Fake Instagram comment & screenshot generator

How to make an Instagram mockup

1. 1

   Start from an example

   The three above are the shapes people ask for: a maker's restock where the pinned comment answers the one repeated question, a recipe post where everyone is reporting back, and a giveaway where the real account is warning people about the impersonators.

2. 2

   Set the post

   Image, account name, caption, like total and comment total all live in the Post section. The image is a picture you pick or upload — there is no video to supply.

3. 3

   Write the comments

   Each comment is a message. Set who wrote it, the text and the relative time — Instagram uses short forms like “2 h” and “48 m”. The first comment renders as pinned automatically.

4. 4

   Mark the liked ones

   Give a comment a reaction and its heart fills red. Add a verified badge to a person in the People section and the blue tick appears inline, right after the username.

5. 5

   Export

   PNG at 1× free, up to 3× on Pro, device frame optional. The export captures the whole comment list, not only the part on screen, so a long thread comes out complete.

How the Instagram interface is put together

Our Instagram 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 people use Instagram mockups for

• Small-business and creator case studies
• Social-media pitch decks and media kits
• Memes and reaction content
• Scam-awareness and media-literacy teaching
• App UI mockups and design portfolios
• Storyboarding a campaign before it runs

Questions about Instagram mockups

Why do my names come out lowercase with underscores?

Because Instagram shows a username, not a display name. Names are normalised the way the platform does it — lowercased, spaces turned into underscores, punctuation dropped — so you cannot accidentally produce a layout Instagram has never rendered.

Can I set the like counts on each comment?

The per-comment counts are generated from the comment itself so they hold still while you type instead of reshuffling on every keystroke. The post's like total and the comment total are directly editable in the Post section.

How do I pin a comment?

The first comment in the list renders as pinned, with the account's username on the pin line. Reorder the comments in the editor and the pin follows whichever one is at the top.

How do I make a comment look liked?

Give it a reaction in the editor and its heart fills red. It reuses the reaction field rather than adding a switch you would have to go looking for, and the same field drives the creator heart on YouTube and TikTok so one scene reads correctly on all three.

Do I have to upload the post image?

No. Pick one from the built-in image library or upload your own. The image is a still — there is no video handling and nothing is transcoded or stored.

Can I put fake comments under a real person's post?

No, and our terms prohibit it. Inventing comments from a named real person, or attributing them to a real account, is impersonation — and screenshots travel much further than corrections do. Every example on this page uses a fictional account.

Does it do YouTube and TikTok comments too?

Yes, and each is built from its own interface rather than recoloured. YouTube stacks the list under the video with a sort control; TikTok overlays a sheet on the video and moves the like column to the right. Switch the app with the format set to Comments.

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.

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