iPhone Backup Extractor and Viewer

iBackup Viewer is the ultimate free iPhone Backup Extractor to export personal data from iOS Backups.
For Mac OS X and Windows

download for mac download for Win

The free version of iBackup Viewer works with full features, includes extracting contacts, exporting and printing sms & iMessage messages to PDF files, exporting phone call history, add safari visit history and bookmarks to desktop safari, viewing and recovering photos and videos.

Encrypted iOS Backups

The Pro version of iBackup Viewer supports extracting all the featured data from encrypted iPhone backups, which is created for privacy protection. To work with the encrypted backups, please read the FAQs and upgrade to pro version

iBackup Viewer will try fixing and reading important data like Contacts, Call History, Photos etc. from incomplete or corrupted backups.

Save Backed Up Contacts

Easily extract contacts from iPhone backups and export to Mac Address Book or Contacts.app. With iBackup Viewer, you can also save contacts as vcards (.vcf) files on disk, which are very portable to share with friends and online mail systems like Gmail.

Extract SMS, iMessage Messages &
WhatsApp History

The most important feature of an iPhone backup extractor is recovering messages, iBackup Viewer fully supports extracting iMessage and SMS text messages from iTunes backups, displaying iOS styled chat conversations, saving chats to pdf files and printing out to paper. Create HTML files for all messages.

Extracting WhatsApp message history.

Photo and Video Attachments

Messages always contain photos and video clips to share remembered great moments, iBackup Viewer extracts the attachments for displaying and saving to files.

Save iOS Notes

You may have many notes that being meant on your iPhone, and you may want to extract the notes and save them on you computer. With iBackup Viewer, it is easy to extract all the notes from iOS backups and save to text files.

Export Voice Memos and Recordings

iBackup Viewer can help you to save voice recordings from your iPhone, which are extracted from iOS backups made by iTunes.

You can extract out all the memos and recordings, and play & preview the voice recordings before saving to computer.

Save and Print Phone Call History

You may have many notes that being meant on your iPhone, and you may want to extract the notes and save them on you computer. With iBackup Viewer, it is easy to extract all the notes from iOS backups and save to text files.

Extract Photos & Live Photos from iPhone Backups

Don't worry about loosing photos on your iPhone if you have made backups using iTunes. iBackup Viewer can extract photos from iPhone backups, you can save photos to your local hard disk on mac computer very easily with iBackup Viewer.

Live Photos are composed with a static image and video file, iBackup extracts and saves the images and videos of Live Photos into proper folders.

Export Internet Visit History and Bookmarks to Safari

There are many website urls which visited on iPhone, some of them may be very important. And you need to save the URLs to Safari, so that you can visit the sites on computer without losing them. iBackup Viewer can extract all the internet visit history and bookmark URLs, which can be exported to Safari on mac computer.

iBackup Viewer can help you to extract iOS apps' data from iPhone backups, and preview the files in many different formats. You can save a single file or all of them very easily. And iBackup Viewer will try to name the file with internal information by default, You can choose your own while saving single file.

Preview app files in different mode

You can preview files as text, binary, image, property list (plist) and SQLite format.

iBackup Viewer will detect the file format automatically according to the file extension, and show in proper format. Of cause, you may need to change the format of files with fake extensions.

choose a version that meets your requirements

Feature Free Version Pro Version
Encrypted Backups
Extract Contacts
Save Contacts as vCards
Retrieve Phone Call History
Save Phone Call History to Text File
Save Phone Call History to CSV File
Save Phone Call History to PDF File
Extract Messages
Save Message Thread to Text File
Save Message Thread to CSV File
Save All Messages to Text File
Save All Messages to CSV File
Save Message Thread to PDF File
Save All Messages to PDF File
Extract Attachments
Extract WhatsApp messages
Save WhatsApp Message Thread to Text File
Save WhatsApp Message Thread to CSV File
Save All WhatsApp Messages to Text File
Save All WhatsApp Messages to CSV File
Save WhatsApp Message Thread to PDF File
Save All WhatsApp Messages to PDF File
Extract WhatsApp Attachments
Save Calendar to iCal
Password Protected Notes
Save Note to Text File
Save Note to PDF File
Save All Notes
Save Single Voicemail
Save Voicemail as Playable File
Save All Notes
Save Voice Memos Recording
Save All Recordings
Play Preview Recordings
Internet History and Bookmarks
Photos and Videos in Camera Roll
Photos and Videos in Photo Stream
Photo Folders
Save Single Photo
Save Multiple Photos
iOS App Data
Raw Backed up Data
Save All Data for all Domains in Batch
Save All Data for a Domain(app)
Save Selected Data Files for a Domain (app)
WeChat Messages
Save WeChat Messages

Old Version Supports Mac OS X 10.7+ and Windows XP SP3 or Later