# Kept Texts

> Kept Texts is an iPhone app that turns a text conversation into a clean PDF: every text with who sent it and when, both sides, in order and numbered. For court, custody, HR, a landlord or keeping someone's texts. Nothing is uploaded.

App Store name "Kept Texts: Messages to PDF"; Home Screen name "Kept". Kept Texts is coming soon to the App Store, for iPhone with iOS 26 or later.

## Facts
- What it is: An iPhone app that turns a text conversation into a PDF record you can print, share or keep.
- Works with: Messages (through Apple's Shortcuts app), screen recordings, screenshots, and WhatsApp's Export Chat file.
- Needs: An iPhone with iOS 26 or later. No computer and no account.
- Price: Free to make, check and preview. $9.99 for 30 days or $29.99 for a year to save, print and share. Never renews.
- Privacy: Everything happens on the iPhone. Your texts are never uploaded.
- Made by: The maker of Fwrd. Support at support@fwrdsms.com.
- Times: exact for every text through the shortcut. From a recording or screenshots, a text Messages showed only under a section time says "after 6:12 PM"; Kept Texts never guesses or lets anyone type a time.
- Checking: anything unclear is marked to check against the picture it was read from; every fix is listed in the PDF.
- Group chats aren't supported yet: it makes records of chats with one other person.
- It doesn't certify records or give legal advice.

## Pages
- [Home](https://kepttexts.com/)
- [Sample PDF, made-up texts](https://kepttexts.com/sample/kept-texts-sample.pdf)
- [Support](https://kepttexts.com/support/)
- [Privacy policy](https://kepttexts.com/privacy/)
- [Everything on this site as plain text](https://kepttexts.com/llms-full.txt)

## Guides
- [How to Print Text Messages for Court](https://kepttexts.com/guides/print-text-messages-for-court/): Print an iPhone text conversation for court as one clear PDF: who sent each text and when, both sides, in order and numbered. No computer needed.
- [How to Export iPhone Text Messages to PDF](https://kepttexts.com/guides/export-iphone-text-messages-to-pdf/): Export a whole iMessage or SMS conversation to one PDF on your iPhone, with every text's sender, date and time, both sides, numbered.
- [How to Print Text Messages With the Date and Time](https://kepttexts.com/guides/print-text-messages-with-date-and-time/): Messages shows one time per group of texts, so screenshots miss most times. Here's how to print every text with its own date, time and sender.
- [How to Get Text Messages Ready for a Custody Case](https://kepttexts.com/guides/text-messages-for-custody-case/): Put your texts with the other parent in one PDF your lawyer can use: both sides, every date and time, numbered. Made on your iPhone, nothing uploaded.
- [What to Look for in an App to Export Texts for Court](https://kepttexts.com/guides/choose-an-app-to-export-texts-for-court/): Before you pay for an app to export iPhone texts for court, check these eight things: times, names, both sides, numbering, honesty and privacy.
- [How to Save an Entire Text Conversation on iPhone](https://kepttexts.com/guides/save-an-entire-text-conversation/): Messages can't save a whole conversation in one go. Here's how to keep all of it as one PDF on your iPhone, with every text's sender and time.
- [How to Turn Text Message Screenshots Into One PDF](https://kepttexts.com/guides/text-message-screenshots-to-pdf/): Turn a pile of text message screenshots into one clean PDF: every text in order, the overlap removed, with sender and time, read on your iPhone.
- [How to Save Text Messages From Someone Who Died](https://kepttexts.com/guides/save-texts-from-someone-who-died/): Keep a loved one's texts as a PDF you can print or keep forever, with every message, date and time. Made on your iPhone, nothing uploaded.
- [How to Save a WhatsApp Chat as a PDF on iPhone](https://kepttexts.com/guides/save-whatsapp-chat-as-pdf/): Export a WhatsApp chat and turn it into a clean PDF on your iPhone, with every message's sender, date and time, both sides, numbered.
- [How to Get a Transcript of Text Messages on iPhone](https://kepttexts.com/guides/text-message-transcript-iphone/): Get a clean, numbered transcript of an iPhone text conversation as a PDF, with real text you can search and copy. For HR, a landlord, insurance or a lawyer.