Windows and WSL stores merged, transcripts rendered as readable chat, exportable as standalone Markdown.
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| x64 installer | Intel and Apple Silicon | portable AppImage |
Windows note: SmartScreen may warn on first launch because the app is not code-signed. Click "More info", then "Run anyway".
Claude Code stores its sessions in hidden, per-environment locations: a sandboxed Windows app store, and a separate store inside each WSL distribution. Finding and re-reading an old conversation means knowing where those live and reading raw .jsonl transcripts by hand.
Claude Code Helper surfaces them all into one window. A two-pane viewer lists every session - merged from Windows and each running WSL distro, sorted by recency - and renders the selected transcript as a clean, Claude-style chat. It is strictly read-only: it reads the stores and never renames, edits, or deletes anything.
- Every session, one place - surfaces all your Claude Code conversations from their hidden Windows and per-WSL-distro stores into a single searchable list.
- Readable chat, not raw JSON - renders each transcript as a Claude-style chat, with tool calls folded into collapsible blocks and images shown inline.
- Finds sessions Claude loses - recovers "Lost" transcripts that have no Desktop entry, titled from their first message, instead of leaving them invisible.
- See and filter by source - source badges and one-click chips show or hide sessions by where they live (Windows or a specific distro) and by Active, Archived, or Lost.
- Export as standalone Markdown - copy or save any conversation as a self-contained Markdown file, images embedded, that opens anywhere without the app.
- Never touches your sessions - strictly read-only; it reads the Claude stores and never modifies them.
| User manual | Read it online |
| Printable PDF | attached to each release |
| What's new | Release notes |
| Product page | apps.yaiol.com |
npm install
npm run electron:dev # React + Electron together (dev)Requires Node.js 20 or newer (CI builds on Node 24).
npm run dist # Windows x64 installer
npm run dist:mac # macOS DMG
npm run dist:linux # Linux AppImageAn Electron app: a React renderer over an Electron main process that runs a small local Express server. There is no database - it reads the Claude Code stores directly on each launch and holds nothing of its own beyond a little UI state in localStorage.
Two panes: on the left the session list, merged from every store and sorted by recency, each row carrying a source badge (Windows, or the name of a WSL distribution); on the right the selected session's transcript, decoded from its .jsonl file into a Claude-style chat.
| Layer | Technology |
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| UI framework | React 19 |
| Bundler | Vite 8 |
| Desktop shell | Electron 41 |
| Local API | Express 5 |
| Markdown render | marked + DOMPurify |
| Packaging | Electron Builder |
Where sessions come from
Sessions are gathered by passes over two kinds of store and merged into one list. The source badge on each row names the store it came from:
- Windows - sessions read from the Claude desktop app's sandboxed Windows store, each with a human-readable title.
- WSL - genuine CLI sessions run inside a WSL distribution, whose transcripts live in the Linux home directory, a store entirely separate from the Windows one. Each running distribution contributes its sessions, titled from the first user message.
A Windows transcript with no matching Desktop entry (a Desktop-side bug or deletion) would otherwise be invisible. A recovery pass surfaces it as a Lost session, titled from its first message. Lost is a category, shown alongside Active and Archived, not a separate store; its source badge is still Windows.
The join. The Windows side has two halves - a list of session entries (with titles) and the transcript files themselves - which are joined by the session's UUID. An entry whose transcript is gone is dropped; a transcript with no entry becomes a Lost row. WSL transcripts are surfaced directly, since no entry store exists there.
Transcript decoding
A transcript's .jsonl is decoded to Markdown: a tool call and its result are folded into one collapsible block (the result is the call's answer), images are embedded inline as data URIs, and oversized blobs are truncated so a long session stays renderable. The same decoder produces both the in-app chat bubbles and the standalone export document.
Released under the MIT License.