- Analyse years of messages
- One-off payment, lifetime use
- Backed by lawyers
"Dispute Buddy saves my clients up to 15 hours of legal fees."
Katherine Baker, criminal attorney, Washington, USA.
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”My lawyer was so impressed when he saw what I gave him as it saved him hours or work. I was all kinds of happy when I realised that meant I paid less in legal.”
”Your platform is AMAZING! So user friendly. And the finished product is so clear and easy-to-read. Bless you! Thank you for creating this!”
”When I saw it all laid out I realised he’s an absolute LOON. This is amazing.”
”This made me feel in control for the first time in forever. I feel like I can move forward now and I haven’t felt like that in months.”
”I’m not a techie and this was so easy to use. This was a game changer for me as I don’t know how to save stuff onto my computer. It was so simple.”
”My sister-in-law used her Dispute Buddy extraction as a standing piece of evidence in her custody battle! What a difference it made!”
”I was drowning in screenshots, stress, and the fear of missing something critical. What you’ve built takes away so much of that emotional load at a time when people are already carrying more than enough.”
”This was the first time in years I felt brave enough to tackle this evidence. Thank you again!!”
”Nothing prepares you for what needs to be done and how little help you have, and the expertise you need to develop, to protect your child. Dispute Buddy is the help you’d never guess you need until you need it.”
”WOW this would have been so helpful for a family member! Glad to know it exists! It’s so overwhelming sorting through evidence and trying to make decisions on what level of bat sh*t someone looks from a text, that made you feel crazy.”
I built Dispute Buddy so you don't experience what I did - scrolling through hundreds of messages that were upsetting to re-read, screenshotting them one-by-one, wondering which messages my lawyer would want to see.
I emailed all these screenshots to my lawyer, TERRIFIED that I'd missed the important ones and that I'd end up losing my case because of how I'd gathered my texts.
We hadn't even got to court yet and I was already stressed about whether I'd given the lawyer the right info AND how big the legal bill would be.
So I built the EXACT thing I needed when I was where you are right now.
If I'd had Dispute Buddy when I had to gather evidence, I'd have felt in control, in charge and confident.
Dispute Buddy does that for you, AND reduces your legal bills. You're almost there! This helps you feel SO much more in control.
Dispute Buddy finds patterns in your messages that could indicate psychological abuse, control and threats. This is exactly what your lawyer will look for. So we've done it for them (saving you legal fees!).
Don't relive the messages to find the right ones, or spend your money paying a lawyer to do it. Dispute Buddy means you go to your lawyer feeling organised and empowered, with all the early work already done.
When you see these patterns all laid out, it's like the ground becomes solid under your feet. This paralegal-style work would add hours to your legal bill, but instead it's all included in Dispute Buddy. Yay for reduced bills!
You started screenshotting, but then got distracted by the kids or a phone call, and now you can't find the screenshots in your photo album. Some of the messages are too long to capture in one screenshot, and you're wondering will a court accept it anyway as it all looks very messy.
Dispute Buddy downloads your texts into a neat, timestamped PDF. You'll have a complete message history and a report analysing the beahviour in the texts.
You know there are some important messages in your phone, but you have no idea when they were sent. Dispute Buddy downloads your message history between selected contacts in a date range, then exports them into a searchable PDF. So you can easily find the messages you need without spending hours scrolling through
Legal fees are terrifying, aren't they? If I'd had Dispute Buddy when I went to court to make my children safe, it would have saved me over $4,000 in legal costs. Dispute Buddy's one-off payment is the equivalent of paying a lawyer for 1 hour. You can use it forever, and it'll save you thousands of dollars.
We have very little information on you. We do that on purpose because one of our company values is 'good for all'. We make decisions that are good for you, good for us, good for everybody. Keeping your data is not good for anyone.
What we can see:
Your email address: so we can contact you if you need suppport, and also so that we can match you up with your subscription.
The name you enter on the fist screen in the app: this is the name that we put on your message report at the end
Date ranges: we can see the date range that you enter to do the message export. This is useful for us to give technical support
The number of texts oiur system is processing for you
Which screen you are progressing through in-app
What we can't see is:
Your contact that you search for
Any of your texts, messages, videos, images
Nothing at all from your iPhone
Basically we don't know anything personal about you apart from your name and your email address
I'm really sorry, we don't do discount codes!
We are planning to launch a payment scheme soon though, so that you can spread payments out.
Your Dispute Buddy account will allow you to download text messages from two separate iPhones
You can download your texts to as many computers as you want
If you want to download messages from more than two iPhones, just message us at hello@disputebuddy.co or click "Talk to a human" in the app
We'll ask you a few questions and if that goes well, we can up your limit for you.
To connect the second iPhone:
We chose something to make it easy to explain away to anyone.
Your bank statement will show BUDDY APP
This is a really common question and I can tell you the answer is no.
When you run Dispute Buddy on your computer, the only place that activity occurs is on your computer.
No one on your phone gets notified that you're downloading texts.
As long as you have an iPhone, Dispute Buddy works in any country.
Most of our users currently come from the USA, UK, Australia, and New Zealand
But lots of people also download their texts in other languages.
If you're downloading texts in a language that isn't English then the behavior analysis won't work, as it only understand English (at the moment!)
Dispute Buddy can't recover deleted text messages.
The Dispute Buddy report's message history will look exactly how it looks on your phone when the message was deleted.
Apple changes how deleted messages are shown from time-to-time.
It might say t'his message was deleted' in the thread.
But Dispute Buddy can't recover the content of the deleted message.
Dispute Buddy is an app that you download onto your computer desktop.
You can still pay for it on your iphone and then go on to your computer.
On your computer, go to www.disputebuddy.co/download
Launch the app from there
There are two major steps when you use Dispute Buddy's app
First of all we need to index your messages. That takes between 30 and 90 minutes on average
During that time, leave your iPhone connected to your computer and your computer connected to the power.
After the indexing has finished, you will select contacts and date range and what type of report you'd like.
You can select message history only or a message history plus a behavior analysis
When you click export, it can take 5-20 mins to generate that report
You'll see when you save it to your computer!
If your computer is really old or has a very slow processing speed, it'll definitely cause problems running Dispute Buddy
If you have a Mac with a silicon chip, that's new enough!
Intel Macs will certainly struggle with the processing needed to get you a message export.
You have two choices when you select what kind of report you want to download
You'll get a neat, chronological report of your message history between your selected contacts, including group chats. It's timestamped, and shows thumbnails of video and image attachments. If messages have been deleted, and your phone’s screen shows ‘this message has been deleted’, that’s what you’ll see on the message history report.
Everything above, plus an analysis of negative behaviors such as emotional abuse, financial abuse, harassment, manipulation, and child welfare concerns
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The report is downloaded as a PDF and is saved in your Downloads folder
There are two major steps when you use Dispute Buddy's app:
First of all we need to index your messages. That takes between 30 and 90 minutes on average
During that time, leave your iPhone connected to your computer and your computer connected to the power.
You can spend that time scratching the dog's ears, drinking a nice hot cup of tea, smiling at the sunshine, feeling proud that yo are taking control of your situation, basically do whatever you like!
The time it takes depends on a few things, like:
The newer and more powerful your phone and your computer are and the better your cable, the quicker the indexing will be
While we're indexing your messages, you'll see an estimate of how long it'll take.
Then you'll see a screen that says "Search successful" and at that stage you can unplug your phone
No one is notified that you are doing this. No one will ever know.
No one at Dispute Buddy can see anything on your phone. We've built it like that on purpose, because your data is YOUR data.
After the indexing has finished, you will select contacts and date range and what type of report you'd like.
You can select message history only or a message history plus a behavior analysis
When you click export, it can take between five and twenty minutes to generate that report
I know we've all got used to everything being done in a flash of lightning, but this kind of analysis takes time.
We do a pretty extensive analysis and that takes time to do it properly.
You'll see when you save it to your computer!
Here's what you'll need to download your texts for court when you are downloading texts from and iPhone to Windows/PC
- Download iTunes
Go to the Microsoft Store and download iTunes.
- Connect your phone
Make sure iTunes has detected your phone. A phone icon will appear just under the menu in the top left of the screen. Unlock your phone.
- Go to www.disputebuddy.co/download
- Launch disputebuddy.exe from the downloads folder
- Follow instructions to install the Dispute Buddy app
- Open Dispute Buddy from your Windows Start menu
Here's what you'll need to download your texts for court from an iPhone to a Mac
You'll need an Apple cord to connect your iPhone to your computer. You need to use an Apple cord, cheap ones don't work.
Go to www.disputebuddy.co/download
Open DisputeBuddy.dmg from the downloads folder
Drag Dispute Buddy icon into Applications folder
Open Applications folder
Launch the Dispute Buddy app
It's impossible for us to say what the policies are at your work and what security settings do you have on your laptop.
But we can tell you how Dispute Buddy works and you can figure out if that's a good fit for you.
To index your messages, Dispute Buddy creates temporary files on your computer.
If you choose to do a behavior analysis of your texts, Dispute Buddy sends those messages to our secure cloud. They're deleted as soon as the analysis is done.
The behavior analysis is sent back to your computer as a PDF and goes into your downloads folder.
Once you close the app, all of the temporary files are removed from your computer
You could also then delete your PDF report that Dispute Buddy has produced.
WeChat isn't supported at the moment, but this feature may be added in the future.
You do not need to create an account or password to use Dispute Buddy.
We take the email address that you used when you purchased the app and register you as a subscriber with that email address.
That's why, when you launch the app you need to enter the same email address that you used to purchase the app.
If you've forgotten which email you used, just email us at hello@disputebuddy.co and we can have a look for you.
At the moment Dispute Buddy works on iPhones only
We have plans to release Dispute Buddy for Android later on in 2026
We are only a small team and we're doing the best we can to help as many people as possible
We'll get there, though!
“Dispute Buddy is in your corner, rooting for you to succeed every step of the way. I will be here helping you through this. I built Dispute Buddy to make this awful process much easier for you. It's powerful and validating to see the truth in black and white. Message me at jenny@disputebuddy.co to tell me what you think!”