Your video is worth a million words
Elevate your content and support your viewers when you add text to video. Adding text to a video improves the viewing experience as it serves countless purposes for viewers such as subtitles, descriptive subtitles, beginning and end credits, scene context, and many more.
Kapwing's Video Editor equips you with an efficient, easy-to-use text tool to add text and engage your viewers more. Upload your own custom text font styles, change text color, adjust text size, and more all in one browser.
How to Add Text to Video Online for Free
- Upload your video
Upload a video from your device or paste a link to your video.
- Add and customize text
Open the “Text” tab and add text. Change font style, color, size, or duration, and add animation or effects to your text throughout your video.
- Export and share
Export your video and share with anyone after downloading or creating a URL link for your video.
Adding Text to Videos Online
Get one step ahead of today's social media creator studios and keep up with today's ever changing video landscape with Kapwing, the online video editor. Adding text is one of the most fundamental features built into video editing tools, so it was important for us to nail it down and innovate the powerful text tool in traditional video editors.
Improve your videos when you add text for subtitles, text watermarks, descriptive subtitles, captions, labels, and more. Resize your video text or drag and drop it to the position you want on top of the video or click on the text and slightly rotate it to the perfect angle. Kapwing supports other text transformations as well, including text opacity and line height. Add your own custom fonts, a drop shadow, blur, or animations for the text in your video. Adjust the text duration and timing with the playhead in your timeline, and use the sidebar controls to adjust the color, position, and font of the text itself.
Kapwing's free online video editor supports major file types like MP4, MP3, JPEG, GIF, PNG, MOV, HEVC, and more. Explore your creativity and enhance your videos when you add text, emojis, watermarks, captions, labels, and more to your photos, videos and GIFs online.
Discover even more features on Kapwing
Add Subtitles
Generate and customizable captions that automatically sync to your video. Use our AI-powered tool to create a transcript of your video, and then customize your auto-synced subtitles to make them perfect for your content creation needs. Resize, swap out fonts, or add in professional animations and transitions - all your edits will instantly be applied to the entire video.
Smart Cut
Smart Cut automates your video editing process by detecting and removing silences from your video in a matter of seconds. You'll be saving hours of editing time and completing your rough cut faster than ever for talking head videos, recorded presentations, tutorials, vlogs, and more. Editing has never been so seamless.
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Resizer
Repurpose videos faster and make them look more professional with our Resize Canvas feature! In just a few clicks, you can take a single video and adjust it to be the right size for every other platform, whether it's for TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, Linkedin, or somewhere else.
Background Remover
With Kapwing's smart background removal tool, you can isolate people from the background of a video for free, without a green screen. All it takes is a few clicks. Upload your content, select the Remove Background tool, and use the preview to choose the threshold that best works for you.
Clean Audio
Enhance your project’s audio in seconds with Kapwing. In one click, Clean Audio automatically removes background noise, corrects loudness, and helps reduce popping sounds in your audio and videos. To use it, simply upload a video or audio file, then select Clean Audio on the right side.
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Collaborative editing
Work with your team directly in Kapwing. Create and edit content, then send it to share and collaborate with your teammates. Make team workspaces, comment in the editor, and work on videos together in real time or asynchronously.
Trimmer
Edit the length of your video clip by dragging the timeline handles or by using the Split tool. It’s never been easier to cut out silences, rearrange clips, or adjust the length of your audio to fit your video.
Waveforms
Kapwing's customizable waveforms let you bring your audio or podcast content to life. Our Waveform tool creates an automatically-generated, animated graph showing the frequency and amplitude of your audio over time. Choose between a classic waveform style and a stacked “bars” style to bring your own touch to your project.
Unlimited Overlays
Make your content pop with image overlays, emojis, progress bars, and audio waveforms. Then simply resize and position them to customize your project. With unlimited overlays, the possibilities are endless.
Stock Assets
Browse hundreds of royalty-free images, GIFs, videos, sound effects, and music clips directly in our editor. Curate assets that will bring your project to life, then edit them the way you want to all in one place.
Templates
Get inspired by hundreds of trendy video templates made to unleash your creativity. Select the template that best suits your project, and then make it your own with custom videos, images, or text. Making professionally designed videos or memes has never been faster.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I add text to a video for free?
Creators use a software tool with text and video editing capabilities to combine text and video layers. With text tools, creators can overlay titles and captions on videos to provide supporting information, then change the style and size to ensure it’s readable. With a free online editor like Kapwing, you can easily add text to videos, then stylize the text with a new font, color, size, and background color and apply effects and animations.
How do I add text to a video meme?
To add text to a video meme, you’ll need a reliable tool that combines video and text layers. Creators add text to memes to add their unique context to viral videos, then post the meme on social media for others to comment, like, and share. You can use Kapwing, an online video editor, to add text to video memes in minutes. Explore the vast font collection, then rotate, resize and edit text to your liking without previous editing experience.
How do I add text to a video on mobile?
Creators use text editing features within a software tool to place text directly onto videos with a mobile device. A reliable online tool to easily complete this process is Kapwing. Change the text position, then resize, stylize, and duplicate text layers on mobile for easy video content creation.
What's different about Kapwing?
Easy
Start creating immediately with thousands of templates and copyright free videos, images, music, and GIFs. Repurpose content from the internet by pasting a link.
Free
Kapwing is completely free to start. Just upload a video and start editing. Supercharge your editing workflow with our powerful online tools.
Accessible
Automatically subtitle and translate videos with our AI-powered Subtitler tool. Caption your videos in seconds, so that no viewers get left behind.
Online
Kapwing is cloud based, which means your videos are wherever you are. Use it on any device and access your content anywhere in the world.
No spam or ads
We don't serve ads: we're committed to building a quality, trustworthy website. And we will never spam you nor sell your information to anyone.
Powerful
Kapwing works hard to help make the content you want, when you want it. Get started on your project today.
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Best online video service ever. And a miracle for deaf people.
[Subtitler] is able to autogenerate subtitles for video in almost any language. I'm deaf (or almost deaf, to be correct) and thanks to Kapwing I'm now able understand and react on videos from my friends :)
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Video Editor
Love this site.
As a English Foreign Language Teacher, this site helps me to quickly subtitle interesting videos that I can use in class. The students love the videos, and the subtitles really help them to learn new vocabulary as well as better understand and follow the video.
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Education
Excellent subtitling features
[It] works perfectly for me. Have been using Kapwing for a year or so, and their automatic subtitle tool gets better and better every week, it's rare that I have to correct a word. Keep up the good work!
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Consultant
Best online video service ever. And a miracle for deaf people.
[Subtitler] is able to autogenerate subtitles for video in almost any language. I'm deaf (or almost deaf, to be correct) and thanks to Kapwing I'm now able understand and react on videos from my friends :)
Mitch Rawlings
Information Services Freelancer
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