Free Online Text Video and Image Maker

Turn a line of text into an animated video or a still image, over your own photo or a solid colour, without installing anything and without uploading a single byte. Choose where the text sits, how it arrives, how long it lasts, and download it as MP4, WebM, MKV, MOV, PNG, JPEG or WebP.

Everything runs inside your browser using canvas and WebCodecs, so your images never leave your computer.

Instructions

Backgrounds: a colour, a photograph or a video

With nothing chosen, the text sits on a solid colour you pick. Choose a file and it can be either a photograph or a video: both are scaled until they fill the frame and cropped, never stretched, so nothing in them is distorted when the output shape differs from the source's.

A video background behaves like a photograph that moves. Choosing one sets the clip to the video's own length — editable afterwards, and if you make the clip longer the background holds on its last frame rather than looping, because a freeze is at least visibly a freeze. And if you have not chosen a background sound, the video's own soundtrack is used, which is what dropping a clip in and pressing render plainly meant; adding a sound of your own replaces it.

The preview is the result

The frame at the top is not a mock-up of the output — it is the output, drawn by the same code that will draw the file, from the same settings. Play it, scrub it, and what you see is what you get. That also means it is worth watching once before you render: a four-minute 4K clip takes a while, and the preview costs nothing.

Background: a picture or a colour

Pick an image or leave it on a solid colour. An image is never stretched to fit the output shape: it is scaled until it covers the frame and the overflow is cropped away. Put a portrait photo in a 16:9 video and you lose some of the top and bottom rather than seeing everything squashed sideways, which is what "do not distort" has to mean when the shapes genuinely disagree.

Placing the text

The nine buttons under "Position" put the text in any corner, along any edge, or dead centre — vertically and horizontally at once. Whichever you pick, the margin slider keeps a clear band at every edge, so text never runs into the frame border and survives the safe-area cropping that social platforms apply.

If the text is hard to read over a busy photograph, "Readability" is the fix: a drop shadow is the gentlest, an outline survives almost anything, and a translucent band behind the block guarantees contrast on any background.

Animations

Typewriter reveals one letter at a time with a blinking cursor. Rising letters floats each letter up into place. Words out of focus brings each word in slightly large and blurred, then settles it — the opening-title look. Wipe reveal with slow zoom sweeps a band across each line to uncover it while the background drifts closer, which is the most cinematic of the four.

The clip's length follows the animation: the reveal time plus however long you hold the finished frame. The reveal time is proposed from the amount of text you typed and stays a suggestion — change it once and it is yours.

Sound and fades

Add a background track and it plays under the whole clip, cut at the end if it is longer and followed by real silence if it is shorter. The two fade checkboxes ramp the picture out of and back into black; the sound follows the identical ramp, computed by the same function, so they reach black and silence on the same instant instead of approximately together.

Video and image formats

MP4 with H.264 plays on practically everything. WebM is smaller but refused by some older players. MKV is an archival container, MOV is what Final Cut and Premiere expect. For stills, PNG is lossless and the only one here that keeps transparency; JPEG is much smaller but flattens it onto the matte colour and softens sharp letters; WebP sits between the two. The still is taken at the moment the text finishes arriving, so it is the composition at its most complete.