Excuse Generator is a free online tool that writes a believable excuse for a missed deadline, a late arrival, a missed call, or a reply that's days overdue. Pick the situation, set the tone, choose how bold you're feeling — and get a ready-to-send excuse, with a plausibility meter so you know exactly how far you're stretching it.
Every excuse here is written to be plausible, not provable — use the bold ones at your own risk.
Build your excuse
Scenario
Tone
Believability — bold unlocks the wilder excuses
Your excuse will appear here. Pick a scenario, a tone, and how bold you're feeling — then hit Generate.
Plausibility
How it works
Pick your situation — the scenario, the tone, and how bold you're willing to be.
Generate — every excuse is drawn from a hand-written library, and none repeats until the whole pool has been shown.
Copy and send — check the plausibility meter first. Five dots means nobody will blink; one dot means you should probably send it from a different time zone.