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Free up your iPhone without losing a single memory
See what's filling your iPhone, keep your favourite photos and videos on the phone, and move the rest to your Windows PC in full quality. Every copy is checked on your PC before anything is deleted. Your messages, contacts, music and files can come along too.
Free: move up to 5 GB of photos and videos, copy all your music, documents and contacts, and save a text conversation. Need more? $9.99 for a month, or $30 once for good. No subscription. Windows 10 and 11.
How to get your iPhone photos and videos onto your PC, and the space back
- See what's filling your iPhone. Plug it in with a USB cable, unlock it and tap Trust. PhotoFroggy shows your albums, Videos, Live Photos and Screenshots with their real sizes, biggest first. After the first time, it can connect over your home Wi-Fi too.
- Keep what you love. Preview anything full size and leave your favourites on the phone. Pick the rest: a few videos, a whole album, or everything from last year.
- Move the rest, safely. PhotoFroggy copies the full-quality originals to any folder or drive, checks every copy on your PC, and only then frees up the space on your iPhone.
What File Explorer and the Photos app can't do
Windows shows your iPhone as a flat DCIM folder full of
IMG_4471.MOV, with no dates, no albums, no media types, and
imports that stall on big videos. PhotoFroggy reads the phone's own photo
database instead.
The real library
All Photos, Camera, Favourites, Videos, Selfies, Live Photos, Portrait, Panoramas, Screenshots, Slo-mo, Cinematic, Bursts, and your own albums, with their real names.
Byte-exact exports
Full-quality originals, or the edited version you see in the Photos app. Organised into year and month folders if you want, and stamped with the date the shot was taken. HEIC to JPG too, if you prefer.
Cable or Wi-Fi
Plug in once to set it up, then browse and copy over your home Wi-Fi. More than one iPhone in the family? Switch between them; each keeps its own library on your PC.
See where the space went
Every category carries a live count and a total size, and you can sort the whole library largest-first. Usually it is video, and usually it is most of the phone.
Preview before you decide
Right-click any photo or video to view it full size, step through with the arrow keys and press S to select. Handy for choosing which clips to keep.
Checked before it's deleted
When you free up space, PhotoFroggy only deletes what it has found on your PC, with the same name and the exact same size. A file one byte short is not a copy, so it stays on the phone.
Honest about iCloud
With Optimize iPhone Storage on, some originals live only in iCloud. PhotoFroggy tells you which ones, instead of quietly copying a smaller version.
Nothing leaves your PC
No account, no upload, no cloud. The app talks to the phone over the USB cable or your own Wi-Fi, and serves its interface only to your own machine.
English and 日本語
Fully translated, including every error message. Light and dark themes that follow Windows, plus reduced motion, stronger contrast and larger text.
More than photos
One connection, and the rest of your iPhone comes too: your text messages, contacts, music and the documents in the Files app, copied to your PC in forms that open without any special software.
Save your iPhone text messages to your PC
iMessage and SMS conversations become pages you can open in any browser, read and print, with names from your contacts, dates, and emoji and Japanese exactly as on the phone. A spreadsheet of every message comes along for searching.
- Every conversation, or only the ones you pick
- Photos and attachments sent in Messages, if you want them
- Nothing on the iPhone changes
Copy music from iPhone to PC
Songs synced from a computer and iTunes Store purchases, copied into Artist and Album folders any music player understands. Apple Music downloads are copy-protected by Apple and stay on the phone.
Export iPhone contacts
Every contact as a vCard (.vcf) file that Google Contacts, Outlook and Android import directly, plus a spreadsheet, with photos and Japanese reading names included.
Files app documents
Everything under “On My iPhone” in the Files app (downloads, PDFs, résumés, Word and Excel files), copied with its folders. Documents kept inside apps, too.
Back up only what's new
PhotoFroggy remembers what it has already saved, so the next backup is one click. Turn on automatic backup and it starts by itself when the iPhone is plugged in.
Free to use, for real
The free version is the whole app, not a demo. Move up to 5 GB of photos and videos off your iPhone, and copy your music and documents, without paying anything. Pay only if you need more.
| Feature | Free | Pass or licence |
|---|---|---|
| Browse photos, messages, contacts, music and files | ✓ | ✓ |
| Filter, sort, search and preview | ✓ | ✓ |
| Export photos and videos | 5 GB | Unlimited |
| Delete from the iPhone, after checking | 5 GB | Unlimited |
| Copy music to your PC | ✓ Free | ✓ |
| Copy Files-app documents | ✓ Free | ✓ |
| Save text message conversations | 1, with a watermark | All, no watermark |
| Export contacts | ✓ Free | ✓ |
| Future updates | ✓ | ✓ Included |
Download PhotoFroggy for Windows
Digitally signed by the verified publisher, William Hollis. Windows 10 or 11. Requires Apple Mobile Device Support, which comes with iTunes or the Apple Devices app.
Need more than 5 GB? Two simple options
No subscription either way. Neither renews or charges you again.
One-month pass
one payment · 30 days of everything
- Clear out a full iPhone in one go
- Everything unlocked for 30 days
- Does not renew; afterwards, it's the free version again
- Everything you exported stays yours
Lifetime licence
one-time payment · all future updates included
- Everything: photos, videos, messages, contacts, music and files
- Unlimited exports
- All future updates included, no subscription
- One key works on up to 3 of your PCs
Checkout: One-month pass, $9.99Lifetime licence, $30
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iPhone to PC guides
Step-by-step help for the problems people hit most, with or without PhotoFroggy.
- Transfer iPhone videos to a PCFour ways to move iPhone videos to a Windows 10 or 11 PC, how to keep full quality, and what to do when big videos fail to copy.
- Transfer iPhone photos to WindowsCopy iPhone photos to a Windows 11 or 10 PC with a USB cable, and what happens to Live Photos, edited photos and HEIC files on the way.
- Free up iPhone storageSee what is filling your iPhone, move the biggest videos and photos to a Windows PC, delete them safely and get the space back without buying iCloud.
- iPhone not showing up on PCYour iPhone is plugged in but Windows or File Explorer does not see it, or DCIM is empty. Trust, cables, drivers and Apple Devices fixes, in order.
- Photos app won't import from iPhoneFix the Windows Photos app failing to import from iPhone: error 0x80070141, “Something went wrong”, stalled imports and the Keep Originals setting.
- Open HEIC and HEVC on WindowsWhy iPhone HEIC photos and HEVC videos won't open on Windows, the Microsoft extensions that fix it, free options like VLC, and settings for JPEG.
Questions
Does it upload my photos anywhere?
No. There is no account and no server. The app runs on your computer and reaches the phone over the USB cable or your home Wi-Fi.
Do I need iTunes or iCloud?
You need Apple Mobile Device Support, the Windows driver that lets any program talk to an iPhone. It comes with Apple's free Apple Devices app or iTunes. You do not need to sync anything or sign in to iCloud.
Does it work on Windows 10 and Windows 11?
Yes, both.
Does it work over Wi-Fi?
Yes. Plug the iPhone in once and PhotoFroggy sets it up. After that, with the phone and PC on the same network, you can browse and copy without the cable. Deleting still finishes over the cable, because Apple only allows that over USB: PhotoFroggy checks everything first, then asks you to plug in.
Does it convert HEIC to JPG?
Yes, if you want it. By default it exports the originals exactly as the iPhone stores them, HEIC photos and HEVC videos included. Tick Convert HEIC photos to JPEG and photos are saved as JPGs instead, keeping the date, location and colour. Converting uses Microsoft's HEIF and HEVC extensions for Windows; see the HEIC and HEVC guide.
Will deleting here delete from iCloud?
If iCloud Photos is on, yes. That is how Apple works, not a choice we make. The app warns you clearly before anything is removed.
Why can't it delete some items?
Media synced onto the phone from a computer by iTunes cannot be deleted by any Windows tool. Remove it the way it arrived, by syncing again.
What do I get for free?
The whole app. You can browse everything, move up to 5 GB of photos and videos to your PC (and delete up to 5 GB from the iPhone once they're checked), copy all your music, contacts and Files-app documents, and save one text conversation, with a small PhotoFroggy watermark. Updates are free too.
Pass or licence: which should I get?
If you just want to clear out your iPhone once, the $9.99 one-month pass unlocks everything for 30 days and then simply ends. It never renews. If you'll back up your phone again and again, the $30 lifetime licence is yours for good, with every future update included.
Can it save my iPhone text messages?
Yes. It reads iMessage and SMS conversations over USB or Wi-Fi, the same way iTunes makes a backup, but keeping only your messages, contacts and files, and saves them as pages you can read and print, plus a spreadsheet. iPhones set to encrypt their backups aren't supported yet.
Can it copy music from my iPhone?
Yes: songs synced from a computer and iTunes Store purchases. Apple Music downloads are copy-protected by Apple, so no app can copy them off the phone.
Can it get files from iCloud Drive?
No. iCloud Drive files live in Apple's cloud rather than on the iPhone; get them from icloud.com or iCloud for Windows. Anything saved under “On My iPhone” in the Files app is copied.
Is there a Mac version?
Not today. macOS already has Image Capture and Photos, which do most of this. PhotoFroggy exists because Windows does not.