Chat Keeper vs Chat Export Viewer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Import WhatsApp chats
- Passcode/biometric chat protection
- Message and media count
- Basic chat statistics
- Copy & paste chats
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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.
Chat Export Viewer
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Chat Export Viewer opens WhatsApp exported chats on your phone — privately, offline, and without uploading anything to the cloud. SAVE SPACE, SKIP THE CLOUD BILL Cloud backups fill up fast, and extra storage gets expensive. Import a WhatsApp export, then keep it as a compact ZIP or TXT on your device. Bundle every chat into one space-saving ZIP — already-compressed chats stay nested without wasteful re-packing, so you avoid duplicate bulk. Same history, much smaller footprint — no monthly cloud plan required. IMPORT YOUR EXPORT • Open .zip or .txt files from a WhatsApp export • Import a multi-chat ZIP (or the app’s all-chats backup) in one go • Re-import updates existing chats when there are new messages — skips duplicates READ LIKE A CHAT • Familiar bubbles, timestamps, and date separators • Search, filters, and jump to a date • Photos, videos, audio, and PDF previews • Reply quotes and photo captions in the same bubble ORGANIZE & SHARE • Media and documents gallery • Multi-select to copy or share messages and attachments • Export one chat as compressed ZIP or lightweight TXT; PDF export with Premium • Export all chats as a single re-importable ZIP backup PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account required • Your chats stay on your device • Interface in 24 languages Premium unlocks PDF export and an ad-free experience. Chat Export Viewer is an independent app and is not affiliated with WhatsApp or Meta. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://github.com/KennyHacrt/chat-export-viewer-privacy/blob/master/PRIVACY_POLICY.md
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Chat Keeper at none against Chat Export Viewer's 3. Chat Keeper also leads on ads (none vs shown). Chat Export Viewer's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 6 weeks). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. Chat Export Viewer sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Chat Keeper asks for nothing beyond the download.
Chat Keeper ships an update every 6 weeks, Chat Export Viewer weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Chat Keeper | Chat Export Viewer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (58 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 56.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 58 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 57 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | RBT Digital LLC | Ming Hin Lee |
In-app purchases
Chat Keeper
No in-app purchases
Chat Export Viewer
- Premium Monthly$1.991 Month
- Premium Annual$8.991 Year
- Premium Lifetime$14.99
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