With WALTR 2, you can transfer files to multiple devices at once. Given that each generation of Apple devices has its own protocol language of sorts, this was clearly a massive undertaking on their part just to ensure WALTR 2 works with the entire lineup of mobile Apple gear. If you needed an excuse to blow the dust off your favorite iPod, this might be it.įor those wondering, Softorino tells me that it took them four years to figure out how every single Apple device works. Unlike its predecessor, WALTR 2 supports every single mobile device from Apple, from the original iPod of 2001 to the latest iPhone 7. If WALTR 2 fails to detect an iOS device via Wi-Fi, connect it to iTunes, uncheck “Sync with this phone over Wi-Fi,” click Apply, re-enable the box and hit Apply again. For those wondering, Softorino’s app actually uses the same underlying wireless transfer engine as the Wi-Fi syncing feature in iTunes.Īnother intelligent feature, called advanced connection stitching, allows disconnecting of a USB cable while files are being transferred because the app will automatically resume your connection via Wi-Fi, if available. The app supports wireless upload speeds of up to five megabytes per second, which works out to about two gigabytes per minute. Thanks to its zero-configuration Wi-Fi networking support, WALTR 2 automatically and seamlessly connects to any Wi-Fi enabled iOS devices around you. Video is better than a thousand words: watch Softorino’s promotional clip for WALTR 2. On-the-fly video and audio conversion ensures that your lossless originals remain lossless when converted into iOS-friendly formats. The engine is so fast that it could fool you into believing something went wrong and nothing was transferred. Unplug and you’re ready to go-at no point are you required to go through iTunes, jailbreak your device or use additional apps. Heck, the app may even give you a plausible reason to use Apple’s Videos app!Īs soon as the app finishes processing and transferring the files, you get a message saying where to find the content on your device. In other words, WALTR 2 makes your content look like it was purchased from the iTunes Store. Simply drag-and-drop files like songs, videos, PDFs or ePUBs onto the app’s window or click Select Files to manually navigate to a folder containing the files you’d like to convert and transfer to your mobile device.Īfter scanning each movie, music file or TV show, WALTR 2 fills in missing metadata such as names, genres, cover artworks, episode descriptions, synopsis, actor/artist information, track list and so forth before adapting the file format for your device.Ĭalled Automatic Content Recognition, this makes a visible change to the way you see your content in the stock Videos app. Once it’s found, your device is ready to accept any media files put on WALTR’s drop zone.ĭrag and dropping a mixture of media files poses no problem to WALTR 2. Just launch the app and connect your Apple device to your computer’s USB port or have the Mac and your iOS device connect over the air automatically as long as they’re both on the same Wi-Fi network. WALTR 2 is your universal drop area for pushing virtually any content into any Apple device. It uses automatic metadata recognition that works perfectly, gives you the ability to transfer media to your device wirelessly, supports PDF and ePUB file formats and much, much more. And boy, does it fly: in my tests, WALTR transcoded a 2.64-gigabyte MKV file on my 1.3 GHz Intel Core i5 mid-2013 MacBook Air into an iOS-friendly format and sent it over USB to my iPhone 6 in under two minutes.īuilding on this remarkable engine, WALTR 2 is now available with new features like support for more than two-dozen legacy iPod models and other devices starting from iOS 5. I raved about WALTR in my review, underscoring how its drag-and-drop simplicity allows just about anyone to bypass the mess that is iTunes. Softorino, a purely European crew packed with talented developers, recently released WALTR 2 as a successor to the original app that’s captured more than 500,000 downloads worldwide in just under 20 months since its debut.Ī well-deserved success, if you ask me, because WALTR made it super easy to convert audio and video files encoded in “foreign” formats, such as DivX/MKV movies with subtitles and FLAC audio files, without requiring a jailbreak.
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