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This fictional wedding reveal uses the same message renderer and starting timings as the tool: six message clips and five typing pauses. No generated AI imagery or narration is needed for these chat images.
Maya: The venue just cancelled our booking Me: That makes no sense - I paid yesterday Maya: You paid the old account Me: The account you sent me? Maya: I never sent an account Me: Then who has been replying from your number?
In a video project, each message and pause stays editable. Create a free account, choose “Make this a video”, then adjust the reading time before exporting. Optional voices, music or generated media have their own controls and costs.
Try this fictional starterA text-message story reveals a fictional conversation bubble by bubble. The reply rhythm can carry the tension without narration: each new message should change what the viewer understands.
Type directly into the chat bubbles and see the conversation take shape. Choose a platform color preset or customize the colors yourself.
Your two speakers stay on their chosen sides. The preview, downloaded image and video clips keep your colors. Every message keeps its own clip, including short replies.
That matters because the video version turns every message into its own scene - the thread drawn up to that bubble - so the preview doubles as your storyboard.
When the conversation reads right, click "Make this a video" and sign in or create a free account. Your chat images and typing pauses are prepared automatically and placed in the media bin and timeline. Play the conversation immediately, adjust clip lengths, and export when ready.
Chat images are prepared directly rather than requested from an AI image model. Keep the readable message clips, adjust the pauses and add other media only when the story needs it.
Writing, previewing, downloading an image, and preparing chat clips require no AI image generation. No account is needed to preview or download an image. A free account is required to create and save a video project. Narration and music are optional editor additions.
Paid options are useful when you want premium voices or generated image and video scenes alongside the conversation. Those are optional generation choices, with the credit estimate shown before you start. You do not need to replace readable chat bubbles with AI-generated text.
Wrong-number mysteries, workplace receipts, wedding reveals, friendship betrayals, and misunderstood deliveries all work because one new message can reverse what the viewer believes. Use invented names and build toward one clear reveal.
Keep messages short enough to read before the next bubble appears. The strongest chat stories move through a normal opening, one suspicious detail, a denial, evidence, and a final message that changes the meaning of the conversation.
An iMessage-style design is a storytelling format, not proof that a conversation happened. Do not use the tool to impersonate a real person, fabricate evidence, publish private messages without permission, or make identifiable allegations look authentic.
For public examples, use invented names and details and label fictional scenarios clearly. If a story is inspired by a real event, remove identifying information and make sure you have the right to publish the source material.
A few quick answers before you jump in.
A fake text story (also called a text-message story or chat story) is a short-form video format where a dramatic conversation unfolds as an iMessage-style thread, one bubble at a time, usually with narration reading each message. The reveal rhythm gives viewers a clear reason to wait for the next message.
Name the two people, then type directly into their left and right message bubbles. Add a message for either person, or paste an existing conversation. Use 3–24 messages.
Writing, previewing and downloading an image are free, with no account needed. Creating a video project requires a free account. Narration and music are optional additions in the editor.
Click "Make this a video" and sign in or create a free account. Each message reveal becomes an image clip, with separate typing pauses between messages. The images appear in your media bin and on a ready-to-play timeline. Adjust the timing, add optional narration or music, then export.
Yes. Drag or trim each chat image and typing pause independently. Use Edit conversation in the media bin to change a message and update the affected images while keeping your timing edits. Narration and music can be added in the editor.
Yes. Choose an iMessage color preset, or try WhatsApp, Messenger, Telegram or Discord colors. You can also change the background, header and each person’s bubble color independently. The tool is designed for fictional stories.
Give every message a job: reveal a fact, increase tension, contradict an earlier claim, or change who the viewer trusts. Short messages and a clear final reversal usually read better than long blocks of exposition.
Open your conversation as image clips and typing pauses on an editable timeline. Narration and music are optional.
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Plan the conversation, reveal, narration, pacing, captions, and final edit.
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