Evaluate your own WhatsApp chats: Free tools provide terrifying insights

Despite all the criticism: WhatsApp is still the number 1 means of communication for many people. Anyone who chats a lot on WhatsApp can get exciting and sometimes frightening insights into their usage behavior with free analysis tools.

Ingenious insights: Statistics apps for WhatsApp

Who in your WhatsApp group writes the most messages? Who keeps sending pictures? Who always has the last word? And what is the average response time of your contacts?

Don't be frightened when you see your own WhatsApp statistics: Our WhatsApp tools relentlessly honestly tell you how often you chat with friends and colleagues and which words you use the most.

The statistics apps are not only helpful for exciting self-assessment. You can also use the tools to analyze the personalities of your friends from time to time. In contrast to the built-in statistics on WhatsApp, the special tools presented here give you much more information.

WhatsApp analyzer recommendations

1. WhatsAnalyzer

An online tool from the University of Würzburg that statistically evaluates your WhatsApp group chats. The scientific project is based on trust: you can get an analysis by emailing a chat history to the university.

With the WhatsAnalyzer tool from the University of Würzburg, you can statistically evaluate your WhatsApp group chats.

In larger WhatsApp groups it can be interesting to evaluate them statistically. This is how you find out who is most active and who is in charge. With the WhatsAnalyzer from Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, you can analyze your WhatsApp groups and individual chats by sending your WhatsApp chat, as shown in the web app, by email to whatsanalyzer@uni-wuerzburg.de. Shortly afterwards you will receive an analysis with interesting facts about activity, conversation behavior and interaction in the group with one another.

The collected data should be anonymized and evaluated for scientific projects at the University of Würzburg. Nevertheless, we recommend that you only send harmless chat histories that do not contain any sensitive data such as passwords or the like.

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2. WhatsAnalyze

Our WhatsApp analysis tip no. 1. The web app has almost the same name as the tool from the University of Würzburg, but it works locally on your own computer. You will receive an exciting analysis of your WhatsApp data within a few seconds. Computer science students from the Technical University of Munich are behind the free tool. If you want to support the makers, you can request a nicely designed chat history of any WhatsApp conversation as a PDF for 1.99 euros.

WhatsAnalyze is a free online tool that gives you an exciting analysis of your WhatsApp chat history in just a few seconds.

Who actually writes more messages in your WhatsApp chat? At what time and on what day of the week are most messages sent? Which emojis do you use the most? And what are the favorite words of you and your chat partner? The WhatsAnalyze web app will find out all of this for you at the push of a button.

And this is how it works: You export any chat history on your smartphone and drag the downloaded ZIP into the web app. WhatsAnalyze generates a report with lots of exciting statistics and graphs in just a few seconds. The report can also be downloaded in a compact form so that it can be shared with other friends and contacts.

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3. WhatsAnalyzer Contacts for Google Chrome

Again, this add-on for the Google browser comes from the University of Würzburg. The Chrome extension analyzes your own contact network in WhatsApp in detail.

With the Chrome extension "WhatsAnalyzer Contacts" you can analyze your contact network in WhatsApp in detail.

How big are your WhatsApp groups? How many contacts do you have on WhatsApp in total? Who do you have the most common groups with? You will get results of this kind if you evaluate WhatsApp via "WhatsApp Web" with the Chrome extension "WhatsAnalyzer Contacts".

WhatsAnalyzer Contacts: How It Works

You can find out in detail how the Chrome add-on works, anonymizes your data and how you can help science on the official website of the browser extension.

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