Video Meme Maker: Add a Caption Bar or Impact Text

Put a caption bar above any image or video (or classic Impact top/bottom text) and export a PNG or a video with the original audio.

Drop an image or a short video in, type a caption, and get back the classic white caption bar above the media, a bar below it, or the old-school Impact top-and-bottom text. Photos export as PNG; videos export as WebM or MP4 with the original soundtrack intact, and everything is rendered on your own machine.

How to make a video meme with a caption

Drop a photo or a clip onto the picker; any image or video your browser can play will load.
Pick a layout: Caption above, Caption below, or Impact top + bottom.
Type the caption, then choose a font and leave the size on auto or set it yourself; the bar layouts also take a bar colour, text colour and padding.
Set the output width to the source size, 1080 px or 720 px.
Export a PNG, or for a video source choose WebM or MP4 to keep the clip moving with its sound.

Three layouts that cover almost every meme

The caption-above layout is the format that dominates social feeds: a plain white band sits over the picture with black text sized to the width of the media, wrapping onto as many lines as it needs so the bar grows with the joke. Caption-below flips it under the media for reply-style framing. The Impact layout draws uppercase white text with a thick black outline at the top and bottom edges; for the classic look, pick Anton (Impact style) in the Font menu, a free typeface with nearly identical proportions that looks right on machines where Impact is not installed.

Font, size, bar colour, text colour and padding are all adjustable, and a small watermark can be stamped in the corner if you want to sign your work. Output width can follow the source or be normalised to 1080 or 720 pixels, which keeps file sizes sensible when a phone hands you a twelve-megapixel photo.

Video captions with sound

When the source is a video, the caption stays fixed while the clip plays underneath it. The WebM path records the composited canvas in real time and mixes in the clip's audio track, so what you hear in the export is exactly the original audio. The MP4 path works offline instead: it seeks through the clip frame by frame, composites each one, encodes H.264 with the browser's WebCodecs encoder, decodes the original audio and re-encodes it as AAC, then muxes both tracks into a standard file that plays on phones and in editing software.

MP4 needs a browser with H.264 WebCodecs, which is Chrome or Edge at the moment; the button explains itself when that is missing. If a browser can decode the audio but not encode AAC, the MP4 is written without sound and a notice says so rather than failing quietly.

Meme exports without a watermark or an upload

Plenty of free meme generators stamp their own logo in a corner until you pay or sign in. Nothing is added to your files here: the only mark that can appear is the optional watermark text field, which stays empty unless you type your own name or handle into it.

There is also no upload step and no account. Your photo or clip is decoded, captioned and encoded by the browser tab itself, then handed straight to your downloads folder, so a private video never sits on someone else's server waiting to be processed.

Preview and iteration

The preview canvas is the actual output pipeline drawn at display size, not an approximation, so line breaks, stroke width and bar height match the file you download. For videos you can play and pause the source to check a caption against a specific frame. Text edits re-render instantly; there is no queue and no upload progress to wait for.

Projects without ceremony

The tool opens straight onto a working draft and keeps that draft in local storage as you edit, so nothing is lost if the tab closes. Use Save as to keep a named version, Open to return to earlier memes, and the JSON export to carry a layout to another browser. The source image or video is stored alongside the project in your browser's database and never transmitted.

You get 30 clean, watermark-free meme exports a day for free, and unlimited exports on Pro.

Limits worth knowing

Very long videos mean very many frames: the offline MP4 encoder processes every frame, so a five-minute clip takes minutes, not seconds.
Real-time WebM recording runs at the speed of playback, so a thirty-second clip takes thirty seconds to export.
Extremely large images are drawn at their full size unless you choose 1080 or 720 output width.
Fonts are limited to four choices, Arial, Inter, Roboto and Anton, so the result looks the same everywhere.

Questions people ask about Meme Caption Frame

Is this meme maker free, and does it add a watermark?: Yes, it is free without an account, and it never adds a logo of its own. You get 30 exports a day, a count shared with the fake chat, fake tweet and Snapchat caption tools here; Pro lifts it. The only corner text is the optional watermark you type yourself.
Can I make a GIF meme?: Not directly. A GIF loads as a single still frame, so only PNG export is offered for it. For a moving meme, caption an MP4 or MOV clip here, export MP4, then turn that file into a GIF with the Video to GIF Converter on this site.
What font do memes use?: Classic top-and-bottom memes use Impact in white with a black outline, while caption-bar memes use a plain sans-serif such as Arial, which is this tool's default. Impact cannot be bundled with a website, so choose Anton (Impact style) from the Font menu for the old-school look.
Does it work on iPhone and Android?: It runs in the browser, so there is nothing to install, and photo captions only need standard canvas drawing. Video exports depend on the phone's browser: WebM needs MediaRecorder support for WebM, and MP4 needs an H.264 encoder exposed through WebCodecs, which not every mobile browser offers.
Does the exported video keep the original audio?: Yes for both formats. WebM captures the clip's audio track live during recording, and MP4 decodes the file's audio, re-encodes it as AAC and muxes it with the new video track so the sound stays aligned with the picture.
Can I put the caption bar below the image instead?: Yes, choose the caption-below layout. The bar keeps the same colours, padding and wrapping rules as the top version, only its position changes, and the output height still equals the media height plus the bar.
What file types are accepted?: Any image or video format the browser itself can decode: JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF stills and HEIC where supported for images, and MP4, WebM and MOV for video. If the browser cannot play the clip the tool tells you immediately.
Is anything uploaded to a server?: No. Decoding, drawing, encoding and downloading all happen in the browser tab. The only network requests on this page are for the page itself and its fonts.

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Content reviewed 2026-09-27.