
The only difference between the two, is that the free trial limits the amount of things you can recover. There’s a trial version, so you can see if it solves your needs before buying the full version. However if you don’t have a Mac, or if your backup is an iOS 7 backup, then you’re out of luck with this app.
The SuperCrazyAwesome app does get the job done. Using this software you will be able to decode databases that store call history, SMS messages and Notes. It is free and works for iOS 6 and under backups.
SuperCrazyAwesome is a Mac OS X only app that will recover data from iDevice backups. Extracting Data From Backups Using SuperCrazyAwesome Once you’ve found the backup folder, just right click it and paste it somewhere else, like your desktop, to make a copy of it.
Then in the “Run” dialog that comes up, type in %appdata% and hit enter.
On Windows Vista and 7 you can quickly open the “AppData” folder by holding CTRL and R at the same time. For Windows Vista and Windows 7, look here: \Users\(username)\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\. For Windows XP, then you need to look here: \Documents and Settings\(username)\Application Data\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\. If you use a Mac, then your backups will be stored here: ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/. Something else you could do is backup your backup files, so that even if they get overwritten by iTunes, you will still have the original copies. You should use the tools listed below to extract data from your backup, before you sync the backup to your iPhone. Before you do anything else you need to know this: Do not try to sync an old backup onto your iPhone, because the backup might be overwritten and anything instead could be lost forever. If you need to restore iPhone data from an iTunes backup file, then this article will guide you through the different solutions that exist for this purpose.