Add Text to Video
Video EditingBurn custom titles, captions, or lower-thirds into a clip.
What is Add Text to Video?
Add Text to Video burns a caption directly onto your footage, right in your browser. Type your text, choose where it sits, set the color and size, and a live preview shows the styling as you go. The caption is drawn onto a transparent canvas at your video's full resolution and overlaid on every frame, with a dark outline so it stays readable over any background. Everything runs locally with in-browser FFmpeg (WebAssembly), so your video is never uploaded.
How to use Add Text to Video
3 simple steps to complete your task directly in your browser:
Add your video
Drag a file onto the drop zone or click to browse. MP4, MOV, and WebM work best. The tool reads the video's dimensions so the caption is rendered at full resolution on export.
Type your caption
Enter your text in the Caption field. It appears instantly on the styling preview so you can see how it will look before rendering.
Style and position it
Set the vertical position (top, middle, or bottom), pick a text color with the color picker, and use the font-size slider (3%–20% of the video height) to scale it. A dark outline is added automatically for contrast.
Common uses
- Add a title or headline to the start of a clip
- Caption a social video so it reads with the sound off
- Label a tutorial step or call out an on-screen action
- Add a lower-third name or credit to an interview
- Put a watermark-style handle or tagline on footage
- Overlay a quote or key takeaway on a highlight clip
Why choose VersaTools
100% private
Your files are processed inside your browser and are never uploaded to a server.
Free, no account
No sign-up, no watermark, no paywalled “premium” tier. Just open a tool and use it.
Instant
No upload, no queue, no server round-trip — work starts the moment you drop a file.
Runs in your browser
Built on open web standards. Works on any modern desktop browser, nothing to install.
No upload size caps
Nothing leaves your device, so there’s no server file-size limit — only your machine’s memory.
Yours to keep
Results download straight to your device in clean, standard file formats.