Your Snapchat memories, restored — not just exported.
Snapchat's export gives you a folder of dateless, GPS-less files with edits and originals scattered apart. SnapVault puts it all back together — offline, on your machine, for free.
Applies to Memories older than a year that fall outside your oldest 5GB on Snapchat's free tier — Snap isn't deleting them, but starting January 2027 they're archived behind a paid plan until you upgrade. Back it up now and keep it wherever you actually want it — your own computer, Apple Photos, Google Photos, Immich, whatever you use. Source.
Watch the full walkthrough
See the export and setup steps in action, start to finish.
Snapchat hands you files. Not memories.
Every export is a pile of 2GB zip files. Photos and videos come out with only a bare capture date — no time, no location — and the sticker or caption overlay Snapchat applied ships as a separate file you have to match up yourself, by hand, across thousands of items.
Four steps, start to finish.
Request your export
From accounts.snapchat.com → My Data → Export Memories (or Settings → My Data in the app). Snapchat emails you a download link.
Point SnapVault at it
Download and install SnapVault, then hand it your export zip files — no extracting, no CLI, no Python required.
Choose your pipeline
Toggle date/GPS tagging, overlay merging, and duplicate cleanup. Every step runs entirely on your machine.
Get your library back
Organized, correctly-dated, geotagged files — ready to drop into Apple Photos, Google Photos, Immich, or just a folder on your own drive.
The parts that are genuinely hard, done for you.
Not a file mover — a real recovery pipeline built around how Snapchat's export format actually works.
Precise time + GPS recovery
Filenames only carry a capture date — but each file's exact timestamp is buried in the zip archive's own metadata. SnapVault cross-references that timestamp, second-for-second, against your export's JSON history to recover the time of day and GPS coordinates. When two records collide and disagree, it omits GPS rather than guess.
Overlay merging
Recombines every -main / -overlay pair — stickers, captions, drawings — into one finished photo or video.
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Finds byte-identical copies and keeps the earliest-dated one. A dry-run mode shows exactly what would go, before anything does.
Two import modes
Modern multi-zip exports and the older link-based HTML/JSON format are both handled natively, with the same pipeline underneath.
Nothing to upload, because nothing gets uploaded.
SnapVault never uploads anything you process. Modern zip exports run entirely offline; the legacy link-based export downloads each memory directly from Snapchat's own servers, the same as clicking the link yourself — either way, there's no third-party server involved, and because it's fully open source, you don't have to take that on faith.
Native installers, every platform.
Before you export
Your memories are already yours. Get them back in one piece.
Free, open source, and nothing you process ever leaves your machine. Download SnapVault and point it at your export.