Read between the lines.

Subtext reads your message threads and shows you what's really going on underneath: the push and pull, the things said and the things left unsaid.

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Private by design·A reading, not a verdict·iOS & Android

Alex

128 messages · read just now

Repair attempts Mixed signals Withdrawal under conflict

Warmth is clearly there, but it keeps getting interrupted: when a hard topic comes up, replies get short and the thread goes quiet. The reaching-back-out afterward is a genuinely good sign.

To consider: what do you want them to understand the next time things go quiet?

Subtext can be wrong. It reads patterns in text, not the whole story.

How it works

Read. Analyze. Coach.

Bring a thread

Screenshot any chat, or bring in a WhatsApp or Telegram export. It works with the conversations you already have.

Get the read

A clear-eyed look at the dynamic on both sides, surfaced as specific, message-anchored patterns. Never a label on a person.

Know your next move

A grounded prompt for what to say or notice next, so you respond from clarity instead of the spiral.

What makes it different

The clearest read of any conversation that matters.

Private by design

Your conversations are never stored on our servers. Analysis is yours, on your device, never a product we sell.

Any relationship

A partner, a parent, a friend, a coworker, someone you're just getting to know. If it's a conversation, Subtext can read it.

Every thread

Texts, iMessage, WhatsApp, Instagram DMs, Telegram. If you can screenshot it, Subtext can read it.

Patterns, not labels

Subtext describes what the messages do. It never diagnoses a person. No clinical labels, no verdicts, just a reading you can act on.

See it change over time

A private, on-device timeline of how a relationship moves week to week, in plain language, not a score chart.

Coaching, not scripts

A nudge toward your own next move, never a canned line to copy and paste. The clarity is the point.

Privacy

Your conversations stay yours.

The most personal data on your phone deserves the strictest handling. Here is what we guarantee.

✓No server-side storageMessage content, media, and contact names are never stored on our servers. Not ever.

✓On-device onlyYour readings live on your phone and nowhere else. That cuts both ways: if you uninstall the app or lose your phone, there is no copy anywhere to restore. Turn off on-device history any time and stored readings clear immediately.

✓No ads, no data saleSubtext is paid for by the people who use it, never by advertising or selling your data.

✓Encrypted in transitEverything travels over TLS. No plaintext transmission of your data, under any circumstances.

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Our promise

A reading, not a verdict.

Subtext is a quick-read pattern-spotting tool, not a diagnosis and not a judge. It describes what's happening in a thread and hands you back clarity. What you do with it is yours.

Why Subtext exists

Built by someone who needed it first.

Subtext exists because I needed it. Reading between the lines has never come naturally to me. I can sit with a thread and still miss what's underneath: the slow pull-back, or the question someone is asking without asking. For most of my life, the only tool I had was rereading a conversation twenty times and guessing.

So I built the second set of eyes I always wanted. A calm outside read that shows me the patterns and leaves the decisions to me. I didn't build a judgment machine. I built the tool I needed to understand people. It turns out most of us could use one sometimes.

Ricky KellerFounder, Subtext

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Subtext is live on iPhone and Android.

Free to download, and your first 7 days of readings are free.