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backi.app
Your WhatsApp photos, sorted into folders by local AI
Drop an exported WhatsApp chat ZIP and backi.app sorts it into folders: photos by topic (people, memes, food, screenshots…), videos, audio, PDFs. The AI runs in your browser, so your files never touch our servers. Save to Google Drive or as a ZIP
The problem: I'm in a bunch of family and work groups on WhatsApp. Every time I exported a chat to back up the photos and documents, I got a ZIP with hundreds of files named like `IMG-20240312-WA0042.jpg`, all dumped in one folder. Finding anything was painful, and organizing it by hand took forever.
What backi.app does:
You drop the exported chat ZIP
Photos are split by topic: people, memes, landscapes, food, animals, screenshots, documents and papers…
Videos, audio notes, PDFs, stickers and contacts go to their own folders
You save it all to your Google Drive or download an organized ZIP
The part I care about most is privacy. Everything runs in your browser. There's no backend: the ZIP is opened, analyzed and sorted on your own device, and the AI model (CLIP, via transformers.js in a Web Worker) runs locally too. The chat text itself is thrown away and never uploaded. Google Drive access uses the `drive.file` scope, so the app can only see the files it creates.
Pricing: the preview is free, so you can see exactly how your folders will look before paying. Saving costs USD 5 per chat (or packs of 3 and 5). No account, no subscription.
🎁 For the Product Hunt community: 1 free conversion. Pick "1 conversion" at checkout and use the code GGP3B7Z09A7O.
Stack, for the curious: Vite + React + TypeScript, zip.js to read the export without loading it all into memory, transformers.js + CLIP for photo topics (WebGPU when available, WASM otherwise), Google Identity Services + Drive API, Dodo Payments for license keys. Hosted as a static site.
What's next: OneDrive and Dropbox. I'd love to know which one you'd use, and if there's a folder or category you think is missing.
Thanks for checking it out. I'll be here all day answering questions! 🙌
About backi.app on Product Hunt
“Your WhatsApp photos, sorted into folders by local AI”
backi.app was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #74 on the daily leaderboard. Drop an exported WhatsApp chat ZIP and backi.app sorts it into folders: photos by topic (people, memes, food, screenshots…), videos, audio, PDFs. The AI runs in your browser, so your files never touch our servers. Save to Google Drive or as a ZIP
On the analytics side, backi.app competes within Productivity, Messaging and Artificial Intelligence — topics that collectively have 1.2M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how backi.app performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted backi.app?
backi.app was hunted by Pablo. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of backi.app including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Pablo
Hey Product Hunt! 👋
I'm the maker of backi.app.
The problem: I'm in a bunch of family and work groups on WhatsApp. Every time I exported a chat to back up the photos and documents, I got a ZIP with hundreds of files named like `IMG-20240312-WA0042.jpg`, all dumped in one folder. Finding anything was painful, and organizing it by hand took forever.
What backi.app does:
You drop the exported chat ZIP
Photos are split by topic: people, memes, landscapes, food, animals, screenshots, documents and papers…
Videos, audio notes, PDFs, stickers and contacts go to their own folders
You save it all to your Google Drive or download an organized ZIP
The part I care about most is privacy. Everything runs in your browser. There's no backend: the ZIP is opened, analyzed and sorted on your own device, and the AI model (CLIP, via transformers.js in a Web Worker) runs locally too. The chat text itself is thrown away and never uploaded. Google Drive access uses the `drive.file` scope, so the app can only see the files it creates.
Pricing: the preview is free, so you can see exactly how your folders will look before paying. Saving costs USD 5 per chat (or packs of 3 and 5). No account, no subscription.
🎁 For the Product Hunt community: 1 free conversion. Pick "1 conversion" at checkout and use the code GGP3B7Z09A7O.
Stack, for the curious: Vite + React + TypeScript, zip.js to read the export without loading it all into memory, transformers.js + CLIP for photo topics (WebGPU when available, WASM otherwise), Google Identity Services + Drive API, Dodo Payments for license keys. Hosted as a static site.
What's next: OneDrive and Dropbox. I'd love to know which one you'd use, and if there's a folder or category you think is missing.
Thanks for checking it out. I'll be here all day answering questions! 🙌