Discover yourself from conversations.
Export your Instagram messages, drop the download here, pick a person and time period, and get a portrait of how they communicate, built on established psychological frameworks. Names, emails, phone numbers and addresses are masked in your browser before sending.
Drop the exported file here, or click to choose it
Instagram export, messages only
Accepts .zip, or one message_1.json
Masking, then reading, then writing.
Keep this tab open. Closing the browser will stop the process.
Step through it, then the last step brings the conversation in.
Drop your file here
or click to choose it · read in your browser
STEP 1 OF 4
Pick the one person you want a Portrait of. Their messages are read; everyone else stays context.
Detected in this chat
Pick a preset time, or drag to select a time period.
Your chat is masked on this device (names, numbers, emails and links), only the masked text is sent, and conversations stay in your browser until you clear it.
Either way, the next thing that happens is your Portrait.
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An Instagram chat analyzer reads your exported Instagram direct messages and describes the patterns in a conversation. Portraitor shows how one person communicates: tone, relationship, traits and change over time. It describes message patterns, not a diagnosis.
Open the Instagram app, tap the menu on your profile, then Your information and permissions, then Export your information. Create an export to your device, keep only Messages in JSON format and start it. Upload the .zip once Instagram emails it.
Open your profile, then tap the three-line menu, top right.
Search for Your information and permissions.
Tap Export your information.
Tap Create export.
Choose your Instagram profile.
Tap Export to device.
Tap Customize information, clear all selections, then tick Messages only.
Match this configuration (format JSON) and pick the date range you want analyzed, then tap Start export.
This can take a few minutes to a few hours, depending on how much data you requested.
Instagram emails the download link, sometimes hours later. Request the export now and return when the message arrives.
The Instagram analysis uses four lenses: relationship context, Big Five personality traits, Transactional Analysis and change over time.
Established before anything else is interpreted. The same sentence means one thing from a manager and something else from a partner.
One label with a confidence score and a short justification, drawn from topics, terms of address and shared context, alongside an approximate positive / neutral / negative split of the whole conversation.
The standard trait model in personality research. Each of the five is reported as a lean, never as a score out of ten.
A direction per trait, with how it helps and where it creates friction. Each carries a frequency label and a confidence score.
Five ego states. The voice someone uses on an ordinary day is rarely the voice they use in an argument.
Which states dominate in calm exchanges, which appear under tension, which show up when they talk about people who are not present, and whether the balance shifts across the timeline.
A conversation is not one snapshot. The material is split into phases and the moments where something turned are named.
A before-and-after description for each turning point, and whether the change was a short spike or became the new baseline.
Two common questions: which DM, and privacy.
Yes. The archive holds each DM from the dates you selected. After the upload you see a list of those threads and choose the one you want read, group threads included.
You choose the conversation in step 1 and the person in step 2.
Before anything leaves your device, your browser masks names, emails, phone numbers and addresses. Reels, photos and voice notes stay unopened, because you ask Instagram for text messages alone.
Your saved portraits remain in your own browser. Read the Privacy Policy.
Yes. Portraitor reads WhatsApp, Messenger and Telegram exports too. Export, upload, pick a person.
A chat log covering several years between Daniel and one other participant, ranging over everyday updates, professional pressures and ambitions, close relationships, family matters, and financial strain.
Based solely on the supplied written material. It does not constitute a clinical evaluation, and interpretations are probabilistic.
Inferred Relationship Type: Close friendship / supportive confidant.
Confidence: 85%
Justification: Sustained openness and mutual support; both discuss relationship difficulty, work stress and money in detail.
Approximate Percentages of Exchanges: positive 55-65%, neutral 20-30%, negative or tense 10-20%.
General Interaction Climate: Largely supportive, with external stressors introducing shared tension rather than conflict between the two.
Consistently responsive to the other participant’s emotional state, turning concern into practical help rather than reassurance alone, and shares his own difficulties in return.
Real people. Real texts. Real change.
What I love is the privacy-first approach. You can ask the questions you’d never normally ask AI, without compromising your privacy. And for me, it gives me insights that I can actually use.
It was really interesting to understand and see what patterns were in the conversation. Once I could see the patterns, it became really eye-opening for me and for how my relationship works.
The instructions were very clear and easy to follow, especially for someone who isn’t very technically minded.
Quick answers about Instagram chats.
No. One Instagram portrait is $10, paid once, with no account to create and nothing to renew. The Pass is $19 a month and includes 10 portraits.
Yes. Instagram hands you your direct messages through its information export, and Portraitor reads that file to describe how one person writes and relates.
Anywhere from minutes to several hours. A shorter date range finishes sooner, and Instagram sends an email as soon as the file is ready.
No, upload the .zip untouched and choose any thread inside. Unzipped it already? One thread's message_1.json also works, though a long thread is split across numbered files and you would only read the part you drop.
Yes. A group thread is listed beside your one-to-one DMs once the archive is uploaded. Select it, then name the single member you want analyzed.
Your browser strips identifying details first, and only then is anything sent. Because the export is text messages only, photos, reels and voice notes are never opened.
Practical posts for spotting patterns and choosing a next step.
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