Private legal chat exports
Turn official WhatsApp exports into searchable evidence PDFs, redacted disclosure packages, indexes, manifests, and checksums. Private and local on Mac.
Sensitive conversations stay on your Mac. ChatExhibit has no account, analytics, advertising, chat uploads, or cloud processing.
Messages, media, redactions, and exports are processed entirely on your Mac
No conversation content or attachment is sent to a server
No registration, analytics, advertising, or behavioral tracking
The supplied source remains unchanged while edits and redactions stay non-destructive
Import an official WhatsApp ZIP or TXT export
Search, filter, and review messages, attachments, and parsing warnings
Select the full conversation or only the records relevant to your matter
Apply non-destructive redactions and configure transcript formatting
Export a preservation package or a safer redacted disclosure package
Works with official WhatsApp exports and their supplied media. ChatExhibit does not connect to your WhatsApp account or retrieve conversations from WhatsApp.
Import the official ZIP package containing the conversation text and supplied media attachments.
Open an official plain-text chat export for searching, filtering, redaction, and transcript generation.
Review matched images and organize available attachments while clearly identifying missing media.
Official WhatsApp ZIP and TXT exports
Searchable transcript PDF, optional conversation-view PDF, CSV message index
Organized folder or ZIP with attachments, attachment index, manifest, and SHA-256 checksums
Typical use
Copying chat text into a document requires manual numbering, redaction, attachment organization, and consistency checks.
Great Apps advantage
ChatExhibit creates a repeatable bundle from the official export, keeps stable message numbers, and produces indexes, manifests, and checksums together.
Typical use
The official export preserves conversation data but is awkward to search, review, redact, cross-reference, and hand off professionally.
Great Apps advantage
ChatExhibit turns the supplied export into structured review material without modifying the original source.
Typical use
Online tools require sensitive conversations to be uploaded for processing and may provide limited control over retained source material.
Great Apps advantage
ChatExhibit processes every message locally on your Mac with no account, upload, or cloud processing.
No. Messages, attachments, searches, redactions, and exports are processed entirely on your Mac. ChatExhibit has no cloud processing and does not upload chat content.
ChatExhibit opens official WhatsApp ZIP and TXT exports. ZIP packages can include the conversation text plus available media attachments.
No. The supplied source is preserved unchanged. Selections, redactions, and generated files are handled separately.
ChatExhibit Pro can create a searchable numbered transcript PDF, an optional conversation-view PDF, a CSV message index, an organized attachment folder and index, a machine-readable manifest, SHA-256 checksums, and a ZIP archive or standard folder.
A preservation package includes the untouched supplied source for internal retention and is not safe for redacted disclosure. A redacted disclosure package excludes the original source and recoverable unredacted derivatives for safer sharing.
Yes. Redactions can cover complete messages, selected text, participant names, and attachments. They are non-destructive and do not alter the original source.
It identifies missing media, parsing warnings, and uncertain records so they can be reviewed instead of silently omitted.
No. ChatExhibit is free to download, with an optional one-time purchase to unlock ChatExhibit Pro. There is no subscription.
