The shutting down of Installous community and Hackulous was probably one of the biggest blows to the jailbreak community. Millions of people across the world using installous, including even those who couldn’t pay for premium applications. Nevertheless, the iOS Cydia community has come up with a number of alternatives to it. AppCake is one such from the list.
AppCake itself will not completely matches to the quality of Installous, but with additional features being introduced now and then to make it better. The store offers the community with a good number of paid applications to download. Any device (iPhone and iPad) running iOS 5.0.1 is supported; support for iOS 10 has also been provided recently.
OpenAppMkt provides an easy way of installing Cydia, Taig jailbreak, and games such as Flappy Bird Escape for free. This online store provides a variety of apps for both users who have jailbroken their devices and those that haven’t.
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The app offers a non-jailbreak variant too, however, that’s a paid service. For large jailbroken cydia app downloads, you also get the ability to do the same with the help of a torrent client. In addition, you can also use this application to download your own custom torrents as well!
If you are looking for any such source to download cracked apps for free, then go ahead with AppCake repo. Following is a comprehensive guide that you can follow to download the required repositories and AppCake repo onto your supported Apple device. Let’s get started.
To install Cydia tweaks and AppCake repo on a non-jailbroken device, you will first need to install AppSync from a trusted source. Following it, we will install Appcake repo from Cydia. The steps have been included in the main guide for ease of following.
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7. After the sync is complete, search for ‘AppCake’ and install it.
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8. If any popup follows, choose ‘Add Anyway’ to continue with the installation.
Optionally, you can reboot your device to ensure that everything is up and running without any issues. If you get any error, try reverting the changes and re-following the guide.
In order to proceed with installation on a Jailbroken device, you will need to have Cydia and AppSync installed on the same. Try getting these configured before you follow the below-mentioned steps. There are several guides available on the internet which you can follow to get Cydia and AppSync.
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7.Install any of these two as per your needs. Once the app is downloaded, you can access the same by tapping onto home screen icon or from within Cydia.
The AppCake repo application is very easy to use. On the home screen of app, you will find 6 options to choose from, which are:
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Let us have a look at their basic functions.
Home : Home Screen just covers the apps recommended by editors and which are being downloaded the most across the world.
Popular : This section contains only the apps which are being downloaded the most from the AppCake market. It has further been divided into two categories: Weekly Top and Overall Top. All those apps which are being downloaded the most time in the current week will appear in the ‘Weekly Top’ section. ‘Overall Top’ section will cover all the apps which have been downloaded the maximum times ever since the existence of Appcake.
Categories : Categorie shows the apps according to their genre, such as Games, Tools and Utilities, Social, Media etc.
Browser : The inbuilt browser lets users surf the web and is primarily meant for downloading apps and games (including files and torrents).
Download : This section shows all the active downloads. The user can pause or resume app download by accessing this.
Settings : This contains the settings related to the Appcake app. You can change Options related to app installation, notification, bandwidth configuration, network source here.
To navigate, the person can tap on either of the sections icon and subsections. The home screen also has a search option; by tapping on it and entering in the related search query, the user can find similar apps available on the AppCake repo.
AppCake is not the only free source to download paid apps on iOS. Following are some other alternatives you can check out:
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Zeusmos : Zeusmos has been there for quite a while in the Cydia market. The app possesses good support and is compatible with most of the iPhone and iPad series devices by Apple. The interface is neat and clean, however not as much as AppCake.
VShare : Also known as ‘App VV’, the app has been in buzz in recent times. It’s an overall very solid app. Little to no crashes, a good number of paid apps and the best user interface of all those in list of AppCake alternative; it can’t get any better.
Kuaiyong : Kuaiyong focuses on speeding up paid app installations process. The interface and functionality are identical to Zeusmos, the difference only lies in licensing and nothing else.
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