Read, search and save your WhatsApp chats

Drop a chat you exported from WhatsApp and read it like the app, with photos, search and a clean PDF.

Drop your WhatsApp chat export hereThe .zip (with media) or the .txt file. You can drop several exports of one chat.

Your file is processed on your device and never uploaded to our servers.

How to get your file →

Read it like the app

Chat bubbles with your messages on the right, date separators, photos and videos from the zip, playable voice notes, and right-to-left text shown the right way round.

Find anything

Search every message with highlighted results, jump straight to a result or to a date, and see who talks most, the busiest days and hours, and the most-used emoji.

Keep a copy

Save the chat as a PDF (chat bubbles or a plain transcript, with photos and page numbers), a single HTML file, CSV or Markdown.

How it works

In WhatsApp, open the chat and choose Export chat (step-by-step for Android and iPhone). With media gives you photos too; without media is smaller.
Drop the .zip or .txt file above. No need to unzip it.
Pick your name so your messages show on the right, then read, search, look at the stats or export.

Android and iPhone exports in any language work: ChatReader works out the date and time format by itself and asks you if a date like 01/02 could mean either day or month. What's inside an export.

Free and paid

Reading, search and stats are free for chats up to 30,000 messages. A one-time $4.99 unlock adds PDF, HTML, CSV and Markdown exports, longer chats and merging several exports of the same chat. No subscription. Questions?