Turn a text conversation into a clean PDF.
Kept Texts makes a PDF you can print, share or keep: every name, date and time, both sides, in order and numbered, so anyone can point to a text. For court and custody, a landlord dispute, HR, or keeping a loved one's texts.
Coming soon to the App Store, for iPhone with iOS 26 or later.
How it works
- Pick the chat through Kept Texts' shortcut, and allow it: Apple's Shortcuts app hands over every text with its exact words and time. Or record your screen while you scroll, pick screenshots, or use WhatsApp's Export Chat file.
- Kept Texts puts it in order on your iPhone and marks anything it wasn't sure of, for you to check.
- Preview your whole PDF free. Save, print and share it with a pass.
What the PDF has
- Every text with who sent it and when, numbered.
- Each text's exact time from the shortcut. From a recording, "after 6:12 PM" where Messages showed only a section time: never a guessed time.
- A cover with who, when and where it came from (Messages through Apple Shortcuts, or your recording, with its frames and fingerprint).
- A list of every fix you made, so the record stays honest.
Private by design
No account. Your texts, recordings and records never leave your iPhone unless you share them. Face ID Lock, Hide Names and Delete Everything are built in.
Price
Free to make, check and preview. $9.99 for 30 days or $29.99 for a year to save, print and share. Nothing renews.
Guides
- How to print text messages for court
- How to export iPhone text messages to PDF
- Text messages for a custody case
- Saving texts from someone who died
Questions
How does Kept Texts get my texts?
Kept Texts can't open Messages by itself. Pick a chat through its shortcut and Apple's Shortcuts app hands it over, every text with its exact words and time, after you allow it. Or record your screen while you scroll the chat, pick screenshots you already took, or use WhatsApp's own Export Chat file. It all happens on your iPhone; nothing is uploaded.
Will it show the exact time of every text?
Through the shortcut, yes: every text comes with its exact time. A screen recording only sees the times Messages shows, one above each section, so Kept Texts never guesses: a text without its own time says "after 6:12 PM" until a short second recording fills it in.
What if a word is read wrong?
Anything Kept Texts wasn't sure of is marked for you to check against the picture it was read from. Times can't be typed in, and every fix you make is listed at the end of the PDF.
Is it a subscription?
No. It's free to make, check and preview your whole PDF. A pass to save, print and share costs $9.99 for 30 days or $29.99 for a year, and never renews.
Will a court accept the PDF?
Every court has its own rules, so ask your lawyer or the court clerk. Kept Texts doesn't certify anything. It makes a clear, honest record of what was on your screen, with a fingerprint of the recording it came from.
More answers on the support page, or email support@fwrdsms.com.