TelegramFiction & humour
Folders, and a story row above them
The two things only Telegram puts on a chat list: folders you name yourself with their own unread counts, and a row of ringed avatars over the top.
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Fake Telegram chat list & folders screenshot generator
Build Telegram's inbox \u2014 the row of ringed story avatars above the list, folders you name yourself with their own counts, blue unread badges, and muted chats that keep the number and lose the colour.
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Start from a Telegram 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.
TelegramSupport
Everything muted, still counting
Telegram keeps the number and drops the colour on a muted chat, so the badges go grey rather than away. Made for explaining what muting actually does.
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Inside the Work folder
A named folder selected rather than All, story row off. What a Telegram list looks like to somebody who has actually organised theirs.
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Start from an example
The examples above are the states people make: folders with a story row, a single work folder selected, and an inbox where everything noisy is muted.
Write the rows
A name, the last message and a time. Add or remove as many as you need.
Name your folders
Comma-separated, then tap the one that should be selected.
Set counts and muting
A number draws the blue badge; MUTED turns it grey and adds the crossed speaker.
Export
PNG at 1x free, up to 3x on Pro, device frame optional, and onto a sized canvas if it is going into a video.
How the Telegram interface is put together
Our Telegram 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.
Folders, not filters
WhatsApp ships three fixed chips. Telegram's are folders the person using the app made and named, which is why this one lets you type whatever you want into them — Work, Family, Bots, anything.
A story ring row above the list
Circular avatars with gradient rings and names underneath, sitting between the header and the first chat. No other chat list in this product has one, and it is the fastest way to tell a Telegram screenshot from a WhatsApp one.
A muted chat keeps its count and loses its colour
This is the detail worth getting right. Mute a chat in Telegram and the blue badge goes grey while the number stays. The count still matters — the interruption does not.
The title is small and CENTRED, with a text Edit button
Where WhatsApp uses a large left-aligned title and no words in its header at all. Two apps, the same information, mirrored — and mirroring it is most of what makes each screenshot recognisable.
The tab bar FLOATS
A rounded bar clear of the screen edges, with search as its own circular button beside it rather than a fifth tab inside it. Nobody else in the roster draws the bottom of the screen that way.
Badges are blue, and the tab badge is red
Telegram uses two badge colours at once and they mean different things: blue counts messages in a chat, red counts everything on the tab. Both are drawn, and the red one adds itself up from the rows.
What people use Telegram mockups for
- Product screenshots and app-store artwork
- Explaining folders, muting and archived chats
- Channel and community promotion
- Support and how-to documentation
- Storyboards for video and adverts
- Design portfolios and case studies
Questions about Telegram mockups
- Can I name my own folders?
- Yes — that is the point of them. Type them as a comma-separated list and tap one to select it. WhatsApp's three chips are fixed by the app; Telegram's are whatever the person made.
- How do I turn the story row on or off?
- There is a single toggle for it. It is on by default because Telegram's own screenshot has one, but plenty of accounts have nothing to show there.
- What does muting actually change?
- The badge goes grey and keeps its number, and a small crossed-speaker appears next to the chat name. Nothing else moves — the chat stays where it is in the list.
- Can I make a channel row?
- Yes. Give it a channel-style name and write the preview as an announcement. Muting it is realistic too, since most people mute the busy ones.
- Does dark mode work?
- Yes. The switch moves the whole screen onto Telegram's dark surface, including the header, the chips and the floating tab bar.
- Can I make it look like a real person or channel is messaging me?
- No, and our terms prohibit it. Invented messages attributed to a real named person or a real channel are impersonation. Parody, teaching, fiction and design work are fine.
- Why does a group row not show the sender on its own line?
- Because that is not built yet, and it is in the real app — a group row gives the sender a third line above the message. It needs a model change rather than a guess, so it is recorded as an open gap rather than faked with a line break.
Use these responsibly
Everything made here is simulated. SocialMock has no connection to Telegram 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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