Anapod Explorer is a proprietary application for content management on Apple iPods, made by Red Chair Software. It is designed to be streamlined along the Windows interface, allowing users to bypass iTunes by presenting the Windows-formatted iPod as a special drive icon on "My Computer." Besides the management features that it shares with iTunes, it also offers the possibility to transfer to the iPod audio files in formats other than those supported by it by transcoding them before they are copied, as well as retriving them back from the iPod to a hard drive in an easy manner. (See Comparison of iPod Managers).