How To Print Signal Messages
Yes, but Signal makes it harder than most apps. Its help pages describe no way to save a chat as a file you can read, so the practical routes are screenshots, or a free tool that reads Signal on a computer.
Can I print Signal messages?
Yes. Signal is built to keep messages on your own devices, so there is no export button to press. Screenshots work for any chat, and a chat on Signal Desktop can be written out to a file. read receipts sets either as pages, with each person's name beside what they wrote.
Does Signal have an export?
Not one that gives you a readable file, going by its help pages. Signal's backup page describes moving your history to a new phone, and on Android an encrypted backup file under Signal Settings, Backups, On-device backups. Both are for restoring into Signal. Neither opens as text.
Signal also says an iPhone's iCloud or computer backup does not contain your Signal message history, and that Signal Desktop does not transfer message history to or from any device. That is on its backup page.
How do I save a Signal chat with screenshots?
Open the chat and scroll up to the first message you want. Take screenshots from there down, in order. After you choose your book, pick Screenshots, tick the box and upload them, up to 100, 20 at a time. They are read by Claude, Anthropic's model, only if you tick the box that says so, and we don't keep the screenshots.
For a longer conversation, contact us. A person on our team takes the screenshots by email, puts them in order and sets up your book with you, free. That person sees what you send. Screenshots rarely show every date.
Is there a way to get the whole chat out?
If you use Signal Desktop, yes. signal-export is a free program, not made by Signal, that reads the chats Signal Desktop holds on that computer and writes each one out as a folder of files. Upload the chat.md file from the folder of the chat you want, and we read it.
We do not read Signal's encrypted backup files.
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.
What does it cost?
The Unabridged, every message set as a novel, is $49 as a paperback and $89 as a hardcover. The digital edition is $19. US shipping is free.
Related Guides
- How To Print A WhatsApp ChatExport Chat on the phone. No computer needed.
- How To Print A Telegram ChatExport chat history, from the desktop app.
- How To Export An iMessage ConversationThe steps on a Mac, and on a Windows PC from an iPhone backup.
- A book of every text you two have sentThe book, for couples.
read receipts is not affiliated with Signal or signal-export. Signal is a trademark of its owner. What this page says about Signal was checked against its own help pages on November 13, 2026, and apps change.
If You Want It As A Book
read receipts prints a Signal chat as a book, from screenshots or from a file, with nothing rewritten. You look through every page before anything prints. Or start with the free receipt.