How Much Is iMazing in 2026? Prices, Free Trial Limits and Cheaper Ways to Save Messages

iMazing costs $49.99 a year for up to 5 iPhones and iPads, or $89.99 a year for up to 20. There's no one-time license anymore. The free trial never runs out, but it stops at 25 messages. If saving your texts is the whole job, you don't need to pay for iMazing at all.

How much does iMazing cost?

iMazing sells yearly subscriptions on its store:

The device count is for the iPhones and iPads you connect, not your computers. You can install iMazing on as many Macs and PCs as you like, and one license works on both. Personal plans are for personal use only.

iMazing counts a device against your limit until it has gone 9 months without connecting (90 days on Business). So when you replace your iPhone, the old one keeps counting for most of a year. If a phone is lost or was linked by mistake, iMazing says to contact its support team, and you can buy extra device slots.

The subscription renews every year at iMazing's list price that day, so today's price isn't locked in.

Is iMazing free? What the free trial limits

Partly. You can download iMazing and use it in trial mode with no time limit, but the trial caps how many items you can transfer:

For texts, 25 is the number that matters. It's enough to see what an iMazing export looks like, and not enough for any conversation you'd actually want to keep.

A few things stay free with no license: backing up your iPhone for personal use, Quick Transfer, and app management. Restoring a backup needs a paid subscription.

Is there an iMazing one-time purchase or lifetime license?

No. iMazing stopped selling one-time device licenses in June 2025 and now sells subscriptions only.

If you bought a one-time license before then, it still works. Owners of iMazing 1 and 2 licenses can upgrade to iMazing 3 at a 50% discount, and get free updates after that.

What the iMazing Business subscription adds

Business is for companies, IT teams and legal work, and you need it for any backup made for business use. It also adds:

• message exports in RSMF (a file format lawyers use to review messages) and signed PDFs
• iMazing Configurator and the command-line tool for managing many devices
• an iMazing account for sending license codes to colleagues or clients

How to cancel an iMazing subscription and get a refund

You can cancel at any time. Your subscription stays active until its next renewal date and then doesn't renew.

For a refund, write to iMazing support within 30 days of buying and say why you want one. iMazing decides each request and can turn it down. Have your order number and the email you bought with ready.

Cheaper alternatives to iMazing for exporting iPhone messages to PDF

iMazing is a full device manager: backups, photos, music, apps and files, as well as messages. If all you need is a readable PDF of your texts, you're renting all of that every year for one job. Here's what the same job costs elsewhere:

The TextPort Mac and Windows apps export iMessage and SMS conversations as PDF, CSV or TXT, with no trial cap. Which of the three TextPort apps fits depends on where your messages are:

• Your Messages already sync to your Mac. TextPort for Mac reads the Messages on that Mac and exports any conversation, or all of them.
• You have a Windows PC. TextPort for Windows backs up your iPhone over USB, or opens a backup that's already on the PC, and exports from it.
• You only have your iPhone, or the chat isn't in Messages. The TextPort iPhone app needs no cable or backup. It reads WhatsApp too, plus Instagram, Messenger, Signal and Telegram, which the TextPort desktop apps can't reach.

Each one gives you a PDF with names, dates and times on every message, ready to print or send to a lawyer. For the step-by-step, see how to export iPhone messages to PDF, or compare more tools in the best apps to export text messages from iPhone.