Small business owners
Customer texts, quotes, and approvals kept in one searchable place, without a subscription.
The problem
Customers text. Quotes, deposits, change requests, and complaints all happen in iMessage on a personal Mac. When a customer disputes a charge or a promise, the thread has often been trimmed, and searching Messages for something from two years ago does not work well.
Why Message Vault helps
- Archives every message and attachment on a schedule. One purchase, no subscription.
- Search the whole history by customer name, phone number, or phrase.
- Merges old iPhone backups on the Mac, so history from before you started archiving is included where it survives.
- The vault stays on your own drive. No vendor, no cloud account, unless you choose the encrypted backup.
- The manifest lets you show a thread has not been edited since it was sealed.
How to do it
- Install on the Mac you use for the business and grant Full Disk Access.
- Add the Messages database and any iPhone backups, then scan and enable the schedule.
- When a dispute comes up, search the vault and seal the manifest before you share anything.
Message Vault reads the Messages database on a Mac and the iPhone backups made on that Mac with Finder or iTunes. It does not pull messages from a phone over the air. The manifest proves the archive has not changed since it was sealed. It does not prove the archive was complete or truthful at that moment, and its timestamp is the Mac’s own clock, not a trusted time source.
$29 per year, per Mac. 14-day free trial. Cancel any time. Requires macOS 14 or later.
Other use cases: Family memories · Corporations · Executive teams · Legal cases · Custody disputes · Estate and executors · Journalists and researchers · Switching Macs or phones · macOS deleted my messages