Is it safe to upload your texts to print?
It depends on the service, so read its privacy policy before you send anything. Ours in short: software sets the pages, nothing is sold or shared with advertisers, a file you only try out is gone within the hour, and a book you make is stored encrypted until you delete it.
Is it safe to upload my text messages?
It is as safe as the service's rules for storing and deleting them. Before you upload anywhere, find out who can see the messages, how long they are kept, whether they are used for anything besides your book, and how to delete them. Our answers follow, and the privacy policy has them in full.
Who can see my messages at read receipts?
Software sets the pages, the same way for every book, and nothing is rewritten. Nobody reads a conversation in order to make its book. The few of us who run read receipts can reach a stored book to fix a problem with an order.
If you ask for help by email and send us screenshots or a file, the person helping you sees what you send.
Where do my messages go?
Our server reads the file to make your preview. A book you make is kept in your library, encrypted at rest. Lulu, our printer, receives the finished pages with the name and address for delivery. Stripe takes the payment, and we never see your card number. Cloudflare hosts the site and stores orders for us.
We don't sell your information or share it with advertisers.
What happens to screenshots, or a file you don't recognize?
Screenshots go to Anthropic, whose model Claude writes out the messages in them, only if you tick the box that says so. We don't keep the screenshots.
If a file's layout is new to us, we ask first. With your OK, the first 60 lines, with email addresses, links and phone numbers masked, go to Claude, which works out the layout. Anthropic doesn't train on what we send it.
How long are they kept, and can I delete them?
A file you send for the free receipt or a preview is deleted an hour after you last use the page, unless you make the book. A book you make stays in your library until you delete it. Contact us and we delete a book and its messages, and Delete My Account, in your library, deletes everything at once.
Can I keep the messages off your server?
With iMessage on a Mac, mostly. A book made in our Mac app is laid out on your Mac, and we receive only the finished pages when you order it.
Does the other person find out?
Only when you give it to them. Only one of you needs to do this, and we never contact anyone else in the conversation.
Their messages are in the book beside yours. When you order, you confirm that you're in the conversation and that the others in it would be happy to be in a printed book. The privacy policy says what we keep and for how long.
Related Guides
- How To Choose A Service That Prints Your Texts As A BookSeven questions to ask before you pay.
- How To Turn Text Messages Into A BookThe four steps, which apps need a computer, and what it costs.
- How To Export An iMessage ConversationThe steps on a Mac, and on a Windows PC from an iPhone backup.
If You Want It As A Book
read receipts prints your conversation as a book and says plainly what it keeps. You look through every page before anything prints. Or start with the free receipt.