Open KakaoTalk files in your browser
A KakaoTalk chat saved as text, read back as the conversation. Open it right here, each day and each person in place. Nothing leaves your device.
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What you'll see
Your chat opens as its conversation, each message in a bubble in its sender's color, with the days, replies, reactions and calls, and the photos and voice notes the export holds.
- Every conversation • Each person in a color of their own
- Search • Every match counted, and a date jumps to its day
- Stats • Who wrote how much, by hour, weekday and month
- Export • Save as PDF, CSV or text
About KakaoTalk
KakaoTalk is the chat app nearly everyone in South Korea uses. Each chat room can export its messages as a text file: the room's name and the day it was saved, then a line for each message, written one way by Android and the PC app and another by the iPhone.
People export a chat to keep it when they change phones, to save a group's plans or to hand a conversation on. KakaoTalk doesn't read the file back, and in a text editor the lines run together, dates and names mixed in with the words.
Filepeek reads every kind into bubbles, each person in a color, with each day's date, in KakaoTalk's Korean and English dates. Photos aren't in the text, only the word for them, which shows where each was sent. Search counts every match, Stats shows who wrote how much and when, and Export saves the chat as PDF, CSV or text.
KakaoTalk chat export
.txt
Format
- MIME type
- text/plain
- Made by
- KakaoTalk's Export Chats
Inside the file
- Format
- Plain text, a line a message
- Each line
- Sender, time and text
- Media
- Not kept in the text
- Written by
- KakaoTalk on phones and PCs
Opens in every browser
Filepeek opens KakaoTalk's chat exports in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari, however long the chat. On their own, browsers show them as plain text.
- YouChromeOpens through Filepeek
- YouEdgeOpens through Filepeek
- YouFirefoxOpens through Filepeek
- YouSafariOpens through Filepeek
Apps that open KakaoTalk
- WindowsNo app reads it back • Notepad shows its lines
- MacNo app reads it back • TextEdit shows its lines
- iPhone and iPadNo app reads it back
- AndroidNo app reads it back
Questions
How do I export a KakaoTalk chat?
Open the chat room's settings from its menu and pick Export Chats. KakaoTalk saves the messages as a text file, which you can keep or send to yourself.
Why are my photos missing?
The text export keeps only the word for each photo or video, not the file. Filepeek shows those words where they were sent.
Does it read Korean chats?
Yes. Filepeek reads the dates KakaoTalk writes in Korean and in English, from Android, the iPhone and the PC app, and the chat's own words as they were written.