Add Speech Bubble to Image
Put a comic speech, thought, shout or caption bubble on any photo, type the words, and drag the tail to whoever is talking.
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Put a comic speech, thought, shout or caption bubble on any photo, type the words, and drag the tail to whoever is talking.
or browse filesdrop an image here or paste
This tool puts a comic speech bubble straight onto your own picture. Call it a speech bubble generator, a cartoon bubble maker or a comic bubble creator; the job here is the same one people actually come for, which is adding a bubble to a photo you already have. Open an image and a bubble is already waiting on it: type into the box beside the image and the words appear inside, with the bubble growing to hold them. Drag the bubble where you want it, then drag the small handle at the tip of the tail onto the person who is talking. Add as many talk bubbles as the conversation needs, and download the finished image at its original resolution. Nothing is uploaded, there is no signup and there is no watermark.
Every kind of comic book balloon is one tap away in the shape row, from a cartoon speech bubble to a caption box, and comic balloons can be added to photos as many times over as a page needs.
| Shape | What it says |
|---|---|
| Speech | The classic oval balloon with a pointed tail, for spoken dialogue |
| Chat | A rounded rectangle, the messaging or chat bubble look |
| Caption | A hard-edged box for narration, subtitles and quotes |
| Thought | A cloud with a trail of shrinking puffs, for thinking |
| Shout | A jagged burst for yelling, surprise and sound effects |
| Hand drawn | A wobbly outline with the loose feel of inked manga and anime |
Switching shape on a selected bubble redraws it instantly, so you can try a thought cloud against a shout burst without retyping a word. The tail can be turned off on any shape, which is how a caption box or a floating title is made.
The tail is the part most bubble tools get wrong. Here it is a real handle: grab the tip and pull it to a mouth, a phone screen, an animal or somewhere off to the side. The neck follows, widening from the bubble and narrowing to the point you chose, and the outline runs around the bubble and the tail as one continuous line with no seam where they meet. On a thought bubble the tail becomes three shrinking puffs that trail toward the same point. Rotating or resizing the bubble carries the tail with it, so nothing comes apart.
Four fonts cover the usual comic voices: a rounded comic face for dialogue, a heavy poster face in capitals for shouting, a clean sans for chat and captions, and a serif for narration. The two comic faces travel with the page instead of relying on your device, because no phone or computer ships the same comic font as the next one, and a bubble that falls back to Arial does not read as a comic. Text wraps by itself and long words break rather than overflow, and there is no type size to set: the bubble grows to hold whatever you type, and pulling its corner handle scales the lettering along with it. Set the bubble, the outline and the lettering to any colour, or switch the outline off for a flat sticker look.
Adding a text bubble to a picture is how a photo becomes a joke, a story or an explanation. Add speech bubbles to photos for a meme, put a word bubble on a pet photo for social media, build a comic book strip panel by panel, caption a screenshot so a colleague sees what you mean, or add a quote bubble to a product shot. Teachers use them to make worksheets talk and to add speech bubbles to pictures in handouts, and comic makers use them over inked artwork. If you want a blank page of panels to draw in first, the Manga Panel Generator prints one; to decorate the photo further, Add Emoji drops stickers on it and Add Arrow points at things.
If you only need the balloon itself, start on a transparent background instead of a photo and export a bubble PNG to drop into a video, a slide or another editor. The Speech Bubble Maker is that same bubble on a page of its own, cropped tight to the outline and available as an SVG as well. Either way the download is rendered from your original image at its true size, not from the preview on screen, so a bubble stays crisp on a large picture. Save as PNG, JPG or WebP with a file name you can edit, copy the result straight to the clipboard, or share it from the browser. Everything, from opening the photo to writing the file, happens on your own device.
Open your picture and a speech bubble appears on it. Type your words in the text box beside the image and the bubble grows to hold them, drag the bubble into place, and pull the handle at the tail tip onto whoever is speaking. Press Add bubble for each extra line of dialogue, then download the image.
It does the same job. A generator usually means a page that builds a bubble on its own, and this one does that too: start on a transparent background and you get a bubble PNG with nothing behind it, or use the Speech Bubble Maker, which does only that. Most people arrive wanting the other half, which is putting that bubble onto a picture of their own, so that is what the tool opens with.
Yes, as many as you like. Each bubble keeps its own shape, text, colours, size and rotation, so a two person conversation or a whole comic panel is no harder than a single caption. Tap any bubble to select it again and edit it.
A speech bubble has a pointed tail and stands for words said out loud. A thought bubble is a cloud with small circles trailing away from it and stands for what a character is thinking. A shout bubble has a jagged, exploding outline for yelling or sound effects, and a caption box is a plain rectangle used for narration.
Yes. Choose the transparent background option on the start screen instead of a photo, design the bubble, and download it as a PNG, or use the Speech Bubble Maker, which starts there. The area around the bubble stays fully transparent, so it can be laid over anything later.
Yes. The bubble, the outline and the text each have their own colour picker, the outline is none, thin or bold, and four lettering fonts cover comic dialogue, poster shouting, plain sans and serif narration. Every change applies to the bubble that is selected.
No. The whole tool runs inside your browser. Your photo is opened, edited and saved on your device, and no image is ever sent to a server.