Fake crypto simulator: four apps you can film, and which one you need

First, what these are for

Every app on this page is a prop. It is for skits, pranks, parody and video, where the people watching know it’s a performance or find out in the same scene. None of them touches a real market: they hold no crypto, connect to no exchange, wallet or blockchain, and nothing they show was ever a trade. The prices can come from a live feed, but the amounts are the ones you typed.

So none of them is ever for showing as your real results, for selling signals, a course or a group, for raising money, or for getting anyone to send you anything. That is fraud whichever app drew the screen, and our acceptable use policy prohibits it. Nor is Pozer one of the sites sold as a “fake transaction simulator”, which promise crypto that turns up in someone else’s wallet: those are a scam. Pozer sends nothing anywhere, and what you do in these apps stays on your phone.

If it’s a prank, play it on someone who knows you, in the same room, ask them for nothing, and reveal it in the same scene. Then ask before you post it.

If you want to practise trading with fake money

Then you want a paper-trading or demo account, not this. Brokers and several large exchanges run practice modes, with pretend money and a market that moves without you, and you find them through that platform’s own app or website. The apps below can’t teach you to trade. Their prices can follow the market, but nobody is on the other side of a trade: every fill is worked out by the app from the price on screen. The Binance simulator guide and the crypto wallet simulator guide go through both kinds of tool in detail. Everything below is about filming.

Which fake crypto simulator you need

Start from what the scene is about.

• The coins someone holds. A balance to show off, a send to the wrong address, a swap on a dare. That’s the wallet.
• Buying, or a whole trading account. A buy that completes on camera, a futures position with its profit worked out, a PnL card. That’s the exchange.
• One leveraged trade on a chart. A position with its entry and liquidation price drawn across the candles. That’s the perps terminal.
• A brokerage account with some crypto in it. Stocks and options, with Bitcoin under a tab of its own. That’s the stock app.

If a balance on screen is all you need, the wallet and the exchange both do it, and there’s a fake crypto portfolio maker guide for that. The difference is who adds the number up, which the figure below shows. Building and installing any of the four is free.

The wallet, Phantom-style

Pozer’s crypto wallet is called Vault in the editor. It’s an original design in the style of a modern self-custody wallet: Phantom-style describes the layout, and it has no connection to Phantom and no Phantom name, logo or artwork. It opens on the wallet name, a total balance with its change under it, a Cash row you can hide, and a card for each token.

• You set the wallet name and up to fourteen tokens, each with a symbol, a name and a holding. With Live prices off, each token also takes a Value and a 24h %, and the headline takes a Total balance and a Change amount.
• It works out the total and the change from the tokens while Live prices is on. With it off, those two are numbers you type, so they agree with the tokens only if you make them.
• On camera, every token opens its own page with a price chart. The + at the bottom right fans out the wallet’s actions: sending a whole row empties it, and Trade swaps one token for another at the rate on screen, less a 0.30% spread. The total moves with each.

The fake crypto wallet prank walks through a send on camera, and the wallet template has the full tour.

The exchange, Binance-style

The crypto exchange is called Bourse in the editor: an original design laid out like a large centralised exchange, with no connection to Binance and no Binance name, logo or artwork. It opens on Est. Total Value, with Today’s PNL under it, and five tabs run along the bottom: Home, Markets, Trade, Futures and Assets.

• You set the coins you hold, up to twelve, each as an amount; with Live prices off, each also takes a Unit price (USD) and a 24h %. Then a futures wallet in USDT and up to eight positions, each with a coin, a side, leverage up to 125x, a margin mode, a size and an entry price.
• It works out everything above them. There is no field for the total: Est. Total Value is your coins at their prices plus the futures wallet with its open profit. Today’s PNL comes from the same rows, and each position’s PNL and ROI from its size, entry, leverage and mark.
• On camera, a purchase on the Buy/Sell page completes in one shot and the coin lands in the account. Buy and Sell on the Trade tab are placed the moment you tap them. On Futures, Close takes a position flat, and the share glyph beside a position’s PNL opens a PnL card with a referral code and a QR code on it. Keep both invented.

One setting to change first: Value shown in starts on BTC, which prints the balance as a number of Bitcoin. Choose Fiat to show money. The crypto prank app guide films a buy step by step, and the PnL card guide shows which field sets each line of the card.

The same coins in the wallet and on the exchange

Here is one small account in both apps, with Live prices off: 0.4 BTC at 79,500, 8 ETH at 2,480 and 2,500 USDC. The exchange is set to show its balance in Fiat.

The two screens agree, but they got there differently. The exchange added the coins up itself, and it would again if you changed one: there is nothing to retype. On the wallet, with Live prices off, $54,140.00 and +$979.44 are the Total balance and Change amount fields. Change a holding in the editor and the headline stays where it was until you change it too, though a send or a trade on camera does move it. The cards make the check easy: each prints its day’s move, +$439.05 on Bitcoin and +$540.39 on Ethereum, and the change should be their sum.

The perps terminal, Hyperliquid-style

The crypto futures app, called Margin in the editor, is a dark trading terminal in the style of a perpetuals exchange. It’s an original design with no connection to Hyperliquid and no Hyperliquid name, logo or artwork. On the exchange, futures are one tab of a whole account. Here the trade is the screen: one market at a time, a candle chart with your own ENTRY and LIQ levels drawn across it, and Buy / Long and Sell / Short under it.

• You set the deposited margin and up to eight positions, each with a market, a side, leverage from 1x to 100x, a size and an entry price, plus a mark price with Live prices off.
• It works out equity, which is the deposited margin plus realised and open profit, and each position’s PNL (ROE), margin and liquidation price. A long from 71,400 at 20x liquidates at 67,830.
• On camera, an order typed on the keypad adds to a position, takes size off it or closes it, and what a close makes lands in realised PnL. Each position’s Share button opens a PnL card that fills the whole screen.

The fake trading screen guide films it, and the liquidation skit guide covers the trade that goes wrong.

The stock app, Robinhood-style, with a Crypto tab

The trading app, called Ticker in the editor, is laid out like a modern commission-free brokerage app. It’s an original design with no connection to Robinhood and no Robinhood name, logo or artwork. It belongs on this page for one reason: give a holding a coin’s symbol and it counts as crypto, under a Crypto tab of its own. The defaults hold 0.0841 BTC beside four stocks.

• You set up to eight holdings, each with a ticker, a share count and an average cost, plus your buying power and any options. Prices follow the market, or stay where you type them with Prices set to Type my own.
• It works out the portfolio total from the holdings, the options and the buying power, the day’s return from each row’s daily move, and the all-time return from each average cost.
• On camera, once the app is published, Trade on a holding’s page opens Buy and Sell. Type an amount, tap Review and swipe up to submit, and a card confirms the order while the holding and the buying power move.

For a prank on it, see the fake trading app prank.

Live prices, or prices you type

Each of the four can value your coins at the market. On the wallet, the exchange and the perps terminal that’s a Live prices switch, on to begin with; the stock app calls it Prices, set to Live market prices or Type my own. With live prices on, the coins the feed covers follow the market (the three crypto apps fetch new prices about once a minute), so the total you rehearsed has moved by the time you roll. With them off, every price is one you typed and nothing changes until somebody taps something. For a number you’ve rehearsed, switch them off, and keep each price near what the coin really trades at: anyone who follows Bitcoin will spot one that’s far out.

From template to phone

1. Open the template’s editor and set the numbers. The preview moves between screens like the app, so check every tab; buys, sends and orders run once the app is published.
2. Name the app and tap Create home-screen app. It publishes to its own link, free. If you aren’t signed in, it asks for your email and sends a six-digit code, then gives you a link and a QR code.
3. Open the link on the phone you’ll film. On iPhone, in Safari, tap Share, then Add to Home Screen; on Android, in Chrome, tap ⋮, then Install app. It opens fullscreen from its own icon, with no address bar.
4. In the installed app your Edit button hides while you film. Hold two fingers still on the screen and it comes back for five seconds. Between takes, tap it, then Reset to published values.

Free apps carry SIMULATED · POZER.COM in fine print on screen, which in a skit tells viewers the app is a prop. Pro at US$4.99/wk or US$12.99/mo removes it.

What none of them will do

• Teach you to trade. Nobody is on the other side of a trade, and nothing you do reaches a market.
• Move anything off your phone. No coin is sent, no wallet receives anything, and no exchange or blockchain sees what you did.
• Stand as evidence. Not as your results, not as proof of funds, and never as a payment confirmation, a deposit or transfer proof, or a screenshot sent to someone as if it were real.
• Copy a real app. Each is an original design, and another company’s name or logo on yours is against our policy.

If you’re not sure where to begin, begin with the exchange: it adds everything up for you, and most of what a thumb reaches for on it does something.