A power-user interface for iMessage, built by Catapulsion
Your iMessage history contains years of conversations, shared photos, important documents, and links you meant to save. Apple's Messages app treats all of that as a single scrollable timeline with basic search that barely works. Finding a specific message from last year means scrolling. Finding an attachment someone sent means remembering which conversation it was in. Exporting a conversation means taking screenshots.
These aren't edge cases. Anyone with a few years of iMessage history runs into these limitations regularly. Mssgs exists because your message data deserves better tools than what Apple provides for working with it.
Mssgs is a standalone macOS application that reads your iMessage database and presents it through an interface designed for searching, browsing, and exporting. It is not a messaging app. You still send and receive messages through Apple's Messages. Mssgs is where you go when you need to actually find, review, or export something from your history.
Think of it as a power-user companion to Messages. The conversations are the same, the data is the same, but the tools for working with that data are built for people who need more than basic scrolling and search.
Mssgs is developed by Catapulsion, a software company that builds native tools for the Apple ecosystem. We focus on applications that solve real problems without unnecessary complexity. Every product we ship is designed to respect the platform it runs on and the privacy of the people who use it.
Mssgs reads your local iMessage database. That's it. There are no servers involved, no accounts to create, no data leaving your machine. Your message history stays exactly where it is. Mssgs just gives you better tools to work with it.
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