I covered Multifl0w, an alternate Exposé-style task manager for iPhone, last fall, but it has seen a few minor changes since then that make it worth a brief revisit.
Multifl0w 2.0 was great for its use of an Exposé-style layout to view nine currently active apps, but the “new” option (to me, anyway) to view the homescreen icons laid over the thumbnails is what really seals the deal this time around. The screen on my 3GS doesn’t always make it entirely obvious which app thumbnail is which, so the icons really help to make the Exposé layout more navigable.
My return to Multifl0w probably also stems from the fact that I’ve been having some minor memory issues on my 3GS. The once-mighty 256 MB of RAM that my device boasts is now much less significant, seeing as 95% of my apps are set to run in the background after being launched. iOS is smart enough to close down apps when I only have about 10 MB of RAM left, but sometimes it closes one of my main apps (like Notesy) and leaves one-shot apps like Dropbox or Consume running. That’s nice, iOS, but I’d really rather have it the other way around and leave Notesy open and kill Dropbox or Consume.
So I’ve really been using Multifl0w not just for its grid layout, but for its ability to kill active apps in one tap. I’ve also found that Multifl0w is generally swifter to appear than Apple’s very own task switcher, so it has the added benefit of feeling much faster, as well.
The only warning I want to provide — which is the same as the one I issued when I wrote about Multifl0w 2.0 — is that it tends to replace the “double home button press” action to bring up the Apple task switcher, so you’ll either have to re-assign your Activator controls, or find other ways to lock your rotation and control your iPod (I use RotationInhibitor and a Short Home Press to bring up the iPod controls).
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