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The chat WhatsApp's Export chat saves, read back as the conversation it was. Open it right here, with its photos and voice notes. 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 WhatsApp
WhatsApp's Export chat, in a chat's menu, saves the conversation as a text file: a line for each message, starting with its date, time and sender, in the phone's own order of day and month. An iPhone zips it as _chat.txt, with the photos, videos and voice notes when you pick Attach Media, and Android shares the text with the files beside it.
People export chats to keep them before they change phones or leave a group, or to hand them to a lawyer or an employer. But WhatsApp never reads an export back, and in a text editor years of messages are a wall of dates. An export holds at most the latest 40,000 messages, or 10,000 with media.
Filepeek reads every line, in any locale's order of date and time, into bubbles, each person in a color, with the days between them. Photos, stickers, videos and voice notes open from the ZIP, or from the files dropped with the text, Search counts every match, a date jumps to its day, Stats shows who wrote how much and when, and Export saves the chat as PDF, CSV or text.
WhatsApp chat export
.txt • .zip • .sqlite
Format
- MIME type
- text/plain
- Made by
- WhatsApp's Export chat
Inside the file
- Each line
- Date, time, sender and message
- Media
- Beside the text, or in a ZIP with it
- Dates
- In the phone's own order
- Written by
- WhatsApp on iPhone and Android
Opens in every browser
Filepeek opens WhatsApp chats in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari, however long the chat. On their own, browsers show the text as lines and only download the ZIP.
- YouChromeOpens through Filepeek
- YouEdgeOpens through Filepeek
- YouFirefoxOpens through Filepeek
- YouSafariOpens through Filepeek
Apps that open WhatsApp
- 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 • WhatsApp only restores backups
- AndroidNo app reads it back • WhatsApp only restores backups
Questions
How do I export a WhatsApp chat?
Open the chat and tap its name, then Export Chat on an iPhone, or open its menu, then More and Export chat on Android. Pick Attach Media or Include media to keep the photos and voice notes.
Why don't my photos show?
A chat exported without media only says where each one was. Export it again with media, then drop the ZIP, or the text with its files, on this page.
Can I put an exported chat back into WhatsApp?
No. WhatsApp only restores its own backups, from iCloud or Google Drive, never an export. Filepeek reads the export as it is.
Can it read WhatsApp from an iPhone backup?
Yes. Drop the backup's folder on this page and pick WhatsApp on its page, an encrypted backup with its password. Its chats open from ChatStorage.sqlite with their photos and voice notes. Android keeps WhatsApp's chats encrypted with a key only the phone has, so its msgstore.db.crypt files stay shut.
Can I save the chat as a PDF?
Yes. Choose Export, then Save as PDF, and the conversation prints with its days and names. Save as CSV gives a row for each message.