2022 Top 5 Best iPhone Backup Extractor (Free and Paid)

We often backup our iOS devices to iTunes or iCloud, but we can’t access the contents of the backups. Thanks to lots of third-party powerful iPhone backup extractors, it is now very easy to view an iOS backup. We can easily view the backup data and export them. In this article, I will share 5 best iPhone backup extractor free and paid for you to view an iTunes or iCloud backup.

Brief info of 5 Best iPhone Backup Extractor

Product	UltData iPhone Recovery	Phone Backup Extractor	iBackup Extractor	iBackup Viewer	Phone Browse
iCloud backup	-		-	-	-
iTunes backup
iOS data recovery		-	-	-	-
Supported platforms	Mac	Windows and Mac	Windows and Mac	Windows and Mac	Mac
Price	$69.95 for life-time license	$69.95 for one year license	$24.99 for life-time license	Free and $39.95 for Pro version	Free
Free trial				-	-

Details of 5 Best iPhone Backup Extractor

#1 UltData iPhone Recovery (Free Trial and Paid)

UltData iPhone Data Recovery is a professional iPhone backup extractor for Mac & Windows users to extract data from iTunes backup and recover lost files directly from iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch without backup. It can recover photos, voice memos, messages, contacts, safari bookmarks, calendar events, notes, videos, etc.

Advantages

• Can extract data from iTunes backup.
• Can extract data from iCloud
• Allow you to preview files before extracting.
• Can extract deleted or lost data from iOS devices.
• Selectively recover the data you want without restoring the whole backup.

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#2 iPhone Backup Extractor from Reincubate (Free and Paid)

iPhone Backup Extractor from Reincubate extracts photos, messages, videos, notes, contacts, restrictions passcode, WhatsApp messages and other app data from iTunes and iCloud Backups. And it will automatically return a copy of your recovered iPhone and iPad data. It offers Basic and Premium version. The Basic edition only supports iTunes backup. If you need to extract data from both iTunes and iCloud backups, you’d better purchase Premium edition that costs you $69.95.

Advantages

• Can extract data from iTunes and iCloud backups.
• Also can extract files from corrupted, encrypted backup and 2FA iCloud backup.
• It is available on Mac and Windows computers.

Disadvantages

• Cannot extract file from iOS devices directly.
• Free version only allows you to preview iTunes and iCloud backup data. If you want to extract, you need to purchase it for $69.95 per year license.

#3 iBackup Extractor

iBackup Extractor is another iPhone backup extractor which can extract files from the iTunes backups of your iOS devices. It can retrieve photos, contacts, notes, SMS, iMessages, voice mails, app data and other files. You can preview the files from iTunes backup and copy them to other places. You can also export files as other formats for easy access.

Advantages

• Give easy access to the content of iTunes backup.
• Easily copy files to your computer.
• It is available on Mac and Windows computers.

Disadvantages

• Cannot extract files from iCloud backup.
• Sometimes fails to fully scan an iTunes backup file.

#4 iBackup Viewer (Free and Paid)

iBackup Viewer from iMactools is the ultimate free iPhone backup extractor to extract data from iTunes backups. It can extract notes, contacts, call history, SMS and iMessage, iOS app data, raw data and other files. And it supports exporting files to some formats. For example, it can save Call History as formatted plain text file, CSV file and PDF files. Sometimes you have to pay for it when you need to save some specified files.

Advantages

• Can extract files from any iTunes Backup of iOS devices.
• It is available on Mac and Windows computers.

Disadvantages

• Cannot extract data from the encrypted iTunes backups for free.
• Cannot extract files from iCloud backup.
• With few export-formats available.

#5 PhoneBrowse (Free)

PhoneBrowse is a piece of free iPhone explorer software, which is designed to access and manage your iOS devices data without jailbreaking. It is also a free iPhone backup extractor that allows you to extract files from iTunes backup. With PhoneBrowse, it becomes much easier to view iPhone files and transfer them to computer.

Advantages

• Export files from iOS device to computer.
• Allow you to import files, delete files, rename files, and create new folders.
• Easily backup app and then transfer them onto other devices.

Disadvantages

• Cannot extract data from iCloud backup.

Now you can choose one of the above paid and free iPhone backup extractors to extracting contacts, messages, photos, call history, voicemail and other data from iTunes and iCloud backup.