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Get your memories out,
with their dates intact.

Snapchat's export splits your photos from their dates and locations, so everything lands in your library stamped today. SnapRescue puts the real capture time, GPS and captions back, and sorts it all into tidy, dated folders.

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✓ Free for your first 50 files  ·  ✓ 100% on your computer  ·  ✓ No account
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A brunch memory
📅 Today 2026📍 ✕
before
A sunset memory
📅 Today 2026📍 ✕
before
A beach memory, restored
📅 14 Jan 2019📍 Jervis Bay
after · back where it belongs
5GB free limit now  ✦  12 months before overflow is deleted  ✦  $3.99/mo to keep paying Snapchat  ✦  or $9.99 once to own them forever  ✦  5GB free limit now  ✦  12 months before overflow is deleted  ✦  $3.99/mo to keep paying Snapchat  ✦  or $9.99 once to own them forever  ✦ 
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The actual app

Clean, guided, four simple steps.

No clutter and no folders to merge by hand. Import your export, see exactly what was found, choose where it lands, then watch it get rescued.

SnapRescue showing 2,483 memories found, with photo, video and with-location counts and a preview list

SnapRescue on Windows and Mac. Mobile coming soon.

The catch nobody warns you about

Your export downloads fine.
Then your timeline is wrecked.

Snapchat hands you the raw photos and videos, but the dates and GPS live in a separate memories_history.json file that your photo app never reads. Import them and 2,000 memories from years of your life all stack up on today's date, with no map, no order, no story.

SnapRescue reunites every file with its real metadata before it ever touches your library.

2019-summer-roadtrip.jpg
Capture date✗ shows “today”
Location✗ stripped out
Caption✗ separate overlay
↓ SnapRescue ↓
Capture date✓ 14 Jul 2019, 7:32 pm
Location✓ Byron Bay, AU (on the map)
Caption✓ merged onto the photo

Four steps, no tech skills

From a messy ZIP to a beautiful archive.

Ask Snapchat

In the app: Settings → My Data → Submit Request. They email you a download link. (We never touch your login.)

Put it in one folder

Snapchat may send several ZIP files. Save them all into one folder. No need to unzip them yourself.

Point & go

Open SnapRescue and select that folder. It unzips and finds every memory plus its metadata automatically.

Drag anywhere

Get tidy 2019/ 2020/ … folders ready for Google Photos, Apple Photos, Immich, or anywhere else.

See the complete step-by-step guide, with timings →

How to get your Snapchat export

It takes two minutes to ask, and Snapchat usually emails you within a few hours (sometimes up to a day).

  1. 1 In Snapchat, tap your profile → the gear ⚙️ (Settings) → scroll to My Data → Submit Request. (You can also do it at accounts.snapchat.com.)
  2. 2 Make sure “Include Memories and other files” is ticked, then submit. Snapchat emails you a link when it's ready.
  3. 3 Download the file(s) to your computer. A big library often arrives as several ZIP files (data-1.zip, data-2.zip…). Put them all in the same folder. You don't need to unzip them.
  4. 4 Open SnapRescue, click Choose folder, and pick that folder (the one holding the ZIPs). That's it.

💡 Already unzipped them? That works too. Point SnapRescue at the folder that contains your media and the memories_history.json file.

Why it's the good one

Everything the others do, plus the bits they miss.

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Truly correct local times

Snapchat stores every moment in UTC. Other tools paste that in raw, so an evening snap abroad shows up at breakfast. SnapRescue uses each photo's GPS to convert it to the real local time it was taken.

09:30→7:30 pmBali, where it happened
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GPS + place names

Coordinates embedded so map view works, plus a readable location like “Byron Bay” written in.

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Overlays merged

Captions, stickers and the date overlays composited back onto the photo or video as one clean file.

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Unzips it for you

Snapchat sends your export as several ZIP files. Other tools make you extract every one and merge the folders by hand first. SnapRescue takes the ZIPs as they came and does that step for you.

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Dated folders

Auto-organized into year folders with date-named files, an instant browsable archive.

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100% private

Everything runs on your computer. Nothing uploads, no account, no servers seeing your photos.

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Photos & videos

Full metadata for both, with zero quality loss. Only the metadata changes, never the pixels.

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Pause & resume

Got 30,000 memories? Stop any time and pick up exactly where you left off. Nothing redone.

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Self-hosted friendly

Embedded EXIF that Immich, Jellyfin, Photoprism and any library read on import, plus optional XMP sidecars for external-library setups. Something no rival offers.

Honest comparison

How SnapRescue stacks up.

FeatureExportSnapsMemories ImportSnapRescue
Restore dates & GPS✓✓✓
Unzips your export for you✗ extract by hand✗✓
Convert to true local timeoffset only✗✓
Readable place names✗✗✓
Merge caption/sticker overlays✓✗✓
Dated year-folder organizationflat✗✓
Immich & self-hosted ready (XMP)✗✗✓
Resume large exportsfailed only✗✓
100% local / private✓✓✓
Price$14.99paid$9.99

Comparison based on each tool's publicly listed features and pricing as of June 2026. ExportSnaps and Memories Import are independent products; details may change, check their sites for the latest.

Simple, fair, one-time

Try it free. Unlock once.

No subscription, unlike a certain ghost. Snapchat Plus is $3.99 every month, forever. SnapRescue costs less than 3 months of that, then it's yours for good.

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See it work on your own memories.
  • ✓ Restore the first 50 files, fully
  • ✓ Dates, GPS, places & overlays
  • ✓ Dated folder organization
  • ✓ 100% private, no account
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Good questions

Things people ask.

In Snapchat: profile → Settings ⚙️ → My Data → Submit Request (tick “Include Memories”). Snapchat emails you a download link, usually within a few hours. A large library can arrive as several ZIP files, so just save them all into one folder and point SnapRescue at that folder. See the full step-by-step guide ↑

No. SnapRescue never logs into Snapchat or touches your account. You request your data through Snapchat's own official “My Data” tool, and SnapRescue only processes the ZIP they email you, entirely on your computer.

Never. All processing happens locally on your machine. Your memories don't leave your computer, and SnapRescue works without an account. The only thing that ever goes online is a tiny licence-key check when you unlock the full version.

The full feature set on your first 50 files, so you can confirm it works perfectly on your own photos and videos before paying anything. Unlock once for $9.99 to process your entire library.

Yes. Dates and GPS are written into videos as well as photos, and caption/sticker overlays are merged onto both. Quality is untouched; only metadata changes.

In a clean set of 2019/ 2020/ … folders you choose, with every file's real date and location embedded, ready to drag into Google Photos, Apple Photos, Immich, Lightroom, or anywhere else.

Just import the rescued photos and videos like any others. The date, GPS and caption are written inside each file, so Immich reads them straight away. No need to import anything else. If you run an external library (Immich scanning a folder without altering your originals), tick “Also write XMP sidecar files” in SnapRescue and a matching .xmp is placed next to each item. One thing to note: a sidecar is only ever read alongside its photo or video, never uploaded on its own.

Yes. That SmartScreen notice appears for any new app from an independent developer that hasn't yet built up download history with Microsoft. SnapRescue is safe and runs entirely on your computer. To open it: click “More info”, then “Run anyway”. The warning fades as more people download it.

Windows and Mac (Apple Silicon) are available now. Intel Mac and iOS/Android versions are in the works. Buy once and you'll get them all included.

Don't let years of your life expire in a ghost's cloud.

Rescue your Memories today. Free for the first 50.

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