The Story
About AI Chat Importer
A privacy-first tool built by a developer who lost months of irreplaceable AI conversations — and decided to fix the problem properly.
Why I Built This
In early 2024, I'd been using ChatGPT heavily for over a year — research notes, debugging sessions, drafts, ideas, entire work threads. Then I had an account issue that temporarily locked me out. When I got back in, most of it was gone.
I went looking for a backup tool. There were plenty of browser extensions, some cloud sync services that required you to trust them with your conversations, and the official ChatGPT export — a raw JSON file that's unreadable without writing your own parser.
None of them were what I actually wanted: a simple, local-first tool that would take the export file, parse it, and give me a searchable archive that never touched a server.
So I built it.
The Privacy Principle
AI Chat Importer processes everything in your browser. When you import your ChatGPT export file, the JSON is parsed entirely using client-side JavaScript. No conversation data is transmitted to any server. We can't read your messages because they never reach us.
This isn't a marketing claim — it's the architecture. Read the full technical explanation of how your data is protected.
What We Support
AI Chat Importer currently supports exports from ChatGPT, Claude, and DeepSeek. Adding support for Gemini, Grok, and other platforms is on the roadmap.
The web app is free. A native desktop app for Windows is available at £29 one-time for users who want a dedicated offline experience — with unlimited storage, Smart Import, Auto-Sort with AI, and a Folder Manager. macOS support is coming soon.
About R. Miller
I'm a software developer who has been building web and desktop applications for over a decade. My background is in developer tooling, data management, and privacy-respecting software design.
AI Chat Importer is my full-time project. I'm the sole developer — which means I'm responsible for everything from the import parser to this marketing page. That also means I'm directly reachable if something isn't working.
Contact
Questions, feature requests, or bug reports — I read everything.