Text conversation · iMessage-style
Fake text message conversation that plays on your phone
Pozer (pozer.com) makes a fake text message conversation you write yourself, in the style of iMessage on an iPhone: both sides, every message, the contact's name and photo. Add it to your phone's home screen and it opens fullscreen like an app, then plays while you film. The messages arrive one at a time, the typing dots run first, and whoever holds the phone can scroll and tap as if it were their own chat. A fake text generator gives you a screenshot; this is a conversation that moves on camera. Made for skits, POV videos, short films and reaction content.
Try it here
Type in a field and the phone changes. Tap around in the phone too: its tabs and rows work.
Checked 11 Nov 2026
At a glance
| What it makes | A text conversation that plays on your phone: both sides, typing dots, and the contact's name and photo. |
|---|---|
| Works on | iPhone and Android. It installs to the home screen from Safari or Chrome, with no App Store, and opens fullscreen. |
| Free | Build it, install it and use it. Free apps carry a Pozer mark. |
| Pro | Removes the mark, on up to 5 devices: US$4.99 a week, US$12.99 a month or US$79.99 a year. |
| Refunds | In full if you ask within 7 days. |
| Account | None to build and preview. Publishing asks for a free account: your email, no card. |
| Use | Skits, parody and film. Never as proof of anything real (acceptable use). |
On camera
What happens on camera
Open the app and the chat is there, with the first message already showing. In tap mode each tap on the conversation brings the next message: theirs arrive after the three typing dots have run for about as long as the message would take to write, and yours come up on the keyboard, a few letters a tap, then send and rise from the field into the chat. Your thumb sets the timing, so the reply lands on the actor's cue. In auto mode each message waits its own pause and the scene plays by itself.
Under your last message it says Delivered, then Read and the time. Their tapbacks pop onto your bubbles a moment after they land: a heart, a thumbs up, ha ha or any emoji. A message that is only one to three emoji goes out large, without a bubble. Hold or double tap a bubble and the tapback menu opens over the chat, as it does on a phone.
Start on the conversation list instead and their next message comes in wherever you are: on the list its row shows the new words and a blue dot, and inside another conversation it drops in as a banner you can tap to open the chat. To start the scene over for the next take, hold the name at the top for a second and a half, or tap with three fingers.
Editable
What you can change
Every field here is in the editor, and in the settings sheet inside the installed app.
- Chat
- Their name
- Group chat
- Photo (optional)
- Messages
- Messages: sent by, message, photo (optional), tapback from the other side, time line above it (optional)
- Playback
- Plays
- Messages already showing when it opens
- My messages
- Typing dots before their messages
- End on them typing
- Sounds
- Look
- Appearance
- My bubbles
- Keyboard up when it opens
- Chat background
- Under my last message
- Time it is now (blank: the phone's clock)
- Conversation list
- Opens on
- Their next message can arrive while you're out of the chat
- Other conversations: name, last message, when, pinned, unread, photo (optional)
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.
Getting it right
What makes it read as a real chat
Messages from the same person in a row sit close together as one run, and only the last bubble of a run has a tail. A time line such as Today 9:38 PM opens a new run, with the day in bold. The Delivered or Read line sits under your last message only while it is the last message in the chat, so it goes as soon as their answer lands, as it does on a phone.
Group chats name the sender above each run and put their initials beside their messages, and the typing dots show who is typing. Light or dark, blue bubbles or green text-message bubbles, a chat background, a photo in any message, a different pause for each one: it all comes from the editor, and the conversation list around it has its own pinned chats and unread dots.
Install
Put it on your home screen
Once you publish, open your app’s link on the phone you’ll film with.
iPhone
- Open the link in Safari
- Tap Share
- Tap Add to Home Screen
It has to be Safari. Chrome and the browsers inside Instagram or TikTok won’t install it properly.
Android
- Open the link in Chrome
- Tap the ⋮ menu
- 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 is not a messaging app. It sends nothing, receives nothing, and connects to no phone number or account. Every message in it, on both sides, is one you typed.
Never use it as proof of what someone said. A made-up conversation passed off as real can be defamation, harassment or fraud, whether it is shown to a partner, an employer, a school, a court or the internet. Don't use it to deceive or harass anyone, and don't put a real person's name or photo on words they never wrote without their permission. Pozer closes accounts that do, and we cooperate with law enforcement.
That is why some things are missing on purpose. The editor saves no picture of the conversation, the app sends no notifications to your lock screen, and nothing can be imported from a real chat. It is a prop that plays in your hand, in your scene.
The full rules are in our acceptable use policy.
Questions
Before you build
Is there a fake text message app that plays the conversation live?
Yes. Pozer (pozer.com) makes one. Write both sides of the conversation, install it to your phone from its link, and each message arrives on your tap, or by itself in auto mode, with typing dots, tapbacks and a Read receipt. There is nothing to download from an app store.
Is it iMessage?
No. It's an original design in the style of the messages app on an iPhone, which is why we call it iMessage-style, so you can find the kind of screen you need. It carries no Apple name, logo, icon or sound, and it sends nothing anywhere.
What's the difference between tap mode and auto mode?
In tap mode nothing moves until you tap: each tap anywhere on the chat brings the next message, after the typing dots if it's theirs. Use it when someone is acting against the phone and the reply has to land on cue. In auto mode each message waits the pause you set for it, so the scene plays hands-free from the moment the chat opens. In both, holding the name at the top for a second and a half, or tapping with three fingers, starts it over.
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.
Can I make a group chat?
Yes. Turn on Group chat, name the group and list the members. Each run of messages is headed with the sender's name, their initials sit beside their messages, and the typing dots show who is typing.
Can I download the conversation as a screenshot?
No. The editor saves no picture of the conversation, because a fake screenshot is the thing people use to put words in someone's mouth. Film the phone in your scene, or record its screen while the conversation plays.
Can I use a real person's name or photo?
Only your own, or someone who has agreed to be in your video. Putting words in a real person's mouth without their permission can be defamation, and using the app to harass or deceive anyone is prohibited.
Does it make sounds?
With Sounds on, their messages arrive with a soft chime and yours send with a short whoosh, both made for this app. Browsers only allow sound after a tap, so the first tap on the screen switches it on, and a phone on silent stays silent.
Is it free?
Yes. Building it, installing it and filming it are free. Free apps carry a mark, and Pro removes it.
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