Open your Google Voice Takeout and read your texts by contact, on screen.

MessageBinder is a web page that turns a Google Voice Takeout zip into dated PDFs with the photos in place, plus spreadsheets and the original attachments, entirely in your browser: nothing is uploaded. Reading every message on screen is free; the PDF export is US$14.99 once, with no subscription.

You can, one at a time: Takeout saves each day of each conversation as its own .html page, in Takeout › Voice › Calls, with the photos as separate files, so a year of texting with one person is hundreds of pages. This page reads the whole zip and joins them into one conversation per contact.

No. Your messages are read and turned into PDFs inside your browser; they are never uploaded. Once the page has loaded, you can turn off Wi‑Fi and it still works. The page only fetches its own files (the page, its code and fonts) and, if you bought a license, asks our payment company whether your key is valid: when you enter it and each time you open the page again. It also sends the anonymous step counts described under “Before you pay”.

Takeout gives one small web page per contact per day, so a year with one person is hundreds of pages, with no photos inline and no calls. Screenshots have no dates you can search and take hours. MessageBinder joins each contact into one dated PDF (long chats come in parts) with the photos in place and a spreadsheet you can sort, in your browser. Try the free sample before paying; if it isn’t right for you, you have spent nothing.

Reading is free: open the zip, list your contacts and read every message with each, photos included, with no account and no email. Money changes hands only if you want it as files: one payment of US$14.99 gives a dated, page-numbered PDF per contact, spreadsheets of every message and of the calls and voicemails with their transcripts, and the voicemail recordings, on 5 devices.

In the zip too, and the page counts them. The full export lists each call and voicemail in a spreadsheet (calls.csv) with the date, time, number, length and the transcript, and the recordings come along in their own folder. The on-screen preview shows the text conversations.

Yes, if they were in the account when the export was made. The viewer reads the file, not your account, so a Takeout made while the number was still yours keeps working after the number is gone.

Yes. Download the zip on the phone, or save it to Drive or Files, open this page in the phone’s browser and pick the zip. Reading works the same; a large full export downloads in a few parts on a phone.

Add them all at once: the page reads every part and merges the conversations. The order you add them in does not matter.

The whole zip is read, but the list can be filtered by name or number, you open only the contact you want, and when exporting you can tick just that one.

Pictures sent or received as MMS, which Takeout saves next to the page they belong to. Google sometimes lists an attachment it no longer has; the page tells you how many are missing from the zip.

At takeout.google.com: Deselect all, tick Voice, Next step, Create export, then wait for Google’s email. The Google Voice to PDF page shows each click, and the guide to the Takeout files explains what is inside.

Nothing to read: open the zip, list your contacts and read every message with each, photos included; no account, no email. The PDFs, the spreadsheets and the recordings are one payment of US$14.99, no subscription, which also covers WhatsApp and phone texts, on 5 devices. If the full export does not work for your files, email us within 30 days for a full refund.