Use Cases
Get Slack eDiscovery Done. Save money on RelOne hosting.
Easily collect Slack data for discovery with ViewExport. Upload your unreadable JSON Slack export archives, search and filter, and export to CSV, PDF, RSMF, or JSON. Preserved with metadata intact, defensible under FRCP, built for legal hold and compliance exports, internal audit, or regulatory review.
Who Uses ViewExport
Collect and review Slack ESI. With or Without IT Involvement.
For law firms, trial attorneys, and eDiscovery providers, as well as for in-house corporate legal and IT teams.
Heads of IT & Security
Tasked with managing systems and security? You’re often the first to get the call. ViewExport helps you respond quickly with scoped, secure data delivery.
Attorneys & Law Firms
You need simple tools that preserve defensibility and reduce your Relativity hosting bill, while letting you find Slack data relevant to your case. That’s ViewExport.
HR & Operations Leaders
Responding to a lawsuit or getting an internal investigation done? If it involves Slack data, use ViewExport to easily find what you need in minutes.
For Legal & IT
Simple for attorneys. Trusted by IT.
ViewExport organizes your Slack export files into a human-readable, searchable interface. Supports compliance exports directly from Slack plus defensible legal hold workflows.
- Preserve metadata & chain of custody
- Review-ready for FRCP, GDPR, and internal policy
Faster Search
Find What You Need In Slack. Export to RSMF.
Everything you need to stay on track, work efficiently, and make informed decisions — in one place. No complex setup. Just clear tools for daily impact.
- Search by keyword, user, channel, or date.
- Preserve metadata and chain of custody.
Easy to Use
Start Reviewing in Minutes. No Learning Curve.
The implementation timeframe is: a few minutes. And there’s no complex software your team has to learn. It’s simple, secure, and powerful.
- Just drag in your export .zip file and everything processes securely in the cloud.
- Choose from EU or US servers that hold your data to ensure compliance.
Built to Scale
We're enterprise ready.
Robust audit logging, regional data storage, customizable data retention, SSO enforcement, and auto-delete. Don't want sensitive data leaving your servers? Just use our downloadable edition software.
99.99%
Uptime in the last 6 months, cloud edition
∞
Unlimited data storage capacity for Slack uploads
20x
Faster time to complete DSARs and audits vs manually
300+
Corporate customers enjoying more peace of mind
What We Do
The Slack export viewer built for legal review and audit.
Legal and IT teams hit walls fast: no easy date range filtering, no way to search across DMs or private channels without triggering "joined channel" alerts, and no way to make sense of raw JSON files without hours of manual effort.
Native Slack tools don't support scoped date searches well
Filtering Slack messages by date range isn’t easy natively, making scoped legal hold implementation, compliance exports, audit prep, and ECA slow and error‑prone.
Accessing private channels in Slack notifies users — not ideal for audits
Joining private channels triggers alerts and raises red flags. In sensitive HR, compliance, or internal investigations, you don’t want that. Work in a private environment with ViewExport.
Slack exports come in raw JSON, unreadable without technical help
Parsing Slack’s JSON exports (a multitude of files and folders in a ZIP archive) eats up expensive billable hours and internal IT time before legal review even begins.
Security
Enterprise-Grade Security, Built for Legal Workflows
ViewExport is designed with strict security, access controls, and audit trails to meet your legal, IT, and compliance standards.
Security Controls
Full documentation of our security architecture, access policies, and compliance practices.
Audit-Ready Logging
Every action is logged in detail for audit trails, legal defensibility, and compliance reporting.
Infrastructure
Hosted on secure, encrypted infrastructure with authentication, access control, and uptime protections.
Archive Snapshot Integrity
Static copy of your Slack archive at time of upload, so future edits or deletions don’t obscure what was originally said.
Robust Search and Filtering
Keywords, channels, boolean search, “this channel but not that channel”: search and filter however you need to. We have it.
Privacy Practices
GDPR-aligned policies for how we handle, store, and protect sensitive user and message data.
Testimonials
Trusted by attorneys and IT leaders.
Most customer testimonials are anonymized at their request.
“With ViewExport, we were able to easily work with a very large Slack export and resolve our incident much faster compared to other Slack export solutions. The tool has great functionality with improvements happening on a regular cadence as well as fantastic support from the ViewExport team.”
Matt R, Head of IT
Large Game Studio in California
Name and company redacted for client privacy.
“Glad for ViewExport - in Slack you can't filter easily by date range, which is annoying and not usable for Legal/eDiscovery. And Onna is way too expensive. You guys are perfect.”
Chief Information Officer
NYSE-Listed Adtech Company
Name and company redacted for client privacy.
“Handling DSARs is a massive pain point for me with GDPR compliance. We've been working around this problem for 6+ years, across multiple companies.”
Head of IT & Security
Midmarket UK Tech Company
Name and company redacted for client privacy.
“This is marvelous. I'm the Slack admin of my company and I'm tired of searching through the json files for messages for HR investigations. Now I can share relevant exports with legal in a few clicks.”
Deborah, IT Manager
Large Not-For-Profit Organization
“With ViewExport, we were able to easily work with a very large Slack export and resolve our incident much faster compared to other Slack export solutions. The tool has great functionality with improvements happening on a regular cadence as well as fantastic support from the ViewExport team.”
Matt R, Head of IT
Large Game Studio in California
Name and company redacted for client privacy.
“Glad for ViewExport - in Slack you can't filter easily by date range, which is annoying and not usable for Legal/eDiscovery. And Onna is way too expensive. You guys are perfect.”
Chief Information Officer
NYSE-Listed Adtech Company
Name and company redacted for client privacy.
“Handling DSARs is a massive pain point for me with GDPR compliance. We've been working around this problem for 6+ years, across multiple companies.”
Head of IT & Security
Midmarket UK Tech Company
Name and company redacted for client privacy.
“This is marvelous. I'm the Slack admin of my company and I'm tired of searching through the json files for messages for HR investigations. Now I can share relevant exports with legal in a few clicks.”
Deborah, IT Manager
Large Not-For-Profit Organization
FAQ
Need help?
Whether you're a small startup, a growing mid-sized business, or a large enterprise, we're here to make things simple and support you at every step.
We're compatible with all Slack plans: Free, Pro, Business, and Enterprise. Just export any Slack JSON archive!
Yes! Find pricing for the downloadable, local-hosted edition of ViewExport on our pricing page. Great for if you have security concerns about employee data leaving your private cloud, or if your contractual obligations prevent sensitive IP from touching third-party servers. With the local edition, we'll never see or have access to your Slack data files.
You can upload anything that is included with the .ZIP file that contains your .JSON exports from Slack. If those files contain private channel and direct message data, they'll be searchable in ViewExport as well. However, we can't help you get data from Slack that was not contained in your export.
There's no implementation required: ViewExport is as easy as setting up an account, and uploading a .ZIP file. That said, we're happy to walk you through configuration and best practices.
We take security seriously and serve organizations around the world who are entrusted with strict data governance procedures, including for their Slack data. Here's our full security overview.
Yes, with 2 year contracts we can offer 12% off the Annual Enterprise plan, and with 3 year contracts we're able to offer 14.5% off the Annual Enterprise plan. Above-contract usage is billed monthly pro rata. Reach out to our team for details and we can get you set up.
No, ViewExport is an independent service not affiliated with Slack Technologies Inc. We provide tools to view and search Slack export files but are not connected to, funded by, or endorsed by Slack.
ViewExport is a modern, cloud and desktop platform for searching and governing corporate Slack messages to maintain compliance. Think of us as a single-purpose tool — an alternative to Onna, Mimecast Aware, Hanzo, Smarsh, and Pagefreezer. Technical teams can also compare us to Slackdump or Backupery, or read why teams outgrow Slack's native export for legal review. Message Crawler customers will also enjoy switching to ViewExport so that they can filter and search their Slack archives before uploading them to Relativity, saving a reported $10-50k per year on RelOne data and hosting costs, according to some of our customers. You can read more here about the top Slack eDiscovery tools available.
The free trial is 7 days with a nominal data usage limit to prevent abuse. We want you to know that we're able to handle your needs, and we've noticed that most organizations can determine this in 24-48 hours. Need help with your trial? Shoot us a note and see if we can customize the experience for you, or provide a walkthrough.