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Mum found the report card
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Fake text message & SMS screenshot generator
Create an iPhone iMessage, green-bubble SMS or Android Messages screenshot. Choose the correct phone first, edit every message and timestamp directly in the preview, then export a PNG or animated video.
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Choose your text-message style
Start with the device the finished screenshot should show. Both editors use the same direct-editing workflow, but render different phone chrome, message grouping and delivery states.
Start from a text message 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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The opener that actually worked
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Autocorrect ruins a compliment
One letter changes everything, and the follow-up makes it worse.
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Choose iPhone or Android first
Pick iPhone for an iMessage or SMS screenshot, or Android for a Google Messages and RCS-style thread. This changes the frame, header, bubbles, composer and delivery states — not only the colour.
Name the contact
Type a contact or group name and add an optional photo. The selected editor then uses its own header: a centred iPhone contact or the left-aligned Material layout used by Android Messages.
Write the thread
Click a bubble and type straight into it. Message grouping follows the selected platform: iPhone uses tails, while Android Messages groups a run with its own corner treatment.
Set the time and the status bar
Clock, battery, signal and timestamps are editable. iMessage and Android Messages each render delivery information in their own style; plain SMS does not promise the same receipt behaviour.
Export
Export a PNG at 1× free, up to 3× on Pro with the matching iPhone or Android frame, or without a device on a transparent background. You can also render the conversation as an animated video.
How the text message interface is put together
The iPhone and Android text-message renderers are built as separate interfaces, not as one skin with different colours. These are the details that decide which editor fits the screenshot you need.
iPhone and Android are different interfaces
An Android text screenshot is not an iPhone with a new bubble colour. The header, frame, composer, grouping and delivery labels all change, so this page lets you choose the correct editor before writing the conversation.
iOS does not put ticks on messages
There is no per-bubble tick or checkmark anywhere in Messages. iOS writes a small right-aligned caption under the LAST outgoing message only — Delivered, or Read with a time. Adding ticks is the fastest way to make a text screenshot look wrong.
The tail appears once per run
A bubble gets its curled tail only when it is the last message from that sender. Everything above it in the same run is tail-less and sits closer together. That grouping is most of what makes a thread read as iOS rather than as generic chat bubbles.
Android spells out delivery states
Google Messages can show Sent, Delivered or Read beneath the last outgoing RCS message. That is different from iPhone's caption treatment and from the ticks used by apps such as WhatsApp.
A number with no name has no initials
If a texter isn't in your contacts, iOS shows a grey person silhouette — not initials derived from the digits. It matters for the exact scenes where an unknown number comes up: a wrong number, or a scam text.
Green iPhone bubbles still use the iPhone editor
A green bubble is how an iPhone presents an SMS or cross-platform text; it is not an Android screenshot. Choose the iPhone editor for that view, and choose Android Messages when the screenshot itself should look like Android.
What people use text message mockups for
- Clearly fictional jokes and labelled memes
- Story-time videos built around a text exchange
- Showing a conversation flow in a UX or product case study
- Teaching people to spot a scam or phishing text
- Scripts, fiction and comics that need a believable phone screen
- App-store screenshots and marketing mockups
Questions about text message mockups
- Can I make both iPhone and Android text screenshots?
- Yes. Choose iPhone for blue iMessage or green SMS bubbles, or Android for a Google Messages and RCS-style conversation. Each choice opens a separate renderer with the appropriate phone frame, header, composer and receipt style.
- How do I make the bubbles green instead of blue?
- There's a switch for it in the editor's appearance section. Green renders the thread as a plain SMS — which is what you see when the other person is on Android — and removes the Delivered and Read caption, because SMS has no read receipts. Blue renders it as iMessage between two Apple devices.
- Is it free?
- Yes. The iPhone and Android editors, PNG export and animated video export are free, with no account required. Free downloads come out at 1× with a small SIMULATED label; Pro removes it and unlocks 2× and 3×.
- Can I change the time, date and battery?
- Yes, all of it. The status bar clock, battery percentage, wifi, signal bars and carrier name are editable, each message carries its own timestamp, and a date picker drives the divider above the thread.
- Can I add a photo or a voice note to the conversation?
- Yes. Any message can be switched to a photo, a voice note, a deleted-message tombstone or a system notice. Photos can come from the built-in image library or your own upload.
- Does it work on a phone?
- Yes. The editor has a separate layout for small screens with the preview and the controls as tabs, and the download works on both iOS and Android — on iPhone it opens the share sheet so you can save straight to Photos.
- What resolution does the image export at?
- 1× of the selected screen size on the free tier, up to 3× on Pro. You can export with or without the iPhone or Android device frame, capture a full conversation, or use a transparent background for a design or video.
- Is it legal to make a fake text message?
- Laws vary by jurisdiction and use. A clearly fictional, disclosed mockup for design, teaching or fiction is generally lower risk, but no category is automatically legal. Impersonating a real person, presenting a mockup as genuine, or using it as evidence violates our terms and may be unlawful.
Use these responsibly
Everything made here is simulated. SocialMock has no connection to Apple, Google or any messaging service 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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