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Add Text to Image

Add custom text overlay to images with font, size, color, and position control

How to Use Add Text to Image

  1. Upload your image.
  2. Type your text and choose a font, size and colour.
  3. Position it using the X and Y sliders, watching the live preview.
  4. Add an outline if the text needs to stay legible over busy areas.
  5. Download the result as PNG.

About Add Text to Image

What this page solves

Add Text to Image solves the privacy and friction problem of typical online tools — it never uploads, never asks for a signup, and runs in your browser.

Add Text to Image is a free in-browser image tool that lets you add custom text overlay to images with font, size, color, and position control without uploading your photos to any server. It is built for designers, content creators, marketers, and everyday users who need quick, private image edits — whether you are preparing assets for a website, resizing photos for social media, or compressing files before sending them by email. All processing uses your browser's Canvas and Web APIs, so your images stay on your device the entire time. Output downloads directly to your device — there is no "share link" the recipient (or the service) can revisit later. Add Text to Image runs on a phone too: drag a photo from the camera roll, transform it, save the result — no app install, no Apple/Google account needed. Add Text to Image uses the browser's hardware-accelerated Canvas pipeline — the same one Photoshop's web build uses — so the output matches a desktop editor pixel-for-pixel. There are no watermarks, no quality compromises from third-party servers, and no waiting in upload queues. Add Text to Image is part of our Image Tools suite — a unified set of tools for every step of an image workflow. If you also need a complementary utility, try our Image Resizer. It is free, has no signup, and works with the formats you actually use: JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF, SVG, and BMP.

Common Use Cases

  • Prepare images for blog posts, product pages, or landing pages
  • Resize and optimize photos for social media platforms
  • Edit private or sensitive images without uploading them to a server
  • Batch-process images during a content creation session
  • Quickly fix an asset before sending it to a client or designer
  • Sanity-checking the output of an automated pipeline before shipping the result downstream
  • Resizing avatars and profile photos to fit platform-specific squares
  • Processing work files that company policy forbids uploading to external services

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Frequently asked questions

Why is my text hard to read?

Almost always insufficient contrast with what is behind it. Add an outline in the opposite colour — white text with a black outline works over nearly anything. Increasing size helps less than contrast does.

Can I add several separate text blocks?

One at a time. Add the first, download, re-upload the result and add the next. Each pass composites onto the previous output.

Which font should I use?

Impact with a heavy black outline for the classic meme style. Arial or Helvetica for clean captions. Fonts render from what is installed on your system, so unusual choices may not appear the same on another machine.

Why is the downloaded file bigger than the original?

Output is PNG, which is lossless and larger than a compressed JPEG. Run the result through the Image Compressor if size matters.

How to use Add Text to Image?

1) Open the tool. 2) Enter or upload your input. 3) Get your result instantly. Everything happens locally — nothing is uploaded.

When should I use Add Text to Image?

Use Add Text to Image whenever you need a fast, private, browser-based way to add custom text overlay to images with font, size, color, and position control.

Is Add Text to Image safe?

Yes. Add Text to Image runs 100% in your browser. Inputs are never uploaded, stored, or logged — safe for confidential content.

Will quality be affected by Add Text to Image?

Quality is preserved unless you explicitly choose a lossy format or low quality setting.

What formats does Add Text to Image support?

Add Text to Image supports JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF, BMP and SVG (where applicable)

Is Add Text to Image free?

Yes — Add Text to Image is completely free, with no registration, no watermarks, and no usage limits.

Are my images uploaded to any server?

No. Add Text to Image processes images entirely in your browser using the Canvas API. Your photos never leave your device.

What image formats does Add Text to Image support?

Add Text to Image works with all common web formats including JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF, SVG, and BMP, depending on the operation.

Will I lose quality?

Add Text to Image uses the browser's native image pipeline. Where compression is involved, you can usually control the quality level — otherwise the output is lossless.

Can I use Add Text to Image for commercial or client work?

Yes. There is no licence restriction on the output and nothing is watermarked, so results can go straight into client deliverables, internal reports, or commercial products.