Chat story guides

Everything we know about making a conversation people watch to the end: how to write it, how to pace it, how to export it. Short, specific, with numbers.

A chat story lives or dies on three things: whether the first message stops the thumb, whether the pauses feel like a real person typing, and whether the file survives the platform’s compression. The guides below cover exactly those — how to write and pace a conversation, story shapes you can reuse, and the export numbers for TikTok, Reels and Shorts. Each one is short and specific, and every number in them comes from the same engine that renders your video.

• How to make a fake text message videoWrite the chat, set the pauses, pick a Telegram, WhatsApp or iMessage look, export a vertical MP4 — with the timing numbers that decide if people watch to the end.11 min read
• Chat story ideas that keep people watchingSeven story shapes that work in a text conversation — confession, wrong recipient, countdown, unreliable narrator — each with an opening line and its turn.10 min read
• Vertical video specs for short-form platformsThe numbers that matter when you export a chat story: 1080×1920, 30 fps, H.264, and where the interface of each app covers your messages.4 min read
• How long should a chat story video be?The numbers behind chat story length: seconds per message, pause lengths, when to split into parts — and why 20–40 seconds wins on TikTok, Reels and Shorts.5 min read
• Scary text message story ideasTwelve creepy text story ideas that work as chat videos — wrong number, the text from yourself, the nanny cam — with the beat where each turns and how to pace the fear.6 min read
• Chat story hooks that stop the scrollThe first message decides whether anyone sees the second. Thirty opening lines for chat story videos, sorted by what they promise, and the rule for writing your own.5 min read
• How to make a chat story seriesTurning one chat video into a series: part structure, cliffhangers, recurring characters, a consistent style — and the mistakes that make part two invisible.6 min read
• How chat story accounts make moneyThe four routes that actually pay a faceless chat story account — platform funds, brand deals, your own product, affiliate — and what each one needs first.9 min read
• Do you need a fake text message app, or will a browser do?You do not need a fake text message app to make a chat video — the browser does it, on a phone or a laptop. What the app stores give you, and when one is worth it.6 min read
• How to turn a text into a chat videoPaste the messages, set the pauses, download a vertical MP4: a chat video from plain text in minutes, in a Telegram, WhatsApp, iMessage or VK look. No app needed.5 min read