signal2html VS signal-backup-shrink

Compare signal2html vs signal-backup-shrink and see what are their differences.

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signal2html

Posts with mentions or reviews of signal2html. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-19.
  • Backup to PDF
    4 projects | /r/signal | 19 Mar 2023
    So I tried it myself and found out it no longer works. Probably because Signal changed something... I found this project that should work: https://github.com/GjjvdBurg/signal2html. Although this might be little too hard to use
  • Restoring a signal backup from a different number
    7 projects | /r/signal | 13 Jan 2022
    https://github.com/gjjvdburg/signal2html (one I have personally tested myself to retrieve media from an old backup, with success, last updated december 2021)
  • Export (not backup) Signal conservations
    2 projects | /r/signal | 21 Nov 2021
    Not exactly what you want, but take a look at https://github.com/GjjvdBurg/signal2html which let's you convert your Signal backup into browseable html

signal-backup-shrink

Posts with mentions or reviews of signal-backup-shrink. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.
  • Ideas to reduce Signal backup size.
    1 project | /r/signal | 27 May 2023
    I hacked together this script some time ago and was able to shrink my backup size significantly (from 4 gb to 800 mb). It's a somewhat convoluted process, though.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing signal2html and signal-backup-shrink you can also consider the following projects:

sigbak - Export messages from Signal Android backups

chat-miner - Parsers and visualizations for chats

signal-back - Decrypt Signal encrypted backups outside the app

signalstickers-client - ⚙️🐍 A Python client for the Signal stickers API

signal-export - Export your Signal chats to markdown files with attachments

signal - A Matrix-Signal puppeting bridge

signal-libs-build - Automatic compilation of native libraries for the Signal messenger

sticker-convert - Convert (animated) stickers to/from WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Line, Kakao, Viber, iMessage. Written in Python.

NeuroKit - NeuroKit2: The Python Toolbox for Neurophysiological Signal Processing

signalbackup-tools - Tool to work with Signal Backup files.

signal-backup-decode - Decode Signal Backups