Syncios is a mobile data manager for Windows and Mac that transfers and organizes content on iPhones, iPads, iPod touch devices and Android phones. Its Mobile Manager interface separates music, videos, photos, personal records and apps, so users can work with a selected category or individual items on the computer.
The Windows Free edition provides transfers from the device to the computer and from the computer to the device. Windows Full adds phone backups and restoration, personal-record exports, file management, duplicate-song removal and the media conversion tools. These functions belong to Mobile Manager; Syncios also sells separate applications for direct phone-to-phone migration and deleted-data recovery.
Backing up a phone with Syncios
Syncios offers both selected-item copying and a backup tool that collects several data categories in one operation. For a media copy, users select the songs, videos or photos they want and export them to a computer folder. The broader backup tool lets them choose a destination and the types of phone data to include, such as contacts, messages, call history and media.
Restoration uses an existing Syncios backup. The recovery window lists available backups for selection, loads the chosen backup and restores its contents to the connected device. This operation depends on a saved copy: it is different from scanning a phone for deleted information.
Contacts, messages and call history
The Information area handles contacts, messages and call history. Contacts can be created or edited on the computer, including names, telephone numbers and email addresses. Users can also select unwanted entries for deletion rather than clearing the entire address book.
Syncios separates a restorable backup from a readable export. Contact backups can use XML or vCard files, or send contacts to Outlook. The Save command produces contact lists in HTML, while messages and call history can be saved as HTML or CSV. Those exports provide records that can be read on the computer or opened in a spreadsheet; printing controls provide paper copies of selected records.
Media library
Music management works in both directions: Add brings local tracks onto the phone, and Export copies chosen tracks to the computer. On iOS devices, Syncios separates categories such as music, ringtones, podcasts, audiobooks and voice memos. It also manages mobile music playlists, deletes selected tracks and provides a duplicate-removal command. Video management follows a similar selection model, with the option to import individual video files or a whole folder.
Photos have their own import and export controls alongside an album list. Users can create an album, rename it or delete an unwanted album from the computer, then select the pictures to transfer. Full-resolution export requires the original photo or video to be present on the device; an item represented only by an iCloud thumbnail cannot supply the original file through that transfer.
Apps, device storage and books
The app view supports bulk removal and, on Android, application backups that can be imported again as APK files. iOS app backups are unavailable. Access to an iOS app’s documents also depends on that app supporting file sharing: an available folder control opens its shared documents for import or export.
Syncios includes a file browser for adding files, creating folders and exporting or deleting items in accessible device storage. The Books area on iOS separately handles importing, exporting and deleting eBooks, PDFs and audiobooks.
Media conversion
Syncios can prepare files before transferring them. Its HEIC converter takes photos from the computer or an iOS device and saves JPG copies with a chosen output location and image-quality setting. Photo compression scans JPG pictures on the phone, lets users choose which ones to compress and can first save the originals to the computer.
The ringtone maker accepts a song from the computer or connected phone. Users preview it, set the beginning and end of the desired passage, then save the ringtone locally or send it to the device.
The audio converter offers output formats including MP3, M4A, M4R, AAC, WAV and FLAC, with an option to import the result. Video conversion produces MP4 files and exposes controls for picture dimensions, quality and volume, again allowing the converted file to be sent to the attached phone.
