Some time ago LockInfo went out of beta and now it’s been released in Cydia as a stable app. I tried it early this year and was amused by the power of the app, so I decided to give this release a try to see how it works now.
LockInfo is an app that adds some information to your lockscreen like calendar events, unread texts, missed calls and so on. I firmly believe the iPhone should be this way by default, but, unfortunately, I’m not Steve Jobs so I can only hope for new firmware releases.
The information is grouped so if you don’t have any unread text nothing will show up, but if you have many texts waiting for you then LockInfo shows them all — all you have to do is scroll. What if you don’t like to have to scroll or you just want a quickly overview of what you have missed? You can set it to show, for example, a maximum of three texts/calls/anything.
This is what I love more of Lockinfo: it’s completely customizable. You can set any preference and they cover all the available functions. Even the art-stuff is customizable, you have plenty of themes available at MacThemes, or you can do your own. Take a look at this version of LockInfo, with the Gruppled Theme on:
You also can install plugins that add even more options of what can be shown: there’s a Twitter plugin, a Push Notifications plugin and many others. Let me say that the Push Notifications is amazing. If you have installed an app like Boxcar, LockInfo show the notifications in your lockscreen so you don’t have to open the app. You just dim the screen and see all of them. The first screenshot at the top of the post is taken from my iphone with the plugin on, you can look at it to get an idea.
To get LockInfo you have to add David Ashman‘s repository (http://david.ashman.com/beta/). It costs 4.99$ , ~ 4€. You can try it for free for 14 days. I really recommend this app, and think it’s worth every single penny you spend on it.
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TAGS: Cydia, lockinfo, lockscreen, notifications, push
