How to export your Claude history - and bring it anywhere
Claude gives you a clean JSON export, then leaves you stuck: Anthropic won't let you import that archive back into another personal Claude account. Here is the exact export path (verified July 2026, web only), and how to turn that dead-end file into a history you can actually continue.
To export your Claude history, open claude.ai on a computer, click your initials (lower-left) → Settings → Privacy → Export data. Anthropic emails a .zip containing conversations.json; the link expires after 24 hours. You can't re-import that file into Claude - but you can import it into TulexAI and keep every chat.
How to export your Claude history
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Open Claude on a computer (not the app)
Go to claude.ai in a browser or open Claude Desktop. Exports cannot be run from the iOS or Android app - Anthropic only offers the option on the web app and desktop. Free, Pro, and Max accounts can export.
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Open Settings → Privacy
Click your initials in the lower-left corner, choose Settings, then open the Privacy section. (Older guides call this "Account" - the current label is Privacy.)
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Click Export data
Press the Export data button. Anthropic generates your archive asynchronously - there is usually a short delay while it is prepared.
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Download the emailed .zip within 24 hours
Anthropic emails a .zip download link to your account address, typically within a few hours. The link expires 24 hours after delivery, so download it promptly. Inside is conversations.json (a JSON array, one entry per conversation), plus users.json and projects.json.
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Import the .zip into TulexAI
In TulexAI, open Settings → Import your AI history and drop the .zip (or the conversations.json). It is parsed in your browser - no upload to any model, no tokens - and filed into an "Imported from Claude" project you can reopen and continue in Claude, GPT-5, Gemini, or any TulexAI model.
Export path: Settings → Privacy → Export data · verified July 2026.
What's inside the Claude export?
Your download is a .zip. Here is what it contains and which file matters for importing.
- conversations.json - a JSON array with one entry per conversation, each holding its messages.
- users.json - your account details.
- projects.json - metadata for your Claude Projects (Project boundaries are not preserved as folders).
- The archive is JSON, not human-readable out of the box - a viewer or importer makes it usable.
What comes across when you import it
What TulexAI keeps
- Every human and assistant message in each conversation, in order.
- The text of documents you attached, when Claude included the extracted content in the export.
- Original conversation dates, so imported chats sort naturally below your fresh ones.
- Conversation titles, auto-filed into an "Imported from Claude" project.
What it can't bring across
- Claude's export does not record which model (Opus, Sonnet, Haiku) answered each message, so the model tag is left blank.
- Extended-thinking blocks and tool/artifact internals are skipped - you get the readable conversation.
- Uploaded images come across as a text placeholder; the binary files are not in the export.
Can you actually re-use your Claude history?
Exporting is the easy part - Claude gives you a file and stops there. Here is the difference once you have it.
| Claude | TulexAI | |
|---|---|---|
| Export your chat history | ||
| Re-import your chats and keep going | ||
| Continue a chat in other models | ||
| Models available | 1 vendor | 54+ models |
| Starting price | $20/mo | $11/mo |
Frequently asked questions
On a computer, open claude.ai → click your initials (lower-left) → Settings → Privacy → Export data. Anthropic emails a .zip with a link that expires 24 hours after it arrives. You cannot run this from the mobile app. Verified against Anthropic's help docs, July 2026.
No - Anthropic states an exported archive cannot be imported into another personal Claude account. That is exactly the gap TulexAI fills: it re-hydrates your conversations.json into a living history you can keep using.
Anthropic only offers data export on the web app (claude.ai) and Claude Desktop. Mobile-only users need to open Claude in a phone or computer browser to run the export.
Claude's export does not say which model wrote each answer, so imported messages have no model tag. When you continue a chat in TulexAI you pick the model - Claude Opus, Sonnet, or any of 54+ others.
Yes. The export is parsed in your browser during import, the conversations are not sent to any AI model, no tokens are charged, and they land in a private "Imported from Claude" project.
Bring your Claude history into every model
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