Rock Your Phone are positioning themselves as a complete jailbroken package management solution, from paid to free packages. They actually list all packages from all default Cydia sources.
Opening up the main screen of Rock shows a “Rock compared to Cydia/Icy” (picture below) screen, which lists some of its big differences with the two other players in the jailbreak package management arena. Speed-wise, RockApp has done some awsome things to increase performance.
The reason Rock is so fast is that their servers watch the default repositories Packages files, and keep a current combined list at all times. Then, when you open RockApp to check for updates, instead of checking each repo’s Packages file for updates, Rock Central is checked to see what updates are new since the last time you updated, and only those changes are downloaded to your idevice. This makes Rock so much faster than all the other competitors (being cydia and icy).
Another amazing feature is called, simply “Backup”. Backup, every time you install a new package, or even open up the app, it makes a log, of every installed package on you device. This is put onto a database, with your “rock id” (email adress). So this means, that if you have to re-jailbreak, or lose all your packages for some reason, you can just press restore form backup, and Rock will re-install EVERYTHING.
You can also add custom repos, just like you would in cydia, you can add all the best repost like sinful and touch-mania! This puts it a notch above the rest, being faster, better looking, provides a backup option, and an overall much easier experience, i vote Rock one of the best things out there jailbreaking wise.
