Chat Mockup Generator

What this tool is used for

• Producing a conversation mockup for a design, a slide or a tutorial.
• Illustrating a support flow without screenshotting a real conversation.
• Making an example exchange for documentation.
• Producing a graphic for a presentation about messaging UX.
• Creating a mockup to show a client how a flow would read.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is a chat mockup for?

Illustrating a conversation without screenshotting a real one — documentation, a support article, a product page, a bug report. It sidesteps the two problems with a real screenshot: it contains other people's messages, and it cannot be edited when the wording needs to change.

Should I recreate a real conversation?

Only with permission, and it is worth remembering that a mockup of a real exchange is a reconstruction rather than evidence. For anything that might be disputed — a support escalation, a compliance record — an actual export with headers intact is the artefact that matters.

How do I make it read as a real interface?

Consistent alignment (outgoing right, incoming left), realistic timestamps in ascending order, and message lengths that vary. Uniform sentence lengths are the detail that makes a mockup look synthetic before anyone can say why.

Should the mockup be labelled as one?

In any context where a reader might take it as a record, yes — an illustrative example presented as a genuine exchange is misleading regardless of intent. In documentation showing how a feature works, the context does that job already.

Why export as an image rather than HTML?

Because it has to survive being pasted into a document, a slide or an issue tracker, none of which render arbitrary markup. An image is portable at the cost of being unsearchable and inaccessible, which is why any real caption should restate what the conversation says.

Common errors and gotchas

• Presenting a mockup as a real conversation, which is fabricating a record.
• Using a real person's name and photo without permission.
• Copying a platform's exact branding, which raises a trademark question for commercial use.
• Making the mockup so realistic that a reader cannot tell it is illustrative.
• Exporting at a resolution too low for the slide or print it is destined for.