- Enter contacts + date range
- Timestamped, ready for legal review
- One-off payment, lifetime use
- Easy step-by-step instructions
- Ideal for music industry professionals
"I'd been searching for years for something that does what Dispute Buddy does. This was so easy to use!"
Wayne R Martin, MThree Music Management, Nashville
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”For music, film and television - anything that’s intellectual property coming out of California, New York, and Nashville, this is a godsend.
It did exactly what I needed. And when I needed help, you texted and called me. You really cared about me!”
”My lawyer was so impressed when he saw what I gave him as it saved him hours or work. I was all kinds of happy when I realised that meant I paid less in legal.”
”Your platform is AMAZING! So user friendly. And the finished product is so clear and easy-to-read. Bless you! Thank you for creating this!”
”When I saw it all laid out I realised he’s an absolute LOON. This is amazing.”
”This made me feel in control for the first time in forever. I feel like I can move forward now and I haven’t felt like that in months.”
”I’m not a techie and this was so easy to use. This was a game changer for me as I don’t know how to save stuff onto my computer. It was so simple.”
”I was drowning in screenshots, stress, and the fear of missing something critical. What you’ve built takes away so much of that emotional load at a time when people are already carrying more than enough.”
”This was the first time in years I felt brave enough to tackle this evidence. Thank you again!!”
”Nothing prepares you for what needs to be done and how little help you have, and the expertise you need to develop, to protect your child. Dispute Buddy is the help you’d never guess you need until you need it.”
I built Dispute Buddy so you don't experience what I did - scrolling through hundreds of messages that were upsetting to re-read, screenshotting them one-by-one, wondering which messages my lawyer would want to see.
I emailed all these screenshots to my lawyer, TERRIFIED that I'd missed the important ones and that I'd end up losing my case because of how I'd gathered my texts.
We hadn't even got to court yet and I was already stressed about whether I'd given the lawyer the right info AND how big the legal bill would be.
So I built the EXACT thing I needed when I was where you are right now.
If I'd had Dispute Buddy when I had to gather evidence, I'd have felt in control, in charge and confident.
Dispute Buddy does that for you, AND reduces your legal bills. You're almost there! This helps you feel SO much more in control.
Music industry disputes aren't always about contract clauses.
Sometimes the texts reveal years of pressure, threats, or manipulation that shaped decisions you later regretted.
Dispute Buddy's behavior analysis scans your entire text history and flags patterns - repeated pressure, threatening language, emotional manipulation, and harassment - across thousands of messages you couldn't manually review yourself.
The result is a summary you can hand to your lawyer on day one, so they spend their time on your legal strategy, not reading 8,000 pages of texts.
That means lower legal bills and a stronger case from the start.
Connect your iPhone, enter a contact name and date range, and Dispute Buddy produces a timestamped PDF of your entire text history - years of conversations, chronologically organised.
No screenshots, no manual sorting.
Search by keyword to find the exact exchange that matches a contract clause, then send it straight to your lawyer.
Entertainment lawyers bill by the hour. Every hour they spend reading through thousands of texts is money you don't get back.
Dispute Buddy gives them a clean, organised record from day one - so their time goes on strategy, not formatting screenshots.
One music exec exported 8,200 pages over a weekend, found the relevant texts to match each argument and emailed his counsel on Monday morning.
In music, film, and television, everything happens over text. Deals, commitments, threats, promises - they're all kept in thousands of messages on your phone.
Most people only start gathering that history when their lawyer asks for it, by which point the pressure is already unbearable. Dispute Buddy lets you export years of texts calmly, on your own terms.
Dispute Buddy works by gathering all the text messages from the contacts you enter, and then searching through them for patterns that might be important to a legal argument.
These are the steps Dispute Buddy goes through to help you:
1. Buy Dispute Buddy on our website www.disputebuddy.co
2. Download it to your computer
3. Install and launch Dispute Buddy on your computer
4. Connect your iPhone to your computer
5. Enter the names of the relevant contacts and the date range
6. Wait around 20 mins to 2 hours while Dispute Buddy searches and analyses the messages and chats
7. Select whether to export just text messages, or add the behaviour analysis report (this is the 'paralegal' work your lawyer will need to do)
8. Save the exported PDF
9. Keep Dispute Buddy open to export as many PDFs as you like with different contacts and date ranges
10. When you close Dispute Buddy, it removes all the message files from your computer, keeping your searches private forever.
11. You can reuse Dispute Buddy at any time. Just start from step 4.
Dispute Buddy is currently only compatible with iPhone. Android is coming soon!
Yes. You can download Dispute Buddy onto any computer. Remember it only works for iPhone and iPad at the moment.
Dispute Buddy must be downloaded onto your laptop or desktop computer.
Dispute Buddy exports messages FROM your iPhone or iPad TO your computer.
No. No one will know. You’ll export a message history of your texts and a behavior analysis and save it on your computer. You can email it to whoever you like, or you can just keep it for yourself as a record of conversations.
Your privacy is our top priority. Our company values are
kind and compassionate, and simple and clear.
Being kind and compassionate means that your data stays with you, not us.
Being simple and clear means we only do what we say we’re doing - help you download your text messages and chats, analyse them, and export them to a PDF report.
We don’t sell data.
We extract iPhone's texts + WhatsApps (nothing else on your phone) to a temporary folder on your desktop, then export the ones from selected contacts to a PDF.
The messages from your selected contacts are sent to our secure cloud to do the behavior analysis. They are then deleted immediately. When you close the app, the system deletes the temporary backup files on your computer.
Absolutely. Dispute Buddy is very easy to use and works in just a few clicks. It is designed to guide you through a simple process step-by-step. And if you need help, jump on our LiveChatlink inside the Dispute Buddy app.
Yes. Inside Dispute Buddy you’ll see group chats in the list of your contacts. Just select the ones you want to export.
Yes, Dispute Buddy will export your messages in whatever language you sent them in. If you have problems, get in touch. We can help!
No. Dispute Buddy will only export exactly what you can see on your device at the time. We can’t recover deleted messages.
But if your phone says ‘this message has been deleted’ in the thread, our report will show that.
At the moment, Dispute Buddy can only export text messages and WhatsApp chats on iPhones and iPads. In the future, you’ll be able to export Facebook Messenger, Instagram messages, email, and other platforms.
You’ll be able to see any images, audio or video files in your message history. You can’t play the videos or voice notes, but you’ll see a thumbnail. The message history will look like this:
We’ve designed the app to use in the early stages of evidence gathering. That’s why we describe the PDF export as lawyer-friendly. Some of our customers have told us they’ve used Dispute Buddy in court, but that’s anecdotal, not ‘court-certified’. And we recommend you get legal advice! Dispute Buddy's not a replacement for an attorney.
Dispute Buddy is extremely thorough and focused on ensuring your privacy. This means it takes time to run through the full process properly.
Most of our users fall between 20 mins and 2 hours. It depends on factors like:
- The processing power of your computer (usually age-related)
- Which model of iPhone you're using (also age-related!)
As many as you like. It’s a one-off payment, then Dispute Buddy is yours for life.
Yes. You will need:
1. An Apple cable (cheap ones won’t work) to connect your iPhone to your computer
2. Up to 2 hours to leave the phone plugged into the computer
3. Make sure your computer is plugged into the power!
There’s more info here: Set yourself up for success
“Dispute Buddy is in your corner, rooting for you to succeed every step of the way. I will be here helping you through this. I built Dispute Buddy to make this awful process much easier for you. It's powerful and validating to see the truth in black and white. Message me at jenny@disputebuddy.co to tell me what you think!”