Open SMS Backup & Restore files in your browser
The texts SMS Backup & Restore saved from an Android phone, read back as your conversations. Open the backup right here, photos and all. 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 SMS Backup & Restore
SMS Backup & Restore is how many Android owners keep their texts and calls when they change phones. It saves every text as sms-<date>.xml, with MMS photos, videos and voice notes inside in base64, and the call log beside it as calls-<date>.xml, on the phone, a computer or a cloud drive.
Only the app reads its backups, and only to restore them onto a phone. Opened anywhere else, the XML is a wall of tags and base64, and a backup with years of photos runs to gigabytes.
Filepeek reads it in slices, so a backup of any size opens, into a conversation for each contact or group, with the MMS photos and videos in place and the calls dropped with it in each number's chat. A call log on its own opens as a table, a row for each call. Search counts every match, Stats shows who wrote how much and when, and Export saves a conversation as PDF, CSV or text.
SMS Backup & Restore backup
.xml
Format
- MIME type
- application/xml
- Made by
- SyncTech's SMS Backup & Restore
Inside the file
- Format
- XML, a tag a text
- MMS
- Photos and videos in base64
- Calls
- In calls-<date>.xml beside it
- Written by
- SMS Backup & Restore on Android
Opens in every browser
Filepeek opens SMS Backup & Restore backups in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari, however big. On their own, browsers show the XML as tags, and a big one stalls the tab.
- YouChromeOpens through Filepeek
- YouEdgeOpens through Filepeek
- YouFirefoxOpens through Filepeek
- YouSafariOpens through Filepeek
Apps that open SMS Backup & Restore
- WindowsNo app reads it back
- MacNo app reads it back
- iPhone and iPadNo app opens it
- AndroidSMS Backup & Restore, only to restore it
Questions
How do I read my SMS backup on a computer?
Copy sms-<date>.xml from the phone, or from Google Drive or Dropbox if the app saved it there, and drop it here. Drop calls-<date>.xml with it to see each number's calls in its conversation.
Why is my backup so big?
Every MMS photo and video is inside the XML in base64, which takes a third more room than the photo. Filepeek reads it in slices, so a backup of several gigabytes still opens.
Can I see my call log?
Yes. Drop calls-<date>.xml on its own and it opens as a table, a row for each call with its time, type, number, name and length, sorted and searched like a spreadsheet.
Can I print or save my texts?
Yes. Open a conversation, choose Export, then Save as PDF for a copy to print, or CSV for a spreadsheet.