These Terms govern your use of chatmock.net and the chat mockup generators and examples published on it (together, “the Service”). By using the Service you accept these Terms. If you do not accept them, please do not use the Service. There is no account to create and nothing to sign, so this page is the whole agreement.
1. What the Service is
ChatMock is a free, browser-based tool for composing images that look like conversations on messaging platforms, for use in creative, educational and design work. Everything renders locally in your browser; the exported PNG is produced on your own device. There is no account, no subscription and no server-side storage of the conversations you build. How that affects your data is set out in the Privacy Policy.
2. Your mockups are yours
You keep all rights to the conversations you compose and the images you export. We claim no ownership over them, we do not receive a licence to them, and we could not use them even if we wanted to — they never reach our servers. You are free to use your exports commercially, subject to the limits in section 5 and the Acceptable Use Policy.
What you are responsible for is how a mockup is presented. An image that is clearly staged illustration is one thing; the same image presented as a real exchange is another, and that decision — and its consequences — are yours, not ours.
3. Interface recreations and trademarks
WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram, Discord, Telegram, Snapchat, Google Messages, Apple, Android and the other platform names used on this site are trademarks of their respective owners. ChatMock is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by or approved by any of those companies.
Every interface shown or generated here is an original recreation built in HTML and CSS for illustration, parody, teaching and design. We do not redistribute platform software, fonts or proprietary image assets. If you hold rights in material you believe is reproduced improperly, contact us as described in section 10.
4. Free of charge, with no warranty of availability
The Service is provided free of charge. Because there is no payment, there is no service level: we may change, suspend or discontinue any part of the Service at any time, and we do not guarantee that any particular generator, format or export size will remain available. We also do not guarantee that a detail of a recreation is current — messaging apps change their interfaces, and while we try to track those changes, the mockups are illustrations, not specification documents.
5. Acceptable use
Your use of the Service must comply with our Acceptable Use Policy, which forms part of these Terms. In summary, ChatMock is for illustration, parody, teaching, fiction, design and demonstration. It must not be used to deceive, defraud, harass or impersonate anyone, to fabricate evidence for any legal, disciplinary, employment, insurance or academic proceeding, or to produce fake bank, payment, government, medical, court or police notices. We do not provide templates for those uses, and using the tool to approximate them is a breach of these Terms.
6. Disclaimer of warranties
The Service is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, error-free, or that any recreation will match a platform's current interface.
7. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, ChatMock and the people who operate it are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, goodwill, data or opportunity, arising out of or relating to your use of the Service — including any claim arising from how you used an image you created. Because the Service is provided free of charge, our total aggregate liability to you is limited to zero. Nothing in these Terms excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded.
8. Indemnity
If a third party brings a claim against us because of your use of the Service or your breach of these Terms — for example, a claim arising from a mockup you published — you agree to indemnify and hold us harmless against that claim and any resulting costs.
9. Third-party services
The site loads a small number of third-party resources, including analytics and the Google AdSense review script described in the Privacy Policy. Those providers operate under their own terms and privacy practices, which we do not control.
10. Contact and complaints
Questions about these Terms, and copyright or trademark complaints, go to hello@chatmock.net with the subject line Terms, Copyright or Abuse as appropriate. The Contact page lists what we can and cannot act on.
11. Governing law
These Terms are governed by the laws of the jurisdiction in which the ChatMock operator has its principal place of business, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. Any dispute will be brought in the courts of that jurisdiction.
12. Changes to these Terms
If these Terms change materially, we will update the date at the top of this page. Continued use of the Service after a change means you accept the revised Terms.