Help — Margot

Exporting your chat

You pick the conversation, export it from your phone, and send the file. Margot handles the reading — that's her whole thing.

1

Open the conversation

Find the chat you want Margot to read — group or DM, it's all material.

2

Tap the name at the top

On iOS: tap the group name or contact name to open the info screen. On Android: tap the three dots in the top right, then "More".

3

Choose "Export Chat"

Scroll down the info screen until you see Export Chat. Tap it.

4

Export without media

When asked, choose "Without Media" — the file is smaller and Margot only needs the text anyway. She has enough to go on.

5

Send it to yourself

AirDrop, email, or "Save to Files" — any method that gets the .txt file onto the device or browser where you'll upload it.

6

Upload on the next screen

Go to start.html and drop your file in. Margot starts reading immediately.

The older the better. WhatsApp exports your full history — three years of dysfunction is more interesting than three weeks of it. Export without a date limit.

1

Open Messages on your Mac

iMessage exports require a Mac — the iOS app doesn't have an export option yet. Open the Messages app and find the conversation.

2

Select all messages

Click inside the conversation, then press ⌘A to select all messages in the thread.

3

Copy and paste into a text file

Press ⌘C to copy, then open TextEdit (or any text editor), create a new file, and paste. Save it as a .txt file.

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Upload the file

Head to the upload page and drop your file in. Margot will take it from there.

For very long conversations, use a dedicated export tool like iMazing — it exports the full iMessage history as a text file in one click, without the manual copy-paste.

The questions

A .txt file — the kind WhatsApp exports natively. iMessage exports also work as plain text. The file should be under 100 MB; if yours is larger, export without media first.

Margot needs something to work with — at least a few hundred messages. The more history, the better the verdict. Six months of chaos beats six days of pleasantries every time.

Absolutely. One-on-one conversations are often the most revealing. The situationship, the best friend, the ex — all of them are material.

Margot reads the file to write your report, then it's deleted. Not stored, not used to train anything, not seen by another human. The verdict is yours; the conversation stays private.

About five minutes, sometimes less. Margot reads fast — she just has opinions about everything she reads.

Make sure you're uploading the .txt file, not a .zip. WhatsApp sometimes wraps the export in a zip — open it first and find the _chat.txt file inside. If it's still not working, email hello@margot.app.

Yes — English, French, Spanish, or Portuguese. You pick before you unlock the full verdict. The disdain translates perfectly into all four.

One report per chat. But you have multiple chats, don't you — the family group, the situationship, the friend group that doesn't know you're doing this. Each one gets its own verdict, its own payment.

Still stuck?

If something isn't working — upload errors, payment issues, or a verdict that's too polite — email Margot directly. She answers within a day, usually with an observation about whoever emailed before you.

Email hello@margot.app →