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How Textlore compares with other iMessage tools.
Side by side with the other ways to save, search and export your texts, including where each one is the better pick.
Textlore vs iMazingiMazing reads iPhone backups on Mac and Windows and manages the whole phone. Textlore finds recs and promises and searches, keeps and exports the history on your Mac.
Textlore vs Decipher TextMessageBoth are one-time purchases that save texts as PDF and CSV. Decipher reads iPhone backups. Textlore adds Recs, Promises, WhatsApp for Mac, search and private exports.
Textlore vs imessage-exporterA free, open-source command-line tool for text and HTML exports, or a Mac app with Recs, Promises, search, more formats and an archive.
iMazing alternative5 options for your iMessages, by what you need: texts on your Mac, an iPhone backup, or a whole-phone backup.
Decipher TextMessage alternativeWhen to pick Textlore, iMazing or imessage-exporter instead of Decipher, and when to stay.
imessage-exporter alternativeA Mac app with a window instead of Terminal, and when the free tool is still the better pick.
Textlore vs Messages searchIs the built-in search enough? Recs, Promises, date filters and an archive against free and built in.
Textlore vs SpotlightOne shortcut for everything on your Mac, or a search built only for your messages.