The Best 21 Backgrounder Alternatives

  • Lucky Patcher icon

    Lucky Patcher

    Lucky Patcher is a great Android tool to remove ads, modify apps permissions, backup and restore apps, bypass premium applications license verification, and more. To use all features, you need a rooted device.

    Free Android Android Tablet

    No coding required Root required
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    redsn0w

    redsn0w is a utility that will jailbreak your iPhone or iPod Touch, allowing it to run apps that are not approved by Apple. redsn0w can perform an untethered jailbreak of iOS 5.0.1 for all iPhones, iPod Touches, and iPads.

    Free Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Winterboard icon

    Winterboard

    Give your iPhone or iPod Touch a graphical overhaul! WinterBoard allows you to customize the appearance of your jailbroken iOS device and install third party themes. You can only get Winterboard from Cydia (on jailbroken iOS devices).

    Free iPhone

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    Cyder

    Cyder is a lightweight application that allows you to download Cydia packages for your jailbroken iPhone from your desktop computer.

    Free Windows

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    biteSMS

    You love your iPhone as much as we do? You text all the time? Want more features? Then biteSMS is for you: with lots of extra features like smileys, Quick Reply, Quick Compose/Quick Call, Privacy, a character/SMS counter and much more!

    Freemium iPhone

    Texting Jailbreak required
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    dTunes

    dTunes is an iTunes equivalent for jailbroken iPhones and iPod Touches. It plays downloaded music and video files and torrents, and provides direct access to music and video sites for downloading files.

    Free iPhone

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    iSpirit

    iSpirit is a file manager for jailbroken iPhones that helps you manage files between your PC and iPhone, install iPhone apps and change iPhone themes easily. You can use iSpirit to install .DEB/.

    Free Windows

    Portable SSH
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    Mojo Installer

    Mojo Installer is a free, decentralized third-party software distribution system designed for iOS devices running stock iOS 7-9+, similar to Jay Freeman's jailbroken application Cydia.

    Free Personal iPhone iPad

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    Ultrasn0w

    Unlock your jailbroken iPhone with ultrasn0w, available from Cydia.

    Free iPhone

  • iBlackList icon

    iBlackList

    iBlacklist is the best firewall for calls, SMS and MMS available for the iPhone. It ables you to select from who you want to receive calls and hide messages.

    Commercial iPhone

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    Cycorder

    Record video with the camera of your 1st gen iPhone (6-15 frames per second, depending only on lighting conditions) with no compression delay between pressing stop and getting to view the resulting video.

    Free iPhone

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    SMS+

    SMS+is the best solution to improve your SMS experience on iOS. It integrates perfectly in the native SMS application, adding to it those functionalities you won't ever be able to stay without after having tried them.

    Commercial iPhone

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    Multifl0w

    Multifl0w is a multitasking interface for Backgrounder which displays applications that are running and allows you to scroll left and right between them for quick switching.

    Commercial iPhone iPad Backgrounder

    Jailbreak required Multitasking
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    Categories

    Categories offers folders for organizing apps on your jailbroken iPhone or iPod Touch. You can only get Categories from the Cydia app store (on jailbroken iOS devices).

    Free iPhone iPad

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    seas0npass

    seas0npass offers an easy way to jailbreak your Apple TV (2nd generation) running iOS 4.2. It downloads and jailbreaks a .ipsw file (iPhone software), which is then restored to your Apple TV through iTunes.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X

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    Kirikae

    Kirikae is a front-end application for Backgrounder, written by the original developer of Backgrounder himself. It provides a pop-up list that can be used to switch to/launch other applications without having to return to SpringBoard.

    Free Open Source iPhone Backgrounder

    Jailbreak required Multitasking