Your texts are memories.Don’t lose them.

Not yet. Textuoso reads, cleans, backs up, and restores your message history, but it does not send. We are considering adding replies from your computer, sent as SMS and MMS through your own phone and your own number. If that is something you would use, send us a feature request and we will prioritize accordingly.

Yes, but RCS support can vary by Android version, phone manufacturer, and carrier. Textuoso backs up RCS messages and their attachments, from both Google Messages and Samsung Messages RCS chats.

Samsung Messages has been retired, but Textuoso can read its data from the phone, so you can back up your Samsung Messages conversations, including RCS chats and their attachments, so you don't lose years of history. You can then restore them to any Android phone, so they show up in your current messaging app, like Google Messages.

Back up your Samsung Messages history with Textuoso, then restore it to your phone or a new one. Restored messages appear in whatever your default app is — including Google Messages — as standard SMS and MMS.

Yes. Textuoso opens SMS Backup & Restore (.xml) backup files directly. Bring your existing history in, view and clean it up, then restore to any Android phone. A free, seamless migration from SMS Backup & Restore.

A backup made by the phone app lives on the phone or in your cloud storage, so you transfer one restore point at a time. On the phone, open the Restore tab, pick the backup and the restore point you want, and tap Prepare restore if it is not prepared already. Then, in the web app, connect the phone and choose Transfer staged restore point from the Phone menu. That copies that restore point to your computer, where it opens like any other backup file: browse it, search it, clean it up, and export it.

Yes. The phone app is free. The web app is free to use too, but requires an account after a free trial, and each account gets two free phone registrations.

Passwords are sensitive information. Textuoso's privacy-first design aims to avoid storing ANY sensitive information, and instead uses one-time codes. Your browser will preserve your login for 60 days in most cases, making passwords largely unnecessary for an app that isn't intended for daily use. A sign-in code expires 10 minutes after it is sent. Signing out invalidates your session on the server, not just in your browser, because the session is a cookie the page itself cannot read.

The Textuoso web app runs everything in your browser, and your phone connects directly over an encrypted peer-to-peer link. Your messages, media, calls, and contacts are never sent to us or anyone else, unless you choose to use a cloud provider. An account only registers which phones you have paired; it never holds your data. Backups can also be encrypted on your phone, so even a cloud provider cannot read them.

No, Textuoso provides standalone backup and restore functionality on your phone. A desktop or laptop just gives you a roomier interface, and more convenient controls for big cleanups.

It has been tested on histories of over 200k messages. The only known issue with large backups is that restore times can take hours, which is a fundamental limitation of Android telephony databases, not Textuoso.

Yes, the phone app supports backups to Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, and Dropbox. You can also backup through the web app to any location you want.

Yes, using the phone app, you can schedule backups at any period of time to any cloud provider, or locally on your phone.

Yes, the phone app by default uses incremental backups, so you can schedule frequent backups without wasting disk space on each one being a full backup.

Yes, you can preserve a backup from one point in time separately from future backups, and this can be configured to run automatically at specified periods.

Backups use Textuoso's own format, built for very large histories with media stored inline. You can also export to the SMS Backup & Restore XML format, which that app can restore itself, so your history is never locked to one tool.

Yes. Backups can be encrypted on your phone before they are written, so the backup is unreadable without your key, even when stored with a cloud provider. Transfers between your phone and computer are encrypted separately, over the peer-to-peer link.

Nothing is wrong with the video or your backup. Phones record in codecs that suit a phone, HEVC most often, and browsers vary widely in what they can decode. In our testing Safari supports the most formats and some browsers support almost none. Save or export the video and open it in a separate video player, which is far more likely to handle the codec.

Any modern browser runs Textuoso. Two things differ. If you want to watch videos from your history in the browser, Safari decodes the most mobile video formats. Also, on a computer, Chrome and Edge let you choose where a save or export goes, whereas most others send it straight to Downloads.

Textuoso is tested in Chrome (normal and Incognito), Edge, Safari, and Firefox. Firefox private windows do not work, for the reason below. Opera, Brave, Vivaldi and other browsers have not been tested yet. If you hit a bug in a specific browser, please tell us which one.

Backups are far too large to hold in memory, so Textuoso stages them in storage the browser keeps private to this site (the Origin Private File System). Firefox blocks that storage in private windows, so there is nowhere to put the backup and it cannot be opened. A normal Firefox window works, as does Chrome's Incognito, which does allow it.

Only to restore or apply changes, and only for as long as that takes. Android lets nothing but the default SMS app add, change or delete messages on the phone, so there is no way around it. Switch back to your usual app as soon as it finishes. Backing up and cleaning up never need it, and Textuoso does not send messages or intercept incoming ones.

No. A restore merges into what is already on the phone and skips anything that is already there, so restoring the same backup twice does not double your messages. You can also choose to replace what is on the phone instead of merging.

Not unless you tell it to. Browsing, searching and backing up only read. Nothing is deleted until you select messages or media and apply the change, or until you choose a restore that replaces what is on the phone instead of merging into it.

Not yet. Apple blocks third-party access to messaging by design, so there is no way to pair an iPhone directly. There is an indirect route through macOS that we are exploring.