Anapod Explorer is a full-fledged Windows management application for your iPod. Anapod can copy and backup your iPod's music and playlists back to the PC and integrates your iPod into Windows Explorer as a device under My Computer, providing a familiar Explorer interface to transfer and manage on-board music, playlists, contacts, notes, and more. Also includes the built-in AnapodSQL database and the unique Anapod Xtreamer web-based streaming interface. Anapod can be used just for backup or as an iTunes alternative.

License: Commercial $25, free trial available with limited features.
Requirements: Supports all iPod models on Windows 98/ME/2000/XP.

CopyGear for Mac OS X is an application for backing up and transferring content from your iPod back to your Mac's hard drive and into iTunes. CopyGear has a familiar, easy-to-use interface for selecting tracks and playlists on your iPod to be copied, includes detailed progress information on transfers, and provides options for folder and filename generation. CopyGear is a Universal Binary that runs on both PowerPC and Intel-based Macs.

License: $15, free trial available with limited features.
Requirements: Supports all iPod models on Mac OS X 10.2 or higher.

PodUtil is an easy-to-use utility for viewing the songs on your iPod and copying them in a customisable organised manner to your computer, and will automatically add them to iTunes and rebuild your playlists if you wish.

License: Shareware $5.00
Requirements: Mac OS 9 or above with CarbonLib and Quicktime

gtkpod is a platform independent GUI for Apple's iPod using GTK2. It allows you to upload songs and playlists to your iPod. It supports ID3 tag editing, multiple charsets for ID3 tags, detects duplicate songs, allows offline modification of the database with later synchronisation, and more.

License: Freeware
Requirements: Linux