Add text to a video

Type a title, a name under a speaker, a price or a "link in bio", pick the size, colour, style and where it sits, and choose the seconds it shows. Add up to five texts and your logo. The preview shows the real frame, and the result is burned into the video with its sound kept. Free, with no watermark of ours and no upload.

Drop a video to add text toMP4, MOV, WebM. Stays on your device.

How to use it

Drop the videoMP4, MOV or WebM.
Type the textThen its size, colour, style and place; add more texts if you need them.
Set the secondsFrom and To decide when each text shows; scrub the preview to check.
ExportThe text and logo are burned in; the sound is kept.

What you can download here

MP4 (H.264 + AAC)in Chrome and Edge; WebM in browsers without an H.264 encoder
Same size as the videoup to 1920 pixels on the long side

Good to know

For words that follow speech, use the captioned clip tools: they time every word from a transcript. This tool is for fixed text such as titles, names and calls to action.

Free Chrome extension

Cuescribe for Chrome

A transcript side panel on every YouTube and TikTok video, a library of everything you transcribe, and one click to open any of it in these tools.

Add to Chrome or the bookmark button

Pro · early access

Pro keeps this free

Every tool stays free. Pro (early access, $9/month) adds batch delivery for client work and the extension's Pro features; longer files and multi-file projects are in development. Early subscribers keep their price and choose what gets built next.

What Pro includes

Next steps

Add captions to videoStyled, burned-in captions, 9:16 crop and safe-area guides.Resize video New9:16, 1:1, 4:5 or 16:9: crop to fill or fit with a blurred background.Clip from transcriptClick sentences, export that clip as MP4 with its subtitles.Filler word removerUm, uh, false starts and repeats cut; keeps your last take.Silence removerCut dead air; get the tightened video, an EDL or a WAV.Auto-reframe to vertical16:9 → 9:16 with a crop that follows the face.

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Questions

Can I make text appear only for a few seconds?

Yes: each text has a From and To time in seconds. Leave them at 0 and the video's length to show it all the way through.

Will the text be readable on a busy video?

Pick "Dark box behind" or "Outline": both stay readable on bright and moving backgrounds. Large and Extra large suit phones.

Can I add my logo as a watermark?

Yes: add a PNG (a transparent one looks best), pick the corner, its size and how see-through it is.

Is the text editable later?

No, it is burned into the picture, which is what makes it show everywhere. Keep your original file to change it. For captions people can switch off, make subtitles with the transcript tools.