Fake Snap Maker
Put a Snapchat caption on any photo, the classic translucent text bar or Big Text, and download it as a snap. Free, no watermark, and your photo never leaves your browser. Add stickers, put it on Snapchat's send screen or in a Story, or download the caption alone to lay over a video.
Your photo stays in this browser: nothing is uploaded.
Drag the caption on the snap, or use the slider beside it.
1080 × 1920, the size Snapchat saves a snap. No watermark, no sign-up.
How to Make a Fake Snap
Step 1
Pick a photo
Upload one from your phone or computer, or start on the sample sunset. Fill crops it to the snap; Fit shows all of it on black.
Step 2
Type the caption
It appears as you type, wraps the way Snapchat wraps it, and takes emoji.
Step 3
Place it
Drag the caption up or down the snap, or use the slider beside it. Choose Classic or Big Text, the size and the bar, and add a time, temperature, location or date sticker.
Step 4
Frame and download
Keep the snap on its own, or put it on the send screen or in a Story. Download a PNG or JPG, or the caption alone on a transparent PNG for a video.
What People Make With a Fake Snap
Memes
The Snapchat caption bar is a meme format of its own: a photo, one line of deadpan text across the middle, and the joke lands in the gap between them. Type the line, drag it where it hits hardest, and post it anywhere.
Pranks
A fake snapchat snap of the view from somewhere you are not, or of a plate you did not cook, is a harmless way to wind up a friend. Keep it to people who will laugh when you tell them.
Aesthetic snaps and fake snap ideas
Sunsets, coffee, the gym mirror, a late drive: the captioned snap is how a lot of people post a mood. Make a set in one go for a story highlight, a moodboard or a Pinterest board, without sending a single snap.
Video overlays
Storytime and POV videos borrow the Snapchat text bar because everyone reads it at once. Download the caption alone on a transparent PNG and lay it over your clip in any editor.
Classic Caption or Big Text
Classic is the Snapchat text bar: a strip of black at 60% opacity across the full width of the snap, with the words centred in white. It is the caption a snapchat caption maker has to get right, and this one is measured from real snaps rather than eyeballed. The text is set at the size Snapchat uses on a current iPhone, about 4.3% of the snap's width, and a long caption wraps onto more lines with the bar growing a line at a time. S matches the smaller text seen on long captions; L is larger than Snapchat goes, for short ones.
Big Text leaves the bar out. The words are bold and several times larger, set straight on the photo with a shadow too faint to notice, and left-aligned the way Snapchat sets Big Text; centre it if you prefer. It suits a single word or a short line.
Either way the snap is exported at 1080 × 1920 with no watermark: a fake snapchat caption that reads as a real one when it is sent, posted or screenshotted. This snapchat caption generator also exports the caption alone, on a transparent PNG.
The Send Screen, the Story Viewer and Stickers
A snap on its own is what lands in a camera roll. A screenshot of Snapchat itself needs the app around it, so the snap can also be put on an iPhone, at 1179 × 2556:
- Snap screen: what Snapchat shows right after you take a snap. The ✕ and Add a sound at the top, the tool rail down the right (text, pen, stickers, scissors, sound, lenses and the rest), the filter dots, and Save, Story and the yellow Send To at the bottom.
- Story: the snap as a friend watches it in a Story, with the progress line across the top, the poster's name and picture, when it was posted, and the camera, Send a chat and send buttons underneath.
Both were laid out from real iPhone captures of Snapchat, and each of Snapchat's parts can be turned off. The buttons are our own drawings, sized and placed where Snapchat puts them, and the status bar's clock reads whatever you type. Stickers go on any snap, framed or not: the time, the temperature, a location and the day, each with your own text and dragged into place.
More Snapchat and Meme Tools
Need the conversation rather than the snap? The fake Snapchat message generator draws a whole Snapchat chat, names, photos and voice notes included. For a caption above a picture rather than across it, the meme generator sets classic top-text memes and speech bubble memes.
Please use fake snaps responsibly — for memes, jokes, stories and mockups. Don't impersonate real people to deceive, defraud, or harm anyone.