A faster way to edit your mockups

We've reworked how you edit mockups in Fauxpost, starting with the TikTok and YouTube generators. The short version: you can now click straight on the thing you want to change, and the controls no longer hide.

Click the preview, change the preview

Previously, editing a mockup meant scanning a list of fields in a panel and matching each one to the part of the post it controlled. That works, but there's an obvious shortcut sitting right there: the preview itself. So now there is one.

Every editable piece of a mockup — a username, a caption, a like count, a comment, an avatar, a thumbnail — is clickable directly in the preview. Click a line of text and type over it. Click an image and the upload-and-crop flow opens. What you see is what you edit, with no hunting for the matching field.

The panel is always there now

The control panel used to be a stack of collapsible sections you had to expand and collapse to find anything. That's gone. The panel is now static and fully visible, laid out beside the preview on wider screens, so every option is in front of you at once.

Crucially, the two ways of editing are the same edit. Change a caption in the preview and the panel updates; change it in the panel and the preview updates. Use whichever is quicker for the task — clicking the preview for quick text tweaks, the panel for adding comments or toggling badges. Nothing is buried, and nothing is duplicated work.

The YouTube tools also pick up a mobile/desktop toggle where it makes sense, so a single tool can produce either a phone-style or a desktop-style screenshot from the same content.

Instagram and Snapchat are next

This is the editing model we're standardising on across Fauxpost. The Instagram and Snapchat generators still use the older panel-only editor today, but they're scheduled to move to the same click-to-edit, always-visible-panel approach, and any new tools we build will use it from the start.

If you've used the older editor and have a view on what works and what doesn't in the new one, that feedback genuinely shapes the order and the details of what we change next.