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Is anyone familiar with ways to somehow merge chat history from multiple apps and then be able to view them in a visually appealing way (including being able to search).

I have 17/years of chat history across SMS/MMS, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and some random messagses in Signal as well as random other services that I don't frequently use.

Moving to Signal full time is concerning since there's no official export feature. I found some export scripts on github, but they all have a disclaimer that they are prone to break with each Signal update and so there's no way of knowing how long they'll work for. There also isn't even a backup option on iOS nor a way to transfer messages between ios and android. Even if I'm good with GrapheneOS right now, who know what the future holds. I also don't want to force my ios contacts to lose their chat history by making them use Signal.

Ideally, it would be really cool to merge conversations from multiple apps into a unified thread for each contact/group. And then either view it all in one messaging app that somehow alllows importing or another app or format. And then I can merge current messages from my various apps to this archive once in awhile.

Between various apps where each has their own export/backup method, it probably requires some tweaking to format them all into a standardized unified format that can then be sorted by date/time.

Is anyone familiar with anything like this?