Export your data
Use ChatGPT's Export data feature and download the ZIP it sends you.
Private Mac app
Chat Library
Browse the ChatGPT history you downloaded. Chat Library turns your ChatGPT data export into a readable, searchable list of conversations. Included files stay with the messages that use them. Everything is read on your Mac.
$14.99 once No subscription.
Chat Library works on macOS 14 or newer. It opens the ZIP from ChatGPT's Export data feature or its extracted folder.
Your ChatGPT history on your Mac.
No ChatGPT loginOpen the copy supplied through ChatGPT's data export.
No uploadConversations and included files are read locally.
Original files remain intactChat Library reads the export without changing it.
One purchasePay once for the app. There is no subscription.
How it works
Open the export you already own
Open it on your Mac
Select the ZIP or its extracted folder. Chat Library finds the conversation data inside.
Browse and search
Read conversations by title, search their text, and open files included in the export.
Inside the app
Conversations and files in one place
Screenshots use a fictional sample export. No personal account data appears on this page.
Before you buy
What the app opens
- Current systemDesigned for macOS 14 or newer.
- First launchThis direct-download release is not notarized by Apple. If macOS blocks it, open System Settings, choose Privacy & Security, and click Open Anyway beside Chat Library.
- Supported inputA ChatGPT data-export ZIP or extracted folder containing conversations.json.
- Conversation branchesThe current branch is shown first. Saved alternate branches appear as separate entries.
- Export limitsThe app displays what is present in the downloaded export. It cannot retrieve information that is not in those files.
- What the purchase includesThe current app version and its included instructions.
See the files it can open
Download the fictional sample export used in these screenshots and inspect its contents yourself.