Chat Keeper vs Files Protection
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Chat Keeper
This app provides a private, offline archive for your WhatsApp conversations. It allows you to import chats, making them readable, searchable, and safe on your device long after they are gone from the original app. You can also analyze conversation patterns and export chats in various formats.
- Private WhatsApp chat archiving
- Offline access to conversations
- Searchable message history
- Media, links, and document browsing
- Conversation analytics
- Export chats as web pages, PDFs, or text
- App lock with Face ID/Touch ID
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Chat Keeper is a private archive for your WhatsApp conversations. Import a chat once and it is yours to keep — readable, searchable and safe on your own device, long after WhatsApp has moved on. Your chats stay on this device. They are never uploaded. ► KEEP CONVERSATIONS THAT MATTER Export a chat from WhatsApp, hand it to Chat Keeper, and it becomes a permanent, readable archive — messages, photos, videos, voice notes and documents, laid out the way you remember them. A step-by-step guide walks you through getting the file out of WhatsApp, for a single chat or a group. ► READS EXPORTS FROM ANY PHONE, IN ANY LANGUAGE It does not matter what language your phone is set to, whether the export came from an iPhone or an Android, or how old it is. If a chat would not import into an older version of Chat Keeper, try it again. ► READ IT LIKE A CHAT, NOT A TEXT FILE Bubbles, dates, and every participant in their own color. Bold, italic and struck-through text appears the way it was typed. Tap a photo to open it, play a voice note where it was sent. ► FIND ANYTHING Search inside a conversation and jump straight to the message. Browse everything that was ever sent as Media, Links or Documents. Open a chat's details to see when it started, how many messages it holds and who wrote most of them. ► BACK IT UP, TAKE IT WITH YOU Save your whole archive — every chat and every attachment — as a single file, and read it back onto a new phone. Keep that file wherever you like: on a computer, on a drive, in iCloud Drive. Protect it with a passphrase if you want to. ► EXPORT A SINGLE CHAT Share one conversation as a web page that opens in any browser with its photos and voice notes intact, as a PDF for printing, or as plain text small enough to email. Yours to keep, readable without this app. ► SEE THE SHAPE OF YOUR CONVERSATIONS When you talk, how quickly you reply, who gets in touch first, your longest streak and your longest silence, which emoji you actually use, and what was sent. ► LOCKED, AND OFFLINE BY DESIGN Lock the app with a passcode, and unlock it with Face ID or Touch ID. There is no account and no sync, and Chat Keeper never uploads your conversations: they are on your phone, and a backup file goes only where you put it. ► WORTH KNOWING BEFORE YOU BUY Chat Keeper reads the chat exports WhatsApp produces. It is a one-way street: a conversation you archive here can be read, searched, printed and exported, but it cannot be put back into WhatsApp, and no app can do that. It archives what you export — it does not recover messages that are already gone. ► SUPPORT If you have a question or a request, send us an e-mail. We answer, and if something is broken we fix it. --- If you find Chat Keeper useful, please tell a friend and leave a rating on the App Store. Thank you.
Files Protection
Securely manage, view, and download files on your iPhone or iPad. Protect your sensitive documents, photos, and videos with a passcode and enjoy a powerful media player and document viewer.
- Secure file management with passcode
- Document viewer for various formats
- Powerful media player
- File downloader with web browser
- Dark mode support
- File sharing via AirDrop
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Files Protection keeps your private photos, videos, music and documents in one place, behind a passcode or Face ID. Your files stay on your device, inside the app. • Passcode lock: 4 or 6 digits, a custom number or letters, with Face ID or Touch ID. The app locks again every time you leave it, and after 10 wrong passcodes it stays locked for a while. • A passcode for any folder, with a security question in case you forget it. • Folders in your own colors, grid or list, sorting and filters, hidden files and folders. • Move, copy, rename, share, unzip, select many items at once, copy and paste with the clipboard. • Add files from Photos, the camera (photos and videos), your music library, other apps ("Open in…") and the built-in browser with downloads, bookmarks and history. • View photos, play videos, listen to music in the background with shuffle, repeat and a mini player, and open PDFs and office documents. • Recent files, and a Trash that keeps deleted items for 30 days. • Light, dark or automatic appearance, on iPhone and iPad. Files Protection is free with ads. One in-app purchase removes the ads.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Chat Keeper at none against Files Protection's 1. Chat Keeper also leads on ads (none vs shown). Files Protection's advantage is rating (4.6 vs 4.2) and ratings volume (603 vs 58). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Files Protection sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Chat Keeper asks for nothing beyond the download.
Files Protection holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Files Protection has 603 ratings behind it against 58, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 56% of Chat Keeper's written reviews are positive against 58% of Files Protection's.
Chat Keeper ships an update every 3 weeks, Files Protection fortnightly. Both last shipped on November 11, 2026.
| Parameter | Chat Keeper | Files Protection |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (58 ratings) | 4.6 (603 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 56.3% of reviews | 58.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 58 | 603 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 56 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | RBT Digital LLC | Binh Tran |
Customer experience
Chat Keeper
Files Protection
Bugs and requests
Chat Keeper
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Files Protection
Reported bugs
10 issues- App crashes 7 seconds after launch
- Passcode authentication not working after updates
- App force closes unexpectedly
- Files disappear from app despite existing in device storage
- Video import from library not functioning
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- Touch ID feature disabled after updates
- App crashes when adding new photos/videos
- Password verification failing
- Files visible in iPhone Settings despite password protection
- App won't open after update notifications
Requested features
8 requests- Backup and restore functionality
- Password recovery option
- Touch ID/Biometric authentication support
- Dark mode
- GIF file support
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- USB transfer capability
- Cloud backup integration
- Ability to change forgotten passwords
In-app purchases
Chat Keeper
No in-app purchases
Files Protection
- Remove Advertisments$1.99
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