Comparison

Export Text Message to PDF,XLS vs Documented

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

Head to head
About

Export Text Message to PDF,XLS

Easily back up and export your text messages into PDF or Excel files. This app allows you to save and share your message history in a readable format, integrated with your device's file management system.

Highlights
  • Backup messages to PDF
  • Export messages to Excel
  • Save and share message history
  • Integrated with Files app
  • Edit message screenshots
Features
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You can back up all messages with PDF, Excel file formats, easily save and share it with everyone. Easy to reading your PDF or Excel file integrated with Files app. Step-by-step: Step 1: take a screenshot for all messages. Step 2: open app and click to edit your SMS / Message screenshots. Step 3: add your screenshots to the app and select backup with the desired file format. Term of Service: https://telegra.ph/Term-Of-Service-03-23 Privacy Policy: https://telegra.ph/Privacy-Policy-03-23-13 =========================== App Premium subscription options: =========================== Premium Access weekly - $2.99 per week Premium Access monthly - $6.99 per month Your Premium Membership subscription will automatically renew 24-hours prior to the end of each term (week or month correspondingly) and your card will be charged through your iTunes account. You can turn off auto-renewal at any time in your iTunes account settings, but refunds will not be provided for any unused period of the term.

About

Documented

This app securely logs parenting moments with automatic timestamps and optional location data. Entries are sealed to prevent tampering and can include notes, photos, and voice memos. An optional upgrade allows for secure PDF export for legal purposes.

Highlights
  • Sealed, timestamped entries
  • Log notes, photos, videos, voice memos
  • Automatic timestamp and GPS
  • Tamper-evident record keeping
  • Private by default, no account needed
  • Secure PDF export for legal sharing
Features
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Documented is a private record of how you show up for your kids. Log what happened (a handoff, a missed exchange, a first sentence, a doctor's visit) and it is sealed the second you save it. Time captured automatically. Place attached if you want it. Nothing you can quietly rewrite later, which is exactly what makes it worth something. WHY SEALED MATTERS A note you typed months after the fact is a memory. A record made at the time is a different thing. Every entry gets a SHA-256 fingerprint linked to the entry before it. Change one character and the chain no longer matches, and the app tells you. Edits can't be hidden. That's what tamper-evident means. Separately, each entry's fingerprint is sent to an independent Time-Stamping Authority, which signs a statement that it existed at that moment. The stamp is requested the moment the entry seals, and if your phone is offline it's obtained as soon as you reconnect. Only the fingerprint leaves your phone, never your words, your photos, your children's names, or where you were. A fingerprint can't be turned back into your content. BUILT FOR HOW THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENS Thirty seconds, one-handed, in a car park, before you forget. Write it, tag it, seal it. • Log notes, photos, videos, voice memos, receipts, and message screenshots • Tag which child, and which co-parent, each moment involved • Automatic timestamp and optional GPS, captured rather than typed • Corrections are amendments: the original stays, the correction sits beside it • Search and filter by child, category, or date PRIVATE BY DEFAULT No account. No sign-up. No password. Documented opens straight into your record. Your entries stay on your iPhone, and in your own iCloud storage if you turn sync on. We can't read them. Your co-parent is never contacted, never notified, and never given access. Naming someone in your record is a label on your record, nothing more. WHAT IT COSTS Documented is a subscription, with a 7-day free trial. The subscription is the app, not an add-on to it. Included, with no limits of any kind: writing new entries, sealing them, the independent timestamp, photos, videos, voice memos and receipts, iCloud sync of your own record, search, filtering, amendments, the PDF export, and encrypted sharing with your attorney. No entry limit. No attachment limit. No storage tier. Free, whether you subscribe or not: reading, searching and verifying everything already in your record. Nothing you have sealed is ever locked away from you, and if a trial ends without a purchase the record becomes read-only rather than closed. People who installed Documented before this change keep their original free terms permanently. WHEN YOU NEED TO PRODUCE IT Your whole record becomes one PDF, ready to hand to your attorney: every entry in order, with its seal, an integrity statement, and your attachments. Any single entry can go on its own. You can send that record to your attorney encrypted on your device, to a key only they hold. A NOTE ON WHAT THIS IS Documented is a record-keeping tool. We're not a law firm and we don't give legal advice. Whether any record is accepted is decided by a judge under the rules of evidence where you live. What we can do is make sure that when you wrote something down, it's provable that you wrote it down then, and that nobody, including you, quietly changed it since. If something is on the line, talk to a licensed attorney in your state. Privacy Policy: https://documented.co/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://documented.co/terms

Screenshots

Export Text Message to PDF,XLS4 screens
Documented4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Documented at 75% against Export Text Message to PDF,XLS's 0%. Documented also leads on rating (4.6 vs 2.8) and chart position (#159 vs unranked). Export Text Message to PDF,XLS's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (daily vs every 4 days). On price, ratings volume, in-app purchases 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. Export Text Message to PDF,XLS sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days and Documented sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $17.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Documented holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 2.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 115 and 40 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Export Text Message to PDF,XLS's written reviews are positive against 75% of Documented's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Export Text Message to PDF,XLS ships an update daily, Documented every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Export Text Message to PDF,XLS versus Documented: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterExport Text Message to PDF,XLSDocumented
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.8 (115 ratings)4.6 (40 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews75.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings115 — better40
Update frequencyDaily — betterEvery 4 days
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank—#159 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB30 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperiBo StudioRise Advertising LLC

Customer experience

Export Text Message to PDF,XLS

All ratings114 ratings
Positive44.7%
Neutral3.5%
Negative51.8%
Written reviews30 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Documented

All ratings40 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral2.5%
Negative7.5%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

Bugs and requests

Export Text Message to PDF,XLS

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Cancel/decline buttons nearly invisible
  • Export to XLS not as expected
  • Error message when exporting to PDF

Documented

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Export Text Message to PDF,XLS

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Access Weekly$2.997 Days
  • Premium Access Monthly$6.991 Month
2 purchases

Documented

Subscriptions2
  • Documented Plus - Monthly7 Days trial$17.991 Month
  • Documented Plus - Yearly7 Days trial$179.991 Year

Questions

Is Export Text Message to PDF,XLS free?
Export Text Message to PDF,XLS is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Documented free?
Documented is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Export Text Message to PDF,XLS or Documented?
Documented is rated higher. Export Text Message to PDF,XLS averages 2.8 out of 5 from 115 ratings, while Documented averages 4.6 from 40 ratings.
Do Export Text Message to PDF,XLS or Documented have ads?
Documented shows ads; Export Text Message to PDF,XLS does not.
Which is updated more often, Export Text Message to PDF,XLS or Documented?
Export Text Message to PDF,XLS ships an update daily, and Documented every 4 days. Most recently, Export Text Message to PDF,XLS was updated on October 21, 2026 and Documented on October 8, 2026.

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