Speech Bubble Maker
Type the words, pick a shape and aim the tail, then save the bubble on its own as a transparent PNG or an SVG.
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Type the words, pick a shape and aim the tail, then save the bubble on its own as a transparent PNG or an SVG.
This is a speech bubble maker in the plainest sense: it makes the bubble, and nothing else. Type your line, choose a shape, drag the tail to point where the voice comes from, and download a speech bubble PNG with a fully transparent background, ready to drop onto a photo, a video, a slide or a drawing in whatever editor you already use. It is free, there is no picture to upload and nothing to sign up for, no watermark is added, and the whole thing runs inside your browser.
Leave the text box empty and you get a blank speech bubble template to letter later by hand. Fill it and the bubble grows to hold the words by itself, so nothing ever overflows and there is no type size to fiddle with. If you would rather put the bubble straight onto a picture you already have, Add Speech Bubble to Image does that half of the job instead.
The shape row draws exactly what each button shows, whether you want a comic book balloon, a cartoon thought cloud, a talk bubble or a plain caption box.
| Shape | What it says |
|---|---|
| Speech | The classic oval word 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 comic sound effects |
| Hand drawn | A wobbly outline with the loose feel of inked manga and anime |
Every shape is drawn from a formula rather than from a stock picture, so it stretches to your text without the outline going thin at the ends or the corners going soft, and it stays sharp at any size you export.
The tail is the part most bubble pictures get wrong. Here it is a handle you drag: pull the blue dot around the bubble to point at a mouth, off to the side, or steeply down for someone below. The neck widens out of the body and narrows to the point you chose, and the outline runs around the bubble and the tail as one continuous line with no seam between them. On a thought bubble the tail becomes three shrinking puffs trailing toward the same spot. Arrow keys nudge it if you want it exact, the tail curve slider bends it into a hook either way, and the tail can be switched off completely, which is how you make a caption box, a title card or a plain sticker.
Seven fonts cover the usual voices: a rounded comic face for dialogue, a heavy poster face for shouting, a marker pen, a handwritten face, a typewriter for narration boxes, a clean sans for chat, and a serif. Five of them travel with the page rather than 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 whole words stay whole. Set the bubble, the outline and the lettering to any colour you like, turn all capitals on for proper comic lettering, and pick a thin outline, a bold one, or none at all for a flat sticker look.
Under More options are the settings you reach for once the bubble is nearly right: how wide it wraps, so the same sentence can be a tall narrow balloon or a long flat chat bar; how far the tail bends; a dashed outline, which is how comics show a whisper; a white background instead of a transparent one; and three download sizes.
The download is cropped tight to the bubble, so there is no white box around it and nothing to erase later: the PNG carries real transparency and lands cleanly on any background. The SVG is the same bubble as vectors, with the words still live text, which is what you want if it is going into a design program, onto a large print, or into a page where it has to scale. JPG and WebP are there too, and the JPG gets a white background because that format cannot hold a transparent one. Copy the bubble straight to the clipboard if you are pasting it into something that is already open.
A word bubble on its own is a building block. People drop them onto memes and pet photos, letter comic book strips and manga pages, caption screenshots for a colleague, add a callout to a slide or a video frame, print them as classroom cut-outs and worksheet stickers, and layer them over artwork in another editor. If you need panels to put them in, the Manga Panel Generator prints a blank page of them; Add Emoji and Add Arrow decorate a picture the same way. The site carries hundreds of other image utilities besides these; see what is live right now on the all tools page.
Press Make a bubble, type your words in the text box, and pick one of the six shapes. Drag the blue dot at the tail tip to aim it, set the colours if you want them, then press Download. You get the bubble on its own with a transparent background.
Yes, that is the default. PNG, WebP and SVG all keep the area around the bubble fully transparent, so it sits on any photo or colour without a white box behind it. Only JPG has no transparency, and it is given a white background instead.
Open More options and turn Dashed on. A dashed outline is how comics show a whispered line, the same way a jagged burst shows a shout and a cloud shows a thought. It works on every shape.
Yes. Clear the text box and the bubble stays empty, which gives you a blank speech bubble template to write on later, print, or hand to someone else to fill in.
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 someone 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. Make each of the balloons in turn and download them one at a time, or make one talk bubble per line of dialogue and arrange them in your comic editor. To place several bubbles on one picture without leaving the browser, use Add Speech Bubble to Image instead, which keeps as many bubbles on the photo as the scene needs.
Because the bubble always fits the text, a lettering size would change nothing you could see: the words and the balloon around them would grow together. What you type sets the shape of the bubble, the width slider under More options sets how wide it wraps, and the size you can choose is the one that matters for a file, which is how big the download comes out. Small, Medium and Large are 1000, 2000 and 3200 pixels on the longest side, and the exact dimensions are shown in the details card on the bubble.
No. The bubble is drawn, rendered and saved on your own device. Nothing is sent to a server, there is no account, and no watermark is added to what you download.