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For SMS Backup & Restore exports

Your texts already have a backup. Now they have an archive.

SMS Backup & Restore saves your texts to a file nobody can actually read. Textive turns that export into a real archive: every thread, every photo, every reaction, searchable in seconds.

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Free while in early access. Your export file stays yours (see below).

Restoring a phone backup with years of texts (hundreds of thousands of messages) can take 8+ hours, and still randomly drop messages along the way. Skip the restore, and you’re left with the raw export file instead: a technical dump nobody can actually read.

What good’s a backup if you can’t use it?

sms-20260716.xml
<sms protocol="0" address="+12152082462" date="1752521628000" type="1" subject="null" body="Baseball tickets are booked" read="1" status="-1" date_sent="1752521628000" sub_id="-1" readable_date="Jul 14, 2026 6:33:48 PM" contact_name="Kelly Bennett" /> <mms date="1752521694000" msg_box="2" m_type="128" tr_id="proto:CokDCiJjb20uZ29vZ2xlLmFuZHJvaWQuYXBwcy5tZXNzYWdpbmcu..." > <parts> <part seq="0" ct="text/plain" text="We're going to do the baseball game on the 21st." /> </parts> <addrs> <addr address="+12152082462" type="151" /> </addrs> </mms>
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In Textive
Baseball tickets are booked 🎟️
We’re going to do the baseball game on the 21st.
❤️

Search it in seconds, from anywhere

You rarely need a text from ten years ago. Until you do. Full-text search across your whole archive, from any device, means you can actually find it when it matters.

Rendered right

Group chats threaded properly, reactions shown as real badges, photos and PDFs viewable inline. Not mangled.

Private by design

Your messages are encrypted at rest and isolated at the database level. This is treated as the sensitive data it is.

Frees up your phone

Offload years of texts and photos without the fear of losing access. Everything’s still searchable the moment you need it.

Your export file is still the real backup

Textive isn’t asking you to trust it as your only copy. Keep your SMS Backup & Restore export wherever you already keep it. Textive is the archive built on top, not a replacement for it.

Turn your export into an archive

Import your SMS Backup & Restore file and start searching in minutes.

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Re-upload a newer export any time. Textive folds it in without creating duplicates.