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WhatsApp ties your chats to a phone number you might lose. Chat Hoarding App decrypts your Android backup on your Mac, fully offline, and saves every message, voice note, photo, and receipt to a file you own forever. No cloud. No subscription. $99 once.
If you use WhatsApp on Android, you've probably seen this: "Google Drive is full. Backup failed." Your only options are pay Google forever, delete chats to fit, or watch the backup quietly stop working.
I got tired of renting space from Google to keep messages I already own. So I built Chat Hoarding.
🔐 Decrypts your WhatsApp backup locally on your Mac with your own 64-digit key. Nothing uploaded, ever.
📱 Three ways to pull the backup off Android: USB drag-drop, built-in adb, or the companion app.
💾 Once it's on your Mac, it's yours. Drop the archive on an external drive, NAS, or wherever you keep things that matter. No Google Drive quota. No iCloud upsell. No phone number lock-in.
🛡 Only 2 network calls in the entire app: license check + update check. Your chats never leave your Mac.
People are using it to:
• Keep conversations with a parent or partner who passed away
• Preserve years of chats before switching phones or changing numbers
• Save group history before someone leaves or a number gets reassigned
• Keep a personal record before a number, account, or device is gone
🎁 Product Hunt launch: code PH40OFF → 40% off ($59 instead of $99). Ends Sat May 23 (48h).
This solves a surprisingly emotional problem, not just a storage problem. Curious how you handle search inside large archives is it mainly chronological browsing, or can users quickly find old messages, media, and receipts across years of chats?
About Chat Hoarding App on Product Hunt
“A WhatsApp archive that outlives the phone”
Chat Hoarding App was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 6 upvotes and 3 comments, placing #66 on the daily leaderboard. WhatsApp ties your chats to a phone number you might lose. Chat Hoarding App decrypts your Android backup on your Mac, fully offline, and saves every message, voice note, photo, and receipt to a file you own forever. No cloud. No subscription. $99 once.
Chat Hoarding App was featured in Mac (103.5k followers), Messaging (51.9k followers) and Privacy (11.1k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 27.7k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Chat Hoarding App?
Chat Hoarding App was hunted by Zeynal Zeynalov. 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.
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Zeynal Zeynalov
Hey Product Hunt 👋
If you use WhatsApp on Android, you've probably seen this: "Google Drive is full. Backup failed." Your only options are pay Google forever, delete chats to fit, or watch the backup quietly stop working.
I got tired of renting space from Google to keep messages I already own. So I built Chat Hoarding.
🔐 Decrypts your WhatsApp backup locally on your Mac with your own 64-digit key. Nothing uploaded, ever.
📱 Three ways to pull the backup off Android: USB drag-drop, built-in adb, or the companion app.
🎙 Everything renders — voice notes, photos, videos, calls, locations, deleted messages, group history, per-recipient read receipts.
💾 Once it's on your Mac, it's yours. Drop the archive on an external drive, NAS, or wherever you keep things that matter. No Google Drive quota. No iCloud upsell. No phone number lock-in.
🛡 Only 2 network calls in the entire app: license check + update check. Your chats never leave your Mac.
People are using it to:
• Keep conversations with a parent or partner who passed away
• Preserve years of chats before switching phones or changing numbers
• Save group history before someone leaves or a number gets reassigned
• Keep a personal record before a number, account, or device is gone
🎁 Product Hunt launch: code PH40OFF → 40% off ($59 instead of $99). Ends Sat May 23 (48h).
$99 one-time. 2 Macs. Lifetime v1.x updates. 14-day refund.
Next on my list: iPhone source + a mobile chat viewer. Would love feedback on what to build after.