iStats: iMessage Statistics

About

iStats is a web-app that allows users to see statistics based on their sent iMessages. It was written in Python and makes use of the chat.db file generated by macOS devices. The front-end was created using Flask, HTML, and JavaScript. The design was inspired by the iMessage user interface and features clickable chat bubbles based on the features listed below.

Features

• Top 10 most used words, characters, emojis
• Minimum, maximum, average character count
• Most texted contact number
• Activity by month, week, hour
• Search a string

Motivation

For iStats, I was inspired by Apple’s lack of a proper search functionality (prior to iOS 13) for messages in iMessage. As our semester-long group project in CIS 4930: Python Programming at Florida State University, we built iStats to create a better search functionality, while also outputting other interesting user data such as most used words, emojis, most texted contact number, and more.