The small print

Just for fun

Faux Reel makes videos that look like a chat on a phone. They're parody and entertainment, not real screenshots or recordings. The ready-made chats in the library are made up, and any famous people in them appear as affectionate parody, not real quotes.

Not linked to any chat app

Faux Reel isn't made by, connected to or endorsed by WhatsApp, Telegram, Messenger, iMessage, Instagram, Signal or the companies behind them. Their names and trademarks belong to their owners. We only imitate the general look of their chat screens, for parody.

Please play nice

You're responsible for what you make and share. Don't use Faux Reel to:

• scam, trick or blackmail anyone;
• make fake "evidence" or pass a video off as a real conversation;
• bully, harass or embarrass a real person;
• pretend to be someone else, or put words in a real person's mouth to damage them;
• break the law, or the rules of the places you post to.

Every video carries a small "fauxreel" mark and ends with a short card that gives the joke away. Please don't crop or edit those out to make a video look genuine. If someone could mistake your video for the real thing, say it's made up.

Your privacy

• Your chats stay on your device. The video is made in your browser. What you type is never uploaded to us.
• Your settings, your last chat and which library chats you've already watched in the feed are saved in your browser's storage, so they're still there next time (and the feed can show you new ones first). Clearing your browser data removes them.
• No accounts, no ads, no cookies.
• We count visits and a few actions, like which chat app look and file format people pick and whether a video was made, using Umami, a privacy-friendly analytics service. It uses no cookies, doesn't follow you around the web, and never receives the text of your chats. It helps us see what people use, so we know what to improve.
• If you email us, we see your email address and message, and only use them to reply.
• Like any website, the page is served by a hosting provider (Microsoft Azure), which keeps standard technical logs such as IP addresses. Analytics go to Umami, which also sees a normal request from your browser. Everything else, including fonts and the video tools, comes from fauxreel.app itself.

Get in touch

Questions, ideas or found a bug? Email hello@fauxreel.app.

No guarantees

Faux Reel is free and provided as it is. We do our best, but we can't promise it will always work or suit what you need, and we're not responsible for what people do with the videos they make.

We may update these terms as Faux Reel grows. The date at the top shows when they last changed.