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Everything you need to get the most out of a WhatsApp chat: how to export it, what each number means and how to do it without giving your conversations away.
WhatsApp Wrapped 2026: your group chat's year in review
Who talked the most this year, which day the chat caught fire and which emoji summed you up. Your 2026 as story-style screens, built from this year's messages only.
Read the guide →How to export a WhatsApp chat (iPhone and Android)
Exporting a chat turns years of group messages into a single text file you can keep, read on a computer or analyse. Here is how to do it on each phone, which option to pick and what to do when it goes wrong.
Read the guide →WhatsApp group statistics explained, number by number
A chat analysis is only fun if you know what the numbers actually measure. Here is how each statistic is calculated, and the traps that make a group look different from what it really is.
Read the guide →How to make a WhatsApp Wrapped of your group chat
Spotify does it with your songs. You can do it with the group chat that never sleeps: a story-style recap of who talks most, when, and how much.
Read the guide →WhatsApp group awards: who wins what, and why
The Ghost, the Night Owl, the Professional Deleter: here is every award, the exact rule that decides the winner, and how to hand them out without starting a family feud.
Read the guide →How to analyze a WhatsApp chat without giving it away
A chat export holds years of other people's messages. Here is how to get the stats and the laughs without handing that file to a stranger's server.
Read the guide →"Who said it?": the game made from your group's real messages
A message from the group appears, four names below it, and you have to guess who wrote it. Simple, and dangerously addictive at a dinner table.
Read the guide →Inside a WhatsApp export: the .txt format explained
A WhatsApp export looks like a simple text file until you try to read it with a program. This is a practical tour of how the file is built, every variation we have run into, and how a parser can cope with them.
Read the guide →How to open and read a WhatsApp chat .txt file
You exported a chat, or someone sent you one, and now you have a .txt or .zip file. What it actually is, what opens it, and why strange symbols sometimes show up.
Read the guide →WhatsApp statistics: what the app tells you and what it doesn't
WhatsApp has no statistics screen for your chats, but a few numbers are tucked away in the settings. Here's where they are, what they mean and how to get the figures the app won't give you.
Read the guide →10 games to liven up a WhatsApp group
For the group that's been dead for weeks, for the warm-up before a dinner or for a rainy Sunday. Games that work over chat, and a few only your group can play because they come from your own messages.
Read the guide →Your group chat's recap as a gift for the group
Years of messages, voice notes and plans that never happened. Turned into a recap with real numbers, they're a gift no shop sells and the whole group gets instantly.
Read the guide →WhatsApp chat stats between two people
Your partner, your best friend, your brother. A chat between two can have more messages than any group, and its numbers tell a very different story. What you can see, how, and how to handle it with care.
Read the guide →Deleted WhatsApp messages: what's left and what isn't
Someone deleted a message and now the whole group wants to know what it said. Does it show up in the exported chat? Can it be recovered? Straight answers, no miracle tricks.
Read the guide →Your WhatsApp group's most used emojis
😂, 🙏, 💀 or ❤️: every group has its emoji, and so does every person. WhatsApp won't tell you, but your chat will. How to see it, how it's counted and why it sometimes surprises.
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