iPhone Explorer is a completely free software for your iPhone and iPod Touch. It provides 2 basic functions:
Create Free Ringtones for your iPhone
iPhone Explorer lets you directly and easily create ringtones for your iPhone. To create a ringtone, simply select any audio file from your local computer or your iPhone music archive. The audio file can be in MP3, WAV, AIFF and M4A format. Just use the ringtone editor feature of iPhone Explorer, and convert your favorite song to ringtone. It is extremely easy way to create free ringtones for iPhone.
Use your iPhone and iPod Touch as Flash Drive
iPhone and iPod Touch come with a good amount of storage space. However, it is quite difficult to use them as a Flash drive to store your documents and files. iPhone Explorer provides a way to use iPhone and iPod touch as Flash Drive. iPhone Explorer lets you directly access file system of iPhone and iPod Touch. This enables you to directly upload and download files of any format to your iPhone. You can even directly access the photos directory, and copy photos.
iPhone Explorer provides good features that are missing in iTunes. It is completely free, and intuitive to use. If you are looking for a replacement for iTunes, you can try SharePod for Windows and GtkPod for Linux.