Android
Open the chat you want to analyse in WhatsApp.
Tap ⋮ → More → Export chat.
Choose Without media.
In the share sheet, pick Yapped if it is offered. Otherwise save the file to Files, then come back to Yapped and select it.
Yapped
EXPORT GUIDE
Export a WhatsApp chat without losing the thread.
Yapped reads the text export of a WhatsApp chat: a .txt file, or a .zip archive that contains it. The easiest way: export one chat, without media files.
By Pionnier Labs · Updated: 28 October 2026
Choose “Without media”. Photos and videos are not needed for the statistics or the cards, and the export will be lighter. WhatsApp may produce a plain text file or a .zip archive: drop it as it is, without opening it.
FROM YOUR PHONE
Two paths, depending on your device
iPhone
Open the chat, then tap the contact or group name at the top.
Scroll down to Export chat.
Choose Without media.
Choose Save to Files (“On My iPhone” or iCloud Drive), then come back to Yapped and select the file.
Labels vary with the language and version of WhatsApp; its official help talks about exporting a chat with or without media.
SAVE OR SHARE
If Yapped does not show up in the share sheet
- Reliable option: save the file to Files first, then pick it from Yapped.
- On a computer: export from your phone, then move the file across (AirDrop, USB cable, email to yourself) and pick it in Yapped.
- A missing icon does not mean the export is lost: the file is wherever you saved it.
LANGUAGES AND FORMATS
Dates differ from country to country
Yapped recognises day/month/year, month/day/year and year/month/day dates, on a 12 or 24-hour clock, in many languages. If a date such as 04/05/2024 could mean two things, it asks which format the phone that made the export uses.
Import one chat at a time, as UTF-8 or UTF-16 text, directly or inside a ZIP. Photos and technical Mac files are ignored. Limits: 32 MiB of text, 100 MiB for the ZIP; export again without media if the file is too big.
HOW IT IS PROCESSED
How it is processed
- On your device: Your file is read in your browser. Yapped counts the messages, works out everyone’s statistics and removes phone numbers, emails, addresses, IBANs and card numbers before anything is sent. Nothing leaves before you agree.
- Only if you agree: When you tap your name, you agree: the text of the chat, without those details, goes to Yappy, an AI hosted in the European Union with zero retention. It keeps nothing. For ages 15 and up.
- What Yapped keeps: Not your messages. If you buy a pack, your binder link (the generated pack, not your chat) lasts 30 days and you can delete it.
The details: how Yapped processes your conversation.
Drop your file on Yapped
Export ready? Open Yapped Drop, drop the file and tap your name: Yappy reads the chat and you open your card pack.