Spill
Ask anything. The answer comes with the real messages it's based on and a chart. Every claim is checked against the chat before you see it.
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The 2026Group Chat Awards
Backscroll 2026
Your year in chat. Wrapped, for your group chat.
A year-in-review for one iMessage group chat. Awards, inside jokes and the moments you'll want to rewatch, cut into a short film with its own song.
- The Group Parent
- The Meme Supreme
- The Ride or Dies
- The Night Owl
- The Ringleader
Made on your phone. Your first one is free.
Whose chat are we reading?
Bring in one chat. Ask it anything, catch the dates worth a text, and make a video of your year together.
Pick a chat, pick a game.
Four things to do with one chat.
Nudge
Birthdays, anniversaries, a new job, a hard week. The moments worth a text, each with a draft and Add to Calendar.
Two years today. I love you.Backscroll
Wrapped for your texts. Your year in one group chat as a short film: a recap, then awards with your friends’ photos and the messages that earned them. Made on your phone.
Read the stars
Astrology that has actually read your texts. Chatini finds the birthdays in the chat and reads your signs against how the two of you really talk.
Read the starsyour signs, side by side
Ask the stars“Should I text Sam first?”
Your skythe full birth chart, in chapters
Only Chatini reads the chart against the chat.
Every reading leans on real messages: when they go quiet, how fast they reply, what they said on October 5. A horoscope app has never met your Sam. This one has.
Sun, Moon and every planet, beside how you text.
Add birth details and get the whole sky as chapters with art, a 90-day transit timeline, where your two charts meet, and a shareable birth-sky card.
Honest, warm, never a score.
No percentages, no verdicts, no guesses about gender or who someone is to you. The chart is worked out on your phone, and your birth time and place never leave it.
For fun and reflection. Readings need Plus or Premium, or a $1 Shooting Star for one chat.
How a chat gets in.
Two ways in. You pick the one chat.
On your iPhone
Chatini adds a small helper to Apple's Shortcuts app.
- Tap Find my chats and pick one, plus how far back.
- Apple asks a few times. Tap Always Allow.
- Check the count and dates, then tap Add to vault.
A year of a busy chat takes about fifteen minutes. Be patient and keep the Shortcuts screen open while it runs. Want the fastest experience? Download Chatini Sync for your Mac.
Get Chatini for iPhone →
From your Mac
Chatini Sync sits in your menu bar and syncs your messages every 30 seconds. Every chat is a quick scan away from the latest, so you can spill on what was said five minutes ago.
- Pick a chat and click Create Chatini QR.
- Point your iPhone's camera at the code, on the same Wi-Fi.
- The chat arrives encrypted and opens in the same review.
Already on your Mac? Send it from there.
Chatini Sync is a small menu bar app that syncs your messages every 30 seconds. Pick a chat, show a QR code, point your iPhone at it. One quick scan and your chat is up to date, ready to spill the latest.
Version 0.2macOS 13 or laterNotarized by Apple
Open the download, drag Chatini Sync onto Applications, then allow Full Disk Access when macOS asks.
Privacy.
Your chats stay on your phone.
Only the chat you pick.
Other messages are read by Apple's Shortcuts during the search, then left alone. Nothing is saved or sent.
Cloud only when you say so.
For Spill and Nudge, the one chat you ask about is sent to be answered, after a consent screen. What the app learns stays on the phone.
Backscroll stays on the phone.
Films are made on the phone and saved to Photos. The cloud version for groups is opt-in, like Spill. Prefer Spill fully on device? Use Apple Intelligence.
How it works.
The long version, for the curious.
What happens to a chat from the moment you pick it, what runs on your phone and what doesn't, how we keep it kind, and what you pay for.
00Is this Wrapped for my group chat?Yes. Backscroll is a year in review for one chat.
If you've waited all year for your Wrapped, this is that, for the people you actually talk to. Backscroll 2026 takes one iMessage group chat and turns the year into a short film: who kept everyone together, who sent the memes, the night that got out of hand, and the lines you'll want to quote back. It's built from your real messages and your friends' photos, on your phone, with its own song, and it ends on a poster made for Stories.
Unlike a music recap, nobody else holds the data. The chat never has to leave your iPhone to make it.
01Getting a chat inOn your iPhone, or from your Mac.
Chatini only ever works with the one chat you pick. There are two ways to bring it in.
iPhone
Chatini adds a small helper to Apple's Shortcuts app. Tap Find my chats, pick one and how far back, and the helper pages through Messages keeping only that chat. Progress shows in the Dynamic Island and on the Lock Screen. Nothing is saved until you check the count and dates and tap Add to vault.
Get Chatini for iPhone →Mac
Chatini Sync is a free menu bar app for macOS 13 or later. It reads Messages on your Mac (it needs Full Disk Access), exports the one chat you pick and shows a QR code. Point your iPhone's camera at it on the same Wi-Fi. The file travels encrypted (AES-256-GCM) and the code expires after 10 minutes. With sync on, it refreshes every 30 seconds, so bringing any chat up to date is one quick scan.
Download Chatini Sync, 1.7 MB →Either way, the chat lands in a private vault on your phone, and every feature reads from there.
02What you can do with itBackscroll, Spill, Nudge and the stars.
- Backscroll 2026. A short film of the chat's year: a recap, then awards like the Group Parent and the Meme Supreme, with your friends' photos cut out on the phone and the real messages that earned them. It has its own song and ends on a Trophy wall poster sized for Stories. Pick, reorder and rename awards, and swap quotes.
- Spill. Ask anything about a chat. Answers quote the real messages they're based on and come with a chart. Group Spill works for chats of 3 to 20 people.
- Nudge. Birthdays, plans that never happened, good news, someone who's gone quiet. Each comes with a draft text and Add to Calendar. Chatini never sends a message for you.
- Read the stars. Reads the signs against how you actually text. Ask the stars takes a question, and Your sky is a full birth-chart reading.
03The tech behind itWhat runs on your phone, and what runs in the cloud.
On your phone
- Free Spill answers with Apple Intelligence, Apple's on-device model.
- Backscroll's stats and awards are counted on the phone.
- Friends' photos are cut out with Apple's Vision framework.
- The film is drawn and exported on the phone, then saved to Photos.
- Your birth chart is worked out on the phone.
In the cloud, when you choose it
- Jev by TypeSafe scores which messages matter. It returns numbers, not words.
- Private open models hosted by Venice write the answer, and a second model checks every claim against the chat before you see it.
- Your account and credits live on Supabase. Our server runs on Render.
What gets sent. For a cloud feature, the chosen chat's messages (in a group, everyone's) with senders and reactions, plus the basics you set in About you: name, pronouns, an age range (never your birthday), country so we can show the right helpline, and time zone.
When. Only after a one-time sharing agreement you read to the end, which you can withdraw in Settings. Group Spill and the cloud Backscroll also have See what will be sent, which shows the exact request first.
What we keep. No message text, quotes or answers are stored on our servers. We keep usage counts (which feature, which model, how many tokens) so credits add up, and refund records with no words in them.
04SafetyFunny, never cruel. Some things are never shown.
- Serious moments are never turned into content. Anything about self-harm or real risk is withheld from every film, award and answer, and the app points to help instead (988 in the US, Samaritans in the UK, Lifeline in Australia).
- Sensitive moments are handled gently, and slang isn't taken literally. "I'm dead" means it was funny.
- No jokes about who people are. Nothing about looks, sexuality, race, religion, disability, health or family.
- Only people in the chat. Names only, with no guesses about gender or relationships. The Group Parent is never "Mom" or "Dad".
- Swear words are masked by default.
- Messages can't steer the AI. A message that tries to give instructions is read as a message, nothing more.
- Contact photos are off by default and never uploaded.
- You see it first. Nothing is shared until you share it, and Chatini never sends a text on your behalf.
05Free, and the full experienceWhat's free, what costs credits, and the prices.
Free
$0
- Spill on your phone with Apple Intelligence, as often as you like
- Reads up to 5,000 messages per chat
- Your first Backscroll
- Up to 2 one-on-one chats and 1 group chat
Plus
$9.99 a month or $79 a year
- 500 credits a month
- Cloud Spill, Nudge and group features
- Read the stars
- Credit top-ups: 250 for $4.99, 600 for $9.99
Premium
$24.99 a month or $249 a year
- 1,500 credits a month
- Everything in Plus
- For big groups and long chats
Plus and Premium credits arrive monthly, and unused ones carry over for one month.
No subscription? One-off passes cover a single chat: a Tasting for $1 (once per account), a Toast for $1 (one Nudge), a Round for $2 (10 questions), a Pour for $3, a Flight for $4 (three chats), a Bottle for $6, and a Shooting Star for $1 (one star reading).
What things cost in credits. Every price is on the button before you tap it.
A Spill question10
A Nudge run5
Reading a chat, per 1,000 messages10
Reading a group chat, per 1,000 messages15
Backscroll for another chat25
A star reading15
06Why the full experience costs moneyThe short answer: big models aren't free to run.
Everything that runs on your phone costs us nothing, so it's free. The full experience runs large private models in the cloud, and we pay for every message they read and every word they write.
Credits are how that cost is shared: you pay for what you use, and every price is on the button before you tap it. If a run fails or finds nothing, the credits go back to you automatically.
07LimitationsWhat Chatini can't do yet.
- iPhone only, on iOS 26 or later. There's no Android or iPad version.
- Free Spill needs an iPhone with Apple Intelligence. Without it, Spill needs credits or a pass.
- Messages (iMessage and SMS) only for now. WhatsApp and other apps aren't supported yet.
- Group features need 3 to 20 people. The cloud Backscroll is for groups and reads up to 60,000 messages.
- Very short chats make thin answers. Under 1,000 messages, the app warns you first.
- Swear-word masking and the on-phone word lists are English only.
- Chatini Sync needs macOS 13 or later and Full Disk Access.
Up late? Pick a chat.
Free to start. Every cost is on the button before you tap it.
