AI conversations today contain far more than plain text. They include screenshots, diagrams, tables, structured lists, technical instructions, nested reasoning, and even complex visual references. For professionals, these elements are essential: a single broken table or missing image can destroy the meaning of the entire conversation. Yet most export tools still flatten everything into raw text, lose formatting, compress images, or completely remove visual elements. This happens because cloud-based and browser-extension exporters rely on simplistic scraping methods that capture only surface-level content. When a chat is exported through a server, formatting is reconstructed from logs or stripped HTML, which causes lists to collapse, tables to misalign, and images to disappear.
ChatExport takes a fundamentally different, engineering-driven approach. Instead of scraping, it rebuilds the entire conversation structurally — on the device, with zero cloud involvement. The app identifies each element in the chat as a distinct semantic component: images, bullet lists, numbered steps, nested layers, tables, code blocks, headings, spacing rules, and more. This structural reconstruction allows the final export (PDF, Markdown, HTML, TXT) to remain faithful to the original conversation. Images are preserved in full resolution without compression or resizing. Lists maintain indentation, numbering, sub-numbering, and spacing. Tables keep their columns, alignment, and readable cell structure. Even long technical chats with deep nesting and mixed formatting become clean, readable, and professionally formatted files.
Because everything happens locally, ChatExport never uploads images or content to external servers. All processing — including layout logic, image extraction, text reconstruction, and PDF generation — happens directly on the iPhone. That means no compression, no data loss, and no privacy risks. The result is a high-quality export that looks intentional, consistent, and reliable. Developers keep their code blocks intact, researchers retain their diagrams and tables, consultants preserve multi-step frameworks, founders keep their product notes structured, and writers maintain clean formatting for future drafts. ChatExport ensures that your exported knowledge stays complete, clear, and trustworthy — exactly as it appeared in your AI conversation.