Add Text to Image

Summary: How to Add Text to an Image Free and Privately

To add text to an image free and privately, choose a photo in the tool above, click Add Text Layer, type your words, drag them into place and click Download. The text is drawn onto a canvas in your browser, so the saved file keeps the photo's full pixel width and height, with no watermark and no account. Choose from 64 fonts or load your own, and save as PNG, JPEG or WebP.

Your photo and text are processed on your own device and are never uploaded; you can confirm this in the Network tab of your browser's DevTools. The only third-party request the tool can make is for a Google Font, and only after you pick one (the FAQ below says what Google receives).

Need a repeating or logo ownership mark instead? Use the watermark tool. To set dimensions first, use the image resizer or the image cropper, and shrink the finished file for the web with the image compressor.

Table of Use: Settings for Common Text-on-Image Jobs

The Curve slider sets the angle the text sweeps along its arc:

Features

• No fixed layer limit. Each layer keeps its own text, font, size, colors and effects; later layers sit on top.
• 64 fonts or your own. 13 system fonts (used if your device has them), 51 Google Fonts, and Upload font for TTF, OTF, WOFF or WOFF2 files. Your browser's own text engine draws the text, so Arabic, Devanagari, Chinese and emoji work when a font on your device has the glyphs.
• Drag or slide to position. Drag with a mouse or finger, or set Position X and Y (the text's center, in pixels) and Rotation from -180 to 180 degrees.
• Effects per layer. Outline Width, Shadow Blur, a Background box with its own color and opacity, a top-to-bottom Gradient fill, Curve and 3D Depth. New layers start as white text with a thin black outline.
• Full-size output. The preview is capped at 1,600 pixels on the long side to stay smooth; downloads use the image's own width and height. The blue selection outline is preview-only and never saved.
• Batch with one ZIP. Add Images keeps adding photos; Download All saves them as images-with-text.zip.
• Limits. Only image files are accepted. Images over 32,767 pixels on a side or about 268 megapixels are rejected with a message, and phone browsers may allow less. Animated GIFs use their first frame.

How to Use the Add Text to Image Tool

1. Click Select Image, or drop image files on the dashed box. Each image gets a card showing its name and pixel size.
2. Click Add Text Layer. A layer reading "Your Text Here" appears in the center; replace it in the Text box.
3. Drag the text in the Preview to move it, or use the Position X, Position Y and Rotation sliders.
4. Pick a Font (or click Upload font), then set Font Size and Text Color, and add Outline Width, Shadow Blur, Background box, Gradient fill, Curve or 3D Depth as needed.
5. Choose Save as if you want a specific format, then click Download. The button shows the format, for example Download PNG.
6. For several images, finish one, click Use these text layers on all other images, then Download All. The X on a card removes that image.

Add text last. Fix a dark photo with the brightness adjuster, soften a distracting background with the image blur tool, or cut the subject out with the background remover. To match a text color to the photo, sample it with the image color picker; to change a caption's case, use the text case converter.

For smaller files, convert the result with the PNG to WebP converter or the PNG to JPG converter, or place it in a photo collage.

Who Can Use It

• Social media managers and creators adding quotes, titles and calls to action to posts and thumbnails, then framing them with the image border adder.
• Online sellers stamping a price or "New" tag on a batch of product photos.
• Teachers and students labeling diagrams and screenshots.
• Photographers and bloggers adding captions or a credit line without uploading the photo anywhere.

FAQs