GetStatus: Status Saver

GetStatus is a status saver that keeps the photos and videos you love — and it works entirely on your own phone.

When you view a contact's status in WhatsApp, WhatsApp writes a temporary copy into a hidden folder on your device. GetStatus reads that copy from your own storage and lets you keep it permanently in your gallery. Nothing is uploaded. Your statuses, your saved files and your messages never leave your phone.

SAVE STATUSES IN ONE TAP

• Every status you have viewed appears automatically, split into Images and Videos
• Tap to save a photo or video to your gallery in full original quality — no re-compression, no watermark
• Long-press to select many at once and save or share them together
• Full-screen viewer with pinch-to-zoom for photos and a scrubbable player for videos
• Repost to your own status in one tap, or share to any app
• Mark favourites in your saved library to find them again

NEVER MISS A STATUS AGAIN

Statuses disappear after 24 hours. The ones GetStatus has already seen stay available to you for up to 7 days, so a status you meant to save is not gone forever. Turn the feature off any time and the private copies are deleted immediately.

RECOVER DELETED MESSAGES

An optional feature that does nothing until you switch it on. GetStatus reads incoming message notifications on your own device as they arrive, so the text is still readable after the sender deletes it. Deleted photos and videos are kept privately too. Search across recovered chats, and export any chat as a text file to keep or share.

Everything captured stays in the app's private storage, is deleted automatically after 7 days, and is wiped the moment you turn the feature off or uninstall the app. It is never uploaded and never shared.

MAKE YOUR OWN STICKERS

• Turn any photo into a sticker — the subject is cut out automatically, or keep the whole picture
• Turn a 2–5 second video clip into an animated sticker
• Build named packs of up to 30 stickers and add a pack to WhatsApp in one tap
• The cut-out runs on your own phone — no account, no upload

FREE UP STORAGE

• See how much space WhatsApp's photos, videos, voice notes, audio, documents, GIFs and stickers take, kind by kind
• Largest files first; find duplicate copies of the same photo or video and keep just one
• Preview any file, select many at once, and delete in bulk — every delete asks first

DIRECT CHAT

Message any WhatsApp or WhatsApp Business number without saving it as a contact. The number is never stored.

BUILT TO STAY OUT OF YOUR WAY

• A small download, light on memory, smooth on older phones
• No account, no sign-up, no login
• Saving statuses works with no internet connection at all
• Works with WhatsApp and WhatsApp Business on Android 6 and above
• English and 11 Indian languages; light and dark themes with optional Material You colours

WHY THE PERMISSIONS

Viewed statuses live in a hidden folder that Android does not expose to normal media access. On Android 11 and above, GetStatus asks you to select that folder once in Android's own folder picker; it can then read only that folder, and you can take the access back at any time in your device settings. The storage cleaner asks separately, in the same picker, for the media folder it cleans. Notification access is separate, optional, and explained before it is used. Every permission is described in the privacy policy and can be revoked at any time.

RESPECT OTHER PEOPLE

Statuses and messages belong to the people who created them. Please only save and re-share content you are permitted to, and use the recovery features lawfully and respectfully.

GetStatus is an independent app. It is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by WhatsApp LLC or Meta Platforms, Inc. WhatsApp is a trademark of WhatsApp LLC. GetStatus does not modify, clone or connect to WhatsApp — it only reads media that is already stored on your device, with your permission.