Add text to image

Type your text, then drag it where you want it on the picture. Add as many text boxes as you need, each with its own font, size, color, outline and background box, and download the result at full resolution. Free, no watermark, and your photo never leaves your browser.

Image

No image yet: showing a blank canvas. You can also drop or paste (Ctrl+V) an image.

Drag a text to move it. Tap a text to edit it; tap empty space to move the selected text there.

Text

Text box

Text (Enter for a new line)

Font
Align

Color
Outline
Box

Size: % of width
Outline: %

Wrap at: % of width
Box opacity: %

Bold UPPERCASE Shadow

Download

Format
Quality

How to make text readable on a photo

Text on a busy photo gets lost, so give it contrast: white text with a dark outline (10-15% of the font size) reads on any background, which is why memes use it. For a calmer look, turn on the background box with 50-70% opacity behind the text instead. Keep captions short and big: at least 5% of the image width for a phone screen, and leave a margin from the edges, since Instagram and other apps crop or overlay the corners.

How it works

Your image is decoded by your browser and drawn on a canvas at its full resolution; each text box is painted on top with the font, outline, shadow and box you chose. Size, outline and wrap width are relative to the image width, so the layout looks the same on a phone photo and a 4K screenshot. Nothing is uploaded, so it works for private photos and even offline once the page has loaded. The download contains no EXIF metadata (camera, GPS location) and no watermark.

Need to brand many photos at once? Use watermark image. Also see meme generator, quote to image for text-only cards, or crop image first.

Generate text images automatically

Making the same kind of image many times (social cards, certificates, product banners with a price)? Write it once as HTML and let the Shotmint API render each one in Chromium, with real web fonts and emoji:

curl -X POST https://shotmint.creasework.com/v1/screenshot -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"html":"<div style=\"font:bold 64px sans-serif;padding:40px\">Sale: 30% off</div>","width":1200,"height":630}' -o card.png

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FAQ

Is my image uploaded? No. Everything runs in JavaScript on this page.

Is there a watermark? No. The download is exactly your image plus your text, at the original resolution.

Can I use my own font? The font list uses fonts installed on your device (Impact on Windows and Mac, the boldest similar font elsewhere). Emoji work in any font.

Does it work with GIFs? Animated GIF and WebP files are edited as their first frame. HEIC photos open in Safari; elsewhere, convert them with HEIC to JPG first.