Who makes Chatcove

Chatcove reads your entire message history, so the honest first question is who wrote it and where that history ends up. This page answers both, with a real name, a real company and an address you can look up.

Chatcove at a glance

What it does: Exports and backs up WhatsApp chats from an iPhone to a Mac or Windows PC, with photos, videos and voice notes kept in the conversation.
Price: $9 (USD), paid once. No subscription, no account.
License: One license covers up to 2 devices, Mac or Windows. Free updates for the current version. 30-day money-back guarantee.
Free version: Free: browse every chat, read and export the last 5 messages of each. Full access $9, 2 devices.
Runs on: Mac (Apple Silicon only, macOS 12 or later) and Windows (Windows 10 22H2 or later, x64). Windows also needs the free Apple Devices app from the Microsoft Store.
Works with: An iPhone connected to the computer for the backup step, then unplugged. Regular WhatsApp and WhatsApp Business.
Export formats: HTML, PDF, TXT, CSV, with photos, videos and voice notes. Any chat, group chats included.
Privacy: Everything runs locally on your computer. Chats, backups and exports are never uploaded. The only automatic network calls are a license check and an update check, and neither carries chat content.
Made by: Codama (developer Nadav Cohen). Current version 0.2.4 on the Mac, 0.2.4 on Windows. Not affiliated with WhatsApp or Meta.

The person

Chatcove is built by Nadav Cohen, co-founder of Codama. It started the way most small tools do: needing to get a WhatsApp history off an iPhone and onto a Mac, finding that the good option had just moved to a yearly subscription, and deciding the job was small enough to do properly for a one-off price.

If you want to look us up before you install anything, Codama is on LinkedIn, and the company details in the next section are all checkable: the legal entity, the registered office, and a live inbox.

The company

Chatcove is sold by Codama Advanced Engineering, Inc., a Delaware C-Corporation, registered at 8 The Green, Ste A, Dover, DE 19901, USA. Codama is a software agency and has been building software for clients since 2021. Chatcove is our own product rather than client work, which is why it is priced the way it is: the agency pays the bills, so the app does not have to pay them twice a year.

Company: codama.dev
Legal entity: Codama Advanced Engineering, Inc., a Delaware C-Corporation
Company page: Codama on LinkedIn
Registered office: 8 The Green, Ste A, Dover, DE 19901, USA
Email: hello@chatcove.app (a real inbox, read by the person who wrote the app)

Why it never leaves your computer

A tool that opens your message history is a tool that could quietly copy it. We designed around that rather than asking to be trusted on it. There is no account to create, no server to sign in to, and no analytics that carry chat content, because there is no backend for your chats at all.

The useful part is that you do not have to take our word for it. Chatcove does its work with the network turned off: you can pull the Wi-Fi, run a full backup, browse every conversation and export the lot, and nothing about that flow needs the internet. If an app can do its whole job offline, it does not need to send your data anywhere.

That does not mean it never goes online, and we would rather say so here than have you find out. On its own, Chatcove makes two kinds of network call: an update check, and a licence check that registers your computer when you activate and then lets it work offline for up to 21 days between re-checks. Neither carries any part of your chats. Nothing else leaves your computer unless you choose to send us a problem report, and you see everything in it before it goes. Our privacy policy lists exactly what each one sends.

No account and no sign-in. You download the app and it works.
No cloud processing. The backup, the decryption and the export all happen on your computer.
No chat content in telemetry. Your messages, contacts and media never reach us, because the app never uploads them.
Signed and notarised by Apple. The build is signed and Apple-notarised under the Codama Inc developer team, so macOS can verify it came from us and has not been tampered with.

Where we are, honestly

Chatcove is new. The first public build shipped in September 2026 and the current versions are 0.2.4 on the Mac and 0.2.4 on Windows. It does one job, WhatsApp history from an iPhone to a Mac or a Windows PC, and it needs an Apple Silicon Mac (M1 or later) on macOS 12 Monterey or later, or a 64-bit PC on Windows 10 (version 22H2) or Windows 11, with the free Apple Devices app from the Microsoft Store (or iTunes) for the iPhone driver. That is the whole product. If you need a full device manager, or you are on an Intel Mac or macOS 11 or earlier, we are not the right answer and we would rather say so here than after you have paid.

This is also why the app lets you try it before you buy anything. Install it, connect your iPhone, browse every chat, and check that your own data looks right, including right-to-left languages and media, while it is still free. You can read and export the last 5 messages of each chat, so you can check the output too. Paying $9 unlocks every message, and by then you already know whether it works on your chats.

Getting in touch

Email hello@chatcove.app for support, refunds, bugs, or to tell us the export mangled something. It is a small operation, so replies come from a person rather than a ticket system.