ChatGPT Conversation History Importer for Self-Hosted Open WebUI, LibreChat, and AnythingLLM After the QuitGPT Exodus

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Google and Anthropic both shipped official ChatGPT history importers in March 2026, but only into their own clouds — Gemini and Claude. The 700,000+ users who pledged to quit ChatGPT and migrate to local-LLM frontends (Open WebUI, LibreChat, AnythingLLM) have to do it manually, because no importer parses OpenAI's ZIP export into self-hosted conversation stores. This is a one-weekend tool with a built-in audience.

builder note

Ship for ONE target (Open WebUI's Postgres schema) first, not all three. Open WebUI has the largest installed base and the schema is stable. Don't overthink the model — preserve the conversation tree as-is, you don't need to re-embed everything. Distribute as a single Docker one-shot that mounts the export ZIP and the Open WebUI volume, drops a migration row, and exits.

landscape (4 existing solutions)

Every commercial importer routes you into another cloud. The self-hosted frontends most QuitGPT migrants are actually moving to (Open WebUI, LibreChat, AnythingLLM) have no first-class importer despite open feature requests.

Gemini's Import Chat History Cloud-to-cloud only, doesn't write into your self-hosted DB. Not available in UK, Switzerland, or the EEA. Strips images and attachments

Claude's Export Data + manual paste Outbound export of Claude conversations, not an importer FROM ChatGPT into a local store

move2gemini.io Paid SaaS that lands you in Gemini's cloud. Defeats the entire reason the QuitGPT crowd is leaving in the first place

Manual scripts on GitHub Several one-off Python scripts dump conversations.json to markdown, but none write directly into Open WebUI's Postgres or LibreChat's MongoDB schema with conversation threading intact

sources (4)

other https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/700-000-users-are-ditching-chat... "QuitGPT campaign claims 700,000 cancelled ChatGPT Plus subs" 2026-05-10

other https://move2gemini.io/ "Migrate ChatGPT history to Gemini, securely" 2026-03-27

other https://www.pcworld.com/article/3100804/google-gemini-can-no... "Gemini Import Chat History accepts ChatGPT 5GB ZIP export" 2026-03-27

other https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/issues "open feature requests for ChatGPT history import to local stores" 2026-04-12

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