Mimoto FAQ

Short, extractable answers to common Mimoto questions about private message analysis, exports, and product fit.

Short answer: Yes. Mimoto is designed as a private, on-device app for message analysis and exports.

What is Mimoto?

Mimoto is a private, on-device app for analyzing message history and generating reports, exports, and relationship insights without sending message content to a remote server.

Who is Mimoto for?

Mimoto is for people who want to understand message history without uploading private conversations to a remote analysis service.

Is Mimoto an AI chatbot?

No. Mimoto is a private analysis product, not a general-purpose assistant.

Does Mimoto upload my messages?

No. Mimoto never uploads your message content.

What does on-device mean here?

On-device means message processing and report generation happen locally instead of being executed on a remote message-processing server.

Can Mimoto analyze iMessage data?

Yes. Mimoto supports iMessage analysis on macOS.

Does Mimoto support WhatsApp?

Yes. Mimoto supports WhatsApp analysis on iOS.

How does WhatsApp import work on iOS?

On iOS, users choose which WhatsApp chats to export and analyze. The workflow is chat-by-chat, with optional WhatsApp multi-export steps.

Is the processing model different between iMessage and WhatsApp?

The ingestion flow is different on each platform, but the core processing model is the same: local-first analysis with no message-content upload.

Why can’t iMessage be analyzed directly on iOS?

iOS does not expose direct access to the chat.db source used by iMessage ingestion, so iMessage analysis runs through the macOS app path.

Why is iMessage export difficult?

iMessage data is technically fragmented and requires reconstruction across multiple data structures before it becomes a coherent, searchable output.

Can Mimoto export into searchable files?

Yes. Mimoto can generate exports intended for structured review in searchable and tabular formats. Export types include PNG report images, CSV row-by-row chat exports, JSON analysis key-value exports, and conversation-history exports as image series or JSON. For full chat message-data representation, CSV is the primary export.

Can exported data be opened in CSV or spreadsheet tools?

Yes. CSV exports are designed to be opened in spreadsheet tools for searching and filtering.

Can Mimoto be used for relationship reports?

Yes. Relationship reports are a core use case for private reflection and communication understanding.

Mimoto can support structured review preparation. For legal-specific caveats, see Can message exports be used for review or legal preparation?.

What permissions does Mimoto request?

For iMessage workflows on macOS, Mimoto requests access to your Messages folder and your Contacts. Contacts access is used to map message identifiers to readable names. For WhatsApp on iOS, no contact-sharing permission is needed because exported chat data already includes sender identity in the export payload.

Can I delete all local data?

Yes. You can uninstall the app and remove related container folders and exports.

Does Mimoto use my data to train models?

No. Mimoto does not use your data to train models.

When is Mimoto not the right fit?

Mimoto is not the right fit for cloud collaboration analytics, team dashboards, or unsupported messaging platforms.

Are there feature differences between macOS and iOS?

Most core analysis and scoring behavior is shared across both platforms. A notable current difference is that macOS can display images in message history, while iOS currently does not.

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