Image Tools

Put captions on a picture

Add a picture, type your two lines, and they land on it as you type. White Impact with a black outline by default, because that is what the format has looked like since 2007.

Add an image and type your captions. They appear on the picture as you type.

Edited in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.

  • Runs in your browser
  • No account required
  • Free to use
  • Up to 50 files

How it works

01

The outline is the whole trick

A caption has to be readable over whatever the picture happens to contain — a white sky at the top, a dark jacket at the bottom, and everything in between. No single colour manages that. A heavy stroke around each letter does, which is why every meme has one and why it is on by default here.

02

Stroke first, then fill

The outline is drawn before the letter rather than after it. Drawn afterwards, the stroke eats inwards and thins the shape of the type; drawn first, it sits cleanly behind. It is a small detail that separates captions that look right from ones that look slightly wrong.

03

Long lines wrap themselves

Text is measured against the width of the picture and broken between words. A word longer than the whole line is left to overflow rather than hyphenated, because a hyphenated caption reads as a mistake.

What it does

Live as you type

Every keystroke redraws the picture. There is no preview button, because a caption is something you adjust by looking at it.

No watermark, ever

Nothing of ours is added to your image. A meme generator that brands your output is charging you in advertising for a canvas operation.

Your own picture, or any picture

There is no template gallery here — bring the image you want. That also means nothing is fetched from anywhere, which is why this page can make no network requests at all.

Sized to the image

The text size is a percentage of the picture’s height, so 9% looks the same on a phone screenshot and on a full-resolution photograph.

Practical advice

Getting a better result

  • Keep each line short. Two or three words at the top and a punchline at the bottom is the format; a full sentence shrinks to fit and stops being readable.
  • Impact ships with Windows and macOS. If you are on Linux and it looks wrong, Arial Black is the closest of the alternatives in the list.
  • ALL CAPS is on by default because it is the convention, but lowercase reads as a different and often funnier register. Both are one click away.
  • Save as JPG for anything you are posting to social media — the platforms will re-encode it anyway, and starting from PNG just makes the upload slower.
  • If the caption sits over a busy part of the picture, move the crop rather than the text. The cropper on this site can shift the framing so the top and bottom are calmer.

Questions

Things people ask

Is there a watermark on the result?

No. The image you download contains your picture and your captions and nothing else. There is no branding, no corner logo and no sign-up.

Why is the font not Impact on my computer?

Impact ships with Windows and macOS but not with most Linux distributions, and the page cannot install a font. When it is missing the browser falls back to the next typeface in the list, which is Arial Black and then the system sans.

Can I put text in the middle of the image?

This tool does the classic two-line layout, top and bottom. For free placement anywhere on the picture, the watermark tool lets you position text in any of nine places with your own colour and angle.

Are there meme templates?

No, deliberately. Hosting a template gallery would mean fetching a stranger’s images into the page every time you opened it. Your own picture is the only image here, and it never leaves your computer.

Who builds these

Free tools by day. Websites that earn their keep by trade.

KuConvert is built by KUDUY, a web design and development agency. From custom WordPress builds to SEO and e-commerce, everything they do is engineered to bring you more qualified traffic and turn it into revenue.

  • Fixed scope, no surprise invoices

    Most sites ship in four to eight weeks with the scope and the price agreed up front.

  • SEO from day one

    Search is designed into the build — structure, schema and Core Web Vitals — not retrofitted.

  • A team, not a ticket queue

    A project manager, a designer and a developer you can actually reach.

Need your whole site to load this fast?

Images are usually the heaviest thing on a page and the easiest win. KUDUY works on site speed, image delivery and Core Web Vitals for teams who would rather not do it by hand.

This tool runs entirely in your browser. Your files are never uploaded.