SummerBoard Brings Scrolling To iPhone's Home Screen Icons

[Edward Kirk]

<img src="http://www.iphonealley.com/images/storyimages/september07/summerboard.jpg" align="right"/>

An independent developer going by <em>"lg"</em> has created an application that brings scrolling to the iPhone's home screen. SummerBoard (a play on the term "SpringBoard" another name for the home screen) is an app intended to fix the problem of having too many native app icons. When you have too many icons on the home screen, the access gets pushed off the edges of the screen. This app allows you to scroll through the apps as a list.<!--break--> Also notable is that it enables you to put your wallpaper as the home screen background, which is otherwise black.

Neat as this app is, it is still young and relatively new. There are likely to be a few bugs. Still, all in all it's a clever hack. We've tried it out, and it seems to do what it says it does relatively well.

You can download SummerBoard with Installer.app (aka App Tapp), which you can find <a href="http://iphone.nullriver.com/beta/" target="_blank">here</a>.

[via <a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2007/09/02/hackapalooza-making-the-iphone-main-screen-scroll/" target="_blank">TUAW</a>]

[Pepper]

don't use it if you use iFuntastic....otherwise you get all the ifun.apps showing and its just cluttered.:rolleyes: If your not using iFuntastic, its cool tho

[Unregistered]

Speak of the devil.... LOL

Ok, I soooooo need to register already.

[Pepper]

Speak of the devil.... LOL

Ok, I soooooo need to register already.

Its sad when your "unregistered", but i could pick out every post that you've made :D

[Unregistered]

don't use it if you use iFuntastic....otherwise you get all the ifun.apps showing and its just cluttered.:rolleyes: If your not using iFuntastic, its cool tho

use the rsbt app to fix this it lets you rearrange all of your spring board apps. works perfect on my iphone. i downloaded it from the app installer.

[vdz415]

i hate those ifun icons and pages icon!

[Jordan Hoffmann]

I will chime in and say that the software was really choppy however it was updated yesterday and is not super smooth.

[Saycarramrod]

I personally love Summerboard. But I had to restore my iPhone last night after I installed iShare and something else that I can't remember. I think with Summerboard and everything else it just freaked out. I tried uninstalling from Installer.app and it said that the uninstall script would not work. I tried deleting the app from within Finder and iFuntastic, but it kept leaving me with these phantom icons. Finally my iPhone shutoff, restarted, and stayed on the Apple screen. I guess it's stupid to keep adding apps you won't use just because Installer.app tells me they are new!

[bboyredcel]

I miss the semi-transparent black mask it used to put on the wallpaper... moreso than that, I miss the original black background.

Summerboard is awesome otherwise... very elegant, scrolling works perfect.

[Unregistered]

yes i agree with some of these comments... i was really excited to see the ifuntastic 3 pages and the new app icons... i like summerboards scrolling home screen much better... i only have a few more that dont fit on the home screen so this is perfect...
i also miss the black opacity of the background before the update i think a full colored background can look messy. but nun the less the app its was cool... works great! not the smothest thing in the world but i totally look past it.