Every December the same question sweeps group chats: where is our Wrapped? Music apps get one, so why not the group that carried your whole year — the family chat, the friends thread, the two-person conversation that never sleeps? Our free WhatsApp Wrapped answers it without asking you to hand your chats to anyone: export any WhatsApp chat as a text file, drop it in, and get swipeable story cards with awards for your group's messaging habits — most messages, longest streak, night owl, emoji champion and more — each downloadable as a shareable image. Everything is computed on your device; your files never leave it. This guide explains how to export the right file, what each award actually measures, and the traps that make a count look wrong.
Step one: export the chat. Open any WhatsApp chat, tap the name at the top, choose Export chat, and pick "Without media". That gives you a plain .txt file of the conversation — the only file the tool needs, and the only one you should ever share with a tool. Exporting with media would bloat the file and add nothing, because photos arrive in the text export as "Media omitted" placeholders anyway. If you want a true year in review, export the full history the chat still holds; if you want a month in review instead, the tool will happily analyse whatever range you give it. Step two: drop the file in. Drop the .txt export onto the tool or click to browse — or try the built-in sample chat first to see the cards before using your own conversation. The page parses every message locally and computes the awards: message counts, day streaks, late-night activity, emoji usage, back-to-back runs and average message length. Step three: share your favourites. Swipe through the cards and download any award as a 1080 × 1350 story card — headline, winner and a one-line description, rendered on a canvas in your browser as a PNG, ready to send back to the group. Share the cards, never the chat file itself: the export contains your whole conversation, and there is no reason for it to leave your device.
Most Messages goes to the chattiest sender, plain and simple — the person who kept the conversation alive. Longest Streak rewards consecutive days with at least one message, which is usually a harder title to win than it looks: one silent day breaks the run. Night Owl counts messages between midnight and 5 AM, and Early Bird covers the early-morning hours — the two awards together draw the group's sleep schedule more honestly than anyone would admit to. Emoji Champion is pure volume, the sender with the most emojis across the whole export. Double Texter measures the longest run of back-to-back messages from one person, the classic live-event flood when someone narrates a match or a finale message by message. Wordiest uses average message length, so it rewards the essay-writers over the one-word repliers even when their total count is lower. Group chats make every award a contest; in a one-to-one chat the awards simply go to whichever of you earned them, and in a two-person chat every title becomes a head-to-head contest that is twice as personal.
The tool page's own example is a family group of five exporting their year: 21,307 messages in total. Dad takes Most Messages with 6,940 and Night Owl with 412 messages after midnight — a result the teenagers greet with outrage, since the award is computed, not argued. The Longest Streak is 89 days through the holidays, a run that survived Christmas, New Year and everyone's travel. Mom is Emoji Champion with 1,203 emojis, led by the red heart. The Double Texter record belongs to the youngest: 34 back-to-back messages during a live sports final, a flood the rest of the group remembers vividly and can now prove. Each card downloads as a crisp 1080 × 1350 PNG, so the group can post the results back into the very chat they came from — which is, after all, the whole point. The example also shows why the awards work as a social object rather than a spreadsheet: every title names a winner and the number behind it, so there is something to celebrate, dispute and re-litigate next year.
Exporting with media. Choose "Without media" — the tool reads text, and media only inflates the file while arriving as placeholders anyway. Sharing the .txt file instead of the cards. The export is your whole conversation; the cards are the shareable part. Send the images, keep the file on your device. Exporting a partial year and calling it the year. The year boundary follows your export's date range, not the calendar, so a chat exported in June tells a half-year story — fine for a month in review, misleading as a Wrapped. Wondering why a quiet friend looks even quieter. Media-heavy chats undercount activity, because every photo becomes a "Media omitted" placeholder rather than a message with content. Ignoring a mid-year name change. If "Mom" became "Mom ❤️" halfway through the year, those are counted as two senders, and both totals look wrong. Expecting very old messages to be complete. WhatsApp exports whatever the chat still holds, so messages lost to a phone change or a missing backup simply are not in the file.
The honest limits are four, and they all follow from one fact: the awards are only as complete as your export. First, if someone changed phones mid-year and lost history, their totals will be short, and no tool can recover messages that are not in the file. Second, media-heavy chats undercount activity, since photos become "Media omitted" placeholders. Third, the year boundary follows your export's date range, not the calendar — export the full year for a true Wrapped, or a single month for a month in review, and the cards describe the range they actually cover. Fourth, name changes split senders, and export formats sometimes split names in ways that need a careful eye on the results. Within those limits, the tool does one job completely: it turns a chat export into a set of story cards that a whole group can enjoy, privately, with nothing uploaded and nothing stored. The companion guides are our WhatsApp chat analysis guide, for the deeper numbers behind the cards — who talks most, when, and about what — our chat-to-PDF guide, for turning the same export into a printable chat book, and our fuel cost guide, for splitting the reunion trip the Wrapped will inevitably inspire.
The deeper numbers behind the cards, from the same kind of export.
Turn the same export into a printable keepsake instead of a story card.
Split the reunion trip the Wrapped inspires, per person, before anyone fills a tank.