Comparison

Chat Archive vs Chat Memory Archive

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

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About

Chat Archive

Easily import and search your WhatsApp chat exports offline on your device. View messages, media, and voice notes, transcribe audio, and export conversations to PDF for long-term storage or sharing. Take control of your chat history without needing an account.

Highlights
  • Import WhatsApp chat exports
  • Offline chat viewing
  • Searchable messages
  • Media and voice note support
  • Voice note transcription
  • Export to PDF
  • No account required
Features
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Some conversations matter long after the phone that carried them. They hold a parent’s voice, the date of an agreement, a photograph, a receipt, the words that settled a decision. Chat Archive turns a WhatsApp chat export into a private, readable archive on your iPhone—carefully arranged, searchable, and ready to move with you. BUILT AROUND THE CONVERSATION A conversation is not only its text. It is the sender, the date, the reply, and the photo, document, or voice message beside it. Chat Archive reads the ZIP created by WhatsApp’s Export Chat command, identifies the messages and participants, and arranges the content included in the file in chronological order. Names, dates, media, and voice messages remain in context. A PRECISE, VISIBLE PROCESS 1. In WhatsApp, export the conversation. For the fullest archive, include media. This keeps the available photos, videos, voice messages, and attachments with the conversation. 2. Save or transfer the exported ZIP to the iPhone where you want to keep it. 3. Open it in Chat Archive, review what WhatsApp included, and confirm the import. The result is a readable backup outside WhatsApp: a separate archive you can return to on this iPhone or carry to a new one. MADE TO BE REVISITED Search across imported conversations. Within one conversation, refine by sender, date, time, weekday, file type, filename, or nearby context. Jump to the moment you need without scrolling through years of messages. Listen to voice messages included in the export at 1×, 1.5×, or 2×. Transcribe included voice messages on your device, then search what was said. Select one message, several messages, or a whole day. Save an excerpt, give it a title, and use Labels to bring related passages together across conversations. A RECORD YOU CAN READ, SHARE, AND PRINT Create a carefully composed PDF with messages in order, names, dates, and available images and transcripts. Save a PDF of the full conversation, or select a set of messages and create a focused PDF of only that selection. CHECK YOUR OWN ARCHIVE FIRST Import your first conversation and inspect the messages, search results, media thumbnails, voice messages, and complete PDF preview. IF A CONVERSATION WAS LOST If the chat still exists on an old phone, with the other person, or with a member of the group, export that copy and open it in Chat Archive. The conversation becomes readable and searchable again on your iPhone. YOUR CONVERSATION. YOUR IPHONE. Premium unlocks the complete conversation, its full voice-message history, and the complete PDF for saving, sharing, or printing. You choose the file. Imported conversation content is processed locally on your iPhone. Chat Archive is not cloud storage, so keep the original exported ZIP somewhere you trust. Chat Archive is independent and is not affiliated with WhatsApp or Meta. WhatsApp and Meta are trademarks of their respective owners. Terms: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy: https://chatarchive.app/privacy

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Chat Memory Archive

Features
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Chat Memory Archive turns an exported chat archive into a conversation you can scroll through again — the way it looked when it happened. Open a chat export (such as the .zip created by WhatsApp's "Export Chat" feature) or an extracted folder, from your device or iCloud Drive, and it rebuilds the conversation into a familiar chat view: message bubbles, dates, photos, videos, and voice notes with playback. EVERYTHING STAYS ON YOUR DEVICE Chat Memory Archive has no accounts and makes no network connections of its own. Your conversations are read and indexed only on your phone. Nothing is uploaded, and nothing is collected. LIGHT ON STORAGE When your archive lives in iCloud Drive, only what you actually view is downloaded — the chat text right away, and each photo or video only when you open it. Your archive stays where it is; the app doesn't copy it. FEATURES • Message bubbles with dates, senders, and read-style layout • Photos, videos with previews, and voice messages with a waveform player • Full-text search within a chat, with jump-to-message • A media gallery for each chat • Set a photo for anyone in the conversation • Adapts to your iOS text size Chat Memory Archive is a viewer. It never sends or posts messages, and it is not affiliated with or endorsed by any messaging service.

Screenshots

Chat Archive4 screens
Chat Memory Archive3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Chat Memory Archive at none against Chat Archive's 3. Chat Memory Archive also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Chat Archive sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Chat Memory Archive asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Chat Archive versus Chat Memory Archive: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChat ArchiveChat Memory Archive
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS18.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size62 MB29 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDanilo SouzaRajesh Vijayakumar

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Chat Archive

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Access (1 Month)$5.991 Month
  • Premium Access (1 Year)$44.991 Year
One-time1
  • Premium Lifetime$20.99
None

Chat Memory Archive

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Chat Archive free?
Chat Archive is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Chat Memory Archive free?
Chat Memory Archive is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Chat Archive or Chat Memory Archive have ads?
Neither Chat Archive nor Chat Memory Archive shows ads.

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