Top 10 must have Free Cydia apps for iPhone/iPad of 2011

A roundup of 2011′s Top 10 Cydia Apps that you cannot miss this year. Right from Customizations to Tweaks to Essential security fixes. Here’s a roundup of the apps that are essential for your iOS devices.

Some of the apps here are available on the repos that I’ve mentioned earlier. Cydia has definitely enabled the developers who think out of the box and bring out such great mods and tweaks to iPhone, making it one of the most powerful device on the planet.

You’d also want to take a look at Top 5 Cydia apps that would satisfy all your jailbreak needs. Please feel free to add some apps that you feel are missing from the list in the comments section.

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[toggle title="SBSettings"]

• Repo: BigBoss Repo
• Description: SBSettings is a Cydia’s system wide tweak, which puts all the system preferences that you use regularly at the swipe of the finger.
• App Homepage

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[toggle title="Winterboard"]

• Repo: Saurik’s Repo
• Description: Give your iPhone or iPod Touch a graphical overhaul! WinterBoard provides hooks that let graphics artists safely and simply theme almost anything in Apple‘s OS, including third party software downloaded from App Store. Multiple theme packages can be installed at once using the configuration interface: simply drag themes into a priority order.
• App Homepage

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[toggle title="Quick Reply for SMS"]

• Repo: BigBoss Repo
• Description: Allows you to reply to an SMS/MMS from anywhere with an awesome interface.
• App Homepage

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[toggle title="Auto Location"]

• Repo: BigBoss Repo
• Description: This tweak automatically enables and disables location services only when needed. For example, when you launch the Navigon GPS application or any GPS tracker, Auto Location will automatically enable location services; and if you close the app, the tweak will immediately disable location services if there is no need to use location updates anymore. Auto Location detects the apps that need location services by using your settings in General > Location Services.
• App Homepage

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[toggle title="Five Icon Dock"]

• Repo: Saurik’s Repo
• Description: Five Icon Dock is a simple tweak by Jay Freeman. It enables us to add five icons to the iPhone dock.
• App Homepage

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[toggle title="xBackup"]

• Repo: BigBoss Repo
• Description: xBackup is a simple app that will allow you to back up your APT/DPKG sources and installed packages so when you restore you can restore from a backup to get all your apps installed automatically without having to install then individually from Cydia..
• App Homepage

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[toggle title="MT Gestures"]

• Repo: Modmyi Repo
• Description: Multitasking gestures let you use four or five fingers to pinch to the home screen, swipe up to reveal multitasking bar, and swipe left or right between apps..
• App Homepage

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[toggle title="Data Deposit"]

• Repo: Modmyi Repo
• Description: Backup iOS application save data to your Dropbox account, and restore to another device!
• App Homepage

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[toggle title="DreamBoard"]

• Repo: DreamBoard Repo
• Description: Dreamboard makes it easy to switch between any themes in just a few seconds. Simply launch, choose and apply! And, Dreamboard eliminates the long wait of having to restart Springboard every time you make a change. No more resprings! Dreamboard includes a complementary copy of Endroid (HTC theme).
• App Homepage

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[toggle title="Lockdown"]

• Repo: BigBoss Repo
• Description: Password protects your applications with Lockdown. Full featured with lost password protection.
• App Homepage

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