Exporting and processing your memories, start to finish.

A five-minute walkthrough of requesting your Snapchat export and running it through SnapVault. Video coming soon — the written steps below cover the same ground in the meantime.

1. 01

   Request your export

   accounts.snapchat.com → My Data → Export your Memories → Request Only Memories → All Time. Snapchat emails a download link, usually within a few hours.

2. 02

   Install SnapVault

   Grab the installer for your OS from Releases. Releases aren’t code-signed yet, so macOS/Windows will show an unidentified-developer warning — that’s expected, not a red flag.

3. 03

   Point it at your export

   Choose the folder containing your downloaded zip files as the source — don’t extract them first — and pick an output folder with a few extra gigabytes free.

4. 04

   Choose your pipeline

   Turn on Write Date Metadata and Merge Video Overlays. Try Clean Duplicate Files with dry-run on first, so you can see what it would remove before anything happens.

5. 05

   Run it and review

   Hit Start and watch the log panel. When it finishes, check the Library tab — click into a photo to see the recovered time, GPS, and overlay status.