WhatsApp chat viewer Read an exported WhatsApp chat as a proper conversation — photos, voice notes and all — search it, and save it as a PDF, entirely in your browser
Drag & drop the exported chat here — the .zip, or the .txt — or browse
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From iPhone or Android, in any language · nothing is uploaded
How do I export a chat from WhatsApp? Open the chat, tap the contact's or group's name at the top, scroll down and choose Export chat . Pick Attach media to include photos and voice notes, then save or send the file it makes to this device. On Android it is under ⋮ > More > Export chat.
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About this WhatsApp chat viewer WhatsApp's Export chat makes a plain text file, plus the photos, videos and voice notes as loose files beside it - fine for a computer, hard for a person to read. This puts it back together as the conversation it was: bubbles, names in colour, a heading for each day, and the pictures, videos and voice notes where they were sent, playable in the page.
A long chat opens at its first message, with Latest message a click away; search finds any word, link or file name across the whole history, and the date picker jumps straight to a day. PDF / CSV prints the chat or saves it as a PDF, photos included - all of it, or just a range of days, or just one person's messages - and saves the same messages as a CSV spreadsheet. Useful for keeping a record of a conversation, or for handing one to a solicitor, an insurer or a court.
The printout's header states exactly what it holds: the days chosen, whose messages, whether system notices are in, how many of the chat's messages were printed, the export file it came from, and when it was printed. Only the photos in those messages are printed. With one person chosen, a line marks each place where other people's messages were left out, and messages kept for context are marked "context". With "Include the other side's replies", each of that person's messages brings the message just before it and up to five of other people's messages after it, until the person writes again. System notices (someone joined or left, the encryption notice) are left out unless ticked. Pages are numbered "Page 1 of 12" in Chrome and Edge; in other browsers, turn on Headers and footers in the print dialog for page numbers. Times are as the export wrote them, by the phone's clock.
What you can do Read an exported WhatsApp chat as chat bubbles, with names in colour and a heading for each day Photos, videos and voice notes shown where they were sent, and playable in the page Open the ZIP from Export chat, with or without media, or the TXT on its own with its media files chosen alongside Chats exported from iPhone or Android, in any language and date format Search every word, link or file name in the chat Jump to any date, or to the first or latest message Choose whose messages sit on the right Message counts per person, the date range and how many files were left out of the export Save the whole chat as a PDF, or print it, photos included - or only a range of days, or only one person's messages, with or without the other side's replies Save the same messages as a CSV for Excel: date, time, sender, message, media file name and notes (system notice, context, deleted, edited, media not in the export); dates and times written as 2023-08-06 and 18:42:07 (seconds only when the export has them: iPhone exports do, Android ones do not); accents and emoji kept; text starting with = + - or @ gets an apostrophe in front so a spreadsheet shows it rather than running it as a formula, and so does a message, name or file name that is nothing but a number or a date (07700900123, 1/2, 2026-01-02), so it stays exactly as typed rather than being turned into a number or a date; CSV of the whole chat takes every message and notice, whatever is chosen Deleted and edited messages marked (in English, German, French, Spanish and Italian exports), and media missing from the export shown by name Not the encrypted WhatsApp backups (.crypt14 and similar), which only WhatsApp can restore How to read an exported WhatsApp chat In WhatsApp, open the chat, tap its name, and choose Export chat - with Attach media if you want the photos and voice notes. Drop the .zip it makes onto this page, or click to choose it. Choose whose messages sit on the right, search, jump to a date, or press PDF / CSV to print, save a PDF or save a CSV of the chat - or of the days and person you choose. Questions
Is it safe to open a private WhatsApp chat here? Yes. The chat is unzipped and read by your own browser and never sent anywhere - there is no server that sees it and nothing is stored after you close the tab. You can check in your browser’s developer tools: the Network tab shows nothing of the chat being sent. The .zip is unpacked by the browser’s own built-in decompression, so no library is downloaded for it either.
How do I save a WhatsApp chat as a PDF? Open the export here, press PDF / CSV, then Print or save PDF, and choose Save as PDF as the printer. The whole chat is laid out with its dates, names, times and photos, however long it is - or, after choosing From and To days or one person, just those messages.
Why are some photos missing? Either the chat was exported Without media, in which case those messages say the media was not included, or WhatsApp left some out, since it limits how much a single export can carry. The files that are missing show by name, so they can be found on the phone and saved separately.
Can it open a WhatsApp backup from Google Drive or iCloud? No. Those backups are encrypted with a key only WhatsApp holds, and are meant to be restored into the app, not read. Export chat is the way to get a readable copy of a conversation out of WhatsApp. What if the phone is gone but there is an iTunes or Finder backup? An iPhone backup made on a computer holds WhatsApp's chats too. Open it in the iPhone Backup Viewer and choose the WhatsApp tab: every chat is there, with its photos and voice notes, with no export needed.