Crypto wallet simulators and mockups
What a wallet simulator draws and what it never touches, how a believable balance is put together, and where a mockup stops being honest. These articles are for people composing a wallet screen for a deck, a class, a product or a larp, and for people checking one. My Larp Wallet is a crypto wallet app simulator: every screen it makes is a mockup, and it holds no funds.
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Simulators, explained
What a crypto wallet simulator is, and where its limits are
It draws the interface of a wallet without being one. That distinction is the whole subject, and most of the confusion around these tools comes from skipping it.
Crypto wallet emulator or simulator: the real difference
One runs the application; the other draws its screen and runs nothing. The word people search is emulator, and for most of what they want it is the wrong tool.
Crypto demo account, paper trading, wallet simulator: which does what
Three different tools get sold under the word demo. One places pretend orders, one moves worthless coins on a test network, and one only draws a screen.
Why a wallet simulator should run in a browser tab
An installer asks for trust, permissions and an update channel you keep forever. A tab asks for none of that, and it still draws the screen.
What a hardware wallet simulator can and cannot show
A device has a screen the size of a stamp, two buttons and a signing chip. An app mockup reproduces none of that, and it is often the app you were after anyway.
Crypto wallet mockup, prototype or model: which one you need
Three words get used for the same request, and they name three different deliverables. Only one of them is an image you can hand over tomorrow morning.
Larp wallet app: is there an APK, an IPA or a store version?
My Larp Wallet has none of the three. The wallet is a web app that opens at your own address and sits on your home screen, which is also why any file carrying its name deserves suspicion.
Balances, tokens and chains
How to make a crypto portfolio mockup that adds up
A portfolio screen is a total, a change, and a sorted list. The sorting is what most mockups get wrong, and it is the first thing that looks off on screen.
Bitcoin wallet simulator: composing a BTC screen that reads right
A Bitcoin screen has three numbers that must agree: a quantity cut from eight decimals, a dollar value that moves every few seconds, and a day change with its own arithmetic.
Larping, and where the line is
Fake crypto wallet apps: a harmless simulator, or a scam that takes your keys
The phrase covers two opposite things: a tool that draws a wallet screen, and an app built to take your keys. Most people typing it want the first one.
How to spot a fake crypto wallet screenshot
A composed wallet screen is quick to make and quick to check. The tells are arithmetic, timestamps and rounding, and none of them settle whether a number is real.
Designing the screen
Crypto wallet UI design: six patterns the good apps share
Six patterns repeat across every wallet worth copying. Here they are, with the measurements and the thresholds behind them.
Crypto token icons: sizes, shapes and the traps
What size to draw them, why the circle is not really negotiable, and the four things that break a token icon on a dark screen.
Dark mode contrast: the WCAG ratios that hold up
The thresholds that apply, what changes when the background is near-black, and the measured ratios of a real dark palette.
Decks, classes and teams
Crypto pitch deck: how to show a portfolio screen on a slide
A portfolio screen in a deck is a product illustration, not evidence. Here is how to make it legible at slide scale, and where the real numbers actually go.
Teaching crypto wallets in class without real money or real keys
A 45-minute sequence for a high school class or a workshop: students open a practice wallet on their own device, redo the arithmetic behind the screen, and learn why a picture of a balance proves nothing.
Where a wallet simulator earns its place in a product team
Not the screenshots. The five places a composed screen saves a team actual time are the ones nobody lists, because they are unglamorous.
Compose the screen instead of describing it
Your tokens, your amounts, your accent, laid out in the browser, then opened on your phone at your own address. A mockup, and we never pretend otherwise.
- Unlimited tokens, amounts and accents
- Add it to your home screen; it opens like an app
- Live market prices that keep moving
- Your own address, mylarpwallet.com/you
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