A Valentine's gift from your text messages — already written.

A Valentine's gift made from your text messages is a short, private keepsake built from your own chat history — the pet names, inside jokes, busiest hours and phrases the two of you have already written to each other. Export your iMessage, WhatsApp or Messenger chat, drop the file into Story of Us, and the keepsake is ready to read in about a minute; download it as a PDF to print yourself. The chat file is read in your browser and never uploaded, and nothing ships, so it works even on the morning of February 14.

The most personal Valentine's gift is already on your phone. Flowers wilt and chocolate gets eaten by Thursday; your message history doesn't — years of good-mornings, inside jokes, and you up? texts, sitting there unread as a whole. Story of Us reads your own chat export and turns it into a short keepsake built from your actual words, not a template with your names swapped in — ready to read together on Valentine's Day, or any evening you'd rather feel like one.

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How to make a Valentine's gift from your text messages

1. Export your chat. Follow the export guide for the app you two talk on: a .txt or .zip from WhatsApp on your phone, a Mac's chat.db for iMessage, or a message-storage download from Messenger.
2. Drop the file into Story of Us. Open the import screen in your browser and drop the file in. The export is read right there on your device and never uploaded.
3. Read your keepsake in about a minute. It builds from the patterns in your own words — pet names, inside jokes, your busiest hour — ready to read together on screen.
4. Download the PDF and print it. Save the keepsake as a PDF and print it at home or at a print shop to tuck into a Valentine's card. We don't print or ship anything.

The export guides walk through each app screen by screen: iMessage, WhatsApp, or Messenger.

Why it fits Valentine's Day

Valentine's is the one day built around saying it in words — this just uses the words you've already said. The pet name you made up without noticing, the year you texted the most, the hour you're most likely to reach for each other, the phrase one of you repeats without knowing it. It reads like the two of you, because it's built entirely from the two of you. A card says how you feel today; this shows what the two of you have actually been saying all along.

A last-minute Valentine's gift that doesn't feel last-minute

Nothing ships, so there is no delivery window to miss and no "order by February 10th" fine print. Once your export is in hand, the keepsake is ready in about a minute — whether you plan it weeks ahead or think of it over coffee on the morning of the 14th. WhatsApp and iMessage exports take a few minutes from your own device. Messenger is the slow one: Meta has to prepare your message-storage download, and a long history can take a while, so request it a few days before Valentine's Day.

Where do you two talk?

Pick the app where most of your love notes live. Each guide walks through the export, screen by screen.

• iMessage — read straight from a Mac's chat.db. See the export steps →
• WhatsApp — export a chat straight from your phone. See the export steps →
• Messenger — a "message storage" download from account settings. See the export steps →

What you get

For Valentine’s Day, it’s a love letter you both already wrote, a few texts at a time. It’s built only from your own history: pet names and inside jokes it noticed on its own, your year-by-year rhythm, your busiest hour, the words you reach for without thinking. Read it on screen, then download the PDF to keep or print, ready in about a minute. No subscription, nothing shipped.

Ways to give it on the 14th

• Read it together on a screen over dinner, card by card — and settle which of you actually texts more.
• Print the PDF and fold a page or two into a Valentine's card, so the card is literally in your own words.
• Apart this Valentine's Day? Send it, then go through it together on a call. It arrives the moment you send it.

Privacy, plainly

Your export never leaves your device: it’s read right there in your browser. To write the captions, a much smaller slice goes to our server: your most-used words and phrases, counts and rhythms (who texts more, your streaks, your busiest hour), and a few sample messages, your first texts and your most recent. Never the file, never the whole conversation. Read exactly what we send →

Good to know before you make one

• It's built for one relationship's own history — a group chat won't produce a clean two-person keepsake.
• A newer relationship still works fine; less history just means a shorter keepsake.
• It's a page you read on your own device plus a PDF you print yourself — not a physical card or book we print and ship.

Make our Valentine's keepsake One-time · no subscription · iMessage, WhatsApp, or Messenger · stays on your device

Want to see a real one first? A peek inside a keepsake → · How it works →

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