Your memories are still in there.
Pull the messages, photos, and voicemails out of any old iPhone backup — right on your own laptop. Nothing uploaded, nothing paid, nothing to sign up for.
Every iMessage and SMS, complete with photos and voice notes. Read them here or print the whole thread as a PDF.
Chats and groups with their photos, voice messages, replies and calls, in the order they arrived. Save one chat or all of them as a PDF or a web page.
All your camera roll, with original quality and the date, time, and place they were taken.
Listen to voicemails you thought you'd lost — including from people who aren't around to leave new ones.
The address book: names, phone numbers, email addresses and notes. Save it as a vCard to import somewhere else.
Everything in Apple Notes, from shopping lists to recipes to that novel you started.
Who you called, when, and for how long. Simple spreadsheet you can search.
The pages visited in Safari and Firefox, and the sites you went back to most. Safari's history is in encrypted backups.
The shows you follow and every episode you played. Save your subscriptions to move them to another podcast app (how).
Everything in the backup in one list by date, and one box that searches texts, WhatsApp, notes, calls and more at once.
Everyone you were in touch with, with your texts, WhatsApp chats, calls and voicemails to and from them together.
A whole year at a glance, one square per day. Click a day to see what happened.
If you've ever plugged an iPhone into this computer, a backup is probably already on it and OpenExtract finds it automatically. If not, plug in your phone and make one — Finder on Mac, iTunes on Windows.
Encrypted backups need the password you set. OpenExtract handles this on your laptop; the password never leaves it.
Messages, WhatsApp, photos, contacts, calls, notes, voicemail and podcasts on one page. Search texts, WhatsApp, notes, calls and more from one box. Nothing you click changes the backup.
Text threads as PDF, photos as originals, and the rest as everyday files, in a folder you choose.
A phone can stay locked for good after someone dies, but a backup on their computer can still hold their saved voicemails. OpenExtract plays them and saves the audio.
If the phone is cracked or gone, an old iTunes or Finder backup may still have the camera roll. OpenExtract pulls the originals back out, albums included.
Moving to Android doesn't have to mean losing years of messages. Back up the iPhone once, then keep every thread on your computer.
Thank-yous sent from inside OpenExtract by people who said it was OK to quote them. Word for word, without names. Read them all →
OpenExtract is open source — anyone can read the code. There's no account, and it doesn't know who you are. It goes online for only two things: to check for a newer version, if you say yes, and to send a feedback report when you click Send. Nothing from your backup goes with either. We made it this way on purpose.
Can't find yours? There's a real human in the GitHub discussions who'll answer.
Yes. You don't need the phone at all — just a backup sitting on a computer you own. Any iTunes or Finder backup will do, even years-old ones.
No catch. It's MIT-licensed open source, built in the open by an independent developer. There's no account, no trial, no paid tier and nothing to upgrade to. It's free, with no strings attached. The code is public on GitHub if you want to verify. Coming from iMazing? Here's what the free iMazing alternative covers, and where iMazing still wins.
Yes, as long as you know the password. Encrypted backups actually contain more data (saved passwords, Safari history), so they're usually the better choice when you have the option.
Messages and WhatsApp chats as PDF, HTML, CSV, or plain text (here’s how to export WhatsApp chats). Photos as originals (HEIC, JPEG, MOV). Contacts as vCard or CSV. Podcast subscriptions as OPML, which most podcast apps import (how to move your podcasts). Each time you save, you choose where the files go.
No. OpenExtract only reads files that are already on your computer. It never talks to Apple's servers or your iCloud.
Download OpenExtract, point it at a backup, and see what's in there. Takes about two minutes.