A free, privacy-focused online tool that lets you quickly add custom text to any image directly in your browser. No uploads, no servers, and no tracking.
The Add Text to Image tool is a simple yet powerful in-browser application designed to help users overlay custom text onto images without requiring any software installation. Everything runs locally on your device for maximum privacy and speed.
Adding text to images became massively popular with the rise of internet memes in the early 2000s, turning simple photo captioning into a global cultural phenomenon.
Before browser-based tools existed, adding text to images required complex desktop software like Photoshop. Modern web technologies such as the HTML5 Canvas API made it possible to perform the same task instantly and privately inside a web page, empowering everyday users around the world to edit images without specialized knowledge.