0.1.2 October 2026
- The taskbar and window icon are the PhoneFerry mark on every screen.
- The drop hint goes away when a drag leaves the window.
- The updater moves every earlier install to this version on its next launch.
What's new
PhoneFerry updates itself. Each release is listed here with what it changed.
Last updated 25 October 2026. Written by BlackBox Tools, the maker of PhoneFerry.
0.1.1 October 2026
- Android phones: photos, videos and files over the cable; messages, contacts, call log and calendar once USB debugging is switched on, group threads named by their members; WhatsApp archives saved to the PC as files and its media folder one click away in Files; thumbnails load in the background so the grid stays quick.
- Files onto the iPhone: drag them from Explorer into any app listed under On My iPhone.
- Call history and Safari history: Read call history turns backup encryption on for the read and off again after.
- Select several conversations and export them at once. The size of a photo or file selection shows next to Copy.
- PhoneFerry opens by itself when a phone is plugged in; a switch in the Licence sheet turns that off.
- Help link in the sidebar; the window minimises like a Mac window.
0.1.0 First release
- Photos and videos: camera roll, albums, Shared Albums, favorites, hidden and Recently Deleted; Live Photos copied as still plus video; HEIC to JPG with EXIF and GPS kept.
- Files on the phone, browse and copy.
- Music: songs and playlists, exported as CSV and M3U with the files.
- Messages, WhatsApp and LINE conversations with attachments, exported as HTML and text.
- Contacts (vCard), notes (text files), reminders (CSV), calendar (.ics) and Safari bookmarks (HTML). Call history and Safari history travel only in encrypted backups, which this release does not read yet.
- Voicemail and voice memos, played in the app and saved as audio.
- Move and Delete: delete photos from the phone only after the PC copy is checked byte for byte.
- A library read that continues on its own after a cable drop.
- Free trial of 100 items, then one licence for two PCs.