SMS Backup: Export PDF & Print

Save text messages as a PDF, print them, or back up your SMS, MMS and RCS chats. Export one conversation or your whole message history with contact names, dates, times and photos, then print it, email it or open it on a computer.

People use it to print text messages for court, keep evidence for a lawyer, save conversations with someone they love, or move their SMS to another phone. No account needed. Premium is a one-time purchase with no subscription.

PRINT TEXT MESSAGES AS A PDF
Every conversation becomes a clean PDF with chat bubbles, date separators, real emoji and MMS photos. Print it straight from the app, or open it on any phone or computer.

TEXT MESSAGES FOR COURT
The legal export is made for custody and divorce cases, harassment reports, insurance claims and landlord disputes:
• Cover page with the total message count
• Sender name and full timestamp above every message
• Page X of Y numbering, with optional Bates numbers
• Case reference and custodian name on the cover
• Optional certification page for a signed declaration
• SHA-256 hash and manifest file, so anyone can check the document hasn't been changed

PASSWORD-PROTECTED BACKUPS
Lock a backup with a password before you share it, email it or copy it somewhere else. Messages and attachments are encrypted with AES-256 and can only be opened with your password.

EXPORT EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED
• Pick single conversations or group chats, or export everything at once
• Limit the export to a date range
• Include photos, videos and voice messages as separate files
• Search your conversations to find the right one

FORMATS
• PDF: ready to print, opens anywhere
• Legal export: cover page, sender captions, page numbers
• Dark PDF: the same document on a dark page
• HTML (Classic): chat bubbles in any web browser
• Plain text: the smallest file
• CSV: one row per message for Excel or Google Sheets

BACK UP, TRANSFER AND RESTORE SMS
Every backup includes a data file you can restore. Switching phones? Copy the backup to your other phone and restore your text messages in a few taps.

AUTOMATIC BACKUPS TO GOOGLE DRIVE
Choose daily, weekly or monthly. Backups run in the background and upload to your own Google Drive, so a lost or broken phone doesn't take your messages with it.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
• No account or sign-up
• Files are created on your phone and stay in your storage or your own Google Drive
• Your messages are never sent to us

PREMIUM
One purchase unlocks the legal export, password-protected backups, scheduled Google Drive backups, photos and videos as files, Dark PDF and CSV, and removes ads. Without Premium you still get PDF, HTML and plain text exports, date ranges, and backup and restore.

GOOD TO KNOW
• The app can't recover messages that were already deleted.
• RCS chats from Google Messages are included, as are Samsung Messages chats on many Samsung phones. On Android 16 and newer, encrypted chats can only be read by your default texting app. Turn on "Include encrypted chats" in Settings to export them.
• Restore supports SMS text messages.
• Password protection is available for manual backups on Android 8 and newer. File names inside the backup, such as contact names, stay visible. On Windows, open protected backups with 7-Zip or WinZip.

Questions or ideas? support@smsbackupexport.com

Recent changes:
• New PDF viewer: pinch or double-tap to zoom in, and select and copy text.
• Out of storage? A backup now tells you clearly that the phone ran out of space and removes the unfinished backup, instead of failing with a generic error. Scheduled backups send a notification and try again next time.
• Scheduled backups run more reliably on phones where they kept stopping and restarting.
• Smaller fixes and improvements.