Overboard. Another "Expose" type app for iPhone

[kwickone]

You guys see that Ryan Petrich released Overboard? It is in Cydia. It pretty much looks just like Orbit, but with some additional features. Cost is 1.99 US.

Here is the MMI Cydia page on it:

ModMyi.com | OverBoard

[metaserph]

I bought and use Orbit but it seems development has stopped. This one looks nice, might try it.

[Rip]

I just removed Orbit and installed Overboard. Works great. Seems slicker than Orbit and the screen pinch to launch is a nice feature.

It wasn't until I uninstalled Orbit that I realised how useful (read vital) an 'Expose' type app is. Flicking screens now seems so antiquated, whereas at one time it was really innovative.

[Imahottguy]

+1 I like this app much more than Orbit. I know that Steven has a lot on his plate, but there has been no mention of updates on his twitter (RIP Oribt lawlz). This app is great: It has three different 'triggers' that can be easily set via settings (No respring required!). Then 2, 3 or 4 icon columns is a nice touch. WELL worth the $2 price tag.

I hope to see this app further developed in the future. This dev has got some great ideas, lets keep it comin'! :-)

[mavisxp]

+1 I like this app much more than Orbit. I know that Steven has a lot on his plate, but there has been no mention of updates on his twitter (RIP Oribt lawlz). This app is great: It has three different 'triggers' that can be easily set via settings (No respring required!). Then 2, 3 or 4 icon columns is a nice touch. WELL worth the $2 price tag.

I hope to see this app further developed in the future. This dev has got some great ideas, lets keep it comin'! :-)

Yeah, Steve needs to learn how to finish what he starts. I'm sorry, but he's been dicking us around for over a month now on the orbit update and now he claims that his inability to get 1.1 out the door was actually an intentional delay due to Overboard's launch. I call BS.

Regardless, Overboard is FAR better than Orbit. As has already been mentioned, there are multiple ways to invoke it and it is themeable - basically Orbit is like Overboard's wannabe clone, a rushed, incomplete attempt to be half as polished as Overboard's initial launch version.

[iBlade]

The only thing I like better in Orbit is that it uses the Icon-Small.png as the mini icons. This way I could have the Icon-Small.png's from the app's and my own (in my case transparent icon's to be able to use BossPaper's changing wallpaper app). Since I don't use winterboard anymore I don't see how to have different icon's.

[NovaTornado]

hmm... installed and used, but discovered i dont really have enough pages of apps to make it worthy xD

[n00neimp0rtant]

hmm... installed and used, but discovered i dont really have enough pages of apps to make it worthy xD

Plus one.

[xxfr0stbytexx]

this is a rly nice app even tho i dont use it much

[n00neimp0rtant]

I ended up buying it, what can I say it looked slick lol. There are only two suggestions I have for it: ability to replace the little mini icons in the OverBoard view with one big graphic of our choice and a text label, like a game controller and underneath it would say Games. Hopefully that would finally allow people to realize how redundant the Categories app is... The other suggestion would be faster response time when invoking it. While it is only like 1 second, when I pinch out on the SpringBoard, I just expect it to be kinda instantaneous. Hardly an issue at all, just something that niggled me a little bit.

Great app, Ryan! (I bought so much of your stuff lol)

[jimmy-bish]

Awesome app. I installed it after reading the great debate on Orbit vs Overboard. Based on the feedback I chose Overboard and I'm very happy with it!
The pinch gesture on my 3G is pretty much instant. Not quite instant, but I'm not feeling like I have to wait for it to load at all.

[drensin]

Overboard is great. One suggestion: it's easier to spread than pinch. Maybe add that gesture to open app, too?