Your flight has been cancelled
The email nobody wants at 5am, and the reply that gets you rebooked. The most-screenshotted shape in personal mail.
Use this templateBuild an email screenshot with a real envelope — sender name and address as separate fields, a long-form date, named attachments — and a thread you write message by message. Apple Mail here; Gmail, Outlook and a redacted document are one click away in the editor.
Each one opens in the editor as an editable, fictional scene — names, timings and interface details already set. Change a word, or change everything.
The email nobody wants at 5am, and the reply that gets you rebooked. The most-screenshotted shape in personal mail.
Use this templateA tenancy deposit being quietly whittled away, and the reply that stops it. Written for renters' advice material.
Use this templateA no with real feedback in it. Written as the email people wish they got, for hiring and career content.
Use this templateThe three above are the emails people actually build: a cancelled flight and the reply that fixes it, a job rejection with real feedback, and a deposit dispute that ends well.
Sender name, sender address, who it went to, and the date. The address is its own field — that separation is what makes the screenshot believable and what makes phishing examples possible.
Each message is one email. Set who sent it and when. Line breaks work, so a paragraphed message stays paragraphed.
A filename and a size each. This is the cheapest realism in the whole editor — an attachment row does more than another paragraph of body text.
PNG at 1× free, up to 3× on Pro, the whole thread or one screen, with or without the phone frame.
Our Apple Mail 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.
What makes an email look real is not the body text — it is the block above it. Sender name, the actual address underneath, “to me”, a long-form date and the attachment row. Most fake email images get the message right and the envelope wrong, and the envelope is the first place anyone looks.
“Northline Air” and “noreply@northline-air.com” are two different fields here, because they are two different fields in every mail client — and the gap between them is where nearly every phishing example lives. A generator that only lets you set a display name cannot show you the thing that matters.
iOS Mail has a blue Inbox link at the top left and nothing else up there — no toolbar, no search. Flag, bin, folder, reply and compose sit in a bar along the bottom instead. Every other client puts reply buttons under the message; Apple never does, and that alone identifies the client.
Each message you add is another email in the conversation, with its own timestamp, and the ones you send render as yours. That is what makes a dispute, a negotiation or a support chain readable — a single block of text cannot show a reply.
“checkout-report.pdf · 412 KB” reads as real in a way that a paperclip icon does not. Add as many as the scene needs; the row renders the way the client draws it.
Apple Mail is the plain one. Gmail has a full toolbar, a label chip and a star. Outlook has the solid blue band and Focused. Redacted Email is a document rather than an inbox. They share an envelope and nothing else, so switching between them changes the screenshot rather than recolouring it.
Everything made here is simulated. SocialMock has no connection to Apple Mail 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.
Click straight into the preview and type. Export when you are done — free at 1×, up to 3× on Pro.
Open the Apple Mail editor