What ChatExport costs
What you can download today is a free trial. No card to enter, no account, and nothing counting down. It is the whole program rather than a cut-down one: every format, photos, attachments, encrypted backups and the SHA256 hash all work exactly as they will after you buy.
One of those formats is RSMF (Relativity Short Message Format): the conversation lands in an eDiscovery platform as records with participants, timestamps and attachments, rather than as a PDF somebody has to re-key.
Two things, and only these two, are held back until you do.
- Every page of an exported document carries a watermark.
- An export stops at the 50 most recent messages in a conversation.
Note what is not on that list: no expiry date. A trial that dies after fourteen days is no use to someone whose hearing is in six weeks, and this one does not do that. Install it, try it on the conversation you actually care about, and decide in your own time.
What the licence costs
34.99 USD, once. There will never be a subscription. You pay once, and the copy you have keeps working.
That is the whole figure. Any VAT or sales tax your country charges is already inside it, so the amount above is the amount that leaves your account.
It is in dollars because this page is read in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada, which do not share a currency. The payment page charges in yours and does the conversion, so the figure it shows you will not be this one.
You can buy it now. The payment window opens on this page, and the key arrives by e-mail straight after. Open ChatExport, paste it in, and the watermark and the 50-message limit are gone. The trial stays exactly where it is: nothing above this line stops working if you would rather keep testing first.
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What the licence buys, by name
The trial already shows all of it. This is the list, so the figure above can be weighed against something specific rather than against the word "software".
- Court View. A second layout meant to be filed: no chat bubbles, numbered messages so a line can be cited, full timestamps with seconds, raw numbers beside contact names.
- A Document Integrity page. The device, the iOS version, the backup date, and the SHA256 of the message database exactly as it sits in the backup, so anyone holding the same backup can confirm the document came from it. The finished file gets a checksum of its own beside it, and every page names where to check it.
- RSMF, the format eDiscovery platforms read as records rather than as a PDF somebody has to re-key. Elsewhere in this category it sits in a business tier. Whoever receives the file can open it in a browser here.
- A warning when the backup is not the whole story. Messages in iCloud and Keep Messages can leave older messages out of a backup without a trace. The program reads both settings and says so before you export.
- Recently deleted messages on iOS 16 and later, inside Apple's roughly thirty day window, as a switch that is off by default.
- The document in fourteen languages, and WhatsApp chats read from the file WhatsApp itself exports, from an iPhone or an Android phone.
What the figure sits next to
Three other ways of getting the same conversation onto paper, with what each costs. Brand names are deliberately absent from this page: each program has its own page in the comparison, where every figure carries its source and the date it was checked, between 4 August and 11 September 2026.
- An app that records your screen and rebuilds the text from the picture, sold by the week at 4.99 to 8.99 USD, or by the year at up to 59.99. The recording carries only the timestamps that happened to be on screen, and there is nothing underneath the text to check it against later.
- A phone manager that reads the backup, sold by the year from 29.99 USD since it stopped selling licences outright in 2025, with the eDiscovery format kept for a business tier from 89 USD a year.
- A one-time program for messages only, at 29.99 USD, which reads the backup as this one does. Five dollars less. What the difference buys is the list above, and the page comparing the two says plainly where it does not matter.
Beyond all three is the route with no software in it: an expert's report on the phone, commissioned for a case. It costs what an expert costs, it takes weeks, and it is sometimes the right answer. This program is for the far larger number of cases where what is needed is the conversation, complete and checkable, by tomorrow.
30 days, money back
When there is something to buy, it comes with 30 days to change your mind. Write to support@getchatexport.com and say you want the money back. There is no form to fill in, no questions to answer and no reason to give. Whatever you already exported stays on your machine and is yours to keep.
What the licence is not
Software that is bought once can still behave like software that is rented. This one does not, and here is the specific list.
- No activation call. Nothing is registered against your device when you install it or when you move to a new computer.
- No online licence check. The program does not contact a server while you work, because it does not contact a server at all.
- No expiry. A licence that stops working after a year is a subscription with a different name on it.
- A machine that has never been online behaves identically to one that has.
That last one is checkable rather than promised: disconnect the computer from the internet and export a conversation. Nothing about the process changes. The security page goes through the rest of it.
Why one-off rather than a subscription
This is about the shape of the offer, not about what anyone else charges. A subscription bills again next year whether or not you exported another conversation. A one-time licence does not.
Most people arrive here for one specific job: a case that needs a document, a phone being replaced, an archive made before an old device is wiped. That job finishes. Software bought for it should stop costing money when it does.
Where to get it
The download page has the installer, what Windows SmartScreen will say the first time you run it, and the SHA256 you can check the file against before you do.
Windows 10 & 11 · 64-bit · Version 1.2.1