AutoTouch for iOS 8

Auto-Touch tweak is useful in recording and playing back any touch/swipe operation done on your iPhone, iPad, iPad Mini, iPod touch. It is very important when you want to repeat the very action you have done earlier on your phone (automation). It is very significant for playing games. You can score more points or coins automatically by playing back the recorded operation. Apart from these, you can replicate human operation to test programs automatically. And last but not least, it can significantly be used for running Lua Script written previously.
The tweak costs $4.99 but there’s a trial version you can test.

Repo: BigBoss | Price: Trial – $4.99

SBFlip

SBFlip is a cool little tweak that does two things.

1. It lets you control rotation of the homescreen/springboard on all iOS 8 devices. Currently, you can prevent the rotation of homescreen only by using the lockscreen rotation toggle (which prevents rotation everywhere). With SBFlip installed, you can have rotation for apps but toggle rotation for the homescreen icons.
2. SBFlip will also let you control the style of dock icons when you rotate the screen. You can pick from stationary or dynamic (which arrange/spaces the icons on the side as in iPhone 6+)

Price: Free | Repo: BigBoss

AlienBlue++

AlienBlue++ is a tweak which can be used as a plugin for the AlienBlue app. But there are some essential features missing in AlienBlue. Features like creating a meme, downloading images and videos to your Camera Roll, copying GIF to the clipboard etc. This tweak brings all those capabilities to the official Reddit app.
Repo: BigBoss | Price: Free

VirtualHome8

Requires iOS 8 and TouchID. It supports single tap, double tap, short hold and single tap/short hold. Using these aforementioned actions to do the following functions such as Sleep, Multitask, open Siri and activate Reachability. VirtualHome8 also comes with a feature called QuickUnlock, which allows you to unlock or wake up the device by touching the TouchID when the phone is in the standby mode.
(cost ($1.49)

Tage

This tweak offers multitasking gestures and more. It allows closing app or, activating switcher, switching apps, locking device and switcher page action using gestures. It also includes, Quick Switcher features which is very responsive.
($1.99)

For counting steps, smartphone apps do as well as fitness trackers

You don’t need to splurge on a fitness tracking device to record how much you’ve walked, because smartphone fitness apps do the job just as well, and sometimes better.

That’s the conclusion from a University of Pennsylvania study, which compared the accuracy of fitness wristbands and of smartphone apps in counting steps.

Researchers gave participants an iPhone 5s running three fitness apps, a Galaxy S4 running one fitness app and six wearable devices, including products from Fitbit, Jawbone and Nike.

Next, the 14 participants walked on a treadmill while an observer counted the numbers of steps each person took. Fitness apps and tracker devices use step counts to calculate physical activity metrics like distance walked and calories burned.

The apps and the devices were similarly accurate. There was an average 7 percent discrepancy between the counts of the smartphone apps and the human observer, while wearable accuracy ranged between 2 percent and 20 percent.

Fitbit’s One and Zip devices were the most accurate, while Nike’s Fuelband fared the worst. Nike didn’t immediately reply to a request for comment.

A motivation for the study is the scarcity of data about how accurate these apps and devices are at tracking physical activity, said Meredith Case, who co-authored the study. People must be able to trust the data if they’re using it to make health decisions.

However, owners of wearable fitness trackers shouldn’t feel remorseful over their purchase. Instead, they should “rest assured” knowing that most of the devices tested are properly tracking their workouts, she said.

CrazyClock: speed up the Clock app icon animation on the Home screen

Before iOS 7, a jailbreak tweak was required to have an animated Clock app icon on the Home screen. That, of course, changed with iOS 7, as Apple ushered in its own version of the animated clock icon.

Crazy-Clock takes Apple’s animated app icon and does some pretty interesting things with it. It can significantly speed up the animated hands on the clock, and even make the hands move in a counter-clockwise direction. 

Once installed, you’ll need to open the Settings app and scroll down to find Crazy-Clock’s preferences. Inside, you’ll find a kill-switch and a “clock ticks per second” panel. For every second the animated clock app icon ticks, Crazy-Clock will tick as many seconds in either a clockwise or counter-clockwise motion. You can denote the counter-clockwise from the clockwise motions by the negative value in the ticks per second panel.

As you might imagine, Crazy-Clock provides no real benefit to the user. In fact, it might actually serve as more of a distraction than anything. But being able to make the clock app icon go “crazy” is fun and might give your friends a chuckle. And since it’s free of charge on the BigBoss repo, there really is no harm done.

Camrix

If you have a penchant of experimenting with how you capture pictures and videos, Camrix will charm you. With the ability to let you capture photos or videos from anywhere on your iPhone, it makes things as effortless as you ever wish.
The tweak is enabled by an Activator gesture. It places a camera viewfinder overlay on screen that lets you capture photos or videos with the help of front or rear facing camera with amazing ease. Drag the Camera app around the screen, use it inside any app and more importantly use it like you have never done before!
Price: $1.99 | Repo: BigBoss

CameraTweak 3

With the ability to change the resolution of FPS, focal point control, focus shifting and control over the ISO, CameraTweak 3 in its latest version has packed in some high quality features that can truly enhance the stock Camera app.
Fond of getting nothing less than a perfect shot without any compromise and feel that default camera app needs to have some boost? This jailbreak tweak is designed to let you capture fabulous photos or videos.
Price: $1.49 | Repo: BigBoss

WhatsApp+

Just like Facebook+, WhatsApp+ too allows you to break free from all the custom rules set by the WhatsApp. Enabling you to bring changes such as disable read receipts, disable delivery receipts, custom theme, custom text color and more, it can certainly be your favourite tweak if you wish to override the rules of WhatsApp.
Moreover, the tweak will let you lock your WhatsApp with passcode/Touch ID, Share DRM-free music, record audio by just tapping, clone WhatsApp, send unlimited media etc.