WhatsApp chat to PDF with images embedded

Export with media, not without

Photos only make it into the PDF if they're in the export you start from. On WhatsApp, that means choosing “Attach Media” (iPhone) or “Include media” (Android) when you export the chat, which produces a .zip containing the chat .txt plus every photo, video, voice note and document. See how to export on iPhone or how to export on Android if you haven't exported yet.

Drop the whole .zip onto chattoevidence.com — don't unzip it first. The tool reads the archive directly, matches each attachment placeholder in the text to the corresponding file inside the zip, and places it at that point in the transcript.

Which files actually get embedded

• JPEG and PNG photos are embedded inline, scaled to fit the page width, directly below the message that sent them.
• WEBP images (WhatsApp's default format for some photos on newer versions) are automatically converted to a standard format and embedded the same way — you don't need to convert them yourself.
• Videos and voice notes are not embedded as playable media in a PDF — that's not something any PDF can do. Instead they show as a labeled placeholder, such as “[Video: VID-20240314-WA0003.mp4]”, so the reader knows what was sent and can be given the original file separately if needed.
• Documents (PDFs, Word files, etc. sent as WhatsApp attachments) also show as a labeled placeholder with the filename rather than being embedded.

Free preview vs. Case Pass

The free preview always shows placeholders for attachments, even if you upload a .zip with media — it never embeds actual photos, so you can check that filenames and positions look right before paying. The $9 Case Pass is what turns those placeholders into the real embedded JPEG and PNG images, along with removing the watermark and the 100-message limit.

If your case depends on people actually seeing the photos — a shared living arrangement for Canadian spousal sponsorship, a UK spouse visa application, or similar — you'll want the Case Pass rather than the free preview.

File size and what to expect

Embedding photos inline makes the PDF meaningfully larger than a text-only transcript. A chat with a few dozen photos typically adds a few megabytes; a chat with several hundred can produce a PDF in the tens of megabytes, since each photo is compressed but not shrunk to nothing — you want them legible when printed or reviewed. That's normal for an evidence document and most email systems and e-filing portals handle it fine, but if you're emailing the result, check the recipient's attachment size limit first.

Do it on a computer for 1,000+ photos

The whole process runs in your browser, which means it uses your device's memory to decode and lay out every image. A chat with a handful of photos works fine on a phone. A chat export with 1,000 or more photos is much more comfortable on a laptop or desktop — more memory, a faster processor, and no risk of the browser tab being closed by the phone's OS mid-generation. Transfer the exported .zip to a computer (via AirDrop, USB, cloud storage or email) and run the conversion there for large photo-heavy chats.