CocoaTop IPA is a Process Viewer for iOS
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When you jailbreak your iPhone, it may happen that some kind of process or a tweak is draining your battery level quickly. Insisting an app like CocoaTop you can easily determine which process is using significant amount of CPU and RAM.
Add CocoaTop Repo to your package manager.
What is CocoaTop?
CocoaTop is an open source Process Viewer for iOS, allowing you among other things to monitor CPU and RAM activity and view running in the background daemons and apps. This tool was released for a jailbroken environment, but it also works with TrollStore on iOS 14 and iOS 15.
Once installed with TrollStore or any package manager, CocoaTop app will add an icon to the Home Screen. The application was updated in 2021, and it officially supports iOS 5 up to iOS 10, but you can run it also on iOS 11, iOS 12, iOS 13, iOS 14, and iOS 15.
CocoaTop can display a lot of useful information regarding all processes and apps running in the background. You can filter by any column and add and remove columns with all kinds of data. There is obviously RAM and CPU usage, but also over 30 other parameters to choose from.
Process Viewer can display various information about running processes. Enable columns such as Process ID, CPU usage, mach task state, mach task rate, resident memory usage, user ID, mach ports, thread count, parent PID, etc. Other columns include total process running time, net bytes sent and received since lunch, disk I/O read and write per updated interval, and more.
On top of that, CocoaTop app offers some basic configuration options. From app settings page, you can define update interval in seconds, enable full width command line, show short paths, auto scroll to new terminal, show columns sort header, and totals, and highlights changing values. The last feature should be enabled by default because there is a lot going on.
When you tap on a process from CocoaTop table, it will open a detailed view with all information about the process. This is a much better way to understand what the process is doing in the background. CocoaTop also offers an option to terminate or kill selected precess.
CocoaTop for iOS was released as an open source project under GPL-3.0 license, with all files listed on GitHub Repository. Source code is available for everyone to improve, and it requires theos libraries, and Apple iOS SDK iOS 13. CocoaTop was written in C and Objective-C.
Versions prior to 2.0.1 are 32 bit and will work on iOS 6 – iOS 10. The latest 64-bit version should work on iOS 10 up to iOS 15, with support for safe area on iPhone X screen, dark mode, and split view on iPad. From GitHub page, you can download the CocoaTop 2.2.3 deb, released in 2021.
CocoaTop DEB can be easily converted for TrollStore app with a tool like DebToIPA. In the article below, you can find already converted CocoaTop IPA ready to use with the TrollStore installer.
How to install CocoaTop IPA
CocoaTop app was released as an IPA package that can be installed only with TrollStore on compatible iOS 14 and iOS 15 devices. You can't install this Process Viewer for iOS with regular sideloading apps because it uses a system bug to modify some iOS settings.
- Install TrollStore on firmware between iOS 15 up to iOS 15.4.1.
- Download CocoaTop IPA and save it on iCloud.
- Share the downloaded IPA file with the TrollStore app.
- TrollStore will install CocoaTop automatically when loaded.
- Access the CocoaTop app from the Home Screen.
Compatibility: iOS 14.0 – iOS 15.4.1, iOS 15.5 beta 1 – iOS 15.5 beta 4, iOS 15.6 beta 1 – 15.6 beta 5. No other firmware releases are or will be supported. No support for iOS 15.5, no support for iOS 15.6, and no support for iOS 16. This app is possible because there is a bug in iOS.
Repository
CocoaTop app was released as a free package through the BigBoss Repository. Add CocoaTop Repo to your package manager and install the best Process Viewer for iOS. Even when the app supports iOS 5 up to iOS 10, it still can be installed and works on the latest iOS 15.
- Open the Cydia app and tap on the Sources tab.
- Tap on Edit → Add buttons and enter http://apt.thebigboss.org/ Repo URL.
- Install the Shadow tweak from the new repository.
- Respiring your iPhone to apply all changes.
- Open the Shadow preference pane from the Settings app.
Alternatively, please use the quick links available at the top of this page to add with just one tap the repository to your favorite package manager (Cydia, Sileo, Installer, Zebra).
What's new
- Updated CocoaTop to version 2.2.3.
- Added ports page fix by SongXiaoXi!
- Adds full iOS 13 support.
- UI fix including safe area on iPhone X screen.
- Support for native dark mode.
- Added split view on iPad.
- Filtering by any column.
- Easier column management.