iText: iPhone Text Message SMS Backup Utility
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Today I’d like to release a beta version of iText to the world. iText can view and manage the text messages and notes on your iPhone and perform backups to your mac. Since SMS messages and notes are the few things that Apple does not allow you to archive I figured we needed a solution.
I’d love to hear feedback from people. Note that this is a beta version. It is relatively stable but I want to see what people can dig up.
iText is licensed under the terms of the GNU Public License and you can view the project page Here.
April 2nd, 2008 at 8:14 pm
It crashes every time I try to launch it. I’ll send you the crash log.
April 4th, 2008 at 6:06 am
Hi,
looks very promising - thank you!
Will we be able to edit notes and sync them back to the iPhone one day?
I found a small bug:
If you select a SMS entry with the mouse and then try to go to next/previous with the up/down arrow keys, the focus follows in the table, bjut the SMS view and contact details window are not updated. So you always have to use the mouse.
April 4th, 2008 at 7:39 am
Yes, thank you! I missed that. I’ll push an update soon.
April 5th, 2008 at 10:12 am
The iPod Touch bug is now fixed. Thanks for the feedback! Also, Stephan I’ll be adding the note editing features and fix the arrow key issue soon. Thanks!
April 17th, 2008 at 7:48 am
Hello - I try opening up the program but nothing happens. Not sure if I’m doing something wrong. I saved it under the Applications folder, clicked on the icon there and still nothing happens. What am I missing? Any information you can give me would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks again for putting this out there.
-marley
April 17th, 2008 at 7:55 am
Do you have an iPhone or iPod Touch that has been synced with that computer? What version of Mac OS X and iTunes are you using? Does a window popup at all?
April 17th, 2008 at 8:06 am
Yes I just plugged in my iPhone and synced up with iTunes. Everytime I plug in the iPhone, iPhotos opens up. I have it plugged in now and when I double-click on the iText icon, nothing happens. No window pop ups at all. I am on version Mac OS X 10.4.11 and iTunes 7.6.2 (9). Thanks!
May 10th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
Will you add support for any non English encodings, especially Russian one?
May 20th, 2008 at 9:35 am
I had the same problem with encodings - I did a “patched” version, just from your SVN, perhaps you could incorporate the changes in your next version of iText? (I also filed a bug on your google-project page and added the patch as well)
The patch is quite straight forward:
in File ZBSMSCOntroller.m, just replace all occurrences of NSASCIIStringEncoding with NSUTF8StringEncoding (line 71, 105, 106, 161, 177)
in File ZBNoteController.m, just do the same as above and replace the NSASCIIStringEncoding with NSUTF8StringEncoding (line 66, 83, 84)
It worked for me (using german umlaute)
May 27th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
Yes, thank you Kusmi. I’ve toyed with that before and it had some adverse affects. I haven’t had a whole lot of time to play with it but I will be fixing this soon.
Thanks
July 8th, 2008 at 7:33 am
I am having the same problem as Marley - Click the icon, nothing happens at all. Did I miss a step? My dad will pay me if I get this set up for him before he switches to the 3G and loses all the texts he has from his girlfriend, so I am really hoping I can get it to work! Thanks
July 9th, 2008 at 1:10 am
love the app!
but (sorry there is a but).. i have a list of just phone numbers, and i cant add specific names or pics to them.. like in your screenshot with “sam”
July 20th, 2008 at 5:55 am
Hello,
is it possible to restore older sms to the archive? Today, I updated my iPhone to 2.0 but all my messages are lost
I hope you can help me
August 8th, 2008 at 2:39 am
Hi Zack, thank you very much for your iText software.
I have 2 export question for you though, as there is no documentation.
How do you export the itext file to the iPhone?
How can you view the exported itext file in another program?
I really hope you can answer these questions for me & others.
Thanks once again.
August 8th, 2008 at 8:51 am
Hi Zach,
The app will use the names and pics from your address book. Add a contact to you address book for the phone numbers and iText will use it.
August 8th, 2008 at 8:52 am
Bobby, You can not export from iText to the phone yet. Currently it support backups to your mac only. Click the “Import” button and select the old backup file and iText will display it. Also, you can’t yet view the exported data in other apps. In the future I’ll have different export formats. Thanks!
August 12th, 2008 at 7:00 am
hello,
iText 0.3 problems:
1) all messages are recognized as by Cindy Green, it doesn’t recognize name or phone #s, though it does separate the SMS messages…any fix for that soon?
2) export is only in iText format, but what’s point, if one needs to ex-port out of your app? when will you add .rtf & other export formats?
3) will your app never be more than iText or change its name to do more than just text on iPhone?! well then, if it does specialize in something as specific as that on iPhone, why can it not really be a Text app & since it’s a desktop app allow user to type SMS messages in your app to then beam to iPhone only for Sending in 1 click, conveniently…?!
4) what is your goal with iText 1.0? what other features are you planning? should one wait to use your app or look at competition…?
thanks for your efforts so far, though ; )
good luck,
rolf
October 16th, 2008 at 1:55 am
a free solution for windows to accomplish this would be http://insend.de
October 30th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
Thanks, It worked without any trouble !!
gr8 utility !!
November 5th, 2008 at 9:48 am
Great app. Only some minor problems: it does not seem to display correctly some characters like ö, ä, and stressed characters like á, é, etc. Also, it would be great if the font size could be increased. Anyway, great work!
November 5th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
Hi Rolf,
1) I haven’t seen that problem before. Can you be more specific. Also, some example data would be great.
2) Yes, standard XML format is under dev as well as plain text.
3) No, SMS and Notes is all that is planned. However the app is fully open source and I’d love to help integrate iText into a more full fledged iPhone Mac app.
4) My goal is to fix bugs and finish small features for 1.0.
hello,
iText 0.3 problems:
1) all messages are recognized as by Cindy Green, it doesn’t recognize name or phone #s, though it does separate the SMS messages…any fix for that soon?
2) export is only in iText format, but what’s point, if one needs to ex-port out of your app? when will you add .rtf & other export formats?
3) will your app never be more than iText or change its name to do more than just text on iPhone?! well then, if it does specialize in something as specific as that on iPhone, why can it not really be a Text app & since it’s a desktop app allow user to type SMS messages in your app to then beam to iPhone only for Sending in 1 click, conveniently…?!
4) what is your goal with iText 1.0? what other features are you planning? should one wait to use your app or look at competition…?
thanks for your efforts so far, though ; )
good luck,
rolf
November 5th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Stephan S,
Yes this is possible.
November 24th, 2008 at 2:48 am
hi! launch the itext but it crash everytime. can’t it work. i’m using iphone 3G.
January 20th, 2009 at 5:23 am
Zach,
I love you App; But I wanted to let you know of a few things I have encountered.
the over all txt log is about 10,300 messages and although almost every conversation I can view as designed ; there are two histories that I cannot view, presumable because they are the larger SMS histories. I have been able to bring up every other message archive and note with the exception of these said two. I get the pinwheel and the fan kicks in, and then I get an unexpected application quit message.
I have tried using this on two machines (G5 10.5 and 6.5Gb ram and a Intel macboob with 3Gb of ram) and installed it numerous times, repaired permissions, restarted and tried starting this app as the first thing after a reboot and still does the same thing.
Not sure if you have experienced any of this before but if you need more info, please feel free to contact me.
March 23rd, 2009 at 8:00 am
Hi! I can access to itext, but why is it that for some recipients, their SMSes and my replies come in nicely in a conversation flow, but for some, their names will be displayed as 2 names and 1 stores their SMSes, and another name stores my replies to them. any way that i can have all my contacts having the conversation flow? thanks.
and it’ll be nice if i can configure the font size and colour myself. thanks!
April 6th, 2009 at 10:10 am
Every time I launch it it crashes…..like William I’m using the iPhone 3G with Itunes 8.1….Mac
May 6th, 2009 at 1:26 am
hi is there a limit to the amount of messages it shows because it does not load any of my current text messages?
thanks
July 13th, 2009 at 1:29 am
Hi - Like the idea a lot however the app doesn’t see my iphone when it is connected by a cable. I’m running Iphone 3.0 and 10.5.7? Help!
What I am really looking for is an app that does the following:
1. Runs in the background on the mac, or maybe on the toolbar.
2. When the iphone gets a text, it pops up an Ichat bubble with the person’s picture, name and message.
3. If I click on the message, I can then respond back; when I click, the app will show me recent conversation.
4. Backs up all iPhone text messages on the Mac, so that I can search them if I want, or just scroll through them by user.
5. Operates wirelessly, ie the Mac will ’see’ the phone either through bluetooth or - better - wifi.
6. Secure.
Any thoughts? The reason for this: it is totally stupid that every time I get a text message at my desk, I have to stop, pick up the phone, potentially respond, and then continue to work. Much better to have the whole thing on screen at the same time.
Bluephone Elite has some excellent functionality - including logging SMS into iCal, which I thought was a cool feature.
gb
July 27th, 2009 at 10:29 am
Will this app work if my iphone is linked to my work’s outlook exchange server? I’ve launched the app and it recognizes my iphone, but message window is empty.
thanks for your help!
August 12th, 2009 at 11:12 am
where can you download this? has it been taken offline? the google code link shows nothing
August 18th, 2009 at 7:13 am
Hi
Just downloaded this program and it wont recognize my Iphone.
Any Ideas??
Cheers
August 19th, 2009 at 9:03 am
Ok it has finally seen that my iphone is recognised.
It just wont see the txt messages in the software! Am going spare any ideas??
Cheers!