How to print a WhatsApp chat as a book
Updated November 8, 2026
Export the chat from WhatsApp with its media, drop the file into Bound Texts, choose the dates or the best moments, and check every page on screen. The book is printed as a 6 × 9 inch color paperback and mailed to you, for $49 with standard US shipping.
1. Export the chat from WhatsApp
Choose to include media, so your photos come with it. The steps for iPhone and Android, from WhatsApp's own help page, are in how to export a WhatsApp chat with photos. Save the file to your phone or computer.
2. Drop it into the book maker
On the home page, pick the ZIP (or the text file) WhatsApp made. It is opened in your browser; the chat is not uploaded.
3. Choose what goes in
- Title and subtitle for the title page and the cover.
- Whose messages go on the right, like your own side in the app.
- The dates: the whole chat, or a stretch of it.
- Every message, or the best moments. For a chat that runs to years, the best moments edition makes a shorter book of the messages worth keeping.
4. Check every page
The whole book is drawn on screen: the title page, your story in numbers (first message, busiest day, favorite emoji), and every page of the chat. Change anything and make it again; nothing is charged until you order.
5. Pick the cover and order
Choose the cover color and see the back, spine and front. The book is printed as a paperback with color pages and mailed to you, about 11 to 13 business days with standard US shipping. The PDF of the same book is yours to keep.
What the printed book is like
- 6 × 9 inch, the size of a trade paperback, with a matte cover.
- At least 32 pages: a short chat is printed with blank pages at the end.
- Up to 300 pages for $49; up to 600 pages for $69.
- Voice messages and videos appear as small labels where they were sent.
Questions
Can I just print the chat from my phone?
WhatsApp has no print button. Its export gives you a plain text file, which prints as lines of dates and names, and screenshots of a long chat run to hundreds of images. A book maker lays the chat out as it looked, with bubbles, emoji and photos.
Will both sides of the conversation be in the book?
Yes. Each person has their own side, as in the app, and you choose whose messages go on the right. In a group chat, everyone else's messages carry the sender's name.
Can I leave some messages out?
You can choose the dates the book covers, or the best moments edition, which keeps the warm, funny and grateful messages, birthdays and photos with the messages around them. Single messages cannot be removed one by one yet.