Hello dear iPhonedo viewers! Today, I'm going to review iExplorer!
I can hear you asking what iExplorer is. Actually I can hear some of you asking if I'm talking about internet explorer.
iExplorer has nothing to do with Internet Explorer.
iExplorer allows you to browse inside your iDevice and more without any jailbreak. It is a great application!
Let's say you have lost all your data on your computer, using iExplorer you can easily restore alot of data including the songs from your iDevice back to your computer.
Normally, this is not very possible with Apple's restrictions. But with iExplorer and without any jailbreak it is very simple and fast.
To download iExplorer you have go to MacroPlant's website: www.macroplant.com
Here you can see that iExplorer works on mac and pc.
When you click here you are presented two choices. Download or Buy.
Until May 30th 2014 the good people at MacroPlant has given us %10 off with the code IPHONEDO for basic license
I'd like to thank them for taking us seriously and giving iPhonedo viewers a discount.
and I hope the other companies will do the same when we're reviewing their products.
First let's download the demo version.
You can see that I have an application here called osxfuse. I will talk about this later. you need this for disk mount feature.
let me drag this on to the desktop.
double click on the file to install it. then drag the file icon on your applications folder and drop it.
let's launch the application. In the demo version this is the first screen. You can hit this button to continue
let me make this full screen. as you can see, right here there is a button to browse your backups
We'll look into that later as well. First I'm going to connect my iPhone to my computer now. And it is here already.
Here under media, you can see the selections of music, photos, videos and auto transfer
As you can see there are no songs in my iTunes library
And normally as you know you can't take your songs and playlists back out from your iDevice easily.
But with iExplorer it is really simple. This feature is not available in the demo version. But I'll show it to you soon with the full version.
You can browser all your data, such as your messages. You can read all your messages and with the full version you can export them to pdf, csv files.
or you can just export all the images in the messages
Let's check out the contacts. As you can see all information including their photos are browsable and exportable.
Your voice messages can be browsed, call history, notes, safari bookmarks etc and calendar
Almost all of your foders, documents everything is browsable without any jailbreak.
Mount Device puts that folder on your desktop just like your hard drive. This requires OSXFuse to be installed.
iExplorer's advantages are not just these! You can browse, view or export all your backups.
This even includes your voice messages. So you can always go back to your backups and find whatever you need without installing backups back on your device.
Let's go to one of my backups now. As you can see, you have access to every information backed up.
if you have more than one backup they are listed like this.
This grants you to find things and export them back to your hard disk.
Now I'm switching to the full version of iExplorer. I'm plugging my iPhone back.
Now let's go and get all the songs from my iPhone and copy them into my iTunes.
As you can see it is really fast.
iExplorer wants me to rate it. I won't rate it before I check my iTunes first!
As you can see my songs are in my iTunes. With one more click I can get my album covers and I'm done. All clean and nice.
Let's go to the messages and export it as PDF.
Well, it looks just as it should. Awesome!
Other then that, my favorite is to browse your apps inside your device
For example if you like to upload a custom video to Vine you need to share your information with apps/people that you don't actually know.
It is something I really don't like to do. But with iExplorer you can implant a custom video into vine and feel like you're in an episode of Mission Impossible.
As you can see in my latest vine.
I hope it rains MacPros... ... not this one the new one I hope!...
I will be releasing a video to show how to implant videos into vine later.
In the same sense you can browse your whatsapp and find files that were sent to you and yet you were not able to find them in your photo gallery or etc.
Just find the file, drag and drop on your desktop.
My personal favorite is to browse in Action Movie files. I can see everything even the alpha files.
Of course you can do the same with downloaded apps to your computer. But the difference of doing this with iExplorer is...
you're looking directly into your device and if your permissions allow you, you can modify them as you wish.
if you want full access you can jailbreak your phone and mess it up and end up restoring your phone because you just couldn't keep yourself from being curious.
I have to say this is the best one in the similar applications I have used and I thinks I'll be using this for a really long time.
Reminder: you can get this app %10 until may 30th with the code IPHONEDO. This applies to the basic license.
I'd like to thank MacroPlant again for being nice to us and our followers! I salute them!
Yes dear friends, we're at the end of another episode, please tell us what you think about iExplorer in the comment section.
Would you like to use an application like this? Do you like browsing inside your device?
Do you think looking at your backups like this is something useful?
Tell us what you think about this application.
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Until next time, take good care yourself! and goodbye!