Read, search and make sense of your Google Takeout.
A Takeout export is thousands of folders and JSON files that nothing can open. ViewTakeout reads it straight from your disk and gives you back a timeline you can browse, a history you can search and lists you can filter. No account, no server, no upload.
Files stay on your computer
Read directly from disk, in your browser
Every Google service, in one place
Takeout can export 61 services. 3 already have a reader you can open right now; the rest are on the way.
Available now
Google Photos
Grouped by day, month or year, searchable by album, person or date, with the real capture date, camera and location behind every photo.
Open reader
Contacts
All your groups merged into one address book, with countries, photos, the contacts Gmail saved alone, and duplicate detection.
Open readerAna Kovač
+34 612 000 111
Marco Rossi
marco@example.com
Dad
+57 300 000 0000
Mom
mom@example.com
My Activity
Every search, site, video, app and AI prompt on one timeline, with rankings and a heat map of when you are active.
Open readerSearched for flights to Lisbon
Search
Visited wikipedia.org
Chrome
Watched a cooking video
YouTube
Prompted Gemini
Gemini
Photos and media
YouTube and YouTube Music
Watch and search history, your uploads, comments and playlists
Street View
Photos and videos you uploaded to Street View
Google Flow
Images and videos made with Google Flow
Phone Audio
Voice recordings and transcripts from your phone
Google Play Movies & TV
Preferences, watchlist and ratings
Places and location
Timeline
Your location history: places visited, trips, dates and settings
Maps
Your Maps preferences and personal places
Maps (Your Places)
Your starred places and the reviews you wrote
My Maps
Custom maps, layers, features and media
Google Earth
Projects, folders, features and media saved in Earth
Google Save
Saved collections of links, images, sites and pages from Maps and Search
People and messages
Gmail
Messages and attachments in MBOX format, plus your settings as JSON
Google Chat
Conversations, groups, members and attachments
Google Voice
Call history, texts, voicemail and linked numbers
Google Meet
Meeting records stored in Meet
Google Groups
The groups you use and the ones you own
Browsing, search and activity
Chrome
Bookmarks, history and other Chrome settings
Access Log Activity
The log of sign-ins and account activity (large exports, slow to process)
Search Contributions
Ratings, reviews and comments you left in Google Search
Search Notifications
Notification settings and topic subscriptions
Discover
Follows, likes and "not interested" settings saved in Discover
Google News
The magazines, topics and sources you follow
Google Alerts
Your Google Alerts subscriptions
Files, notes and work
Drive
The files you own in My Drive and Computers
Keep
Notes and their attached media
Calendar
Your calendars in iCalendar format
Tasks
Pending and completed tasks
Blogger
Blogs, posts, pages, comments, videos and your Blogger profile
Classroom
Classes, posts, submissions and rosters
Assignments
Courses and assignments, including rubrics and feedback
NotebookLM
Notebooks, sources and generated content
Gemini
Your Gems, including names and instructions
Gemini for Workspace
Content stored in Gemini for Workspace
Workspace Studio
Your flows and activity log
Google Cloud Search
Indexed content metadata and your search activity
Google Workspace Marketplace
Metadata describing an app you published
Pinpoint
Your Pinpoint data, including uploaded files
Devices and home
Google Home
Your devices, rooms, home and history
Nest
Device and service data, including Nest Cam video history
Pixel
Usage and diagnostics from eligible Pixel devices
Android Device Configuration Service
Device attributes, performance data, software versions and account identifiers
Shopping, payments and play
Google Pay
Your Google Pay usage data
Google Wallet
Saved passes, transit cards and related metadata
Google Play Store
App downloads, ratings and orders
Google Play Games Services
Achievements, scores, players you follow and game activity
Google Store
Purchases, subscriptions and product reviews
Google Shopping
Your Google Shopping reviews
Google Finance
Portfolios, watchlists and threads
Google One
Your Google One membership data
Account and profile
Google Account
Registration and account activity data
Profile
Your Google profile settings and images
Google Business Profile
Everything tied to your business listing
Google Developers
Your developer profile records and related activity
Content Restored After Appeal
Content made available again after a successful appeal
Feedback and community
Google Help Communities
Questions and answers you posted, with their text and images
Google Feedback
Feedback reports you submitted across Google products
Google Product Surveys
Your answers to in-product surveys
Arts & Culture
Favorites and galleries you created
You asked for your data back. Google handed you a pile of files.
Folders, cryptic filenames and thousands of
.json
files holding the part that matters: real dates, albums, people, places and settings.
ViewTakeout reads that layer and puts it back where you can see it.
Three steps. No upload anywhere.
Export and unzip
Request your data at Google Takeout, choose JSON where it asks, and unzip the download. If it came split, unzip every part into the same folder.
Choose the folder
Open a reader and pick the folder. Your browser asks permission for that one folder, and only that folder.
Browse and analyse
Everything is read from your disk. Search, filter, sort and open anything to see the metadata behind it.
Your files never leave your computer.
ViewTakeout does not upload anything. It opens your export straight from your disk, the way a photo viewer on your computer does. Your browser asks which folder you want to open, and you decide.
It is like handing someone the key to one room in your house so they can look inside — not packing the boxes and mailing them away. You give access to one folder, and you can take it back whenever you want.
No server, no account
There is nothing to sign up for, because there is nothing stored online.
It works offline
Turn off your wifi and the readers keep working. That is the proof that nothing is traveling anywhere.
Your browser asks permission
Chrome shows a prompt asking whether to open that folder, and only that folder. It asks again every time you return.
You can take the access back
Click the padlock in Chrome's address bar to see which folder you allowed and remove it.
Read-only, always
The readers never write, move or rename anything. Your export stays exactly as Google delivered it.
The demonstration
Open a reader, disconnect from the internet, and keep browsing. If anything were being uploaded, none of it would work.
One honest warning
Do not use it on a shared or public computer. The browser remembers the folder you allowed, so the next person on that machine could open the page and see your list.
Requirements, stated plainly
The readers open files straight from your disk using a browser feature that not every browser supports yet. Here is exactly what you need.
- A desktop browser: Chrome, Edge or Opera.
- Your export must be unzipped first.
- For My Activity, choose JSON in Takeout. The HTML version cannot be read.
- Firefox and Safari do not yet support the browser feature this relies on.
- Not available on phones or tablets. Most people read about it on their phone and open it later on a computer.
Supported browsers
Questions, answered honestly
Do you see my photos?
No. They are never sent anywhere — there is no server to send them to. The tool reads files directly from your disk inside your own browser.
Do I need an account?
No. There is nothing to sign up for, because nothing is stored online.
Is it free?
Yes. ViewTakeout is free to use.
Does it change or delete my files?
No. It only reads them. Your export stays exactly as it is.
Why does it ask for permission every time?
Browsers deliberately do not keep folder access permanently. One click restores it.
My export came in several ZIP files.
Unzip them all into the same folder so the photos and their metadata end up together.
How big an export can it handle?
Libraries with tens of thousands of photos work. Thumbnails load as you scroll, and the index is remembered so the second visit is instant.
Why doesn't it work in Firefox or Safari?
It relies on the File System Access API, which reads folders straight from your disk. Only Chrome, Edge and Opera support it today.
Where can I get my Takeout?
Request it at takeout.google.com, then unzip the download before opening it here.
Ready to open your export?
Pick a reader and choose your folder. It takes under a minute.