Free Animated Text Maker for YouTube, Shorts & TikTok

How to make animated text in 3 steps

This text animation maker skips the usual setup. There are no fonts to install, no stroke widths to dial in, and no easing curves to tweak. Every preset is ready to go.

1. Type your text

   Enter the words you want on screen. The preview starts moving as you type.

2. Pick a motion

   Tap BOOM!, Freak Out, Boing, or any of the 73 presets. Each one plays a matching sound effect, and you can swap the color in one click.

3. Download your clip

   Choose a background and format, download, and drop the file into your video editor.

73 text animation presets that do the design work for you

Each preset bundles a font, fill color, double outline, 3D depth, an entrance, an on-screen motion, and an exit. Text is sized to fit the frame automatically, and long lines wrap between words. If you've seen the loud, colorful captions on Japanese variety shows, that's the look. It works just as well for reaction channels, gaming clips, vlogs, and explainers.

• Make a point land: BOOM!, SLAM, Focus Lines, On Fire
• Shock and panic: Freak Out, Shivers, Wait, What?!, Zap!
• Cute and playful: Boing, Sparkle, Floaty, Heartbeat
• Punchlines and reactions: Comeback, Wobble, Womp Womp, Strikethrough Fix
• Captions for explainers and vlogs: Fade, Slide, Zoom In, Typewriter, Wipe, Hard Cut
• Follow the voiceover: Word by Word, One at a Time, Word Highlight, Karaoke
• Titles and name tags: Lower Third, Cinematic Tracking, Decode, Outline to Fill, Neon
• Numbers and reveals: Count Up, Countdown, Slot Machine Numbers, Censored Reveal
• One simple motion: Bounce, Wave, Shake, Sway, Blink, Stretch, Swell, Motion Trail, Glitch

Every letter is animated on its own. That's how Scatter In can fly letters in from different directions, and how Word by Word can pop each word in to the rhythm of your voice.

Shaking text, typewriter text, and bouncing text

• Shaking text effect: Freak Out fits panic and "oh no" moments, while Shivers reads as nervous or scared. For a plain shake with nothing else, use Side Shake or Up-Down Shake.
• Typewriter text effect: Typewriter reveals your text one character at a time. It's a natural fit for narration, explanations, and inner thoughts.
• Bouncing text effect: Boing and Bounce make your text spring into place. Use them for cute moments or upbeat emphasis.

Animated text with sound effects built in

Every motion comes with its own sound. BOOM! lands with a low thud at the moment of impact, Pop! plays a pop for each letter, and Sparkle rings like a chime. The sounds are synced to the animation frame by frame, so you don't have to hunt for a sound effect and line it up on your timeline.

Sound effects are saved in the video's audio track (PNG sequences include a separate WAV file). There's no background music. To go silent, tap the speaker icon on the preview or turn off Include sound effects. The sounds aren't recordings. The tool synthesizes them on the spot.

Kinetic typography without keyframes

Making text bounce or shake in After Effects, Premiere Pro, or CapCut means setting keyframe after keyframe. Here you export a finished clip and stack it on your timeline. It's a fast way to add kinetic typography to a video without building a text animation from scratch or buying a template pack.

Sized for YouTube, Shorts, TikTok, and Reels

Choose landscape for YouTube (1920×1080), vertical for YouTube Shorts, TikTok, and Instagram Reels (1080×1920), or square (1080×1080). Tight crop trims the canvas to just the text, which gives you a small clip that's easy to position anywhere in your editor.

Export animated text with a transparent background

Set the background to Transparent to export an alpha MOV (ProRes 4444) or alpha WebM. Editors that support alpha channels will overlay it on your footage with no keying at all. MP4 can't store transparency, so MP4 exports use a green screen (or any solid color) that you remove with a chroma key. Every video format includes the sound effects.

How to remove the green screen

• CapCut: Add the clip as an overlay, then go to Remove BG → Chroma key and pick the green.
• Premiere Pro: Apply the Ultra Key effect and set the key color to green.
• DaVinci Resolve: Apply the 3D Keyer effect and drag the eyedropper across the green.
• Final Cut Pro and iMovie: Use the Keyer effect (in iMovie, Green/Blue Screen).

Using green or lime text? Switch to a blue screen. Designs with soft glows and shadows, like Neon and Floaty, look cleanest when exported with a transparent background.