Barrel Alternatives
Barrel is described as 'Older app for iOS 3 to 10 adding sliding graphic tweaks to the homescreen' and is an app in the OS & Utilities category. There are three alternatives to Barrel for iPhone and iPad. The best alternative is Cylinder, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Barrel are Springtomize (Paid) and IOSLife (Paid).
- Cylinder is a jailbreak tweak that lets you animate your icons when you swipe pages on the SpringBoard.
- Springtomize gives you an all-in-one settings page for tweaking the homescreen the homescreen of your jailbroken iPhone. You can disable elements you don't use, or customize the look of the icons, the dock, the folders, the status bar, and the lock screen.
Springtomize vs Barrel opinions
You can do more in lockscreen and homescreen its super cool - IOSLife lets you have animations on your Springboard, Lockscreen, Application Switcher etc.
Discontinued
The app seems to be no longer updated. Last version, 2.5, released in October 2012, can be still bought from Cydia
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