Add Text to Image
Write on a photo in meme Impact, comic or handwriting, drag it where you want it, and download at full size.
or browse filesdrop an image here or paste
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Write on a photo in meme Impact, comic or handwriting, drag it where you want it, and download at full size.
or browse filesdrop an image here or paste
Open a picture and a text box is already on it, in white Impact capitals with a black outline: the one setting that stays readable over any photograph. Type in the box beside the image and the words change as you go. Drag the text where you want it, pull the corner handle to make it bigger or smaller, and use the handle underneath to tilt it. Add as many separate pieces of text as the picture needs, then download it at its original resolution. Nothing is uploaded, there is no signup and no watermark is added.
This is the plain job an editor calls adding text to an image: captions, labels, quotes, titles, meme lines, watermarking a photo with a name, or annotating a screenshot so a colleague sees what you mean.
Meme lettering is a specific look: Impact, all capitals, white with a heavy black outline, one line across the top and one across the bottom. That is what this page opens with, so a meme takes a photo, two lines of typing and a download.
Impact itself only ships on Windows and macOS, so the page carries its own copy of a matching face and letters your picture the same way on a phone, a Chromebook and a Linux desktop. Nothing falls back to a plain sans and ruins the joke.
| Font | What it is for |
|---|---|
| Impact | Meme lines, bold titles, anything that has to shout |
| Comic | Cartoon captions and speech, in a rounded comic face |
| Poster | A heavy display face for headlines and covers |
| Marker | A thick felt tip, good over photographs |
| Handwritten | A relaxed hand for notes and scrapbook pages |
| Typewriter | Narration boxes, dates, documentary captions |
| Sans and Serif | Clean labels and quotes when the picture is the point |
Text on a photograph fails for one reason: it lands on something the same colour as itself. Three controls fix that, and the first one is on by default.
Set the text and outline colours to whatever suits the picture, turn capitals off for ordinary sentences, choose left, centre or right alignment for several lines, and drop the opacity for a soft watermark.
Every piece of text is a separate object with its own words, font, size, angle and colours. Press Add another for the next one and it starts out matching the last, so a set of labels stays consistent. Tap any of them to select it again, drag it, scale it, rotate it, or delete it with the handle in its corner. Undo steps back through everything.
Long lines wrap by themselves so nothing runs off the edge of the picture, and your own line breaks are kept.
Memes and reaction pictures, photo captions and quotes for social media, titles over a cover image, labelled diagrams and annotated screenshots, price and offer text over a product photo, subtitles burned into a video frame, name and date on a scanned print, and a soft watermark across your own photographs.
If a comic balloon is closer to what you want, Add Speech Bubble to Image puts the words in a bubble with a tail, and the Speech Bubble Maker makes the bubble on its own. Add Emoji drops stickers on a picture, Add Arrow points at things, and Add Timestamp burns in a date. The site carries hundreds of other image utilities besides these; see what is live right now on the all tools page.
Open your picture and a text box appears on it. Type your words in the field beside the image, drag the text where you want it, and pull the corner handle to size it. Press Download when it looks right. The file you get is your original picture at its full resolution with the text drawn into it.
Yes, and it is what the page opens with. Impact is not installed on Linux or Android, so the page carries a matching face of its own and your meme letters the same way for everyone who sees it, not just for people on Windows.
Keep the bold outline that is on by default, or turn on the shadow, or put a band behind the words. Those three are under the text controls and More options, and one of them will work over any picture.
Yes. Press Add another for each one. Every piece keeps its own font, size, colour, rotation and position, and a new one starts out matching the last so a set of labels stays consistent.
Yes. Select the text and drag the round handle below it. It snaps to horizontal and vertical when you come close, so a straight caption stays straight.
No. The text is drawn into your original picture at its true size, not into the smaller preview on screen, so the letters stay sharp on a large photo. Save as PNG to keep transparency, or JPG and WebP for a smaller file.
No. The picture is opened, edited and saved on your own device. Nothing is sent to a server, there is no account, and no watermark is added.