking scene.
I personally think that if Installer 5 is properly pulled off and has enough developer support, it could finally take jailbreaking out of its present decline!
To learn more, simply follow the link below and check out AppTapp’s Twitter linked below.
Installer 5’s reveal thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/comments/8l6f0a/news_official_installer_5_reveal/
AppTapp Team’s Twitter page: https://twitter.com/AppTappTeam
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sounds great,although i always felt installing from PC using Itools was the best option for games. never cared much for apps.
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Sweet. Seems like Saurik been in his bag for while now. Glad for this alternative.
I’m going to buy my way into a jail just so I can try to get out.
Before peeps get excited remember it’s just a package manager and there have been several introduced before and after Cydia. I’m not saying this won’t be successful but a package manager alone does not make a community alone for jailbreak users. iOS and Android have evolved to a point where most users are happy with stock features alone. If nothing else, the jailbreak community has helped evolved idevices to much better devices. We are a dying breed and let’s hope apple continues to make our experience better
Man we had an alternative once, remember rockbox? That was (for it’s time) the equivalent of what installer 5 is going to be, but then Cydia bought them out,
I’m glad their is another option but I wonder if Cydia will just buy them out again
will support every jailbroken iDevice running iOS 8-11.1.2 .
Nothing new then =(.
I’m still on iOS 7.1.2 – guess it’s useless for me, when I jailbreak one of these days. Unlikely I’m gonna leave 7.1.2, due to software bloat causing OS lag.
I m with my iOS 9.3.3 Jb, but I see with the lastest iOS 11 the Jb is not quite stable, no Cydia Substrate. So I hope these guys can do something about It
This is awesome! It addresses all issues I have had with Cydia. Thanks for the article and anyone who wrote First, kill yourself!