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Last updated on July 20th, 2026 by Yannick Lyn Fatt
Laravel SMS Catcher is a local development helper by Michal Skogemann that captures outgoing SMS notifications. Much like Mailpit does for email, it gives you a visual dashboard to inspect the text body and metadata of your SMS messages while working locally.
The catcher hooks into Laravel’s notification system. When you send a notification via the sms channel, the package intercepts it by calling toSms on the notification class. It then writes the sender, recipient, body, and timestamp to storage/logs/sms-catcher.json.
Writing to a flat JSON file means there are no database tables or migrations to set up. Since Laravel excludes the storage/logs directory from git by default, your test messages won’t clutter your repository.
The dashboard comes with light and dark themes. Clicking a message in the sidebar opens a detail view with a phone-style mockup. A device selector dropdown lets you switch between screen sizes to see how text wrapping, spacing, and line breaks look on different devices.
Out of the box, the inbox is available at /sms-catcher whenever your app runs in the local environment or has debug mode turned on. If you need to change these settings, you can publish the configuration file:
The resulting config/sms-catcher.php file lets you:
You can install the package as a development dependency via Composer:
To capture your messages, make sure your notification classes have a toSms() method that returns a string, array, or an object containing the message body.
You can inspect the source code, report issues, and read the documentation on the GitHub repository.
Yannick Lyn Fatt
Staff Writer at Laravel News and Full stack web developer.
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