Add Text to Image — Free Online Photo Text Editor

Upload your image and click Add Text to insert a headline, caption, or watermark. Choose from serif, sans-serif, handwriting, or display fonts, then set size, color, spacing, and alignment. Rendering runs on our servers and downloads instantly without watermarks, useful for quick social posts.

Yes. Add unlimited text layers, reorder them, and adjust opacity for subtle captions, bold titles, and photo watermarks. Combine all-caps impact text for memes with smaller body copy for context, creating professional-looking graphics in minutes without complex design software.

Use text outline, drop shadow, or a semi-transparent background to increase contrast against detailed photos. Pair light text with darker overlays, or add a subtle gradient. These readability tweaks ensure your Instagram stories, posters, and YouTube thumbnails remain clear across supported devices.

Yes. You can paste emojis, symbols, and multilingual characters. The editor supports many languages and scripts, making it easy to create quotes, announcements, and event graphics for global audiences across Facebook, TikTok, and Pinterest without extra font installs.

Add your brand name as a small, semi-transparent text layer and place it in a corner or across the center. Lower the opacity so it's visible but not distracting. Watermarking your images helps deter unauthorized use while keeping your portfolio and product photos consistent.

Yes. Add two text layers, set all-caps Impact or a bold sans-serif, center-align them, and add a black stroke for contrast. This classic meme generator style works great for viral content. You can resize for square posts, stories, and reels without pixelation.

You can download a high-quality JPEG that is optimized for sharing while maintaining crisp typography. This format works across platforms and keeps file size reasonable. Edits render quickly on our servers, so you can iterate fast and publish graphics without delay.

Editing runs on our secure servers and uploads are removed under our Security policy. We don't retain your images or text layers, and we never share them. This privacy-by-design approach makes the online text overlay editor suitable for personal photos, client projects, and marketing assets where data control matters.

Yes. Add a text layer, type your caption, then set the size, color, outline and a background bar so it stays readable over the image. Position it anywhere by dragging, and download with no watermark - ideal for quote posts, announcements and product captions.

Select a text layer, then tap the B (Bold) or I (Italic) toggle buttons next to the font dropdown to switch each style on or off independently. Combine both for a heavy, italicized headline look on posters or quote graphics.

Open the Background color swatch for the selected text layer and pick a color, or leave the Transparent checkbox on for text with no bar behind it. A solid dark background behind white text creates the classic caption-bar look used in memes and video subtitles.

With a text layer selected, drag the Outline Width slider from 0 (no outline) up to 10px, and set the outline color separately from the text color. A thicker outline in a contrasting color is what keeps meme-style text readable over busy or bright photos.

Click or tap the text box in the preview to select it, then drag it anywhere on the photo to reposition it, or drag its corner handle to resize it — the font size scales automatically as you resize. Every change updates live in the preview before you download.

Pick a bold sans-serif or display font, turn on Bold, set the font size around 40-60px, and add either a 2-4px outline in a contrasting color or a solid background bar behind the text. Position the box in the lower third of the photo so the caption stays readable at thumbnail size on Instagram, TikTok and Stories.

The Font Size slider runs from 8px up to 100px per text layer. Use 50-100px for bold headline text that needs to read at a glance, and drop to 8-16px for fine print, credit lines, or small captions. Each text layer keeps its own independent size, so you can mix one big headline with smaller supporting text on the same photo.

The Font Family dropdown includes 62 free-to-use fonts across five styles: bold display faces like Anton, Bebas Neue and Bangers for memes and headlines; elegant serifs like Playfair Display and Merriweather for quote graphics; flowing script and handwriting fonts like Pacifico and Dancing Script for greetings and Pinterest pins; and monospace fonts like JetBrains Mono and Source Code Pro for code screenshots. Every font renders identically in the live preview and the final download.

Every text layer has its own independent Text Color, Outline Color and Background Color, so you can style a title in one color and a caption underneath in another. Select a layer from the Layers list, then use its color swatches — changes only affect the active layer, leaving every other layer untouched.

Yes — double-click a text box on desktop, or double-tap it on a touchscreen, and it turns into an editable textarea directly on the image. Type your change, then press Enter or tap elsewhere to save it; this is a quick shortcut for the same text content you can also edit from the Text field in the Layers panel.

Both work. On a touchscreen, put two fingers on a selected text box and pinch in or out to scale its width, height and font size together in one motion. With a mouse or a single finger, you're not limited to the corners either — a selected box shows eight handles (four corners plus four edge midpoints), so you can stretch just the width or just the height from an edge handle if you don't want the box to resize proportionally.

Yes — Pixoate supports batch and bulk processing. Switch to Batch mode, add up to 60 images on Premium or 200 on Pro, set your options once, and every image is processed with the same settings before you download a single ZIP. Bulk processing is a Premium feature; the output uses the same quality and settings as single mode.

Yes — with bulk processing you configure the settings a single time and they apply to every item in the batch — up to 60 images on Premium or 200 on Pro. There is no need to repeat the setup per item, and Temporary uploaded and generated files are processed securely and deleted automatically.

Almost always one of three things. The file is over the 20 MB free upload limit — Premium takes 50 MB and Pro 120 MB. The format is not one this tool accepts, so check the list shown on the upload panel. Or the file is not really the format its name says: renaming a file does not change what is inside it, and that is the reason a valid-looking image gets refused.

Yes — where there is a strength or intensity control, the default is deliberately obvious so you can see what the tool does. Most photos read better well below it. Bring the strength down until the effect looks like a decision rather than a filter, and compare against your original before you download.

Add Text to Image supports free standard use within the published processing allowances. Free downloads are clean — no watermark. No signup is required for standard tool use. Photo effects and AI edits have a web-size limit on Free, with the original-resolution result available through Premium or one credit. Crop, resize, rotate, compress and convert stay full size. Premium supports batches of up to 60 files, with the applicable plan limits shown before processing.

No — Add Text to Image runs in the browser on desktop and phone. There is nothing to install, no trial to start, and no license to buy before you can see whether it does what you need. Try it on the file you are actually stuck with rather than a sample.