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How to print a WhatsApp chat

WhatsApp does not print. Export the chat, and the free reader makes a PDF with page numbers, the chat's name at the top and the date on every message.

  • Your file is read in this browser and is never uploaded.

To print with the voice messages written out

1

Export it with the voice messages

With media, the voice messages travel in the .zip. Without them, each one reaches the paper only as a file name.

2

Check the price first

See the exact price on the upload screen. Unlock the full conversation only when it is worth it.

3

Download the PDF and print

Each voice message appears in writing where it was sent, with its date and time, in a paginated PDF ready for the printer.

Now that you have the export

Upload the .zip and get a summary, a timeline you can follow, and every voice message in writing. The preview and the price are free to look at, so nothing is spent before you decide.

Upload the export

Easier on your phone: share the chat from WhatsApp straight into the app.

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Before you print

For a text-only chat, the free reader does the whole job.

Four ways to print

None of them needs an app installed. What changes is what reaches the paper.

  • The free reader's PDF: page numbers, the chat's name at the top, and the date and time on every message. The chat is read in your browser and never sent to a server.
  • The export's .txt file in a text editor: it prints, but as one running block with no page numbers.
  • Screenshots: fine for a few messages. A long chat turns into dozens of sheets, and it is easy to skip or repeat a stretch.
  • WhatsApp Web: it prints what you select on screen. For a long chat, you have to scroll back to the start first.

What does not reach the paper

A sheet cannot play audio, and the export carries each voice message as a separate file.

In an ordinary printout, each voice message is only a file name, and what was said is left out. The paid analysis writes each one where it was sent.

In the free PDF, each photo and video is marked where it was sent. The images themselves stay on your device.

A printed chat does not prove it was never edited. No tool can prove that from an export, so keep the original .zip and the chat on the phone.

Key benefits

Page numbers and the chat's name at the top of every sheet

Date, time and sender on every message, in the order they were sent

The free PDF is made in your browser, with no sign-up

In the paid version, each voice message written where it was sent

The price of the whole conversation on screen before anything runs

The same chat also comes as text, a web page or a spreadsheet

When someone asks for the chat on paper

A lawyer asked for the chat on paper

They want to read it all in order and dated, not a stack of loose screenshots.

Keeping the chat with someone who has died

Years of messages from someone you loved, on paper that does not depend on a phone.

HR asked for the agreement in writing

What you settled with your manager was on WhatsApp, and the company wants it on paper.

An agreement with the landlord

The notice to leave and the deposit terms were in the chat and need to go in the file.

Questions? Answered.

No. The way is to export the chat, which makes a .zip or .txt file, and print that file. The free reader turns the export into a PDF laid out for the printer.

Yes. The free reader opens in the browser of your phone or computer. The chat is read right there and never sent to a server.

In the free PDF, each voice message is marked where it was sent, but what was said is not written out. The paid analysis is what transcribes each one.

The free PDF marks each photo and video where it was sent. The images are not in the file and stay on your device.

The free reader's PDF is: it costs nothing and needs no sign-up. The version with voice messages written out is priced by the size of the chat, shown on screen before anything runs.

The judge, the authority or the company reading it decides what it weighs. Paper does not prove the chat was never edited, so keep the original .zip. ThreadRecap gives no legal advice.

Privacy and security

Chat parsing happens locally in your browser. For AI analysis, text is sent with card and bank details, ID numbers and passwords replaced by markers.

Your chat is stored on our servers so your analysis stays accessible. You keep full control: delete anytime from your dashboard. Never used for training and shared only with the providers that run the service.

Photos, video files, and their visual content never leave your device. For transcription, we send chat text and the audio of every voice message, including the audio track your browser extracts from each video.