This turns a WhatsApp chat export into a clean, readable PDF built for legal and record-keeping use, with timestamps, numbered messages and pages, exhibit numbering, a digital fingerprint of your original file, and a declaration page you can sign. It runs entirely in your browser: your messages never leave your device, and you can prove it by turning off your internet before you convert. Free, no account, no per-document fee.
If you need to bring a WhatsApp conversation into a custody case, a divorce, a protective-order filing, a tenancy dispute, or a workplace complaint, a wall of screenshots is hard to follow and easy to challenge. A single continuous document (every message in order, with its date, time and sender, and page numbers you can cite) reads far more clearly. The court-ready preset produces exactly that, and adds the things a records exhibit is usually expected to carry:
This is general information about formatting a record, not legal advice. Whether messages can be admitted, and what a particular court requires, varies by jurisdiction, so check with a lawyer about your situation.
A document you can edit is a document the other side can question. So this tool has no edit button. None. It reproduces your export word for word, exactly as your own phone wrote it. The only thing you control is what to leave out: you can limit the date range or leave a participant out, and wherever you do, the PDF prints a clear marker, “[N messages withheld by the preparer]”, instead of quietly dropping anything. That honesty is the point: nothing is hidden, and nothing is changed.
Beyond a tidy layout, the court preset records a digital fingerprint of your original file: a unique code that changes completely if even one character of the file changes, so anyone can confirm they're looking at the same file you started from. It notes how the dates were read (and your choice if the format was ambiguous), how many lines were read, and which attachments were found. The final page is your own signed declaration that you exported the chat from your device and didn't alter it. The tool formats and fingerprints; it never claims to verify who wrote the messages.
Open the chat, tap the contact or group name at the top, scroll down and tap Export Chat, then choose Attach Media (a .zip with photos) or Without Media (a .txt). Save it to Files, then open this page and pick that file.
Open the chat, tap the ⋮ menu, choose More → Export chat, then pick Include media or Without media. Save the file, then open this page and choose it.
Either format works. “With media” gives you inline photos in the PDF; “without media” is a smaller text-only export.
Use WhatsApp's own “Export Chat”, with or without media, and save the file.
See the messages laid out like a chat, with the count, participants and dates confirmed up front. If any line couldn't be read, it's surfaced before you export, never lost quietly.
Choose the court-ready or simple preset and create the PDF, then save it or share it straight to email, your files, or your attorney.