Website headlines
The 'We build ___' line with a changing last word, on Webflow, Wix, Carrd or Notion.
Turn text into a GIF for your
chat., website., post.
A text GIF maker that turns any words into an animated GIF: typed out letter by letter or sliding across, in any font and colour. Free, no watermark, made in your browser.
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End it with a space if the typed words should not touch it.
Write \n inside a line to break it in two.
Moves where code can't.
Website builders, inboxes, READMEs and slides strip scripts. A GIF is just an image, so it plays in all of them.
Posts, banners and slides
Big display type for Instagram, LinkedIn, a sale banner or the first slide of a talk.
Ticker banners
A line that slides across forever, for shop banners, stream overlays and announcements.
README.md
GitHub README
The intro line on your profile, typed out in a code font.
Built for the complaints people actually have.
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Nothing gets clipped
The canvas is sized from the font's full height, so descenders on g, y and p are never cut off, the bug people hit most in other GIF makers.
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Any font, even your own
Twelve Google Fonts from typewriter to pixel, or upload a .ttf or .otf. It is loaded only in your browser.
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Transparency that looks right
GIF edges are blended into the colour of your page so there is no halo, and the animated PNG export keeps soft edges on anything.
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Rotating words
Keep the start of a sentence fixed and cycle the end: 'We build websites / apps / stores', the effect site builders cannot do.
From words to GIF in a minute.
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Type your text. Each line becomes one phrase in the animation.
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Choose typing or a scrolling ticker, then the font, colours and speed.
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Download the GIF and share it anywhere images are allowed.
Text to GIF in seconds
Sometimes the GIF you need does not exist in any GIF library: a thank-you with your client’s name, an announcement for your team, a line from your own brand. A text to GIF maker turns words into an animated image you own. Type the text, decide how it should move, and download it. Because the file is made in your browser, nothing you type is sent anywhere.
Two ways your text can move
Typing writes each line out letter by letter with a cursor, pauses and moves to the next line. It is the most natural way to animate a sentence and the most readable. Scrolling sends the whole line across the image like a ticker and loops forever, which suits short announcements and banners. Switch between them in the Text tab.
Fonts, colours and backgrounds
Pick from twelve fonts, from clean sans serifs to typewriter, pixel and handwriting styles, or upload your own font file. Set separate colours for the fixed text and the animated words, choose a solid background, a transparent one, or your own image. For a transparent GIF, tell the tool the colour of the page it will sit on so the letter edges blend in; for transparency on any background, download the animated PNG.
GIF or animated PNG
GIF is the universal choice: it plays in every browser, email client and chat app. Its limits are 256 colours per frame and on/off transparency. Animated PNG (APNG) has full colour and smooth transparency and plays in modern browsers, Slack and Discord, but older email clients show only its first frame. If in doubt, download the GIF.
Want to caption an existing GIF?
That is a different job: you start from someone else’s animation and lay your words over it. The step-by-step guide to adding text to a GIF covers the free ways to do it on desktop and phone.
Questions
Something else? Email hello@typingtextgif.com.
Read next
How to Add Text to a GIF (Free, 4 Ways)
Add a caption or moving text to any GIF: in your browser, in Canva, on iPhone and Android, and how to make the text itself animate.
How to Make a Typewriter Effect in PowerPoint
Make text appear letter by letter in PowerPoint with the built-in animation, set the right delay, and the GIF shortcut that also works in Google Slides.
How to Add a Typing Effect in Google Slides
Google Slides has no letter-by-letter animation. Here is the workaround with word-by-word animations, and the cleaner way with a typing GIF.
Your words, typing themselves.
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