AI Chat Exporter
One tool to scan every editor and CLI agent on your machine and
unify your scattered AI conversations into a single, clean export.
No cloud. No telemetry. Your transcripts never leave your device.
The problem
Every AI tool stores its conversations differently. Copilot Chat keeps them in VS Code workspace state. Cline and Roo Code use their own extension directories. Claude Code CLI, Codex CLI, and Aider write to your home folder. Cursor and Windsurf have their own SQLite stores. After a few months of real work, your best ideas are trapped in a dozen incompatible formats across half a dozen apps.
Æfusio scans your machine, parses every known source, and writes one clean export you can actually use — feed it to another model, archive it for compliance, search it, share it, or just read it. Tiered parsers handle the common tools; a generic JSON/SQLite fallback catches the rest.
See it in action
Pick your editors, scan for chat sources, choose formats, export. No accounts, no uploads, no telemetry — everything runs on your machine.
Keyboard → ← / → to step through. Every screen shown here renders against live fixture data — no fake mockups.
What it does
Scans VS Code, Insiders, Cursor, Windsurf, Trae, and your home directory for known AI chat storage locations. No config required.
Purpose-built parsers for Copilot, Cline, Roo Code, Kilo Code, Continue, Cody, Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Code, Codex, and Aider — plus a generic JSON/SQLite fallback.
Pulls images referenced in Copilot, Cursor, and Claude Code sessions into a deduped screenshots/ sidecar, keyed by content hash.
Write to jsonl, json, md, txt, csv, openai-messages, or a memory-bundle format designed for feeding back into AI context.
A PySide6 desktop GUI with a six-step wizard and Dracula theme, plus a Rich-powered CLI for scripting, cron jobs, and CI pipelines. Same core engine.
Runs entirely on your machine. No accounts. No telemetry. No "anonymous" analytics. Your transcripts never touch a server we can see.
Supported sources
Dedicated parsers are shipping today for the sources below. Anything not on this list falls back to a generic JSON/SQLite parser — usually good enough to get your data out until a purpose-built parser lands.
Get it
Æfusio is in active preview. macOS Apple Silicon, Linux x86_64, and Windows x64 binaries are all available now (code-signing pending — Apple organization conversion and Azure Trusted Signing are in progress). The web app at aefusio.app needs no install.
Apple Silicon (arm64). First launch: right-click → Open, or xattr -d com.apple.quarantine Aefusio.app. Universal build planned for v0.2.0.
x64 build. Code signing via Azure Trusted Signing in progress.
Download GUI (.zip) Download CLI (.zip)A browser-based exporter that runs entirely client-side — no upload, no account. Good for one-off exports.
Open Web App ↗
Verify integrity against
SHA256SUMS.txt.
Release notes: v0.1.9-preview.
Prefer to build from source? Run ./build.sh on macOS/Linux or ./build.ps1 on Windows. Python 3.13 recommended.
How to use
Download the binary for your platform from the
Download section, or clone the
repo and run ./build.sh. macOS first-launch:
right-click Aefusio.app → Open (notarization
pending — see the FAQ).
Prefer no-install? Open the web exporter ↗ — runs entirely in your browser tab.
Launch the GUI, or run aefusio --scan. Æfusio
inspects all known locations on disk — VS Code workspace
storage, ~/.claude/projects/, Xcode
IDEIntelligenceChat/, JetBrains config
dirs, Zed, Warp, BoltAI, LM Studio, and more.
Nothing is sent off-device.
Don't see your tool? Point Æfusio at any folder with --path ~/path/to/chats; the generic JSON/JSONL + SQLite fallback usually recognizes it.
Pick an output format: markdown,
json, jsonl, csv,
txt, openai-messages, or
memory-bundle (ZIP with manifest +
screenshots sidecar). Choose merge-all or keep
per-session, hit export.
CLI one-liner: aefusio --all --format markdown --out ./my-chats
# scan and list detected sources
aefusio --list
# export everything to markdown (one file per session)
aefusio --all --format markdown --out ./chats
# only certain sources, merged into one file
aefusio --source claude-code-cli --source copilot-chat --merge --format jsonl --out combined.jsonl
# point at a specific folder (e.g. a Claude.ai data-export ZIP you unpacked)
aefusio --path ~/Downloads/claude-export --format markdown --out ./claude
# dry-run: show what would be exported without writing files
aefusio --all --dry-run
markdown — one .md per session, YAML frontmatter (source, model, workspace, date), triple-backtick code blocks. Best for Obsidian / knowledge-base ingestion.
jsonl — one JSON object per line; each line is a full session. Streams cleanly into LLM fine-tuning pipelines.
json — one file, array of session objects. Best for inspection and scripting.
csv — flattened one-row-per-turn. Spreadsheet-friendly.
txt — plain transcripts. Shareable with non-technical readers.
openai-messages — {role, content} arrays compatible with the OpenAI chat completions format.
memory-bundle — ZIP: index.json + sessions/*.md + screenshots/ (deduped by hash). Good for handing to another AI as context.
macOS — ~/Library/Application Support/Code/User/workspaceStorage/, ~/Library/Application Support/Code - Insiders/User/workspaceStorage/, ~/.claude/projects/, ~/.codex/, ~/.gemini/, ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/UserData/IDEIntelligenceChat/, ~/Library/Application Support/JetBrains/<IDE>/, ~/Library/Application Support/Zed/, ~/Library/Application Support/dev.warp.Warp-Stable/, ~/Library/Application Support/BoltAI/, ~/Library/Application Support/com.raycast.macos/, and others.
Linux — ~/.config/Code/User/workspaceStorage/, ~/.claude/projects/, ~/.codex/, ~/.config/JetBrains/, ~/.config/zed/, ~/.config/jan/threads/, ~/.cache/lm-studio/, ~/.local/share/nvim/avante/.
Windows — %APPDATA%\Code\User\workspaceStorage\, %APPDATA%\Claude\, %APPDATA%\ChatGPT\, %APPDATA%\JetBrains\, %APPDATA%\LM Studio\.
Nothing is ever sent over the network. Æfusio requires no cloud credentials and has no telemetry.
Knowledge base
A local, privacy-first exporter that reads the chat transcripts AI tools already store on your machine, normalizes them into a unified schema, and writes them out in any of seven formats. Think of it as a universal adapter for AI conversation history.
No. Æfusio has no network code in the export path. The desktop app reads files from disk and writes files to disk. The web version at aefusio.app uses the browser's File System Access API — your files never leave the tab. You can verify with any network inspector, or run with --offline (the default).
See the Sources section for the full list. Dedicated parsers exist for GitHub Copilot Chat, Cline, Roo Code, Continue, Cody, Claude Code CLI, Codex CLI, and Aider. The generic fallback handles Xcode Intelligence, JetBrains AI, Zed, Warp, BoltAI, LM Studio, Jan, Msty, AnythingLLM, Perplexity, Raycast AI, ChatGPT desktop, Claude desktop, and any JSON/JSONL/SQLite store with a recognizable chat shape.
Apple Developer organization conversion is in progress (DUNS acquired, case open). Until we can notarize, first-launch requires right-click → Open. Alternatively:
xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Aefusio.appWindows code-signing via Azure Trusted Signing is also pending — SmartScreen will warn on first launch of the Windows build.
Not via scraping — Æfusio never automates your account. Instead, use the provider's built-in data export (ChatGPT Settings → Data Controls, Claude Privacy → Export, Google Takeout for Gemini). Unzip the export and run aefusio --path ./unzipped-export; Æfusio auto-detects the schema.
The desktop app auto-discovers every supported source on your machine and exports in one click. Great for recurring use.
The web app at aefusio.app is a zero-install, drop-a-folder-in-the-browser alternative. It uses the File System Access API (Chrome / Edge / Brave / Opera / Arc) for directory access, falls back to file-picker elsewhere, and runs every parser client-side. Good for one-off exports, locked-down machines, or when you just want to try the tool.
A single ZIP containing index.json (manifest: session IDs, sources, timestamps, sha256 hashes), sessions/<id>.md (one markdown per session), and screenshots/<hash>.png (deduplicated image attachments). Designed to be dropped back into another AI as project context, or archived for compliance.
The binary is free to download and use. The source code is available on GitHub (going public alongside the v1.0 release). Licensing: commercial-friendly permissive license — the code will ship with LICENSE.md spelling it out.
Yes — that's the roadmap. Parser contributions go through a plugin interface (see ROADMAP.md). Open an issue with one or two sample transcript files and the target tool's storage path, and we'll add a parser.
Yes — Linux x86_64 and Windows x64 binaries ship via GitHub Actions. See Download. Apple Silicon is the current macOS default; a universal binary lands in v0.2.0.
Pasted images inside chats are extracted to a screenshots/ sidecar directory and deduplicated by SHA-256. The markdown export references them relatively (), so the folder stays portable.
Sandboxed Electron apps keep data in LevelDB / IndexedDB that Chromium encrypts with a per-profile key. Æfusio does not crack those stores — instead it picks up whatever JSON / SQLite is exposed alongside them (usually conversation caches). For complete Claude.ai / ChatGPT data, use the cloud data-export route described above.
Technical
Æfusio ships as three surfaces from one shared core. The matrix below is the authoritative cross-surface parity snapshot, generated from the same data the release pipeline checks against. It mirrors the live chart on aefusio.app.
We want to hear from you
Æfusio is in active preview. Every bug you report and every parser you request sharpens the next release. Pick the channel that fits.
feedback@aefusio.com
Fastest for general feedback, ideas, or “this parser missed my tool.”
Bug report
support@aefusio.com
Pre-filled template — hit send and fill the blanks.
GitHub issue
github.com/aegyrix/aefusio ↗
Public tracker — bug reports, parser requests, and roadmap votes.
Security
security@aefusio.com
Coordinated disclosure. PGP key on request.
Get in touch
Bug reports, feature requests, parser contributions, or press — send a message and we’ll reply from info@aefusio.com.
Æfusio is a product of Ægyrix, LLC · Pittsburgh, PA, USA.