How to Use the Fake WhatsApp Chat Generator for Android

Most WhatsApp mockups you see online are iPhone mockups, for the same reason most stock photos of phones are iPhones. That is a problem if your audience is on Android, which across most of the world is the large majority.

WhatsApp is one app drawn two ways, and the differences are small enough that nobody can list them and obvious enough that everybody notices them. The WhatsApp chat generator draws both. This is the Android side.

What changes on Android

The header is left-aligned

Android puts the back arrow, the avatar and the name in a row starting from the left. iOS centres the name and picture. This is the single quickest way to tell two WhatsApp screenshots apart, and the detail a mockup built from memory nearly always gets wrong.

The bubbles are squarer

A smaller corner radius than iOS, and a different tail. On its own it reads as “this looks right”; beside an iOS bubble the difference is unmistakable.

A floating send button

Android’s composer ends in a round send button that sits slightly over the message bar, rather than the inline arrow that appears on iOS once you start typing. It is at the bottom of every screenshot, so it is in every frame.

The system bar

Battery, signal and clock sit differently, and the whole frame has a different shape. The generator handles this with the platform switch — you do not assemble it yourself.

The ticks are the same, and they carry the story

• One grey tick — sent, not delivered.
• Two grey ticks — delivered, not read.
• Two blue ticks — read.

Set per message. A thread where someone has read a message and not replied is a different story from one where the message never landed, and nothing else on the screen distinguishes them. If your mockup is about being ignored, or about not being reachable, the ticks are the whole lesson.

Building the conversation

Set the contact first: name, avatar, and the status line — online, typing…, or a last-seen time. Then write both sides, one card per message, with its own time and delivery state.

Add what a real thread has. Photos with captions, voice notes with a duration, answered and missed calls, and date dividers between days. A conversation made only of text bubbles is thinner than any real one, and a missed call row says more in one line than three messages would.

Keep messages short, and read the thread top to bottom once before exporting to check the clock runs forwards. A reply stamped before the message it answers is the mistake everyone makes at least once.

Which platform should you pick?

Whichever your audience uses. If you are teaching a class that is mostly on Android, an iPhone mockup is a small distraction repeated on every slide — not fatal, but it is free to get right.

If you genuinely do not know, Android is the safer default by population. And you can export the same conversation both ways: the switch redraws the frame and keeps every message.

Dark mode

Both themes use WhatsApp’s own wallpaper and bubble colours. Dark is the more common setting and photographs better under a projector.

Downloading

Tick the responsible-use box, choose 2×, 3× or 4×, press Generate. PNG, with a PDF option. 3× for a slide deck, 4× for anything printed.

Every chat download carries a faint “Not an original screenshot” line, repeated so a crop keeps at least one copy. It cannot be switched off — chat screenshots are the format most often used to fabricate a conversation, and that risk outweighs a faint line on a teaching slide. Separately there is a hidden origin mark the verification tool reads from the file as it was downloaded. Resizing it or re-saving it as a JPEG destroys that mark, so check the original rather than a copy that has been through a messaging app.

Common questions

Do I need an Android phone?

No. The switch changes what is drawn, not what you need to be holding.

Is it free?

Yes, with no sign-up.

Can I switch between Android and iPhone?

Yes, at any point. Every message is kept.

Can I set blue read ticks?

Yes, per message.

How many messages fit?

Up to 50. The preview is one phone screen, so the end of the conversation is what shows.

Is anything sent to WhatsApp?

No. Nothing leaves your browser until you download — see the privacy policy.

Also worth reading: the iPhone version of this guide, and responsible use.

Open the WhatsApp chat generator.