A free, open-source terminal tool that copies your WhatsApp chats, photos, videos, and voice notes from an iPhone backup onto your Mac. Does what the paid apps do — without the price tag.
Everything you need to move your WhatsApp data off your iPhone and onto your Mac.
Every message, photo, video, voice note, PDF, and sticker — organized into a folder per conversation.
WhatsApp strips photo dates and GPS location. This tool can put them back using the original message timestamps.
No account, no upload, no payment. The tool runs locally on your Mac and never sends your data anywhere.
Every step is a copy-and-paste command in Terminal. No programming experience needed.
Connect your iPhone to your Mac with a USB cable and back it up using Finder (free, built-in).
Paste one command into Terminal. The tool finds your WhatsApp data inside the backup automatically.
All your chats and media appear as organized folders on your Mac, ready to open, read, or back up elsewhere.
Yes. It's open-source under the MIT license — free to use, forever, with no hidden costs or subscriptions.
Yes. The tool runs entirely on your own Mac. Your WhatsApp messages, photos, and videos never leave your computer.
No. It works with a normal, unencrypted iPhone backup created through Finder — no jailbreak required.
No. Every step is a command you copy and paste into Terminal. The README walks through it in plain language.
A Mac, your iPhone with a USB cable, and a local iPhone backup created via Finder. That's it.
Not yet — the backup needs to be unencrypted so the tool can read its file index.
Paid tools like iMazing, Dr.Fone, and AnyTrans charge for the same basic job: reading WhatsApp data out of an iPhone backup. This does it for free, out in the open, with the source code on GitHub for anyone to check.
Free forever. Open source. Runs entirely on your Mac.
Requires macOS or Linux and Python 3.10+. No account required.