SlackVault and Backupery for Slack: Exports Side by Side

SlackVault and Backupery for SlackA desktop and cloud app that exports Slack messages and files on a schedule and turns them into HTML or Slack-standard JSON.Last checked November 7, 2026. Check Backupery for yourselfSlackVault is not affiliated with or endorsed by Slack.Which one suits youChoose Backupery for Slack if you want a paid, mature desktop or cloud exporter with scheduled runs, selective exports per user and HTML output you can open offline.Choose SlackVault if you would rather pay nothing and keep the live archive in a Firebase project you own, with search and export built into a web app instead of files on one machine.What each one costs

SlackVault: Forever Free

Standard and Pro licenses

No listed price

Quote only: the pricing pages state that taxes may be added, but the price table itself did not render in the page we read

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Side by side

Saves public channel messages

Yes

Yes Their page

Saves private channel messages

Yes

Yes Their page

Saves direct messages and group DMs

Yes

Yes Their page

Saves thread replies

Yes: A thread that fails to save is skipped, not retried

Yes: release notes cover thread presentation and pinned items from threads Their page

Saves shared files

Yes: File details always; copies only at a public link on our storage, when switched on

Yes Their page

Runs on its own on a schedule

Yes: Every 15 minutes, while the browser runs

Yes Their page

Copy lives in storage you control

Partly: Messages in your Firebase project; file copies are not in your storage

Partly: desktop version writes to your disk; the cloud version's main storage is Backblaze B2 Their page

Search across the saved history

Yes: The most recent page of messages, up to 50 per query

Not stated on the pages we checked

Export to open file formats

Yes: JSON, CSV, HTML and Markdown

Yes: self-contained HTML and Slack-compatible JSON Their page

Works without workspace admin rights

Partly: No admin scopes, though a workspace can require approval for new apps

Yes: Synthetic mode in the desktop version Their page

Puts records back into Slack

No: No way yet to send records back into Slack

Partly: JSON export is compatible with Slack's import tools; re-import is done with Slack's tool Their page

Free plan with no time limit

Yes

Not stated on the pages we checked

What SlackVault does today, and what it does not

Messages, channels, members and file records go to your own Firebase project. Supabase is not supported yet.

Files do not go to your Google Drive or your Firebase project. When file copying is switched on in our extension build, each file uploads to our file storage with its visibility set to public: the link is hard to guess, but anyone holding it can open the file without signing in. Where no storage key is set in the build, no copy is made, and your archive keeps the file’s details and Slack’s link, which works only while Slack serves that file.

There is no way yet to send records back into Slack.

The sync runs in a browser extension, every 15 minutes, only while that browser is running.

SlackVault can copy only what Slack’s API still returns, so anything older than your plan’s window is out of reach unless an earlier sync already saved it.

If saving one thread fails, the sync logs it and moves on without retrying those replies.

Search checks the most recent page of messages, up to 50 per query, not the whole archive.

The extension and the Android app have no store listing yet, and the source code is in a private repository.

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