Open LINE files in your browser
The chat history LINE saves as a text file, read back as the conversation. Open it right here, each day and each person in place. Nothing leaves your device.
Or drop it anywhere on this page
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 LINE
LINE is the chat app most people use in Japan, Thailand and Taiwan. Its Export chat history saves a chat as a text file named like [LINE] Chat with Ben.txt: a line for each day, and a line for each message with its time, its sender and its text apart by tabs, in the phone's own language.
People export a chat to keep it when they change phones, or to hand it on. LINE doesn't read the file back, and a text editor shows a long run of tabs and times, with no way to tell at a glance who wrote what.
Filepeek reads it into bubbles, each person in a color, with each day's date, calls and missed calls, in the dates of every language LINE writes. The export keeps no photos or stickers, only marks where they were sent, which show in place. Search counts every match, Stats shows who wrote how much and when, and Export saves the chat as PDF, CSV or text.
LINE chat history
.txt
Format
- MIME type
- text/plain
- Made by
- LINE's Export chat history
Inside the file
- Format
- Plain text, a line a message
- Each line
- Time, sender and text, apart by tabs
- Media
- Not kept, only marks
- Written by
- LINE on iPhone and Android
Opens in every browser
Filepeek opens LINE's chat histories 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 LINE
- 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 LINE chat?
Open the chat, tap the menu at the top right, then Settings and Export chat history. LINE saves a text file you can keep in your files or send to yourself.
Why are my photos missing?
LINE's text export keeps only a mark where each photo, video or sticker was sent, not the files. Filepeek shows those marks in place, so you see what was sent when.
Does it read a Japanese or Thai chat?
Yes. Filepeek reads the dates LINE writes in Japanese, Thai, Chinese, Korean, Indonesian and English, and the chat's own words, whatever the phone's language.