Turn a WhatsApp chat into a book
The conversation that started it all, years of a friendship, a parent's messages. Upload the export and get a book layout with cream pages, wide margins and the photos in place, ready to print and bind.
Your preview
This is your real file, parsed. Pay only if the result is right.
How it works.
WhatsApp does not give you a document. On iPhone the export is a ZIP file, and on Android it is a text file with any media sent alongside it. Getting that out of the app is the part most people get stuck on, so that is step one.
Export from WhatsApp
On iPhone, open the chat, tap the contact or group name, then Export Chat. On Android, open the chat and tap More options, More, Export chat. Choose Attach Media on iPhone or Include media on Android if you want the photos, or Without Media for a much smaller file. Send it to yourself.
Drop the file in
Upload the ZIP as WhatsApp made it. Do not unzip it first. If Android gave you a .txt with the photos as separate files, put them in one zip together, because this takes one file. You will see the participants, the message count and the real formatting straight away, for free.
Check it, then pay
If the names, dates and layout look right, pay once and download the full PDF. If something looks wrong, close the tab and nothing is charged.
Four ways to print it.
Every sample below is page one of a real PDF, made from the same sample as the one above by the same code that makes your file. Pick a style when you preview, and change it as often as you like.
What the book layout does
This page is set to the Book style. It sets the conversation like a printed book rather than a phone screen: cream paper, generous margins for binding, and day headings so the years read like chapters. If you include media, the photos sit with the messages they were sent with.
You get a PDF. Take it to any print shop for a spiral or perfect binding, or upload it to a print-on-demand book service that accepts a PDF interior. Check that service's page size first; the preview tells you roughly how many pages you will have.
Making it a gift
- Export the chat with media if you want the photos in it. On iPhone choose Attach Media, on Android choose Include media.
- Long chats make long books. A few years of daily messages can run to hundreds of pages, which is fine for a print shop but worth knowing before you order a hardcover.
- Read the preview before you pay. Check whose messages sit on the right; you can swap it.
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