If you used to use an iPod Touch for all of your music, but have an Android phone, maybe you'd like to carry only one device. With your iPod, you can just use iTunes to sync, organize and manage music, but there's no one app that lets you manage everything on an Android phone. What apps can you use to get close to iTunes for your Android phone?
The fact that you're not locked into one application to manage your Android device is both a strength and a weakness.
While using iTunes with an iOS device is certainly an easy and straightforward way to managing your device, one of the strengths of using an Android device is that you're not dependent on one company to give you that all-in-one solution.
Several developers have their own mobile and desktop companion apps to help you manage your Android phone.
While there's no exact feature-for-feature duplicate of iTunes for Android, there are plenty of apps that get you most of the way there. Here are a few of them.
The fact that you're not locked into one application to manage your Android device is both a strength and a weakness.While using iTunes with an iOS device is certainly an easy and straightforward way to managing your device, one of the strengths of using an Android device is that you're not dependent on one company to give you that all-in-one solution.
Several developers have their own mobile and desktop companion apps to help you manage your Android phone.
While there's no exact feature-for-feature duplicate of iTunes for Android, there are plenty of apps that get you most of the way there. Here are a few of them.
DoubleTwist
The app is free and available for Windows and Mac, and gives you a single app to use to manage the music you sync to your device, playlists you've created, podcasts you've downloaded, photos and videos you have on your Android phone and even the apps you have installed.
You can also use DoubleTwist on your desktop as a jukebox app, just like iTunes if you're looking for an app that will manage your media on your computer and your phone.
The beauty of DoubleTwist is that it supports every Android device and works on virtually any computer. The mobile app gives you a robust media player and media management app that you can use to listen to music and podcasts, watch video and more on the go. The mobile and the desktop apps don't need each other — you can use one without the other — but they work best together.
With the $4.99 AirSync add-on, you can sync your media wirelessly with your desktop without having to physically connect your Android phone to it first.
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