WALTR PRO 4.0.122 — Mac version

You've got a folder of FLAC albums from a mate, and a film in MKV that won't open on your iPad. Normally you'd mess about with converters and iTunes sync. WALTR PRO takes a different route — you just drag the file in, and it lands in the right app on your device, ready to play.

Three jobs it does well

• Bypass the format headache. It reads MP3, MP4, AVI, CUE, WMA, M4R, AAC, M4V, M4A, FLAC, ALAC and MKV. Whatever you throw in gets converted to a file your iPhone or iPad understands, no settings to tweak.
• Put files where they belong. Music lands in the iOS Music app. Films land in Movies. You don't hunt for them afterwards.
• Talk to old hardware. It supports every iPhone, iPad and iPod Softorino has tested, right back to the original iPod Classic with its click wheel.

A quick word on compatibility

The app needs a 64-bit Intel Mac running macOS 10.13 or later. It's English-only, and the interface stays out of your way — open it, drag a file, and the transfer begins. No syncing, no library management, just a direct pipe from your Mac to your device.

Picture a drama teacher who's dug up a rare radio play from an old CD-R — four WMA tracks and a cue sheet. She needs them on her iPad for tomorrow's rehearsal, but iOS won't touch WMA, and the CD-ROM drive in her seven-year-old MacBook sounds like a washing machine full of gravel. She drags the whole folder onto WALTR PRO, and five minutes later the play sits in the Music app as separate tracks, titles intact. The cue sheet gets ignored automatically — WALTR PRO only grabs what's playable — so she doesn't have to explain to a roomful of teenagers why a text file is clogging up their playlist. That's the thing with this app: it solves one specific problem so you can get back to what you were actually trying to do.

Drag an M4R file and skip the manual ringtone placement

• Drop a ringtone, get a ringtone. The M4R format support doesn't just mean you can transfer custom alert sounds — it means WALTR PRO recognises the file type and sends it straight to the Ringtones section, not the general music library. If you've ever spent twenty minutes trying to locate a transferred ringtone in Settings, this is a quiet blessing.
• No cable? No problem. After the first wired connection — which you only need once to get the device recognised — everything else happens over Wi-Fi. The app remembers your device and shows it as a target whenever it's on the same network.
• Automatic metadata tidy-up. WALTR PRO pulls embedded tags from FLAC and other files, so album art and track ordering carry across without you filling in gaps by hand.

Workflow: moving an MKV film to an iPad

1. Launch WALTR PRO and unlock your iPad. The app detects it within a couple of seconds and shows the device name in the main window.
2. Grab your MKV file from Finder and drag it into the drop zone. No dialogue boxes pop up — the transfer starts immediately.
3. A subtle progress ring circles the device icon. For a two-hour film, conversion and transfer take roughly the same time as boiling a kettle on a decent home network.
4. Open the TV app (or Movies, on older iOS versions) on the iPad. The film appears right at the top of your library, ready to play.

If the film includes subtitles embedded in the MKV container, WALTR PRO keeps them. Hard-coded or soft — both show up without extra steps, which is a proper timesaver when you're settled on the sofa and don't fancy digging through menus.

• macOS 10.13 or later
• 64-bit Intel processor