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Light, dark and the analytics — all computed on-device.
Drop a chat export (.zip or .txt) and get a familiar, polished chat experience — with search, stats, voice notes, reactions and an optional AI toolbox. Everything stays on your device.
It reads standard WhatsApp exports — no conversion, no servers, no uploads.
Drop the export zip you already have — media included. Preview before import, multiple chats at once.
Global search (Ctrl+K), per-chat filters (date, starred, regex), jump-to-date and word clouds.
Cross-chat Insights dashboard, per-chat stats, storage breakdown and "On this day" memories.
Waveform player with speed control — and on-device Whisper transcription that works offline.
Translate, explain slang, ask AI about the chat, TL;DR summaries, AI wallpapers — with your own Gemini key, straight to Google.
Export back to txt / zip / standalone HTML, full JSON backups, print view. Your archive, your rules.
Light, dark and the analytics — all computed on-device.
Four taps in WhatsApp, one drop into WA Archiver — no account, no upload.
In WhatsApp, open the chat and tap the contact or group name (Android) or the chat name (iPhone).
Scroll down and tap Export chat — Android: ⋮ More → Export chat · iPhone: Export Chat.
Choose Without media for a small .txt, or Include media for a .zip with photos and voice notes.
Save or share the file, then open WA Archiver and import it — drag & drop works too. Everything stays on your device.
Screenshots of WhatsApp belong to WhatsApp LLC — steps shown for user guidance only.
Short answers to what people ask before installing.
No. Parsing, storage and search happen entirely in your browser or on your device — there is no account and no server. The only optional network calls are AI features you trigger yourself with your own key.
Yes. The web app is an installable PWA and the Android APK is fully offline-first — already-imported chats, media and stats open without a connection.
Standard WhatsApp chat exports: plain .txt files and .zip archives that include media. You can import several chats at once.
Yes — group chats get per-sender colors, group analytics, reactions and everything that 1:1 chats have.
They're the same app, v1.5.0. The APK is the offline-first packaged build, while the web app installs as a PWA straight from your browser.
Yes — WA Archiver is open source under the MIT License, and the source lives on GitHub. No accounts, subscriptions or paywalls.
No. WA Archiver is an independent tool that only reads export files you produce from WhatsApp. "WhatsApp" is a trademark of its respective owner.
Node 20+ and Bun. Or skip all of this and just install the APK.
# install & run git clone https://github.com/Avithegod2010/WA-archiver.git cd wa-archiver && bun install cp .env.example .env && bun run db:push bun run dev # → http://localhost:3000
The entire app ships inside one APK: UI, on-device SQLite, search, stats and lock. Grab it from Releases — every versioned tag gets a signed APK, and a rolling latest build is refreshed on every push.