Add Text to Image — Caption Photos Online with Custom Fonts

Put captions, titles and labels on any picture

Adding text to an image is one of the most common small editing jobs: a title on a blog header, a caption on a meme, a price on a product photo, a date on an invitation or a label on a diagram. Opening a full photo editor for that is slow. This add text to image tool lets you type your words, style them and drag them into place directly on the picture. Each piece of text is a separate layer, so you can combine a big headline with a smaller subtitle, or label several parts of a screenshot, and edit any of them later until you download the final image.

Styling options that keep text readable

Choose a font from the system fonts available on most computers and phones, set the size in real image pixels, pick a colour and alignment, and turn on bold or italic. Text on a busy photo is often hard to read, so there are three ways to make it stand out: an outline (stroke) around every letter, a soft shadow with adjustable colour and blur, and a semi-transparent background box behind the text. Multi-line text is supported — press Enter in the text box — and the rotation slider tilts a layer anywhere from −180° to 180°. The default size scales with the image, so text starts readable on both small and very high-resolution photos.

Export and privacy

The finished picture is rendered at the full original resolution, not the smaller preview, so the text stays sharp. Export as PNG for lossless quality and transparency, JPG for compact photos, or WebP for modern web use; the quality slider applies to JPG and WebP. Everything runs locally with the HTML Canvas API. Your image is never uploaded, there is no sign-up and no watermark, and metadata from the original file, such as GPS location, is not copied into the download.