Microsoft recently announced that Skype will be retired in May 2025 as they push users toward Microsoft Teams (official announcement https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2025/02/2... ). This means that many users who have years of chat history stored in Skype will need an alternative way to access their conversations.
At Simkl, we’ve worked with Skype data before — years ago, we built tools for recording and storing Skype chats and calls. With Skype shutting down, we wanted to create a privacy-focused, local solution for viewing exported Skype chat history.
Introducing Skype Chat History Viewer
A simple, fully local tool to browse your exported Skype chat history without any cloud dependencies.
Features:
- Local Database Storage – Your chat history stays on your device, nothing is sent to any server.
- Faster Loading – Large conversations load quickly, even if you have years of messages.
- Search Functionality – Quickly find old messages without lag.
- Stats on your conversations - Monthly and hourly peak times stats when and how much you chatted on Skype.
- Persistent Data – Your chat history remains available between sessions without needing to reload files.
Since Skype is going away, we wanted to make sure users still have control over their own chat history in a private, offline-friendly way.
It's been my experience as well, 80% of websites that had previously content displayed in google results are just not in Google index any more. Google only left titles of the pages in index which won't rank well in search results and won't be able to find the content of those pages.
The Android app tries to use the SIM card info on Android. The website can only detect your phone number by calling the provided number. The app has 500K+ installs.
Sometimes it's hard to remember the phone number on the spot or you get a new SIM and want to see its phone number. Very handy for older folks.
Works from any country does not pick up the phone.
From experience, in many cases it's 50% savings when done correctly and considerably makes the app\website faster on large images when you have 20-50 images to load on one page.
Google actually has a list of websites categorized as banks and financial institutions. Yes it does not cover every single case but that's a start.
Extensions are not malicious by default, but some developers are selling well known extensions to bad actors (unknowingly) who can change things.
In most cases you only need the extension to inject their scripts only in certain websites, not all.
Right now Chrome provides an option in each extension's settings "Allow this extension to read and change all your data on websites you visit:" with an option to allow only when you click on the extension.
That config can easily be applied to every extension in Chrome's settings IF that was an option and add any extension to allow list by default on specific sites where you need.
Currently during extension install when the extension needs access to the all websites where you want to use it there is no option to select which website you want to allow it to be used on (the extension developer does not know where you want to use it so they make it to allow on all websites).
At Simkl, we’ve worked with Skype data before — years ago, we built tools for recording and storing Skype chats and calls. With Skype shutting down, we wanted to create a privacy-focused, local solution for viewing exported Skype chat history.
Introducing Skype Chat History Viewer A simple, fully local tool to browse your exported Skype chat history without any cloud dependencies.
Features: - Local Database Storage – Your chat history stays on your device, nothing is sent to any server. - Faster Loading – Large conversations load quickly, even if you have years of messages. - Search Functionality – Quickly find old messages without lag. - Stats on your conversations - Monthly and hourly peak times stats when and how much you chatted on Skype. - Persistent Data – Your chat history remains available between sessions without needing to reload files.
Since Skype is going away, we wanted to make sure users still have control over their own chat history in a private, offline-friendly way.
Try it out here: https://skype.simkl.com/