This summer I decided to create an analytics dashboard of my Signal data. For those unfamiliar, Signal is a messenger app, similar to WhatsApp, but heavily focused on privacy with their end-to-end encryption.

This was initially meant to just be a bespoke dashboard to share with some Signal friends. But as I continued to build it out, I decided to make it into a web app in case others wanted to play around with it too.

So here's what I have so far: signalsnapshot.com

It's still pretty raw, but maybe some of you will find it fun.

Important things to note:

    This only supports Signal Desktop at the moment

    In order to use the tool, you need to first decrypt your Signal database. I also wrote a program to handle that, and the app has the necessary documentation on how to use it

    The app is purely client-side, meaning that your uploaded data never leaves your browser. There is no server, this is a static web page. Nobody but you can see your data.

If you're a Signal user and interested in this stuff, check it out! If there's enough demand, I'll build out the analytics a little more, and maybe add support for Signal Android. There’s a ton of meat left on this bone, chat analytics is a cool world.

Here's the GitHub if you want to check out the code. https://github.com/ahstewart/signal-snapshot