Text Timeline: SMS Backup

Back up and export your text messages.

TextTimeline copies the SMS and MMS messages on your phone into a backup file on your phone. Free, with no limit on how many messages it backs up.

WHAT YOU GET

• A standard XML message backup, saved to Downloads or to a folder you pick. It is the common backup format, so a restore tool can read your messages back onto a phone.

• A record saved beside it: checksums, counts, and exactly what was and was not included.

• Both files stay on your phone. Nothing is uploaded unless you upload it yourself.

WHY PEOPLE BACK UP THEIR TEXTS

• Keeping records before you change phones

• Printing a conversation for a court case, a custody or divorce matter, an insurance claim, or an employer

• Saving messages from someone who has died

• Keeping a copy of business messages

• Peace of mind that years of messages are not one lost phone away from gone

BACK UP EVERYTHING, OR JUST WHAT YOU NEED

Pick a date range, pick conversations, or both. Conversations are listed by phone number, because the app cannot see your contacts. A filtered backup says on its face that it is not your whole message history.

WHAT IT CANNOT DO

SMS and MMS only. RCS chats (the newer mode in Google Messages, often shown blue) are stored separately by Android and cannot be backed up by any backup app. Check your file against Messages before you rely on it.

PRIVACY

No internet permission at all, so the app cannot send your messages anywhere. No ads, no analytics, no crash reporting. It reads your messages only to build your backup file. The app lists its 20 most recent exports so the phone's owner can see what has been taken, and Android shows the app running for the whole time a backup runs.

OPTIONAL: A PRINTABLE TRANSCRIPT

Want your backup as a dated, page-numbered PDF you can print? Upload the file to texttimeline.com in a browser and buy one there. Entirely optional. The backup itself is free and complete.

Support: [email protected]

Privacy policy: https://texttimeline.com/privacy