Rich prank website: seven ways to be rich for five minutes, and the app for each

First, the line you don’t cross

A rich prank, as this page means it, is played on someone who knows you, is about your own imaginary money or success, asks nobody for anything and ends with the reveal in the same scene. Telling your brother your side project made forty thousand this month, filming his face and showing him the Edit screen a minute later is a prank. Showing the same screen so that anyone lends, invests, buys, follows or trusts you is fraud, whichever tool drew it. Our acceptable use policy covers that side, and accounts used for it are closed.

Two things that share the name are not this. The “rich prank” of video sites is mostly an act played on strangers in public, and these apps aren’t for strangers. And most apps listed as a money prank app make a picture of a payment sent to someone else. That is a fake payment, and nothing here makes one.

Skip the whole idea with anyone who gets anxious about money, in a home under real financial strain (a debt, a missed payment, a job at risk), and whenever children can hear. Don’t run it by text or screenshot, where you can’t see a face or stop it travelling.

A rich prank app, built on a website

Search for a rich prank website or a millionaire prank app and you get screens in a browser tab, with an address bar across the top, and apps that run on one kind of phone. Pozer is both halves. You pick one of ten apps, fill it in from a browser, publish it and get a link. Opened on your phone and added to the home screen, it runs fullscreen from its own icon, on iPhone and Android, and it answers a thumb: tabs open, lists scroll, buttons print receipts. Every app is an original design in the style of a kind of app people know, with no company’s name, logo or artwork. Building, installing and filming are free.

Start from the question they’ll ask: where did it come from?

Nobody believes “I’m rich” without a reason, and the reason picks the app. Choose the story the person would believe of you, not the biggest number.

1. “It just landed in my account”

A transfer, a payout, a prize. The payment app opens on Cash balance, to the cent, with an Activity list where one line explains it. It suits parents and partners, because a balance needs no market knowledge. The tap that sells it is Withdraw, which prints a receipt with a 1.5% fee. It has no notifications, on purpose. Full set-up: the bank balance prank, and for a prize, the lottery version.

2. “A coin I bought went up”

The crypto wallet shows a total over a list of coins, and with Live prices switched on, the coins it recognises are priced from a live feed. For a buy made on camera, use the crypto exchange, where a Buy comes back marked Filled; for the leverage story there is a futures app. Play it on someone who has heard you talk about crypto. Guides: the wallet prank and the crypto prank app.

3. “I put it all in one stock”

The trading app opens on Investing: a total, a Today line, a chart, Buying power and Holdings. Buy and Sell sit on each holding’s own page and print an order receipt, and its alerts are gains on what you hold: “NVDA is up 6.79% today · +$1,129.83 · You’re up $4,840.86 today”. One warning: a friend who follows the market knows what a real ticker costs, so match the price or invent the company. Guide: the fake trading app prank, and for the day it all went wrong, the loss prank.

4. “My store took off overnight”

The store dashboard opens on Home with Total sales, sessions and orders. This is the one for the dinner table, because its alerts are orders: a notification titled with your store’s name reads “New order #1285 · $84.37 · 2 items”, and when you open the app that order is at the top of Orders and counted into total sales. Guide: the store prank.

5. “My video blew up”

The creator dashboard leads with Total subscribers and can alert for earnings, subscribers or views, under your channel’s name. It is the one prank here you can time to a milestone. Set Total subscribers to 99,968, choose Subscribers and type 8 in both amount boxes. Every alert then adds exactly 8, and the fourth reads “8 new subscribers · You’re at 100,000” while they are looking at your lock screen. Walkthrough: the studio simulator.

6. “My side project sells while I sleep”

Two apps. The subscription dashboard is for an app with paying users: MRR, active subscriptions and trials, and alerts that read “New subscriber · $16.99” at your first plan’s price. The creator sales dashboard is for things you made, an ebook or a template pack, with an Available balance and a feed of sales. Both suit the friend who has watched you tinker for years.

7. “I called it”

The prediction market app is for a bet on an event you invent. Its alerts read “You won $1,439.00 on “Nasdaq closes green today?”” and each win lands as cash in the app. It works best on someone who was in the room when you made the prediction. Ideas: prediction market pranks.

Three ways to play it

• The hand-over. You say the line and give them the phone. It works because the app keeps answering: they scroll and switch tabs, and nothing contradicts you.
• The tap. On the money apps you do something on camera, a buy or a withdrawal, and the receipt does the talking.
• The lock screen. You say nothing. The phone is face up on the table and it lights up. Every app but the payment app can do this.

The strongest beat: the phone buzzes by itself

A screen you hold up is a claim. A notification that arrives while your hands are on the table is evidence you didn’t seem to offer. Nine of the ten apps can send them; the payment app can’t.

1. Install the app, open it from the home screen and hold two fingers still on the screen until Edit appears (on iPhone the first hold asks you to sign in). Tap it and find Alerts.
2. Set the range each alert falls in, how far apart they come under Every (from 10 seconds, in seconds or minutes) and how long they run under For (15 minutes to 8 hours).
3. Tap Turn on alerts and allow notifications when the phone asks. The first one arrives in a few seconds, so lock the phone and put it face up.

They are real notifications on your phone, carrying your app’s icon and the name you set. They go only to the phone that turned them on, never to anyone else’s. Each one lands in the app the next time it comes on screen or is pulled to refresh, so when they grab the phone the numbers agree with the lock screen. On iPhone, alerts need the app on the Home Screen and iOS 16.4 or later. On the free tier each alert ends in SIMULATED, like the mark on the app, and Pro removes it.

Match the prank to the person, and know when to stop

• Someone who knows the subject will test it. A trader opens the holding; a shop owner opens an order. Give them the app built for their subject only if you have filled in the second screen.
• Someone who doesn’t wants one number and one reason. Use the balance.
• A partner hears shared money in everything. Keep the story on money that was only ever yours, and keep it short.
• A group has a phone out within seconds. Reveal before anyone posts or forwards anything, because a screenshot travels without its ending.

Stop early, camera or no camera, if they start telling someone else, start planning around the money, ask you for a loan or a favour, or go quiet. A request made while they believe it is the point where a prank becomes the thing in the first paragraph, so the answer to it is always the reveal.

What every version needs

• Figures to the cent. $41,286.40 reads as an account; $40,000.00 reads as a number someone typed.
• A name that isn’t a real company’s. Set the app’s name and icon before you install it: the home screen keeps the ones it was added with. A real brand’s name or logo is against the rules.
• The installed app, not a tab. A browser tab shows the link across the top and an Edit button that never hides. In the installed app, Edit stays hidden until you hold two fingers on the screen, and one finger never brings it back.
• Know what the free tier shows. Free apps carry SIMULATED · POZER.COM in small print. Pointing at it is the easiest reveal there is, and Pro at US$12.99/mo removes it.
• A silent phone. Your real notifications break the scene and can show something private. If you’re using alerts, switch off the others, not Do Not Disturb, which would hold back the ones you set.

The reveal, and the reset

End it on camera, in the same scene. Tell them, then hold two fingers on the screen, tap Edit and change a number while they watch. Keep that in the cut: a prank video without its reveal is a video of someone being lied to. Ask before you post it, because their face is in it.

Whatever was tapped, and whatever the alerts added, is saved in the app on that phone. Before the next take, open Edit and tap Reset to published values, and turn alerts off when you’re done so the phone doesn’t keep announcing a store you don’t have.