Animated text
without a render farm

Eight effects, one click each

• Ghost Glowing letters that float and breathe while mist drifts upward.
• Glitch RGB split, horizontal slices and scanlines — the classic broken-signal look.
• Neon Hollow tube letters with a flickering halo, like a sign on a wet street.
• Fire Molten gradient with embers rising off the baseline.
• Typewriter Letters appear one by one behind a blinking cursor.
• Wave A slow sine wave rolls through the word, column by column.
• Chrome shine A metallic highlight sweeps across brushed metal letters.
• Beat bounce The word pulses on a beat with a subtle tilt — made for music clips.

How to make a text animation video

1. 1 · Type and pick

   Enter up to four short lines. Long sentences shrink the type automatically so the words stay inside the frame — two or three words per line works best for Reels.

2. 2 · Choose an effect and a format

   Ghost and Glitch are the two most requested looks right now. Square (1080 × 1080) is the default here; switch to Story when you need the 1080 × 1920 vertical frame that Reels, TikTok and Shorts expect.

3. 3 · Record and download

   Press Generate video. The page plays the animation once and records it at 30 fps, then offers the file for download. Recording is real time, so a six second clip takes six seconds.

Why it runs in the browser

Rendering video server side needs ffmpeg, a queue and a lot of CPU per request. A modern browser already has everything required: the Canvas 2D API draws the frames, canvas.captureStream() exposes them as a media stream and MediaRecorder encodes that stream. The result is instant, free to run and private — your text is never transmitted, so nothing can leak into a log.

Using the clip in an editor

• CapCut / Premiere / DaVinci — import the WebM directly, or convert to MP4 if the version you use is older. Both formats keep the alpha-free black background.
• Blend modes — for Ghost and Neon, set the clip to Screen or Add on top of footage; the black background disappears and only the glow remains.
• Looping — pick a length that matches your audio bar. A 4 second clip loops cleanly against a 120 BPM two-bar edit.

Compatibility

Using your own typeface

If none of the eleven built-in fonts has the right shape, upload your own file — TTF, OTF, WOFF or WOFF2 up to 8 MB. The page reads it with the FontFace API and registers it in memory, so the canvas can draw with it immediately. The file is never transmitted: close the tab and it is gone. That also means you can use a font you already own on your machine without handing it to a third-party service.

• Pick a bold or black weight. Effects that build on thick strokes — Ghost, Neon, Fire — look weak with a hairline or light cut.
• Missing glyphs fall back. If your font has no character for something you typed, only that character falls back to a generic sans-serif.
• Variable fonts are drawn at their default instance inside the canvas; the weight slider of the font itself has no effect here.
• Licensing is yours. Because the file stays on your device, you are responsible for having the right to use it in whatever you publish.

Questions

All frequently asked questions