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Cydia
Cydia icon 1.1.10.png
Cydia.png
Cydia v1.1.16 running on an iPhone 5s with iOS 8.1
Original author(s) Jay Freeman (saurik)
Developer(s) Jay Freeman
Initial release 28 Feb 2008 (2008-02-28)
Stable release 1.1.16 / 5 November 2014; 9 years ago
Preview release git HEAD
Development status Active
Written in C and Objective-C
Operating system iOS
Size Cydia: 844,624 bytes [DEB]
Localization: 66,876 bytes [DEB]
Available in Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese
Type package management system
License GNU GPL v3
Website saurik.com (source)
Cydia's icon pre-iOS 7.

Cydia is an open source software installer created by saurik that uses the Debian APT system for package management. It is included with all iPhone Dev Team jailbreaks, and is found in every mainstream jailbreak tool since iOS 2.0.

Some older jailbreak tools install smaller apps (such as Loader.app for greenpois0n or blackra1n.app for blackra1n and limera1n) to download and install Cydia directly on the device instead of having it installed at the same time as jailbreaking, making for a lighter initial download and jailbreak.

The latest release version is 1.1.16 which supports all devices (except Apple TVs) running iOS 2.0 - 8.1.2.

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