A clean, lightweight phone UI you can drop into any comp and customize fast.

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$4.99

This After Effects template gives you a clean, flexible phone interface for fast, custom screen replacements.

All Vector built in After Effects so no external files to carry. Just one single AE project.

Compatible with After Effects CC 2022 and up

Organized AE project with expression‑driven controls
Auto‑sizing message bubbles
Expression Linked control layers
Master Color Controls
Top UI for Time, Wifi, Cell service, and Battery easily customizable
Battery fullness directly linked to percentage
UI Connected to Nulls for easily moving UI to fit any phone screen for VFX Screen Replacements

A quick, generic phone screen you can pop into a shot without rebuilding UI from scratch.
Useful as a full mock UI or just to borrow elements like time, Wi‑Fi, battery, and signal bars.
Built entirely with AE solids and shapes, so it’s vector, resolution‑independent, and file‑light.

Color Controls layer is a single hub that drives UI colors via linked properties.
Outgoing bubbles color: change once to update all outgoing message bubbles.
Incoming bubbles color: same idea for incoming messages.
Dark Mode toggle: flips an adjustment layer that inverts underlying UI. Turn opacity on or off for instant light/dark styles.
Text Color: set to black for light mode or white for dark mode.

Battery Controller
- Set the percentage. Displays as whole numbers and drives the fill of the battery icon in sync.
Time (Hour and Minute)
- Hours clamp at 12.
- Minutes clamp at 59 with whole‑number stepping, so you can scroll to a specific, consistent time without overshooting.
Wi‑Fi Bars
- Checkboxes to enable bar counts. Animate on or off to simulate weak/losing signal.
Cell Bars
- Same control pattern as Wi‑Fi. Toggle bar counts to match reception.

Real phones vary and plates rarely match perfect aspect ratio after tracking.
Most UI groups sit under nulls so you can non‑destructively adjust layout after the screen track.
Master Scale null controls everything except the background.
Each cluster (status bar elements, bubbles, etc.) also has its own null so you can reposition or scale individually.
For notches or inset displays, move and scale the affected group to avoid occlusion.

Each message consists of two layers:
1. Bubble Text
2. Bubble Shape that auto‑sizes to the text via expressions
Editing text
- Open the Bubble Text layer and type. The bubble auto expands to fit.
Duplicating messages
- Duplicate both the Bubble Text and Bubble Shape layers together.
- Important: the duplicated Bubble Shape still references the original text.
  - Fix: select the Bubble Shape, press U twice to reveal expressions, and update the width/height expressions to reference the new Bubble Text layer name.
Contact name behavior
- The displayed contact name reads from the layer’s name, not Source Text.
- Rename the layer itself to change the label.

Use a UI‑native font for believability. SF Pro is ideal on iOS, but not bundled here due to licensing.
Pick a clean, familiar UI font so the screen reads like a real device at a glance.

Animate Wi‑Fi and Cell bar checkboxes for subtle “searching signal” behavior.
You can use individual elements (time, status icons) independently in other UIs.

Generic Phone Message Screen AE Template