Add Text to PNG Online Free

Most people who need words on a picture are doing something small and specific. A screenshot needs a line explaining which button to press. A product shot needs a price or a size note. A photograph needs a caption that credits the source, or a quiet watermark that makes it less worth stealing. A diagram needs labels that survive being dropped into a slide deck. In nearly every one of those cases the picture already exists, the words are known, and what is missing is a fast way to combine the two without opening a design application or handing the file to a web service.

This tool keeps the whole job in the tab. The image is decoded onto a canvas, each piece of text becomes its own layer held in memory, and everything is composed at export time. Because layers are separate, you can add a title, drop in a second line underneath, delete the one you got wrong, and reposition any of them by dragging across the preview. The selection rectangle drawn while you drag belongs to an overlay layer that never reaches the exported file, so no guide marks end up baked into your result.

Readability is where most text-on-image tools quietly fail, because the same white caption that looks clean on a dark photo disappears entirely on a bright one. Two controls solve that here. An outline of adjustable width and colour traces each character so the text holds its shape against busy or high-contrast backgrounds, and a separate text background fills a solid rectangle behind the line when you want a caption bar instead. Both are optional, and both are per layer rather than global.

Typography is kept practical rather than decorative. Nine families cover the range anyone actually reaches for, from neutral sans faces through serif and monospace to display options for poster style headlines, with sizes running from fine print to very large. Bold and italic toggles, left, centre, and right alignment, a per-layer opacity so a watermark can sit back rather than shout, and rotation for angled marks cover the rest. Pressing enter inside the box starts a new line, which is how multi line captions are built.

Transparency is the reason this page is about PNG rather than any image in general. Export as PNG and the original alpha channel is preserved, so a caption dropped onto a cut-out logo floats over whatever background it lands on later instead of arriving as a white rectangle. Area outside your text keeps the clearance it came in with. Very large sources are scaled so the longer side is sixteen hundred pixels before processing, which keeps interaction responsive, and the export size can be capped separately if you need a specific width. Everything runs locally, so unreleased screenshots and unpublished product images never leave your machine.