Phosphor
Free and open-source iOS device manager for macOS. Browse backups, export messages, extract photos, manage apps - no subscriptions, no iCloud lock-in.
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Phosphor is a free and open-source iOS device manager for macOS that gives you complete control over your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch without proprietary software, iCloud lock-in, or subscriptions. Built natively with SwiftUI and powered by pymobiledevice3 with libimobiledevice as fallback, it supports iOS 17-26+. Phosphor offers full device backup, incremental backups, backup browsing, selective file restore, message export to CSV/HTML, WhatsApp message export, photo extraction without iCloud, app data extraction, IPA installation, battery health diagnostics, real-time device console, file system browser, drag-and-drop file transfer, scheduled Wi-Fi backups, contacts and calendar export, Apple Watch data browsing, and more - all for free under MIT license.
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