AndroidGroup chats
The group chat that woke everyone
Material You cards with the app-name row, and one thread collapsed to “+N more”. Android draws grouping in place; iPhone stacks it.
Use this templateAndroid mockups
Fake Android notification & lock screen generator
Build an Android lock screen, a heads-up notification or the pulled-down shade — solid Material You cards with the app-name row at the top, a left-aligned clock above the date, At a Glance, and a punch-hole camera rather than a notch.
Open the Android editorFree · no account · PNG and video
Start from an Android example
Each one opens in the editor as an editable, fictional scene — names, timings and interface details already set. Change a word, or change everything.
AndroidSupport
The shade, pulled down
The notification list without the clock — what you see when you swipe down mid-task. A different screen, not a restyle.
Use this templateAndroidWork
Payday and a parcel
The two notifications everyone screenshots — money in, and something arriving. Both from apps with no logo we would invent.
Use this templateHow to make an Android mockup
Start from an example
The three above are the shapes people ask for: the group chat that woke everyone at 2am, payday and a parcel, and the shade pulled down mid-incident.
Pick the screen
Lock screen, a single heads-up notification, or the pulled-down shade. Three different layouts, so pick the one you want rather than cropping.
Set the wallpaper, clock and At a Glance
Upload a wallpaper or choose one, type the time and date, and add the At a Glance line. All free text — a 02:47 screenshot is as easy as a 09:41 one.
Add the notifications
Each has an app, a title, a message and a time. The app decides the icon and prints its name in the card's top row; choose Other and type a name for anything without a logo.
Export
PNG at 1× free, up to 3× on Pro, with or without the Android bezel — punch-hole camera and gesture bar included — and onto a sized canvas if it is going into a video.
How the Android interface is put together
Our Android skin is rebuilt from the real interface in code rather than traced from a screenshot, so the details that make it recognisable survive at export resolution. Here is what those details actually are.
Every card opens with the app's name
A small circular icon, the app name, a dot, the time, and an expand chevron — that row sits at the top of every Android notification, and iOS has nothing like it. It is the single clearest way to tell the two apart, and the first thing missing from a mockup that was really an iPhone card in another colour.
The cards are solid
Material You uses an opaque surface. The wallpaper does not show through, and there is no frosted blur. Apple's translucency is the look most people accidentally copy, and it makes an Android screenshot look wrong in a way that is hard to name but easy to see.
The clock is left-aligned, above the date
Android puts a large clock hard against the left margin with the date beneath it. Apple centres a thinner clock and puts the date on top. Same two pieces of information, mirrored — and that mirroring is most of what makes each screenshot recognisable at a glance.
At a Glance
The line under the clock — weather, the next alarm, bin day — has no iPhone equivalent, which is exactly why it belongs. It only appears on the Android skin, because offering a control that changes nothing is worse than not offering it.
Groups say “+N more”
Android collapses several notifications from one app in place, with a count inside the card. iPhone stacks the cards behind each other instead. Set the grouped count once and each phone draws it its own way, so the same scene reads correctly on either.
A punch-hole, not a notch
The bezel follows the OS: a small circular camera cut-out and a shorter, thinner gesture bar. Drawing an Android lock screen inside an iPhone's Dynamic Island contradicts the mockup in the very first thing anybody looks at.
What people use Android mockups for
- Play Store screenshots and product demos
- Push-notification design reviews
- Security-awareness and smishing training
- Memes and reaction content
- Fiction, scripts and storyboards
- Slide decks that need a believable phone
Questions about Android mockups
- Why are there so few Android notification generators?
- Most tools build the iPhone version and stop, because it is the one people picture. That leaves Android mockups being made by recolouring an iOS card, which loses the app-name row, the solid surface and the left-aligned clock — the three things that actually make it Android. This one is built from Android's own interface.
- Can I use an app that isn't in your list?
- Yes, and most people do. Choose “Other” and type the name — a bank, a delivery firm, an airline — and the card gets a lettered tile rather than a logo. The app name still prints in the card's top row, which on Android is what identifies it anyway.
- How do I show several messages from one app?
- Set the Grouped count. Android writes “+N more notifications” inside the card. The same field on the iPhone skin draws a stack of shoulders behind the card instead.
- What is the difference between the lock screen and the shade?
- The lock screen has the big clock, the date, At a Glance and the phone and camera buttons. The shade is what you get swiping down mid-task: the list with a date row and Clear all, and no clock. They are separate layouts here because they are separate screens on the phone.
- Can I use my own wallpaper?
- Yes — upload one or pick from the built-in library. A darkening wash is applied automatically so the white clock stays readable over a bright photo.
- Can I fake a notification from a real person?
- Inventing a message and attributing it to a named real person is impersonation, and our terms prohibit it. Parody, teaching, fiction and design work are fine. Every example on this page uses fictional people and companies.
- Is there a watermark?
- Free downloads carry a small SIMULATED · socialmock.com label, burned into the pixels, at 1× resolution. Pro removes the label and unlocks 2× and 3×. You can also switch the label on yourself at any tier, which is worth doing if you are publishing somewhere a viewer might take the image at face value.
- Can I export it for a Reel or a Short?
- Yes. The download dialog can place the phone on a 9:16, 4:5, 1:1 or 16:9 canvas with a background and a margin, which is usually what a lock-screen mockup needs when it goes into a video.
Use these responsibly
Everything made here is simulated. SocialMock has no connection to Android and cannot read, send or alter a real message. Do not use a mockup to impersonate anyone, pass it off as a genuine screenshot, or present it as evidence in any legal, workplace or academic matter — see our Acceptable Use policy. For general information about legal risk, read is it legal to fake a screenshot? If you publish somewhere a viewer might mistake it for real, switch on the “Simulated” label before exporting.
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