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The poll nobody needed
A story with a poll sticker over a photo — the shape most creator and brand mockups need.
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Fake Instagram story & mockup generator
Build a full-screen Instagram story — the segment bar caught mid-play, your username and photo, a caption floating over the image the way Instagram sets it, and a real poll or question sticker rather than words typed on top.
Open the Instagram editorFree · no account · PNG and video
Start from an Instagram 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.
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Ask me anything
A question sticker over a plain shot — what creators post when they want replies rather than views.
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A poll with four answers
Instagram has allowed four poll answers since 2022. Past two they stack, because two columns cannot hold four and stay readable.
Use this templateHow to make an Instagram mockup
Start from an example
The three above are the ones people make: a poll over a photo, a small business announcing a restock with a link sticker, and an ask-me-anything.
Set the photo and the account
Upload an image or pick one, then edit the username straight in the preview. The avatar comes from the Contact section.
Write the caption
Type it, then choose top, middle or bottom. Line breaks work, so a two-line announcement stacks the way it would on the phone.
Add a sticker
Poll, question, music or link. A poll takes a question and two answers; the others take one line. Pick None if the story is just a photo and a caption.
Export
PNG at 1× free, up to 3× on Pro, device frame optional, and onto a sized canvas if it is going into a video.
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.
The segment bar tells you where you are
A story is one of several, and the bar at the top says which. The playing segment is half filled, the ones before it are solid, the ones after are dim. A full bar reads as already finished, and an empty one as not started — a real screenshot is caught mid-play, which is why the default here is segment two of four.
The caption floats
Instagram's story text is white, bold and centred with a soft shadow, sitting directly on the photo with no background band. Snapchat puts its caption in a full-width black bar instead. That one difference identifies a story faster than any colour, and it is the thing a recoloured mockup gets wrong.
The author row has an avatar
Circular profile picture, username, a small grey time, then the ••• and the close ×. Snapchat's header has no avatar at all — just a name and a ghost. If you are trying to tell two story mockups apart, this row is where to look.
Polls and questions are cards, not text
A poll is a white rounded card with the question above its answers, and it takes two to four of them — Instagram raised the limit from two in January 2022. Two sit side by side split by a hairline; three or four stack into rows, because two columns cannot hold four answers and stay readable. A question sticker is a card with a Type something field under the prompt. Both are drawn as the app draws them, so the answers are real options rather than words typed into a caption.
Viewers only on your own story
The eye and the count above the composer appear on a story you posted. You cannot see who watched somebody else's, so putting a viewer count on another account's story is a mistake anyone who uses Instagram will spot. Leave the field empty for someone else's.
An outlined composer, not a filled one
The bottom of the screen is a rounded pill with a hairline border reading Send message, with a heart and a paper plane beside it. It is transparent — the photo shows through — which is why a solid grey input looks immediately wrong.
What people use Instagram mockups for
- Creator and brand pitch decks
- Social-media planning and mockups
- Product launch and restock announcements
- Memes and reaction content
- UI design portfolios
- Storyboards for a campaign before it runs
Questions about Instagram mockups
- Can I add a poll?
- Yes — pick Poll in the Story section, type the question, and fill in the answers. Two to four of them: Add answer appends a row up to four, which is Instagram's own limit since January 2022, and the remove control appears once you are above two. Past two the answers stack rather than sitting side by side. There are also question, music and link stickers, one at a time, which is what a real story almost always has.
- Where does the caption go?
- Top, middle or bottom. Three positions rather than a drag handle, because dragging needs a pointer, a keyboard alternative and a long-press fallback on a phone, and what people actually make is text in one of those three places.
- How do I show it as the third story out of five?
- Set Segments to five and Playing to three. The bar fills the first two, half-fills the third and dims the rest, exactly as it looks mid-play.
- Can I upload my own photo?
- Yes, or pick one from the built-in library. Scrims are applied at the top and bottom automatically so the header and composer stay readable over a bright image — which is what Instagram does too.
- Why is the viewer count optional?
- Because it is only ever on your own story. You cannot see who viewed another account's, so leaving it empty is what makes a screenshot of somebody else's story correct.
- Does it do Snapchat stories too?
- Yes, and it is built from Snapchat rather than recoloured: the caption becomes a full-width black band, the avatar disappears from the header, the composer becomes Send Chat with a rocket, and the segment bar goes thinner.
- Can I make a story from a real person's account?
- No, and our terms prohibit it. Attributing an invented story to a real account is impersonation. Parody, teaching, fiction and design work are fine — every example on this page uses fictional accounts.
- Can I export it at 9:16 for a Reel?
- Yes. The download dialog places the mockup on a 9:16, 4:5, 1:1 or 16:9 canvas with a background and margin, and PNG exports at 1× free, or up to 3× on Pro.
Use these responsibly
Everything made here is simulated. SocialMock has no connection to Instagram 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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