Spinoff

Your groupchat,the show.

Upload a WhatsApp group chat. Meet your friends as cartoon characters, choose a genre, and get a short animated film written from what everyone actually said.

Or drop it here. The .zip that WhatsApp gives you works as it is.

No export to hand? .

Now showing: The Thursday Dinner Club.A nature documentary, made from a made-up chat of seven friends.

From chat to film in four moves

  1. 1

    Hand over the chat

    Export the group from WhatsApp, without media, and upload the file. It is opened and read in your browser.

  2. 2

    Meet the cast

    Everyone who talks enough gets a character sheet: their habits, their role in the group, their most telling lines. You correct whatever we got wrong.

  3. 3

    Direct

    Pick a genre, name a show you love, set how hard the film should tease, and tell the writers anything else you want.

  4. 4

    Read the script, then watch

    A first draft is written, a second writer tears it apart, and it is rewritten before you see it. Approve it and the cartoon is drawn in front of you.

This is the cast the studio found in the sample chat. Each of them was built only from how that person writes: who plans, who vanishes, who answers three days late.

  • MayaThe organiser
  • JonasAlways on his way
  • DanaBiscuit's press officer
  • LeoThe counter-proposal
  • TomThe thumbs-up
  • PriyaThe delayed reply
  • SamThe lurker

Nine ways to tell it

The same chat becomes a different film in each genre. Add a show you love, like Seinfeld, The Office or Grey's Anatomy, and the writers borrow its structure and its voice.

  • ComedySmall problems, treated like world events.
  • Nature documentaryA hushed narrator studies the group in its habitat.
  • DramaLong looks, heavy silences, a grocery list that changes everything.
  • MysteryA detective, a rainy window, and one unanswered message.
  • True crimeA timeline, the evidence, and the question of who knew what.
  • Reality TVConfessionals, alliances, and a dramatic pause before every reply.
  • HeistGetting the crew together for one last job, like booking a table.
  • HorrorSomething is typing. It has been typing for a while.
  • RomanceTwo people, forty other people, and one very public chat.

Getting the chat out of WhatsApp

It takes about a minute. Choose the export without media: the file is small, and photos and voice notes are not used.

iPhone

  1. 1Open the group in WhatsApp and tap its name at the top.
  2. 2Scroll to the bottom and tap Export chat.
  3. 3Choose Without media.
  4. 4Save the file, then upload it here.

Android

  1. 1Open the group in WhatsApp and tap the three dots.
  2. 2Tap More, then Export chat.
  3. 3Choose Without media.
  4. 4Save the file, then upload it here.

It is other people's chat too

The file is opened in your browser and kept on your device. To write the cast and the script, the text of the messages is sent to our server and on to Anthropic's Claude. We do not keep a copy.

Every message shown in a film is checked, by a program, against the chat. If it is not word for word what that person wrote, it is cut.

Characters are built from how people write, never from how they look or from anything private. Members saved only as a phone number are left out, and you can leave out anyone else.

Somebody in that chat deserves a title card.

Or drop it here. The .zip that WhatsApp gives you works as it is.

No export to hand? .