Already living in WhatsApp?
Import your family history into ECO in one step.
Millions of families have years of memories living in WhatsApp. Photos shared on the family group. Stories told in voice notes. The news of births and deaths and milestones, all buried in a chat thread that scrolls back years.
WhatsApp stores that content on each person's phone. It doesn't belong to the platform in any meaningful way. But it also doesn't have a home — it's searchable only as a chat, not as a memory archive. When the phone is lost, the memories often go with it.
ECO's WhatsApp import takes a family chat export — the standard zip file WhatsApp lets anyone create — and turns it into ECO memories. Photos become gallery entries. Captions become memory text. Conversations become posts. The timeline fills in. The family history that was already there gets a permanent home.
The family history was already there. ECO gives it a home.
WhatsApp lets any user export a chat as a zip file from their phone's chat settings. That file is the input. ECO reads it, extracts the photos and text, and imports them into the network as memories — tagged by date and attributed to the sender.
Every photo shared in the chat comes across. Every caption. Every message that accompanied a shared moment. The context travels with the content — so the memory is the memory, not just the image.
The import happens entirely within ECO. The chat export file is processed on your device and within ECO's secure environment. Nothing is sent back to WhatsApp or Meta. The content moves from one private space to another.