Transfer Companion: SMS Backup

Wide Angle Software Ltd

About this app

Transfer Companion is a free application which works alongside a paid PC Application "Droid Transfer" enabling you to backup messages, music, photos and other files on your Android Phone to your PC. Communication between your PC and your phone is completely local either over a Wi-Fi or a USB connection, and no information is stored, uploaded to the Cloud, or transmitted to a third party.

► Transfer Text Messages to your PC in a PDF, HTML, or a TXT file, and save your message texts along with photos, emojis and videos included in your messages.

►Print text messages on your Android phone with dates and times.

► Wirelessly Transfer Files between Android and PC. Manage and delete Android files from your PC. You can also browse and copy files between your PC and your Android device SD card.

► Sync your music library between your Android and your PC. Sync iTunes to Android. View your music collection stored on your Android Phone and stream it through your PC.

► Transfer photos between your Android Phone and your PC. Intelligently detect and save new photos to your PC. View your photos full size on your PC, select and delete photos on your Phone quickly and easily. It’s much faster managing your photos on your Phone with Droid Transfer.

► Backup & Restore Contacts from your old phone to your new one. Export Contacts to Windows Contacts, Microsoft Outlook or as a standard VCF contacts file, which can be used in any contacts address book application you may use on your PC. Add contacts from your PC to your phone.

► Save Call Logs to your PC as a PDF or text file, with all call activity made to and from each caller. Print your call history directly to your PC connected printer.

► Export Calendars to your PC for importing in your PC calendar application.

► Transfer Apps from Android to Android. Install and Uninstall Apps on Android from your Computer.

► Access Clipboard and paste information from the Android clipboard to your PC.

Please contact us at [e-mail] if you need help with using the app or if you have any queries or suggestions, we'd love to hear your feedback!

Ratings and reviews

I needed to download / backup my messages from my phone to pc. This app worked great. It has a pretty nice interface and allows me to save messages as text, html or pdf to my pc. Pictures that are in the message were also downloaded. Needed to install Transfer Companion on my phone to make the connection work. It can also download other content including calendars and call logs, but I haven't tried those yet.

This app allowed me to sync my iTunes Music on my Windows 10 and Windows 11 system with my music on a Samsung A13 5G phone (Android 13). I am using my WIFI connection between the devices without problems. I would have given it a 5 stars, but I have not been able to figure out how to eliminate duplicates. Not sure how duplicates occurred, but I must eliminate them manually as they are discovered. Would be nice if there was an option to automatically eliminate duplicates.

Very happy with this app so far. After looking for free options for saving parent to parent text messages, I settled on Droid Transfer. Was initially hesitant based upon several of the reviews, but the process and final product (a pdf) seems to be exactly what I was looking for. The PC download and subsequent companion download to my Android (Moto G4) went very smoothly. The conversation I transferred (saved) took place over 30 months and included dozens of photos and images. All photos/images converted nicely within the finished pdf file. Total pages in the pdf was over 700. Be patient. Though it took a while to download the entire conversation (5 minutes) the companion app on my Android continually indicated that it was still in transfer mode and hadn't frozen. Note: Your initial print/download will only get you a FREE pdf of 5 messages and not the entire conversation. To print/save your entire conversation/thread you will need to pay $30 to finish your project. For me, it was worth the $30 to make sure I had an easy to read, printable and email ready PDF of the entire conversation.

What's new

Update user access permissions for Android 13+