Early access · Available now for macOS & Windows

Back up your iPhone or iPad messages.Keep them forever.

A desktop app that saves your text messages to your own computer, then lets you browse, search, archive, and export them. No cloud. No per-device fees. Just your record, kept.

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Free to download. macOS on Apple silicon · Windows 10 or later (64-bit).

Text2Store

Local backup

Download

Get Text2Store for your computer.

Free to download and try. One plan, $29.99 a year, covers every iPhone, iPad, and computer you own — see pricing.

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macOS on Apple silicon (M1 or later) · Windows 10 or later (64-bit). Updates install themselves; questions to hello@text2store.com.

What it does

Built for records that have to last.

Local & offline

Your messages stay on your own machine. Nothing is uploaded, and there's no account to sign into.

Search everything

Find any message, contact, or attachment in seconds across years of history.

Export to PDF

Turn any conversation into a clean, timestamped PDF, ready for a case file or a client.

Works with locked devices

Back up straight from an encrypted iPhone backup, passcode-locked phones included.