Comparison

Chat Keeper vs WhatStats

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Chat Keeper

Securely back up your WhatsApp conversations and analyze their content. This utility provides insights into message and media counts, along with basic chat statistics. It offers passcode or biometric protection for your imported chats.

Highlights
  • Import WhatsApp chats
  • Passcode/biometric chat protection
  • Message and media count
  • Basic chat statistics
  • Copy & paste chats
Features
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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.

About

WhatStats

Analyze your WhatsApp chat history with detailed statistics and visualizations. Discover message patterns, emoji usage, and create shareable summaries of your conversations. Offers a Spotify Wrapped-style experience for your chats.

Highlights
  • Track message counts and participants
  • Analyze messages per participant
  • Visualize message activity over time
  • Spotify Wrapped-style chat summaries
  • Emoji usage patterns and favorites
  • Dark mode and intuitive UI
Features
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Turn any chat into a Wrapped-style recap. WhatStats analyzes the chats you export and shows who talks the most, who replies fastest, your favorite emojis, and when your chat is most active. FREE vs PRO: your first chat analysis is free. WhatStats Pro (one-time purchase or weekly subscription) unlocks unlimited analyses and the full Wrapped story. NEW: CHAT WRAPPED • A cinematic story of your chat, slide by slide • Total messages and messages per day • Who starts the most conversations • Who takes the longest to reply • Your chat's "ghosting champions" • Emoji favorites and usage patterns • Most active hours and your chat timeline • Share images or export your Wrapped as a video STATISTICS • Total messages and participants per chat • Messages and share of messages per participant • Date of the first message • Charts by day, week, month and hour PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your chats are analyzed on your device. Chat contents are never uploaded to a server. HOW TO IMPORT A CHAT 1. Open the chat in WhatsApp 2. Tap the chat name, then "Export Chat" 3. Choose "Without Media" 4. In the share sheet, choose WhatStats WHATSTATS PRO Unlock the full Wrapped story, unlimited analyses, emoji analysis, share images and video export with a one-time purchase or a weekly subscription. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://julianbeck.notion.site/Privacy-Policy-for-WhatStats-15696d29972e801597d8ecd2faa8a25e WhatStats is an independent app and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by WhatsApp or Meta Platforms, Inc.

Screenshots

Chat Keeper4 screens
WhatStats4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Chat Keeper at 4.2 against WhatStats's 2.8. Chat Keeper also leads on review sentiment (56% vs 18%) and in-app purchases (none vs 2). On price, update cadence, ads and monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. WhatStats sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Chat Keeper asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Chat Keeper holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 2.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Chat Keeper has 58 ratings behind it against 9, 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 18% of WhatStats's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 6 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Chat Keeper versus WhatStats: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChat KeeperWhatStats
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (58 ratings) — better2.8 (9 ratings)
Positive reviews56.3% of reviews — better18.2% of reviews
Number of ratings58 — better9
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size57 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRBT Digital LLCJulian Beck

Customer experience

Chat Keeper

All ratings58 ratings
Positive81.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative19.0%
Written reviews16 reviews
Positive56.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative43.8%

WhatStats

All ratings9 ratings
Positive44.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative55.6%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive18.2%
Neutral27.3%
Negative54.5%

In-app purchases

None

Chat Keeper

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

WhatStats

Subscriptions1
  • WhatsStats Pro Weekly$4.997 Days
One-time1
  • WhatStats Pro$14.99

Questions

Is Chat Keeper free?
Chat Keeper is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is WhatStats free?
WhatStats is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Chat Keeper or WhatStats?
Chat Keeper is rated higher. Chat Keeper averages 4.2 out of 5 from 58 ratings, while WhatStats averages 2.8 from 9 ratings.
Do Chat Keeper or WhatStats have ads?
Neither Chat Keeper nor WhatStats shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Chat Keeper or WhatStats?
Chat Keeper ships an update every 6 weeks, and WhatStats every 6 weeks. Most recently, Chat Keeper was updated on October 24, 2026 and WhatStats on October 24, 2026.

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