Life in Messages
Private analytics for Messages
Only for Mac
Free
Mac
Years of Messages can tell a story. Life in Messages helps you discover the people, conversations, patterns, and shared moments hidden in your history—all from a focused Mac app.
Start with the big picture
Open Overview for clear highlights and guided ways to explore. See your most active people and groups, busiest periods, conversation totals, and shared-item activity at a glance.
Go deeper
• Explore people and one-to-one conversations
• Understand participation in group chats
• Follow activity across days, months, and years
• Compare message length, timing, emoji, and reaction patterns
• See totals for photos, videos, links, files, and audio
• Create an all-time Recap image with highlights from your history
Try it before granting access
Open the built-in Sample Library to explore the real analytics experience with fictional data. Sample Data is clearly labeled and kept separate from your own library.
Private by design
Life in Messages asks you to choose a Messages source and opens it with read-only access. Processing happens on your Mac, and your Messages database is not uploaded to a developer server.
The app stores derived analytics locally so you can return to them quickly. Raw message text may be read while calculating aggregate results, but raw message bodies are not persisted in the analytics cache.
Contacts access is optional. If enabled, it is used locally to improve names, photos, and grouping. Optional private-iCloud sync can keep hidden-contact and merge choices consistent across your Macs after explicit consent; it does not sync Messages data or the analytics cache.
Recap creates a square image that can include eligible display names and photos. Review the preview before choosing Save or Share.
Life in Messages cannot send, edit, or delete your messages. Support information and exports are created only when you ask for them and can be reviewed before sharing.
The full app is free, including Recap. No ads, subscriptions, or paid unlocks.
Explore your Messages history with more context—and keep the source under your control.
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Meet Life in Messages, the new name for Messages Analytics.
Create an all-time Recap image with highlights from your Messages history. Preview your square export, then Save or Share when you choose.
Explore a clearer Overview and refreshed detail views, with consistent selectors in light and dark mode. This update also improves responsiveness and reliability while preserving your existing library, preferences, hidden contacts, merges, App Lock, and optional iCloud sync.
The full app is free, including Recap. No ads, subscriptions, or paid unlocks.
The developer, FARZAD MAHMOODINOBAR, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- FARZAD MAHMOODINOBAR
- Size
- 8.6 MB
- Category
- Productivity
- Compatibility
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Mac
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Copyright 2026 Farzad MahmoodiNobar