Socialmaxx: the social media profile mockup

Socialmaxx is Larpmaxx's social media profile mockup: a profile screen on your phone where you set the username, picture, posts and every count yourself, with up to 50 accounts to switch between. It changes no real account.

It is a prop for screenshots and screen recordings. Every name, number and photo on it is one you put there, and none of it is connected to anything.

What Socialmaxx is

One screen, built to look like the profile page of a phone social app. Across the top: an optional plus button, your username with an optional padlock and verified tick, and a menu button. Under that, a round profile picture, a display name, and three counts for posts, followers and following. Then the optional lines that make a profile look lived in: a category, a bio and a link, followed by Edit profile and Share profile buttons, a row of highlights, and three tabs of tiles for posts, reels and tagged photos. A floating tab bar sits at the bottom.

It comes with a dark theme and a light one. The first time you open it, it shows a placeholder profile with a handful of extra accounts already in the switcher, so it looks finished before you have changed anything, and every part of it is yours to overwrite.

How it works

1. Open the editor. The menu button at the top right opens a settings panel whose first row is the account on screen; Edit profile, on the profile itself, jumps straight to that account's editor.
2. Set the profile. Pick a profile picture from your photos, type the username and display name, and set the three counts. A count takes a typed number, a shortcut like 10k or 1.2m, a preset, or a drag.
3. Fill the grid. Add photos to the posts, reels and tagged tabs. Each tile can be marked as a single photo, a multi-photo post or a reel, and pinned, which puts the matching small mark in its corner.
4. Add your other accounts. Tap the username at the top of the profile. The page shrinks back and blurs, and a sheet slides up listing every account, each with an optional unread line under it such as “7 chats” or “6 notifications”. Tap one and the whole profile switches to it after a short loading pause.
5. Record it. Close the panel and screen-record or screenshot. Drag the profile down and let go for a pull-to-refresh spinner, the way a real feed reloads.

What you can change

Each account is a complete profile of its own, so all of this is per account:

And a few settings apply to the whole app:

• How numbers look. Exact prints 1,065, 52,300, 1,204,331; Short prints 1,065, 52.3K, 1.2M. Below 10,000 both show the full number.
• Theme. Dark or light.
• Top bar. Show or hide the plus button, a small blue icon beside the menu, and a red dot on the menu.
• Timing. How long the refresh spinner turns (0.2 to 5 seconds) and how long the pause is when you switch accounts (instant to 3 seconds).
• Accounts. From 1 to 50. Raising the number adds accounts with generated usernames, random counts and unread lines; you can then edit, duplicate, reorder or delete any of them.

Short username ideas

The username field has a “Rare username” board under it: eight ideas at a time of exactly 2, 3 or 4 characters, mostly letters, sometimes with a digit, a dot or an underscore. Shuffle deals a fresh set, and tapping an idea puts it in the field. The board skips names your other accounts already use and filters out a list of obvious bad words that short strings land on by accident.

These are ideas for the mockup, nothing more. Socialmaxx does not check whether a name is taken anywhere, cannot register one, and has no way to. The field itself follows the usual handle rules: lowercase, no spaces, letters, numbers, dots and underscores, no dot at either end or two in a row, and 30 characters at most.

Putting it on your Home Screen

Socialmaxx installs as its own app, separate from the Larpmaxx dashboard, with its own name and icon. On an iPhone, open it in Safari, tap Share, then Add to Home Screen. From that icon it opens full screen, with no address bar or browser buttons in the recording. The app's own How to use screen walks through this, and through starting a screen recording from Control Centre.

Where your pictures are kept

On your phone and nowhere else. Settings are saved in the browser's storage and pictures in its local database, both on the device, so nothing you add is uploaded to Larpmaxx or anyone else. The flip side is that a new phone starts empty. Backup & reset can export your accounts, usernames, counts and settings as a small file and import it again later; pictures are not in that file, so keep the originals in your photos. Reset everything wipes the lot and brings back the starting example.

What it is not

It is not connected to any social network, and it is not affiliated with one. Nothing you do in it touches a real account: no followers are gained, no username is claimed, nothing is posted, and the unread lines in the switcher are numbers you chose. The profile only exists on the screen in your hand.

Which is also the line on how to use it. Posting a recording as a bit, to people who get the joke, is what it is for, and the step-by-step guide covers building the character around it; larpmaxxing explains the wider idea. Showing it to a brand, an agency or a buyer as your real audience is not a bit, and neither is using it to pass yourself off as someone else. A follower count you typed is not an audience, and presenting it as one to get paid is fraud in most places.

Livemaxx is the moving version of the same idea, a live stream whose viewers and comments you set, and Cryptomaxx does it for a wallet screen.

Pricing

Socialmaxx is not sold separately. Any active Larpmaxx plan unlocks it, along with Livemaxx, Cryptomaxx and Notimaxx; without one, it opens on a prompt to choose a plan. The plans are:

• Starter at $20 a week
• Premier at $50 a month
• Lifetime at $100, paid once

Each plan's full contents are listed next to its price once you create an account and try the demo, and Stripe handles checkout.