Add text to video

1. Choose your video, or drop it on the preview. MP4, MOV, WebM and MKV work.
2. Type your text and pick a style: Box, Outline, Shadow or Highlight, in any of the colors, with a font, size and alignment. Press Enter for a new line.
3. Drag it into place on the preview, or press Top, Middle or Bottom. Set when it shows if it shouldn't stay for the whole video, and add more texts the same way.
4. Choose the shape: as it is, or 9:16 cropped, fitted on a blurred copy, or on black with room for a title. Then press Add text to video and download the MP4, sound and all.

On a phone, big and short beats small and long: a few words people read in a second, in a size that's still clear on a small screen. For opening lines that make people stay, try the hook generator or read how to write hooks for short videos.

TikTok, Reels and Shorts cover part of every video with their own buttons and text: the tabs or search at the top, the like, comment and share buttons down the right, and the username, caption and sound along the bottom. On a 1080 × 1920 video that's roughly the top 240 pixels, the bottom 420 and the right 200 on the busiest of the three.

Text in those places gets hidden. With a 9:16 shape, the preview shades them red, so a title near the top of the clear area and nothing important behind the buttons stays readable everywhere. To check a finished clip, use the safe zone checker. To put your @handle or logo on a clip, see-through and in a corner, use the watermark maker.

Text is something you write once: a title, a hook, a label, a call to follow. Captions are every word that's said, timed to the speech, so a talking clip still makes sense with the sound off. Most clips use both. For captions, the auto caption generator turns speech into timed captions and add captions to video burns them in word by word.

The slow part of a clip is neither: it's finding the moment in a long video, cutting it cleanly and framing it for a phone. That's what Clyper does for you.