How to get Installous and how to use it

Now when you're familiar with cydia, let's get the most attractive app according to me, "Installous".
Installous is like more or less like appstore, it's just that everything is free. All the apps (almost all of the apps) from appstore is listed in Installous and you can download them for free from private people that are seeding the ipa's.

1. Start by opening Cydia. Wait until it's done loading, and then go to the "Manage" tab. Then select "Sources". When you've done that, you will see a button in the upper right corner of the screen that says "Edit". Press that.

2. When you've done that, you will see a button on the upper left of the screen that says "Add". Now press that one.

3. Now a new box that says "Enter Cydia/APT URL" will appear, and it will let you write an adress. It should already say "http://", but if not, just add it yourself. Then write "cydia.hackulo.us", so it looks like it does on the picture of me doing it. Then click "Add Source".

4. Now you will see that the source Hackulo.us has been added. Press "done" in the upper right corner.

5. Now, press the source "Hackulo.us". Now you will see a list with different programmes that you can download. Just scroll down until you find the one named "Installous".

6. When you've found "Installous", click on it and then in the upper right corner on the button that says "Install". That will lead you to another page that shows you what you will be downloading. Just press the button in the upper right corner again that says confirm. Now you will see all the files that are being downloaded. If it for some reason pops up a message that says "Unknown date format", just press okay, it doesn't mean anything. (This happens to some people). When it's done downloading, just press the big button in the bottom of the screen that says "Go back to Cydia" and close cydia (go to your usual home board with all your apps). Now you should have a new app on your screen that looks like this.

If you have this app on your screen now, it means that you've done the install with success. Now a small tutorial how to use Installous for downloading apps.

7. This is the screen you will see everytime you start Installous. It's the homepage. From here you can navigate yourself to the kind of apps you want to have, for example games or sometjhing else as you can see. You can also choose to see all apps. In the bottom of the screen you have tabs that you probably recognize a little bit from appstore. You use the "search" tab if you want to search an app that you want to have, and the "updates" tab is just updates for your installed apps as usual. The "downloads" section shows you what apps you're downloading at the time. This page will of course be empty as long as you're not downloading anything. And the "settings" tab is just as you see, settings. You can change som settings for how you want your download to act and so on, you will see yourself.

8. So now, how do you download the app you want to have? Let me show you. I searched for "need for speed hot pursuit". Now, I started by clicking the "download" button.

9. Now, you will see a list of seeders. The size of the list depends on how many people that are seeding this app, and in this case there were only two. Just choose one of them, it doesn't really matter. If one of the links aren't seeding, just go back and pick another one.

10. They often want you to wait for the download link to appear on the site you're downloading from or maybe they want you to write some numbers so they can see that you're not a spamming programme or something. But when you've done that, you're automaticly being sent to the "Downloads" tab, where you will see the app you've chosen and a bar on the right side of it that represents how muich of the app that has been downloaded.

11. When your app is finished downloading, it will say that it's finished. Or if you've set the settings to "remove app when finished downloading", you will know that it has been downloaded just by seeing that the "Downloads" section is empty. Now just go home to your board with all your apps, and you will see the new app. Just click on it and it will be launched just as if you had downloaded it from appstore.


Thanks for following this tutorial. If you have a question, leave it as a comment. In my next tutorial I will show you how to get the popular customizing app "Winterboard".