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WhatsApp

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Immediate
You get
.txt, one per conversation
Rough size
A few hundred KB per conversation, without media

Everything Buho reads out of it lands in Messages.

WhatsApp has no bulk export and no web form: conversations are exported one at a time, from the phone app.

  1. Open a conversation, tap the contact or group name at the top.
  2. Scroll down to Export chat, then choose Without media.
  3. Send the .txt to yourself — mail, AirDrop, whatever reaches your computer.
  4. Repeat for the conversations you care about.

Get these right

Attachments
Without media

You can drop all the exported chats at once — no need to add them one by one.

No bulk export exists: conversations leave the phone one by one. You can drop all of them at once, though. Dates are in the phone's locale, so day/month order is worked out per file.

Drop your export here

The .zip as it arrived, the unzipped folder, or loose files. Buho works out which export it is, so you never have to say — and reads it here, in this tab, without uploading any of it.