Microsoft Teams-style chat maker
Make a Teams-style work chat about a meeting or a project update, for a training deck, a slide or a workplace sketch. Edit the sample and export.
Try it: start from this sample
Where a Teams-style chat helps
A work chat on a desktop-shaped window is the right setting for onboarding slides, soft-skills training, product walk-throughs and office comedy. The Teams-style look needs the Standard plan or above. ChatsRat draws its own interface in a similar general style; the name is used only to describe the kind of layout and implies no link to Microsoft.
Write messages the way colleagues really write them
Work chat is polite, fast and full of small commitments. Open with a question that has a deadline, answer with a status, and close with a next step. Avoid jargon you would have to explain on the slide, and keep each message under two lines so it stays readable when projected.
If you teach communication, build one clear message and one vague one, export both images, and ask the class to rewrite the vague one in their own words.
Features you can use
The editor lists online status, reactions, read receipts and a typing indicator for this look, and replies on paid plans. A reaction on the last message is a natural way to show agreement in a meeting recap. Keep to two people for a direct chat; paid plans allow up to four for a small project thread.
Keep it generic
Use invented teammates, invented projects and made-up times. Do not copy a real company's internal message or a coworker's name, even as a joke. For training material shared with a team, add a short label that says the conversation is fictional.
Tips
- Pick desktop for slides and a phone shape only when the scene happens away from a desk.
- Show agreement with a single reaction rather than another message saying ok.
- Name the meeting time in the chat so the viewer understands the stakes.
- Use two versions of one message when you teach clear writing, then compare them.
Questions
Is the Teams-style look free?
It needs the Standard plan or above. The Free plan has a smaller set of looks, two people and four messages. The plans page lists the details.
Can I make a group thread?
Yes on paid plans, which allow up to four people. The Free plan allows two. Add the extra people in the people step of the editor.
Is this connected to Microsoft?
No. ChatsRat is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Microsoft. It draws its own layout in a similar general style.
Can I use it for a real client update?
Use it for examples and training, not as a stand-in for a real conversation. Label it as simulated whenever someone could mistake it for the real thing.
Which export fits a slide deck?
A PNG or JPG from the Standard plan works well on slides. The Free plan exports a PNG with a visible ChatsRat watermark.
Use it for simulated, labelled content. ChatsRat makes mock-ups and fictional conversations for creators, designers and teachers. Do not use it to pass off a made-up conversation as a real one, to impersonate a real person, or as proof of anything. See the Acceptable Use policy.
About the watermark. Exports on the Free plan carry a visible ChatsRat watermark, and every export carries an invisible mark that the verify page can read. Plans list what changes on paid plans.
ChatsRat is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by any messaging app. App names on this page describe a style only.