One thing that the iPhone has always been missing is the ability to switch between applications quickly and smoothly. We all thought that the answer had arrived with MultiFl0w, but that turned out to be rather glitchy and basically an unusable method for doing something that should be very simple. Well, my prayers for a sleek and efficient application switcher have been answered, with the wondrous application ProSwitcher.
ProSwitcher is a Palm Pre-style application manager that allows you to switch between your currently opened applications (the ‘open applications’ must have been backgrounded with backgrounder). Switching between your current applications is as easy as swiping your finger. You get to see a screenshot of the application’s current state, as well as its name and icon while choosing what app to switch to. I have not had ProSwitcher crash or even freeze up on me once. It seems to be the most stable utility I have ever used on the iPhone.
As if all of these wonderful things weren’t enough, ProSwitcher is completely customizable. It allows you to change how you activate the switcher (Home Button Double Press, Sleep Button Short Hold, Status Bar Swipe Down, and seven other methods are available to you), alter the amount of applications it shows, change the page dots and applications titles, and even customize the background of the switcher. There are hundreds of possibilities as to how your Palm Pre-style application switcher will look. It’s just another reason that ProSwitcher may be the biggest revolution in the jailbreaking world since Cydia.
Go get ProSwitcher right now. The Cydia repository is http://booleanmagic.com/repo. Trust me, you won’t regret it. I’ve had it for just a few days, yet it has already changed how I use my phone. ProSwitcher is the future. And the future is now.
Do you need backgrounder for proswitch to work or does proswitcher run apps in the background by it self ?
You need Backgrounder to get apps running in the background (other than the defaults such as ipod, mail, safari, etc). ProSwitcher simply allows you to switch between the currently running apps.
Actually since updating, Multifl0w has worked fine, and has a much, much smalled memory footprint. I’d love to see it incorporate some of ProSwitcher’s features (the hold and swipe to kill a running app) but it’s a real memory hog.
i cannot add that repository for some reason, get messge about it being legacy installer in cydia
There is a bug in proswitcher, everytime I turn on springboard card in settings, has soon as I open proswitcher my iPhone restarts. And proswitcher is actually on bigboss repo not on the one you included in your post.
Also, it seems, judging by the screenshots and the fact you can’t swipe down on the statusbar anymore, you reviewed an old (beta) version.
Wow, this is great. Plus, thanks for the tip of using it with backgrounder!
I love my iPhone, but man, the PRE’s UI is very slick!
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specially the floating bar. Thanks to this, my iPhone is
looking a lot like a PRE now
Is there an app launcher that simulates the PRE’s floating bar (FREE).
Back when installer was the IT there was an app that would activate a
a spherical icon bar when you pressed the bottom right corner and pulled
it towards the center of the phone. It worked great, but i can’t seem to
find it? Anyone??
I like your red badges. Where did you get those? Thanks.
“the most stable utility I have ever used on the iPhone”?
“the biggest revolution in the jailbreaking world since Cydia.”
“ProSwitcher is the future.”
Sounds like somebody is a little bit too excited about this. I’m surprised you didn’t claim that it cured AIDS in babies and provides a source of cheap renewable energy while you’re at it. Come on now, the program is pretty, but it’s not going to change the iPhone as we know it. And to suggest so is ridiculous and makes me question the validity of this website to be honest.
I consider myself to be a pretty heavy iPhone user, and honestly, I rarely even bother to use applications in the background. Aside from putting Pandora in the background to listen to music when I do other things, I can’t actually think of a time when I have used it. So for me, something like this isn’t going to be something I use that often, if ever at all (The price wasn’t mentioned, but unless it’s free, I know I won’t even bother to install it)
The “reviews” on this site need to be more “reviewy” and less “OMG YOU GOTTA TRY THIS NOW!!!!11!!ONE!!”
IMO anyway.
Normally I wouldn’t comment, but proswitcher really did change the way I use my iPhone. It is pretty much everything that I possibly could have wanted In an app switcher, and brings the palm pre functionality to the iPhone in a way that completely blows my mind. Even has rounded corners, and the irony is that there is a paid app that does the same thing but less functionality.
Bottom line: (I coupled it with backgrounder) get this app!
Nacho,
This app is really cool. I absolutely get the reviewers enthusiasm. This mutha is slick. That said, its not clear to me yet how much I will background and use this. For now, I am using and enjoying it a lot.
BTW, it is absolutely free. It also is pretty darn stable for a V 1.0. Try it. You might really like it.
How on earth is proswitcher the ‘biggest revolution in jailbreaking world since cydia”. I think the author of this post is getting some sort of props from the developers of proswitcher, is review is completely bias. This isn’t a review, a review points out the advantages and the disadvantages of the app.
The author has put so much praises on the Proswitcher. You make me laugh mate.
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