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iTunes is the default program for managing all of your Apple devices, but it's certainly not the be-all and end-all for managing your iPhone or iPod content. CopyTrans promises an easy, smart, safe way to transfer and back up your Apple device content, and it delivers.
To ensure a positive user experience, CopyTrans offers help from the get-go with a pop-up window that gives you links to its online User Guides, Getting Started Guide, and video demo. But thanks to its simple but functional user interface, we really didn't need the documentation. With our iPhone 4 plugged into our PC, the program immediately went to work pulling our playlist and camera info and displaying the content in the window. Our music playlist info was broken down into Genre, Artists, and Albums. You have two backup options: Smart and Manual. With Smart backup selected, we clicked the button of the same name. CopyTrans immediately went to work and we could watch the status of the backup in a pop-up window that also allows you to pause and cancel the action. Now, we don't keep a lot of content on our iPhone - we had only 89 files between apps and music - and it took about seven minutes to copy all of the files; it wasn't a lot of time, but if you have a lot of content on your device, it could take a bit of time to complete. Still, once CopyTrans finished copying all of the files, it copied the files to our computer and imported them to iTunes. The Settings menu gives you the option of displaying album artwork and sending errors and/or usage statistics to the CopyTrans team.
CopyTrans comes as a zip file, but installs and uninstalls cleanly. It's a worthy program for restoring your iPhone, iPod, and iPad content and easily transferring files between devices. We recommend it for all user levels.
Editors' note: This is a review of the full version of CopyTrans 4.836. The trial version is limited to 250 tracks per transfer.
Publisher's Description
From WindSolutions:
With CopyTrans transfer iPod, iPod Touch, iPhone and iPad music, videos, podcasts, audiobooks, movies, home made videos, apps, and ringtones directly to iTunes. Import playlists, artworks, ratings, play counts, date last played, and date added back into iTunes. Copy iPod playlists and iPhone smart playlists while preserving song order within playlist. Import iPhone artworks automatically into iTunes. Import iPhone videos, podcasts, audiobooks, movies, TV-shows and ringtones to their iTunes categories. Backup iPod podcasts to iTunes including subscriptions.
What's new in this version: Version 4.842 adds iTunes 11.0.2.26 compatibility and minor bug fixes.
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All versions:
4.2 starsout of 312 votes
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Current version:
4.4 starsout of 9 votes
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"Worked Exactly as Promised"
Version: CopyTrans 4.842
Pros
CopyTrans transferred all my music efficently and completely to my PC. Very intutive - a real no brainer. Just extracted the application, opened it and tested it with the first 100 free transfers. Everything was OK. After that I purchased the license for 19.99 and downloaded everything else to my new PC. I still had most of my CDs in the garage but CopyTrans was MUCH quicker that loading all those CDs again. I am very very happy with this product.
Cons
10 GB of data transfer took about 25 minutes but everything was correct. 1/2 star off for the speed.
Summary
The CNET review was right on - excellent product.
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"Absolutely Amazing Product!!!"
Version: CopyTrans 4.842
Pros
It just works, and you don't have to be a techy person to use it. It is so user friendly! I was able to recover my original song collection from an older iPhone.
Cons
I don't have anything bad to say about the product!
Summary
Try it and see.
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"So Far its a Good Program"
Version: CopyTrans 4.842
Pros
Fast, no spam, great from ipad2 to a pc with win8
Cons
none so far
Summary
I needed to get music from my IPad2 to my PC with Win8 with the Free download I got about 100 music files off but i had 180 left on it so I paid the $19 for the full program. and it was quick easy and no problems so far.
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"Invaluable program. faster than I expected"
Version: CopyTrans 4.842
Pros
I was able to transfer the films and music I had saved on my iPad to my newly reinstalled computer.
Cons
i am borderline computer illiterate but i did not have to think twice before getting copytrans to do the transfer - therefore, no problems here
Summary
Bottom line is that copytrans allowed me to achieve what iTunes would otherwise not let me do + transfer was fast considering the full-length films.
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"Simple to use. Does exactly as described"
Version: CopyTrans 4.842
Pros
> Dummy proof
> Transfered my iphone songs and playlists in no time to my new Windows8Cons
none so far
Summary
This program does what it promises and quickly. well worth the cost
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"Ruined My iPhone 4S"
Version: CopyTrans 4.842
Pros
Good for transferring movies
Cons
See below for details
Summary
I've used this for some time on 2 iPod Touches and my iPhone 4S. One day I connected the 4S and it started to connect, then stopped, and wouldn't try again. Didn't think much of it until I noticed that iTunes wasn't recognizing the device. Went into Windows 7 Device Manager and found that the iPhone is no longer even detected by Windows. My guess is that the Apple Mobile Device Driver that allows for USB connections has either been removed or corrupted--on the iPhone. I've tried connecting to 4 different PCs with 4 different cables, completely reset my phone, and spent hours with Apple tech support. The phone still works and charges, but I don't know if I'll ever be able to connect it to any computer again. So it's only a little better than useless.
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"working fine :D"
Version: CopyTrans 4.842
Pros
working great, very fast to transfer music to my iPhone :D i don't use my iTune i love CopyTrans :D
Cons
none so far.
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"Worked great no problems"
Version: CopyTrans 4.842
Pros
The program worked well. It transferred all of my podcasts as well not just my music and sorted everything out correctly on itunes.
Cons
Costs $20 which for me a quite a bit considering I was only going to use it once
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"It just works!"
Version: CopyTrans 4.842
Pros
2 way sync between iPod and iTunes. Does everything. Retains play counts and ratings. The best iPod, iPhone, iTunes management tool available.
Cons
None so far.
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