Chat Hoarding: A permanent, private archive of your WhatsApp chats

Chat Hoarding for Mac provides a robust solution for creating a permanent, private archive of your WhatsApp conversations. It works by decrypting your Android WhatsApp backup locally on your Mac, rendering a browsable archive, and saving it as a portable .tarc bundle. This bundle ensures your chat history survives phone loss, account deletion, or number changes.

Key Capabilities:

• On-Device Decryption: Your WhatsApp backup is decrypted locally on your Mac. The encryption key never leaves your device, ensuring maximum privacy.

• Comprehensive Archiving: Preserves all message types, including text, voice notes, photos, videos, calls, locations, and contact cards.

• Detailed Message Information: Captures per-recipient sent, delivered, read, and played statuses, along with timestamps, providing a complete picture of message interactions.

• Contact Resolution: Automatically resolves contact names from your address book and WhatsApp, with the option for manual renaming.

• Portable Archive Format: Saves your archive in an open .tarc format, ensuring it can be accessed on any Mac without vendor lock-in.

• Secure and Private: The Android companion app has no internet permission, and the Mac app only connects to the network for license activation and update checks. Message content remains entirely on your device.

• Flexible Backup Transfer: Offers multiple methods to transfer your backup from Android to Mac, including a companion app with wireless sharing, USB drag-and-drop, or automatic transfer over a cable.

Use Cases:

• Migrating phones, switching numbers, or changing operating systems (iPhone ↔ Android).

• Preserving important conversations for legal, personal, or historical reasons.

• Safeguarding messages from deceased family members or close friends.

Licensing:

Purchase a lifetime license for $99, which includes activation on up to 2 Macs and lifetime updates within the v1.x major version. Licenses are revocable, allowing you to free up seats for new devices.