Pozer

Phone call · iPhone-style

Fake phone call screen and FaceTime-style video call

Pozer (pozer.com) makes a fake phone call you set up yourself: who's calling, the label above their name, their photo, when it rings, and whether it's a phone call or a FaceTime-style video call. Add it to your phone's home screen and it rings full screen when you say, laid out the way an iPhone call screen looks now. Made for skits, POV videos and short films where a call from Mom, the boss or a crush starts the scene, and nobody real is on the other end.

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Type in a field and the phone changes. Tap around in the phone too: its tabs and rows work.

OPEN THE FULL EDITORIt opens with what you typed, and every other field.
mobile
Mom
Message
Voicemail
Decline
Accept
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On camera

What happens on camera

Set who's calling and tap Start. The screen goes black, like a phone asleep on the table, and anywhere from five seconds to five minutes later the call comes in: the label and the name at the top, their photo full screen or a plain colour behind them, Message and Voicemail, then Decline and Accept, or the locked phone's slide to answer. The ringtone is played by the app itself, a marimba or an old phone bell, so there's no copyrighted ringtone in your video.

Accept and the timer counts up over Speaker, Video, Mute, More, End and Keypad, the way an iPhone lays them out now. Speaker and Mute light up when tapped, More puts the call on hold, the keypad types digits over the name, and End shows Call Ended. It can also answer itself after a few seconds, ring out to a missed call, or hang up on its own after anything from 15 seconds to 5 minutes, so nobody has to touch the phone in the shot.

Make it a video call and the caller's video plays full screen, with your own front camera in the corner. You choose the clip on the phone you film with, and it stays on that phone. Drag your picture to any corner, flip to the back camera, turn your camera off, take a Live Photo, or switch to a phone call.

Afterwards the Calls list shows the call at the top, at the time it rang, above the recent calls you typed in; missed calls are red, and the filter lists just the missed ones or just the unknown numbers. Open one and it says how long the call lasted, the same time the timer stopped on.

Editable

What you can change

Every field here is in the editor, and in the settings sheet inside the installed app.

Caller
  • Caller name
  • Label above the name
  • Caller photo
  • Background colour
Call
  • Call type
  • Rings after you tap Start
  • Answer with
  • Ringtone
  • If nobody answers
  • The call ends
  • Start the countdown as soon as the app opens
Video call
  • Show my front camera in the corner
Recents
  • Recent calls: name or number, type, direction, when, calls in a row, voicemail they left

Branding

Your name and your icon

Pozer doesn’t include any logos. Give the app your own name and upload your own icon: a logo you made, or artwork you have the rights to use. Skip it and the editor makes a simple letter tile from the name.

Whatever you upload is your responsibility, and using another company’s logo is against our acceptable use policy. Set the name and icon before you install: they’re fixed on your home screen at the moment you add the app.

Install

Put it on your home screen

Once you publish, open your app’s link on the phone you’ll film with.

iPhone

  1. Open the link in Safari
  2. Tap Share
  3. Tap Add to Home Screen

It has to be Safari. Chrome and the browsers inside Instagram or TikTok won’t install it properly.

Android

  1. Open the link in Chrome
  2. Tap the ⋮ menu
  3. Tap Install app

It opens fullscreen with your icon and no address bar, like any installed app.

Pricing

Free, or Pro to remove the mark

Free

Everything works: the template, installing it, and the buttons. Apps carry a SIMULATED · POZER.COM mark as fine print under the main figure, and on every receipt.

Pro · from US$4.99/wk

The same app with the mark removed, on up to 5 devices where you’re signed in. Billed weekly, monthly or yearly until you cancel from your account. Changed your mind? Ask within 7 days for a full refund: support@pozer.com

Honest use

What it is not

It makes no calls. It has no phone number, connects to no phone network, and nobody is on the other end: every name, photo and call in it is something you set, and the call starts because you tapped Start.

Never use it to pretend a bank, the police, a government office, a delivery company or any other business called someone, and never use it to trick a real person into believing a call happened: to pressure them, to settle an argument, or as proof of anything. Fake calls from "the bank" or "the police" are a common scam. Doing that with Pozer is prohibited, accounts that do it are closed, and we cooperate with law enforcement.

That is also why some things are missing on purpose. The editor saves no picture of its screens, so there is no call-log screenshot to pass around, and the app sends no notifications of any kind.

The full rules are in our acceptable use policy.

Questions

Before you build

Is there a fake call app that rings on my own phone?

Yes. Pozer (pozer.com) makes one. Set who's calling and tap Start, and a few seconds later it rings full screen with its own ringtone. Answer for a running call timer, or take it as a FaceTime-style video call with your camera in the corner. It installs to your phone from its link, so there is nothing to download from an app store.

Is it the iPhone Phone app?

No. It's an original design drawn in the style of an iPhone call screen as it looks now, which is why we call it iPhone-style. It carries no Apple name, logo, icon or sound, and it isn't made by or connected to Apple.

Can it make or receive real calls?

No. It connects to no phone network and to no one else. The call only ever comes from the app itself, after you tap Start, and everything on it is what you set in the editor.

Does it ring when the phone is locked?

No. It's a web app on your home screen, and a locked phone doesn't run web apps, so leave the app open. After you tap Start the screen goes black and the app asks the phone to keep it awake until the call comes in, which Android phones and recent iPhones allow. If your phone locks anyway, set Auto-Lock to a longer time in its settings. To film the locked-phone look, choose Slide to answer.

Does it ring out loud and vibrate?

It plays its own ringtone through the phone's speaker, so turn the volume up before you film. Android phones vibrate with it; iPhones don't let web apps vibrate, so an iPhone rings without buzzing. Choose Silent if you'd rather add a sound in editing. If you set the call to start when the app opens, an iPhone needs one tap on the screen before it can make a sound.

Can the caller be on video?

Yes. Choose Video call as the call type, then pick a clip on the phone you film with. It plays full screen when the call is answered, with your front camera in the corner; the app asks for the camera only then. Without a clip, their photo shows instead. The clip never leaves your phone.

Can I use a celebrity's name or photo?

Use people who have agreed to it (yourself, friends, the actors in your video) or a made-up name. Don't use a real person's photo or video without their permission, and never use it to make it look as if someone real called.

What can I change?

The caller's name or number, the label above it, a photo shown as a full-screen poster or a blurred background, the background colour, phone call or video call, how long after Start it rings, Accept and Decline or slide to answer, the ringtone, what happens if nobody answers, when the call ends, whether it starts as soon as the app opens, your camera in a video call, and up to 12 recent calls with their names, types, directions and times.

Does it work on iPhone and Android?

Yes. On iPhone, open your app in Safari, tap Share, then Add to Home Screen. It has to be Safari, because Chrome and the browsers inside Instagram or TikTok don't offer a proper install. On Android, Chrome offers Install app. Either way it launches fullscreen with your own icon.

Is it free?

Yes. Building it, installing it and filming it are free. Free apps carry a Pozer mark, and Pro removes it.

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