Dummy Text

Placeholder text is a working tool, not a joke. Designers need to see how a layout behaves with real-looking content before the real content exists, and developers need something to put in a field to check it wraps, truncates and scrolls the way it should.

Dummy Text generates it on demand. Choose the unit — words, sentences or paragraphs — and how many you want, and you get exactly that. Needing precisely forty words rather than roughly a paragraph is the normal case when you are testing a card or a summary line.

Copy it straight out, or share it into whatever you are building. Everything is generated on the phone, so there is nothing to wait for and no connection required.

Free, and reasonably so: it is the sort of thing you reach for ten times in an afternoon and never again for a month.

Having the unit as well as the amount is what makes it practical. Checking that a card truncates correctly needs a specific number of words; checking that a page scrolls needs paragraphs. Asking for “some text” and trimming it by hand is the slow version of the same job.

The generated text can go straight to your clipboard or out through the share sheet into a design tool, a code editor or a document, so it lands where you are working rather than somewhere you have to fetch it from.