Over 5GB of memories? Snapchat can start locking old ones in
Keep your Snapchat memories without paying to open them
Snapchat’s export hands you a folder of undated files with the captions torn off. This puts the dates, locations and captions back, without uploading anything.
In your browser
No install, no account, no upload queue. It starts working the second you drop the file in.
$5, one time
First 500 files free, so you can check it works before deciding we deserve money.
Real dates, restored
EXIF and GPS written back in, on the local time where you took each one, so your photos land on the day they happened.
Save it anywhere
In Chrome or Edge you pick a folder and the photos land in it: your Drive or iCloud folder, an external drive, wherever. Safari and Firefox hand you one ZIP.
How it works
Three steps, one of which is just waiting for Snapchat
- 01
Ask Snapchat for your data
In the app: Settings → Privacy Controls → My Data. Switch on “Export your Memories” and “Export JSON Files”. They email you a download link, eventually. This part is on them.
- 02
Drop it in below
The ZIPs exactly as Snapchat sent them, or the folders Safari unzipped them into. It's read in the browser tab you're already looking at, and nothing from your export is sent anywhere.
- 03
Get your memories back, dated
Captions drawn back onto photos and into videos, real capture dates and locations written into each file, all of it saved wherever you choose.
One email, two if you pick both days, then we’re done. We don’t keep a list, and there’s no newsletter, ever.
Your export
Drop in what Snapchat sent you
It stays on this device. There is no upload step, no account, no Snapchat login, and no server holding your photos. The work happens in this tab.
Drag your export here
The ZIPs Snapchat sent you, or the folders Safari unzipped them into. Several at once is fine: Snapchat splits big exports.
FAQ
Questions people actually ask
Do you see my photos?
No. There's nothing on our end that could. The website is just the delivery: once the page loads, your own device does all the work, unzipping, drawing captions, rebuilding videos, on the same chip that plays your Netflix. We don't own a server that could do it. We own a website and a strong opinion. And we never ask for your Snapchat login: you download your export from Snapchat yourself. Don't take our word for any of it. Turn off your Wi-Fi after the page loads and it still works. Or right-click the page, choose Inspect, open the Network tab, and watch nothing with your photos in it leave.
How do I get the ZIP in the first place?
In Snapchat: profile → gear icon → Privacy Controls → My Data. Switch on “Export your Memories” and “Export JSON Files”, choose All Time, submit. The email usually lands within a day or two, and Snapchat says up to seven. The how it works page walks through every tap.
Why $5?
For the tool, and for how it's built. Doing the work in your browser instead of on a server was the harder way to build this, and it's the only version where “your photos never leave your machine” is a fact rather than a promise. Five dollars, once, however many files you have, and the first 500 are free, so you can check the dates landed before you pay.