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The short answer to the question is our own shop, and we’ll explain why below. We print on the same thermal receipt paper hospitals use, you get a preview of your customized design before you pay, and every print order ships with a free digital PDF. You can browse the prints here or make one for free first.
That being said, we’re not the only place selling fake ultrasounds, and you probably want to understand your options before you purchase. So, here are the five real options for buying a fake ultrasound picture online, what each one gets right, and where each one falls apart.
1. Baby Maybe: Real Thermal Paper with Instant Preview
We’ll start with ourselves, and we’ll back up our pride in our work and products with evidence.
Real ultrasound printouts (like at a clinic) come off a medical thermal printer onto glossy thermal receipt stock. That paper is the number one indicator of a realistic product. Almost nobody selling novelty ultrasounds online prints on it, because the printers and the paper are expensive, manually operated, and hard to source. We do. Our thermal print orders come out on the same stock a hospital uses, which is why they survive being handled and passed around.
We also over a live preview function so that you see the exact design you have customized before you spend anything. Our free fake ultrasound generator lets you put in a name, a date, and a design, and get a real preview back. The free generator adds a small watermark, which comes off when you upgrade to a premium design. Nobody else on this list lets you try the product at such high fidelity before you buy it.
Everything on our designs is customizable: the name, the hospital, the date, the week, and the look. And not only do we have the basics covered, but we also offer twins and triplets designs, sonogram-style prints, ultrasound videos with a heartbeat, and pregnancy documents and tests if the prank needs additional paperwork to back it up.
On price, there are two routes. A digital PDF you print at home is the lowest-cost option. A thermal print is the realistic one, and it includes the PDF for free. You can also choose from strips or other cost-savings packs that offer more bang for your buck.
2. Fake a Baby: Regular Paper, No Live Preview
The thing worth knowing before you order here is the paper. Fake a Baby prints on regular stock, not thermal receipt paper. If your prank involves someone actually holding the thing, you might want a more realistic option. For the realistic version you want a thermal print. There’s also no live preview on their site, so you’re ordering on faith. In fact, their site is outdated with poor design and clunky UX.
Credit where it’s due, though. They’re an established company with a wide catalogue of personalized ultrasounds. Their 2D black-and-white ultrasound has been on sale for years and lets you pick the pregnancy stage, invent a doctor and hospital, and choose a gender. They publish customer reviews and they sell large poster prints, which is genuinely something we don’t do.
If a regular-paper printout is all you need, they’re a reasonable place to get one.
3. Fake Baby Apps on the App Store: Mixed Reviews
We’d steer you away from this option, and the app stores’ own review sections make the case better than we can.
Ultrasound Spoof is the better-known option and generates images on your phone. It used to review well. More recent reviews complain that the output doesn’t look realistic and that the app misbehaves. Worth watching if they ship an update, but the developer seems to have moved on from the project.
Baby Ultrasound Spoof we can’t recommend at all. It promises the usual custom name, doctor and date. A recent reviewer reported paying for it and then being unable to save anything they made, and called it a rip-off. It hasn’t accumulated enough ratings to show a score.
The structural problem with all of these options is that a phone app can’t send you anything physical. You get a screen image, which is fine for a text message and useless in person. If you want the digital-only route done properly, our free generator costs you nothing, and the PDF upgrade prints at home.
4. Amazon and other marketplaces: No Live Preview
You’ll find fake ultrasounds on Amazon, eBay and Etsy, some of them on real thermal paper. However, these options do not offer a live preview where you can make sure you approve of the design before you purchase.
On these sites, you buy first, then message the seller with the name, the date and the week you want, then wait for them to make it and mail it to you. If it comes back wrong, you’re in a returns conversation with a third-party seller. Listings also come and go, and the seller behind an identical-looking listing may be a different person entirely from a more favorably reviewed provider. Prices run higher than ordering direct, because the marketplace takes its cut and shipping is on top. There’s no free or test option anywhere from these sort of providers. You can’t test your design, and you can’t see one until it arrives.
If what you actually want is a thermal print, ordering it directly from us skips all of that heartache. You design it, you see it, then you pay.
5. Fakeultrasound: Mostly Digital Only with No Live Preview
Two things limit this provider. Most of their product offerings are digital, so a printed version isn’t offered across the range. Additionally, there’s no live preview function, which means you order and hope it comes back looking the way you pictured it. For a prank that hinges on one image being convincing (no typos!), that’s a bit of a gamble with your time and money.
What they do offer is breadth of design types: singles, twins, triplets, 2D and 3D, plus assorted extras.
If a digital print is genuinely all you need, we’d point you at our free generator first, because you can see the result before you decide anything, and the paid PDF prints at home at full quality.
So where should you actually buy a fake ultrasound?
Baby Maybe is the Best Fake Ultrasound Maker Online
Here’s the three-line case for our shop:
You can try us before you buy: We’re the only one on this list with a free generator. All of our product pages also offer a live preview of your customized design. Choose your details, look at it, and make sure it’s exactly what you wanted before you purchase.
Our thermal prints are the real deal: Our high-quality prints use the exact same printer types and thermal stock a hospital or ultrasound clinic uses. If your prank has to be maximally realistic, this is the best way to achieve it!
There’s a lower-cost option that still looks great: Our digital PDF looks awesome on screen or social media, and also prints at home and costs a fraction of a shipped print.
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We all know that a good prank makes a normal day extra memorable. If you are willing to go the extra mile to successfully prank your family and friends, then don’t think twice about trying one of our fake ultrasound pregnancy pranks. There’s no harm in trying to add more fun to life from time to time.
Just remember not to use these pictures for immoral or harmful purposes! The products mentioned above are solely for the entertainment purposes. Just don’t forget to do it responsibly and enjoy the show.
