How to add text to a photo for a story, a meme or a post

Open Add text to photo, choose the picture, and type over the line of text that appears in the middle. Drag it where you want it, drag its yellow corner to size and turn it, pick a font and colour, then download.

Steps

1. Open Add text to photo and choose a photo.
2. Type your words in Words. Press Enter for a new line inside the same block.
3. Drag the text on the picture to move it, or tap Top, Middle or Bottom under Place.
4. Drag the yellow corner to resize and turn it, or use the Size and Angle sliders. On a keyboard, + and - change the size and [ and ] turn it.
5. Choose a Font: Sans, Serif, Rounded, Impact or Anton. Turn Bold on or off.
6. Pick a Colour (White, Black, Yellow, Red, Blue, Green or any colour) and set Opacity if you want it see-through.
7. Leave Outline on for readability; its colour and Width can be changed.
8. Tap Add text for a second caption. Choose which one to edit from the list, or tap it on the picture.
9. Download.

Fonts and when to use them

Sans, Serif and Rounded use fonts already on your device, so the letters can look slightly different on a phone and a computer. Impact uses the device's Impact where it has one, and a font served from this site in the same condensed style where it does not. Once you download, the text is part of the picture and looks the same everywhere.

Captions people can read

Text on a photo competes with everything behind it. Three habits fix most problems:

• White text with Outline on. The dark edge separates each letter from bright and dark areas alike. Outline switches between dark and light to suit the text colour unless you choose its colour.
• A dark band behind the words. On a busy photo, open Gradient and tap Dark base: it darkens only the bottom of the picture, where captions usually sit.
• Fewer, bigger words. A caption that reads on a laptop can vanish when the post is a thumbnail in a feed. Five large words beat fifteen small ones.

For memes

Put a line at the Top and another at the Bottom in Impact, white, with the outline on. That is the classic layout. The meme generator starts with top and bottom text in that style already in place.

For an Instagram or WhatsApp story

Stories are tall 9:16 pictures, and the app puts its own buttons over the top and bottom. Meta's guide for Stories images suggests keeping roughly the top 14% and the bottom 35% free of text. Place captions just above the middle rather than at the very bottom.

Start from a 9:16 picture: crop it first with Crop and 9:16, or make the 9:16 copy in the social media image resizer and add the text to that.

Undo and changes

Every caption stays editable until you download. Undo (Ctrl or Cmd + Z) steps back through changes, and Remove this text deletes the selected caption. If you need more than text, the same editor has Emoji, Filters, Crop and the rest in its tool list.

A small "Made with t.myu" credit starts in the bottom-left corner of the picture. Tap the cross on it to save without it.

Questions

How do I add text to a picture on my phone?

Open the page in your phone's browser, choose the photo from your gallery, and type. Drag the text with a finger and use the yellow corner to size it.

Can I add text in two colours?

Each text block has one colour. Add a second block with Add text and give it another colour.

Can I make the text curved?

No. Text is set in straight lines, which you can turn to any angle.

Is my photo uploaded?

No. The text is drawn onto the photo in your browser and the file stays on your device.