Export texts to PDF
as evidence for your legal dispute.

Select contacts whose chats you need as evidence for your legal dispute.

We’ll find the texts threads they’re in, including group chats

Download to a court-ready PDF

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Lawyers and experts love Dispute Buddy

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Kirstin Hunter

CEO Birchal, Sydney, Australia

“I wish I’d had Dispute Buddy when I went through the pain of going through texts and WhatsApps for three legal disputes.”

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Danny King

Principal, Danny King Legal, Sydney

“"Dispute Buddy is amazing. It great product that saves on the time and re-traumatising that so often comes with bringing together a claim." ”

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Reduce stress

No more

  • Scrolling for hours

  • Reliving the trauma

  • Reading painful texts

  • Worrying about missing the most important messages

Use Dispute Buddy

  • Download app

  • Connect phone

  • Select contacts

  • We'll find the messages

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Reduce legal fees

No more

  • Huge legal fees

  • Admin hours to pay for

  • Stressing over costs

Use Dispute Buddy

  • Get your lawyer up-to-speed

  • With a court-ready PDF

  • Easy-to-read for judges

  • Quicker resolution

Save up to 20 hours

No more

  • Scrolling for hours

  • Screenshotting hundreds of texts

  • Guessing the dates and putting everything in the right order

Use Dispute Buddy

  • Relax while we find the texts

  • Arrange in chronological order

  • Indexed , court-ready PDF

  • Email to your lawyer

How it works

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    1. Download app

    Download the Dispute Buddy app onto your desktop. Open from downloads folder, drag into Applications, then open the app.

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    2. Connect phone

    Use an Apple cord (not a cheap one) to connect your iPhone to your Mac. We’ll check you have enough storage too. If you don’t, you can connect a hard drive.

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    3. Enter contacts

    Tell us your name and phone number, and enter the contact names and group chat names of the people whose texts you need to submit as evidence.

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    4. Wait

    It takes around 20 - 60 minutes, depending on how much you have on your phone. You can still use your phone and laptop/computer which we search. Just make sure they stay plugged in, or you’ll need to start again.

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    5. Download to PDF

    We’ll organise your chat threads, and you can download them to PDF, ready to send to your lawyer.

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    6. Repeat as many times as you like

    Go back and select more contacts, or different group chats, or a new date range. Download as many PDFs as you like.

FAQs

  • 1) An Apple cable (cheap ones won’t work)

    2) At least 100GB spare on your laptop, or an external hard drive. Buy one here.

    3) Around an hour, to leave your phone plugged into your laptop

    4) Make sure your laptop and phone are charged

  • At the moment Dispute Buddy is only compatible with iPhones and Macs. Android is coming soon!

  • Yes. Your privacy is really important to us. Your messages are on your hard drive. We don’t have a copy of them in our system. None of us at Dispute Buddy can see any of your messages - only you.

  • Yes. You can send the PDF to your lawyer, or upload to a dispute resolution portal, or take to mediation, or a separation advisor.

  • We run a back for your iPhone to a folder on your desktop. We then find the folder where the messages between the contacts you’ve selected are stored, organise them in chronological order, and download them to a PDF.

    We can’t see any other messages, or the contents of your phone. Only you can as the back up is stored on your laptop. You can delete the backup at any time, and re-run our app.

  • At the moment, Dispute Buddy can only download texts from your Messages app. In the future, you’ll be able to download from WhatsApp, Messenger, emails, and other platforms. We are focusing on where the biggest need is first, which is texts.

  • Yes. Dispute Buddy will download your messages in whatever language you send them in.

  • Yes, You’ll be able to see any images, audio or video files in the chat history.

  • Yes, Dispute Buddy can find and download group chats.

Hi, I’m Jenny Rudd, founder of Dispute Buddy

I remember what it was like to screenshot and email hundreds of messages and send them to my lawyer for an emergency application to Family Court. It was so stressful; I had no idea which messages were important for my case. And I needed to do a good job so that my kids were safe.

It was so scary and confusing.

Dispute Buddy’s been designed to remove stress, and help you resolve your dispute successfully and quickly so you can move on with your life.

You can contact me on jenny@disputebuddy.co with any questions, or click on the live chat. It connects directly with me.

Jenny Rudd

Founder, Dispute Buddy

Jenny Rudd, founder of Dispute Buddy

Designed by lawyers, judges, and people who’ve felt the pain of legal disputes.

Use Dispute Buddy to organise your texts into chronological order. Increase the likelihood that the judge fully understands your case; no blurry screenshots or poorly formatted Word documents. Everything is clearly laid out and easy to read with a Dispute Buddy PDF.