Add text to an image online — a caption under a photo, a date on a scan, a line across a poster. PIXLFLW works entirely in your browser: the picture is edited locally and never uploaded to a server.
What you can do
- Several lines at once — line breaks are kept and the block stays aligned left, centre or right.
- Five fonts — sans, serif, monospace, a heavy display face and a casual one, each with bold and italic.
- Outline or backing plate — white letters over a bright sky need one of the two.
- Anywhere in the frame — nine anchor points, offsets in percent, rotation from −180° to 180°.
- Size in percent of the image — the caption keeps its proportion after a resize or a crop.
How to add text to a photo
- Drop an image into the upload area (formats: GIF, JPG, BMP, PNG, WEBP, HEIC, TIFF).
- Type the text, then set the font, size, colour and position.
- Download as JPG, PNG or WEBP.
Which fonts you get
The five families are the ones your device already ships with — nothing is downloaded, so there is no font library here and no way to upload a .ttf. Display covers meme captions and posters, monospace suits timestamps, and the rest is sans, serif and a casual hand. Open the same stack on another machine and the face may resolve differently; the exported file is fixed the moment you download it.
Text that survives the photo behind it
A photograph is not a flat background. White letters vanish in clouds, black ones vanish in shadow. The outline traces each glyph, so the text keeps an edge whatever moves behind it. The backing plate is the blunter answer — a rectangle of colour under the whole block — and it wins when the background is genuinely busy.
Text step or watermark?
The watermark step is the same drawing code with fewer controls: one line, five positions, white or black, meant for a discreet mark in a corner. Sign a photo with that one. Use text when the words are there to be read.