Comparison

Text Message Export vs Documented

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

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About

Text Message Export

Easily save, edit, and export text messages and chat conversations from your iPhone. This app uses AI to recognize messages, timestamps, and participants, allowing you to export them into various formats like PDF, CSV, and plain text for legal records, personal archives, or safekeeping.

Highlights
  • AI-powered message recognition
  • Export to PDF, CSV, and Text
  • Powerful message editing
  • Group chat support
  • Works with all major messengers
  • No computer required
Features
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MsgKeep — Save, Edit & Export Text Messages from iPhone The smartest way to save text messages from iPhone and export conversations from any messaging app. MsgKeep instantly recognizes your chat messages and turns them into editable, exportable documents — perfect for legal records, personal archives, or simply keeping important messages safe. Need to export text messages from iPhone for court, backup WhatsApp conversations, or save iMessage chats? MsgKeep makes it effortless with smart recognition that no other app offers. Extract text messages from any messenger — MsgKeep reads your chats and converts them into clean, organized documents. KEY FEATURES - Smart Recognition: Unlike other apps, MsgKeep automatically extracts messages, timestamps, and participant names. No manual typing, no cables, no computer required. - Export Text Messages to PDF, CSV & Text: Save your conversations as beautifully formatted PDF with chat bubbles, structured CSV for spreadsheets, or plain text. The easiest way to export iMessage, WhatsApp, Telegram and other chats. - Powerful Editing: Edit messages, fix names, adjust timestamps, search across conversations, and merge multiple chats into one. Full control over your exported data. - Group Chat Support: Automatic detection of group conversations with color-coded participant names in exports. - Works with Every Messenger: iMessage, WhatsApp, Telegram, Instagram DMs, Facebook Messenger, Viber, Signal, Discord, Snapchat, LINE, and any other messaging app. WHY CHOOSE MSGKEEP? - Automatic Recognition: Other apps require manual input or a desktop connection. MsgKeep recognizes messages automatically — just import and export. - Edit Before You Export: Fix recognition errors, reorder messages, merge chats, remove unwanted messages — get a clean result every time. - No Computer Needed: Everything happens on your iPhone. No cables, no desktop software, no complicated setup. PERFECT FOR - Legal professionals who need to export text messages from iPhone as formatted evidence for court - Anyone looking to save iMessage conversations or backup WhatsApp chats for safekeeping - Businesses requiring documented proof of communication for compliance or records - People preserving meaningful conversations and personal memories - Users looking for automatic message recognition and export GET STARTED Save text messages from iPhone in minutes: - Import your chats — add screenshots or a screen recording from any messenger - Everything is recognized automatically — messages, dates, senders extracted for you - Edit if needed — fix, reorder, merge, and organize - Export to PDF, CSV, or Text — share, print, or archive your conversations SUBSCRIPTION MsgKeep offers a subscription that unlocks unlimited exports, printing, and imports. Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription automatically renews unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple ID account settings. Privacy Policy: https://msgkeep.com/privacy-policy.html Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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

Text Message Export4 screens
Documented4 screens

Verdict

The call

Text Message Export and Documented both sit at 4.6 stars, but that hides the real split: 71% of Documented's written reviews are positive against 10% of Text Message Export's. Documented also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 10 days) and chart position (#146 vs unranked). Text Message Export's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, rating, ratings volume and in-app purchases 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. Text Message Export sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and Documented sells 6 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, 4.8 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 140 and 161 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 10% of Text Message Export's written reviews are positive against 71% of Documented's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Text Message Export ships an update every 10 days, Documented every 4 days. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Text Message Export versus Documented: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterText Message ExportDocumented
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (140 ratings)4.8 (161 ratings) — better
Positive reviews10.0% of reviews71.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings140161 — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 4 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank—#146 — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB32 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlena ZaharovaRise Advertising LLC

Customer experience

Text Message Export

All ratings91 ratings
Positive86.8%
Neutral2.2%
Negative11.0%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive10.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative90.0%

Documented

All ratings154 ratings
Positive94.8%
Neutral2.6%
Negative2.6%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive71.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative28.6%

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Text Message Export

Subscriptions5
  • Premium Version$4.997 Days
  • Premium Version$8.997 Days
  • Pro Version$14.997 Days
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  • Pro Version$39.991 Year
  • Pro Version$59.991 Year
6 purchases

Documented

Subscriptions6
  • Documented Plus7 Days trial$17.991 Month
  • Documented Plus14 Days trial$17.991 Month
  • Documented Plus1 Month trial$17.991 Month
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  • Documented Plus - Yearly7 Days trial$179.991 Year
  • Documented Plus - Yearly14 Days trial$179.991 Year
  • Documented Plus1 Month trial$179.991 Year

Questions

Is Text Message Export free?
Text Message Export 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, Text Message Export or Documented?
Documented is rated higher. Text Message Export averages 4.6 out of 5 from 140 ratings, while Documented averages 4.8 from 161 ratings.
Do Text Message Export or Documented have ads?
Documented shows ads; Text Message Export does not.
Which is updated more often, Text Message Export or Documented?
Text Message Export ships an update every 10 days, and Documented every 4 days. Most recently, Text Message Export was updated on October 25, 2026 and Documented on October 25, 2026.

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