wyd.chat

wyd.chat is a lightweight Mac application that reads your own iMessage database and reframes it as an entertaining recap, in the spirit of year-end streaming wrap-ups. Instead of charts buried in a spreadsheet, it surfaces the people you text most, the group chats you are most active in, the hours when you tend to fire off messages, and the days when a particular conversation peaked. The result is a shareable, personal snapshot of your social life rather than a business analytics dashboard.

The more unusual part of the product is its natural-language layer. An AI bot built on GPT-4 lets you ask questions about your messaging history conversationally, so instead of building filters manually you can simply ask who you talk to most on weekends, or which friend you have been neglecting. Because the heavy lifting happens against the messages stored on your Mac, the analysis is framed as a private, local experience.

Privacy is the core promise here. The app states that all analytics run on your own device, that no message data is uploaded, and that the developers have no way to read your conversations. It is free to use and aimed at Mac owners who are curious about their own communication patterns and comfortable keeping that curiosity on-device.