Many users are looking for a way to export chat history from WhatsApp archives (.crypt12) and save the messages to a document format or something similar that can be viewed on desktop computers.
To achieve this, you will need to first decrypt the crypt12 archive to the original crypt format, as described in the crypt12 to crypt conversion entry. Once this is done, you can easily convert a .crypt file to HTML (or SQLite) format using WhatCrypt Tools or a similar program.
Updated: April 19, 2024