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Looking Back At The Best Cydia Alternative: Rock App

November 1, 2011 by Guest 7 Comments

Some of you may remember Rock App fondly. Rock was an alternative to Cydia, probably the best alternative ever created in my opinion. It had a beautiful store interface, and supported all of the same repos as Cydia. Rock was praised for its speed, but took some dangerous shortcuts. After being open for only 18 months it was acquired by Cydia.

Rock was revolutionary when it launched. It featured a built in rating system that was hit or miss (we all know how brutal people can be online). Sources could refresh in the background, and you could find all of your licenses in one place. Rock, at the time, was a much faster alternative to Cydia because instead of downloading data from all of the default repositories, it only had one. Rock hosted all of its packages on one central server instead of connecting to numerous community sources. This was considered dangerous by Saurik, but it worked.

I loved the Rock interface. You could view all of the new apps and updates in the What’s New tab, much like Cydia and there was a categories and search tab, of course. The manage tab is where Rock shined at the time. You could view and manage all of your installed tweaks and utilities, and view all of your purchased packages in a feature called “License central”.

One hidden feature that not many people knew about was that Rock had its own desktop version for your computer. Although Rock closed after only 18 months, here are some fun facts to remember the Rock app:

  •  Number of Developers with apps listed in the Rock Store: 124 (from 19 countries)
  •  Unique iOS devices that installed Rock: 4.6 million (from 220 countries/territories) – Wow that is a lot of places!
  • Registered Rock Users: 2+ million
  • Number of App licenses sold: 500,000
  • Users of who took the plunge and bought something: 280,000 (from 185 countries)
  • Users who said screw it and installed a hacked version instead: 38 billion
  • Total Rock Your Phone Store Sales (March 12th, 2009 – September 2010): $3.3+ million
  • Number of Rock Employees (we are using the word employee loosely here but, hey, it is our company): 9

I miss Rock, but Cydia has made leaps and bounds of progress in the last couple years. Did you try Rock? Leave your opinions below!

Comments

  1. Jack Gruber says

    November 1, 2011 at 6:30 pm

    I too, miss rock. It was fast, the UI was beautiful….I never came across any of the dangers Saurik talk about when he acquired it though…. nor have i heard any reports of it….. Has anyway actually ran into troubles while using Rock?

  2. Ben Dawson says

    November 1, 2011 at 7:54 pm

    Cydia still isn’t where Rock was, both aesthetically and practically. Especially in the way Rock handled downloads and their progress with it’s pull up menu. Seeing Rock is now part of Cydia, it’s insane that the service hasn’t taken some of it’s features.

  3. Red says

    November 1, 2011 at 7:34 pm

    I loved it!!! Rock made me realize that Cydia is hideous 

  4. Travis Wade says

    November 1, 2011 at 7:44 pm

    I personally loved Rock. I loved how fast it was, and the rating system was interesting, but the main reason I had it was that sources could reload in the background.

  5. Ro Shan says

    November 2, 2011 at 1:52 am

    How to get ROCK?

  6. Djvanisher says

    November 2, 2011 at 4:46 pm

    I had rock and i loved it especially the backup packages feature I miss and want it back. Cydia isSTILL SLOW!  and i hate going into individual packages to look at the screenshots booo! Cydia should of never let Rock go it was sad day for me when that happened! 

  7. Florent Steyaert says

    February 5, 2012 at 9:58 am

    I was a huge fan of Rock. More than 1 year later, Rock features are still not integrated to Cydia, as promised by Saurik. :-(
    Cydia was not really improved since its creation. It’s still slow, hideous and limited.
    I hope a new alternative will emerge. Maybe ICy?

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