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Search across conversations, participants, dates, message text, and attachments, with in-conversation highlighting and navigation.
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Text Curator
A private, local-first Mac app for searching, organizing, preserving, and exporting Apple Messages and iMessage conversations to PDF, Word, or CSV.
Preserve
Export conversations to PDF, Word, or CSV. Export presets and batch export help turn large archives into useful, readable records.
Work privately
Text Curator processes your Messages data locally on your Mac. It does not require an account and does not send your Messages content to Quirky Dreams! Studios.
Search and export Apple Messages on your Mac
Text Curator is designed to work with both everyday conversations and very large Messages histories. Search filters, saved searches, attachment navigation, conversation-style exports, and export summaries help you find and preserve the material that matters.
Attachments stay honest
If Messages references an attachment that is not stored locally on your Mac, Text Curator reports it as unavailable rather than substituting another file. For historical attachments that may still be available through Messages, Text Curator can help you locate the surrounding conversation so you can download the original in Apple Messages.
Designed for local processing
Text Curator works with Messages data on your Mac after you explicitly choose the Messages folder. It opens the Messages database read-only and never modifies your original Apple Messages database or source attachments. Exports and Text Curator-specific settings are stored separately.