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Bubblebound
Export a WhatsApp chat, get back a book. Photos and all.
iPhone: free to try, one-time unlock €8,99, no subscription
A chat is a story you never get to hold. Bubblebound takes the export WhatsApp already gives you — on iPhone or Android, with or without media — and binds it into a PDF book: a cover with your own title, dedication and a photo out of the chat itself, a chapter per day, the messages as bubbles, and the photos printed where they were sent. It all happens on your iPhone.
What It Does
- Import a chat export (.txt or .zip), or simply paste the text of one
- Unpacks an "Attach Media" archive itself and prints the photos in the book, captions and all
- Read the entire book in the app before you pay anything — cover, day chapters, bubbles, who said what
- Make the cover yours: your own title, a dedication line, and any photo from the chat on the front
- Three looks: Classic, Ink (kind to your printer) and Night
- Search inside the book, and see the story stats: messages, active days, busiest day, who wrote how much
- A printed table of contents and real PDF bookmarks, so a three-year chat can be leafed through instead of scrolled
- Export as PDF: A4 or US Letter, one column or two (about half the pages), an optional date range, photos on or off, system lines on or off
- Not sure yet? Open the built-in sample chat and see a finished book in one tap
Why You'll Like It
- One-time purchase — no subscription, and no fee per chat or per page
- 100% on your iPhone: no account, no cloud, no upload — and the app asks for no permissions at all
- No ads, no tracking, no third-party SDKs
- Your export is read, bound and stored on the device, and shared only when you hand it to the share sheet yourself
A printed chat book is normally a mail-order service: you upload the most personal thing on your phone to a stranger's server, then pay per page. Bubblebound does the binding on the device and asks once.
Reading and arranging your book is free. The one-time unlock turns on the PDF export — for every chat, as often as you like.
Note: Bubblebound is not a backup service. Your library lives on this iPhone, so export the books you want to keep.
Ideas, gripes, or something broken in Bubblebound?
Tell us here; it goes straight to the people who build it. The more specific, the faster we can do something with it. For a problem, the iPhone model, the iOS version and the steps up to where it goes wrong are what let us reproduce it.
Or email info@kaliyuga-apps.nl. What you send goes to us and nowhere else; see the website privacy statement.