Hands-on: Four Mac apps to transfer voicemail, other files from your iPhone

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PhoneView Landing Page

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PhoneView

With PhoneView, you can view, save and print all of your iPhone and iPad messages, WhatsApp messages, voicemail and other data directly on your Mac. Save your SMS, iMessages and WhatsApp messages.

PhoneView, like the others, generally needs to access the iTunes backups made by your device in order to pull the data out. If you encrypt your backups like I do, you may have to enter your encryption password before the software can find your voicemails and other files. But after you do, accessing the files is easy—PhoneView lets you choose between your devices via the pull-down menu at the bottom of the window if you have multiple devices plugged into your computer. Once you do that, you can choose from any of the options along the left to find what you're looking for.

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iExplorer Landing Page

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iExplorer

iExplorer lets you easily transfer music, playlists, text messages, files and more from any iPhone, iPod, or iPad to a Mac or Windows computer and iTunes.

iExplorer is the first of the three software packages available for both Mac and Windows, and it's probably my favorite after PhoneView. iExplorer also allows you to choose between different devices connected to your computer, and it looks better than most of the other cross-platform options. Though, as you'll see, the bar is relatively low.

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Touch Copy Landing Page
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Touch Copy

TouchCopy allows you to transfer all your iPhone content back to your PC or a Mac. You can backup your Music, Photos, Videos Contacts and other media from your iPhone, iPad or iPod, as well as save and print your iPhone Messages.
Pricing:
- Paid
- Free Trial
- $40.0 / One-off
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iBB

iBackupBot

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For me, my friends and family, and even my tech-savvy peers, PhoneView and iExplorer are much better deals than something like iBackupBot, even though they cost a bit more. These items save you from UI headaches, and they actually make sense to most of the computer-using population. TouchCopy might be an OK solution, but it's not the best you can get for your money. And if you're in the type of scenario that I'm in, where you just want to transfer a few files in order to pass them onto more important parties, you probably don't want to waste much time sitting at the computer using poorly designed software to do it.