See the shape of your WhatsApp chat

Drop a WhatsApp export — the .txt or the .zip WhatsApp gives you — and see the conversation as numbers: who writes more (and by how much), when the chat is awake, the top emoji, the photos and voice notes in it, the day it peaked. It runs the same parser this site's studio runs, in this tab, on your machine: a private chat is the one file that must never cross a network, and here it doesn't.

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Drop your WhatsApp export here — .txt or .zipThe export is read in this tab and never uploads. Nothing is sent anywhere.

Getting the export

WhatsApp buries it two menus deep, so:

  1. Open the chat → ⋮ or the contact's nameThen Export chat. Android and iPhone both have it; group or one-to-one both work.
  2. “Without media” is fine — the .zip with media works tooThe tool reads the conversation file; with-media zips just carry photos alongside it, and the biggest .txt inside is the chat.
  3. Drop it aboveEverything is counted in this tab. Nothing uploads, nothing is sent, the file never leaves your machine — same promise as every tool here, and it matters most for this one.

Questions people actually ask

Does my chat get uploaded anywhere?

No — and this is the tool where it matters most. The export is parsed in your browser by the same code the studio uses, and nothing crosses the network. You can watch the network tab sit silent.

Why does the message count differ from WhatsApp's search?

WhatsApp's counter includes system messages — encryption notices, group joins, removals. This counts what a book would print: real messages from real senders.

Does it work for groups?

Yes — every sender is counted separately, and the per-person filter re-runs every figure for one voice. Big groups are where the share bar gets interesting.

Can I get stats on someone else's chat?

You can only export a chat you are part of, which is the correct state of affairs. The tool counts what you give it and keeps it to yourself.

What happens to the deleted messages?

They show as deleted and are not counted — the placeholder WhatsApp leaves in the export is not a message, and pretending otherwise would inflate the numbers flatteringly and dishonestly.

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