GIF Maker With Captions — Add Text to Every Frame
Type a caption, set its color and size, drag it to the top or bottom, and export a GIF where the text reads on every frame.
This gif maker with captions lets you lay a readable caption or subtitle over a GIF without uploading anything — type the text, set its color and size, and drag the text box into place at the top or bottom of the frame. Used as a gif caption maker, it pins the caption across every frame of the export, so the message stays on screen for the whole loop. Below you'll find the three-step caption flow, how to keep an animated GIF moving while you caption it (import its frames in the studio rather than flattening it), where to drag the caption and how to size it, and answers to the questions people ask about putting text on a GIF. To build text-driven clips beyond a static caption, see the text animation tools pillar.
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How to add a caption to a GIF
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Open the studio and load your frames
Open the studio, then bring in a clip or import an existing GIF's frames so the animation stays intact. The frames load straight into the browser — nothing is uploaded to a server.
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Type the caption and style it
Add a text box on the Edit tab, type your caption, then pick a color with the color picker and set the size with the slider. The same text box renders on every frame, so the caption reads through the whole loop.
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Position it and download the GIF
Drag the text box to the top or bottom of the frame, line it up as a subtitle bar, and export. The captioned GIF downloads to your device — free, watermark-free, and ready to share.
Why GIFMaker
Caption pinned to every frame
The text box you add lives on the project globally, so the studio composites the same caption onto every frame of the GIF. The text holds its position for the entire loop instead of flickering in and out.
Set color and size
Pick any caption color with the color picker and scale the text up or down with the size slider until it reads cleanly against your clip. Add more than one text box when you want a line at the top and a line at the bottom.
Drag to the top or bottom
Drag the caption anywhere on the frame — drop it into a subtitle bar along the bottom or a meme-style line across the top. Position is freehand, so you place the text exactly where it sits clear of the action.
100% in browser, free, no watermark
Captioning runs entirely in your browser on WebAssembly, so the GIF never leaves your device. There's no upload, no account, no watermark, and a clean download at the end.
How do you add captions to a GIF?
A single global text box — added on the Edit tab, styled with a color picker and size slider, dragged to the top or bottom of the frame — pins the same caption onto every frame of the GIF, so the message reads for the entire loop. Open the studio, add the text box, and export when it looks right. The whole pass runs in the browser with a download at the end.
Because the caption is a single global text box rather than a per-frame edit, you style it once and it holds across the animation. For text that builds or moves rather than a fixed subtitle, the text to GIF page covers that intent instead.
Can you add text to the top and bottom of a GIF?
Yes — add two text boxes, type a line into each, then drag one to the top of the frame and the other to the bottom — the classic meme layout. Each caption keeps its own color and size, and both render on every frame of the GIF, so the top and bottom lines stay locked in place through the loop.
Drag each box freehand to dodge the action in the clip, and scale the size slider so neither caption crowds the subject. To rework the underlying animation — reorder or trim frames before you caption — open the GIF editor first.
How do you caption an existing animated GIF without flattening it?
Import the GIF's frames inside the studio rather than dropping it on the main drop zone — the studio's frame-import panel demuxes the animated GIF into individual frames so the motion survives, then you add the caption on top. The plain drop zone reads only the first frame, which would freeze your GIF to a single still.
Once the frames are in, your caption composites over each one and the loop exports intact. This caption tool keeps the text static and readable; if you instead want animated or typing text, that lives on a separate page under the text animation tools pillar. To start a fresh GIF before captioning, open the GIF maker.