Snapchat Memories: online tool, app or script?
Pick your ZIPs and the tool sorts your Memories into a folder on this phone.
No export yet? The 4-step guide
Updated November 8, 2026 · Not affiliated with Snapchat.
By GetMemoriesOut. We wrote these guides from a real Snapchat export that we opened and counted, with Memories from 2016 to 2026. When something couldn't be checked, the guide says so.
How to choose
- Fewer than 500 Memories: the tool does it all for free.
- A backup on a drive, no photo library: the export opened by hand is enough.
- Years to put back into your gallery or Google Photos: you need the date in every file, so a tool.
Whatever you pick, no tool needs your Snapchat password. You request the export yourself.
An online tool
You open a website and give it your ZIPs, with nothing to install. Check where they get read, and whether the site asks for an account.
- On a server: the site uploads your export and sends the result back. For several dozen GB, the upload alone can take hours, and your photos pass through a machine that isn't yours.
- In your browser: the site loads its code, then reads the ZIPs on your computer. Your photos and videos never leave your machine. GetMemoriesOut, a Snapchat Memories downloader that runs locally on your computer, works that way.
- Account or not: an account means at least your email address stored somewhere. GetMemoriesOut doesn't ask for one.
Writing thousands of files into a folder only works in some browsers, such as Chrome and Edge. In Safari and Firefox, GetMemoriesOut writes a single ZIP instead.
An app to install
- On a computer: the app reads the export on your drive, sometimes offline. In return, it gets access to your computer. Check who publishes it before you install it.
- On a phone: if an app asks for your Snapchat login to fetch your Memories for you, say no. You request the export yourself, and no tool needs your password.
- Account or license: a paid app may use either. Check what it keeps about you.
A script you run yourself
You'll find them on GitHub, often in Python and free. The code is public, so anyone who can read it sees exactly what it does.
- Setup: you install Python or Node, open a terminal and type commands. If it crashes, reading the error is up to you.
- What it does: that depends on who wrote it. Check its page to see whether it writes the date into every file, and whether it puts captions and split videos back together.
- Updates: Snapchat changed the export format twice in 2025 and 2026. A script nobody maintains can stop working overnight.
By hand, for free
The Memories export is free at Snapchat, and you request it yourself with the export guide. From there, two ways cost nothing:
- Saving from the app: nothing to install, each Memory reaches your camera roll with its caption. Small batches only, often on today's date: handy for a dozen, unworkable for years.
- The export, opened by hand: everything arrives in original quality, each file with its day in its name. You put several ZIPs together, and the photos have no date inside. The ZIP guide describes the files.
What you can check before you pay
- Your password: no tool needs it. If one asks, go elsewhere.
- Where your files go: a site that reads everything in the browser says so on its page. You can check it in the Network tab of the developer tools while it runs.
- A test on your real ZIPs: you see whether the dates are right before you get your card out.
- The refund: on what terms, and how long you have.
No export yet? Start with the export guide.
What GetMemoriesOut does, and doesn't
GetMemoriesOut has no account and nothing to install. The recap and 500 Memories are free on your real ZIPs; the rest costs €9.90, once, refundable within 14 days if the tool didn't work on your export.GetMemoriesOut has no account and nothing to install. The recap and 500 Memories are free on your real ZIPs; the rest costs $9.99, once, refundable within 14 days if the tool didn't work on your export.
You need a computer, with Chrome, Edge, Safari or Firefox, and a video's overlay is copied next to it instead of being burned in. The recap is here.
FAQ
- Online tool or app, what's the difference?
- An app gets installed on your computer or phone, an online tool opens in your browser. Some online tools upload your export to their server, others read it on your computer.
- Is a free script enough?
- Yes, if you're comfortable with a terminal and the script writes the date into every file.
- Should I give a tool my Snapchat password?
- No. No tool needs it: you request the export yourself in Snapchat.
- Is GetMemoriesOut connected to Snapchat?
- No. GetMemoriesOut isn't affiliated with Snapchat. It reads your export locally, on your computer, with no account.
- Can I get my Snapchat Memories out for free?
- Yes. Snapchat's export is free. Then you put the ZIPs together and write the date back into each file.
- Why pay if the export is free?
- For the time: putting the ZIPs together, writing date, time and location into thousands of files and joining the videos, in one go.