Visual Watermark
In the world overflowed with visual content it is hard to grab the attention of seen-it-all viewer. Fortunately, a witty phrase or an inspirational quote can do the trick. Intertwining the art of word and the art of imagery has proven to be quite effective in making your works stand out. It’s not as difficult as it may seem and there are tons of tools to help you. Take a look at the list of the best apps for adding text to photos.
Phonto
It is brilliantly designed, user-friendly app for adding text to your photos, which is available for both Android and iOS. It is very easy to use: snap the shot or import an image into the app, add the text and tweak it to your liking. Phonto offers 400 built-in fonts; with this vast collection you are sure to find the perfect one for your photo. In addition, it is possible to import your own fonts to the app. Another interesting feature is the ability to add text in thought babbles, placards and some other funny shapes. You can move elements around, tilt them, change the size with your fingers or the arrow keys. Phonto allows you to curve the text or erase parts of it. Plus, when you’re done, you can share the finished product on your social media straight away. As of now Phonto supports only English (US), Chinese and Japanese.
The app is free to download, but there are a few in-app purchases that you want to consider: Ad-Free version ($2), Phonto Image Pack ($2) and Text Style Kit ($1).
PicLab - Photo Editor
This is a full-fledged, all-in-one editing photo-app, which allows you to add text to your photos among other features. Aside from typography, you can also add textures, borders or throw one of their twenty creative filters on your images. The app allows you to resize, rotate ,adjust opacity of the text and use multiple text layers to create a stunning masterpiece. Moreover, if you want to showcase your writing to make your image more personal, there is a drawing tool featured, which can help with the task at hand! The most notable feature, though, is the ability to create collages, using Phontos’s great selection of collage templates, and add text on top of it.
Available on both iOS and Android the app itself is free. However, the free version adds the PicLab watermark to processed images, which you can get rid of by paying $2. On top of that, you’ll have to pay around $15 to unlock the entire bundle of features.
Font Candy
This app, which is available only on iOS, has a wide range of photo-editing features, yet it focuses its main attention on typography. Font Candy makes it easier to express yourself in a creative way and add something extra to your photos with eye-catching texts. There are over 45 artistic fonts at your service paired up with powerful text editing capabilities, which include text curving, opacity controls, and shadow.. There are built-in Artworks and Quotes designed for you along with some fun animations, in case you want to make a quick, yet striking edit. Font Candy allows you to save designs and watermarks to the app, which will make your editing faster and simpler. The Masking Tool will help you create stunning effects like placing pieces of an image into letterforms for that artistic, old-fashioned look. Isn’t that cool?
You can download the app for free, however you will need to make some in-app purchases in order to enjoy its full potential. Also, a small watermark will appear on your photos if you keep using the free-version. Removal of the watermark will cost you $0,99, while you’ll have to pay $1,99 for Pro Subscription.
Over
The reviews in the AppStore - unfortunately, Over is only for iOS - clearly show how much users love it. Currently it is rated number 65 in Photo&Video and there are several reasons for it. Over has a brilliant gesture based navigation and a great selection of tools to create an amazing text. Over is one of the most versatile mobile typography apps out there. You can add a text or an artwork, pick a template or start from the scratch. Over works with both photos and videos and allows you to customize color, opacity, size, kerning and alignment. There is a vast choice of templates, graphics and fonts, created by brilliant designers and branding experts. Obviously, you can share your photos on the social media, but Over also offers scheduling. You can schedule when your post is going to be published, which is an incredibly useful tool for busy people.
The app is free to download with some in-app purchases. Over Pro offers two auto-renewing subscription options: $14.99 per month and $99.99 per year
Typic
This professional, iOS-based typography app has around 5 million users and has a high customer satisfaction rating in AppStore. Typic offers you more than 500 artworks and over 300 fonts along with filters, light leak effects and frames. Their functional Tool Kit will definitely inspire you to create a true masterpiece. With this app you can make a meme or a greeting card as well as breath-taking artistic pictures. One of its notable features is adding your logo to your photos; Typic allows you to add up to 4 versions of your company or personal logo, which you can store in the app and use to sign all your photos. This cool feature is great for promoting your business!
Overall, Typic is a useful, user-friendly and highly-functional app, which will cost you $3,99. It is a good value for money.
Word Swag
If you want to add some swag to your images, Word Swag is the answer to your prayers. This app includes hundreds of captions and1.3 million completely free backgrounds from Pixabay along with some eye-catchy text effects like gold foil, stamp and watercolor. There is a large collection of graphic fonts designed by world-class artists. Word Swag offers the freshest font and layout combinations, making it easier for you to create a beautiful piece of art. It is a perfect tool for bloggers of any caliber. You can put logos on your images or make high resolution graphics for printing, however, these notable features are only available in the pro-version.
Word Swag is easy to use. All you have to do is select a style, then choose a variation and pick a color; that’s it! You can also choose the transparency and the brightness of the background.
Probably, the only drawback of this app, available for both iOS and Android, is the price: it costs $4,99. But Word Swag is worth it.
Visual Watermark
You may be surprised, but you don’t have to use Visual Watermark for only creating watermarks. Essentially it is an effective, easy-to-use typography editor, which is perfect for a quickly adding a text to your photo. All you have to do is import your photos and begin working straightaway. You can add a text, a logo or a group of both. If you’ve chosen the latter, you can customize the group as a whole or its elements separately. There are more than 260 built-in fonts - quirky, classic, funny, minimalistic, bold. You are sure to find exactly what you need. Although, if nothing had caught your eye, you can always use your own fonts - all you have to do is install them on your computer. As for adding a logo, you can choose one from the collection or import your own. Would you like to make your text more tridimensional? The shadow effect is perfect for that. Do you want to make to add a gradual change of color? No problem! Visual Watermark allows you to use two effects simultaneously. Also, you can enable a tile option to fill the entire image with your text and adjust its span. Visual Watermark’s straightforward interface will help you achieve some great results without wasting too much time on thinking how everything works. Now you can apply text to Videos as well!
Visual Watermark works on both Mac and Windows. There is a free trial version, but it watermarks your finished images until you buy the full version. You can choose from three one-time payment plans - basic ($19.95), plus ($29.95) or premium ($39.95).
GIMP
GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP) is a free image editor available for GNU/Linux, OS X, Windows and more operating systems. You’ve probably already heard of it ones or twice, because it is basically a counterpart of Photoshop without annual subscription. Consequently, you will have a wide-range of tools at your disposal, including typography related ones. GIMP will help you achieve great results and you will be able to manipulate your text and graphic designs in all ways possible. It sounds amazing, but GIMP has the same problem as Photoshop - it can be a bit challenging to work with and requires some knowledge.
In order to add a text to your photo will have to do the following: 1. Open your image. 2. Select the Text Tool by clicking the Text tool icon from the main toolbox. 3. Click within the image, where you would like the text to appear. 4. Enter the text. At this stage you can also manipulate the text however you want.
Would you like to change the font? You’ll have to select your Text layer and make sure that the Text tool is still selected on the main toolbox as well. Then go to Dockable Dialogs - Tool Options to open the Tool Options dialog. There you can change the font and tweak the settings of your text.
Overall, If you have some experience with graphic editors, GIMP might be the chose for you.
Wondershare Fotophire
Wondershare Fotophire Editing Toolkit is the editing software available for the windows OS. The Toolkit offers you Photo Editor, Photo Cutter and Photo Eraser, but you’ll only need the Editor to add text to your photo. The interface is straightforward and doesn’t have a lot of bells and whistles to distract you. As it is an actual photo editor, you can apply filters, work with colors and add frames. There are some great blend modes and artworks to work with. On top of that there is a batch processing feature, which will make the exporting of your images easy and quick.
Adding text in Fotophire is rather easy too. Once you’ve opened your image in the Photo Editor, head to top right side of the interface and click the large “A” button. Select the desired font and click on the area where you want to add text. Write the text in the textbox. All done!
This windows software can be directly downloaded from Wondershare website without any cost. But the trial version runs for a couple of days and then you will have to buy the full version. Lifetime license on a single computer is $79.99, while the one-year subscription costs $89.99. Unfortunately, the Mac version is yet to be developed.
Canva
Canva is an online app with tons of filters and design tools to ensure your images look incredible. You’ll have to create an account to use it, but setting it up is not going to take a long time. In order to add text to your photo all you have to do is click on “Add text” and customize it to your liking. Canva offers pre-designed templates of quotes and words, but you can always make your own headlines. Aside from a great collection of different and popular fonts, what’s more interesting is the ability to blur your background photo. That way your text is sure to stand out and draw attention. In addition to everything mentioned above, Canva has tutorials on their website, which will make you get a hang of things pretty quickly.
Canva’s basic platform is free. However, its potential is limited. There are two more packages: “Canva for Work” - $12.95/month or $119.40/year plus a 30-day free trial - and “Canva for Enterprise”, but you’ll have you contact Canva to get more information about the pricing.
The ways of using text on images are limitless. You can make posters with inspirational quotes or calls-to-action for your social media, announce news or drive more traffic to your blog posts. You can create a thumbnail for your YouTube video with the help of Canva, for instance; you don’t even have to download it. Take a look at mobile text-editors, if you are always on the go. You can make a stylish image for your Instagram right on your phone while having lunch or going to work. For those, who like simplicity and user-friendliness paired up with efficient functionality, we recommend Visual Watermark. Adding text puts a new spin on your images and it can be done on whatever platform is more suitable for you. We hope our list would be of great help.
Good luck!
