Meme Generator

This meme generator puts classic meme captions — white capital letters with a black outline — on top of any image you choose. It is for anyone who wants to make a meme, caption a screenshot or add text to a photo quickly, without an account, a watermark or sending the picture to someone else's server.

You start from your own image. No meme templates are bundled, because the famous template pictures are photos and film stills owned by other people, and the tool never fetches an image from anywhere. Drop in a PNG, JPG, WebP, GIF, BMP or AVIF file up to 50 MB, type the top and bottom text, and add as many extra text boxes as you like; extra boxes can be dragged anywhere on the picture, right up to its edges, with a mouse or a finger, or moved with the arrow keys.

Text size is automatic unless you set it. For top and bottom captions the tool searches for the largest whole-pixel font size at which the text, wrapped onto as many lines as it needs, fits the image width minus a margin of 4% of the shorter side, and takes no more than a quarter of the image height. Words are never split while a smaller size would keep them whole, and a short caption is capped at 20% of the shorter side so a single word does not fill the picture. Type a number in the Size box to override it. The outline is drawn with the canvas strokeText function at a width you choose (8% of the font size by default) underneath the filled letters, which is what gives meme text its readable edge on any background.

Fonts are the ones your device already has, plus optional Noto fonts served by this site. Impact, the traditional meme font, is usually present on Windows and macOS but often missing on Android and Linux; when it is missing the page says so and a similar bold font is used. Choose Noto Sans bold for an identical look on every device, or Noto Sans Arabic, Hebrew or Devanagari for captions in those scripts. Emoji are drawn with your device's own emoji font, so they look different on other phones.

The finished meme is saved at the image's own resolution as PNG (lossless) or JPG (quality 92 by default). The one exception is a photo above 16,777,216 pixels (the most an iPhone or iPad browser can draw) or longer than 16,384 pixels on a side, which is saved at the largest size within those limits, with a note saying so. JPG has no transparency, so transparent areas of a PNG, WebP, GIF or AVIF become white, and the page says so. Animated GIFs keep only their first frame.

Everything happens in your browser: the image is decoded and drawn on a canvas on your device and the result is offered as a download. You can confirm in your browser's developer tools (Network tab) that no request carries your image. The site does load Google Analytics, but your picture is never part of any request.

1. The file's first bytes are checked to confirm it really is a PNG, JPG, WebP, GIF, BMP or AVIF image, whatever its name says; files over 50 MB are refused before being read. 2. The browser decodes the image upright (EXIF orientation applied) onto a canvas at its own size, or at the largest size under 16,777,216 pixels if it is bigger. 3. For each caption, text is wrapped greedily at spaces using the browser's own text measurement. Auto size is a binary search for the largest whole-pixel size whose lines fit the width (image width minus a 4% margin each side; 90% of the width for extra boxes) and height (25% of the image; 35% for extra boxes), without breaking a word, capped at 20% of the shorter side, minimum 8 px. Lines are spaced at 1.15 × the font size. 4. Top text starts at the top margin, bottom text ends at the bottom margin, and extra boxes are centred where you drop them, kept inside the picture. 5. Each line is drawn twice: strokeText with round joins at the outline width (a percentage of the font size), then fillText in the text colour on top. 6. For JPG the canvas is first filled with white, because JPG has no transparency. The canvas is encoded as PNG or JPG and offered as meme-<original name>.png or .jpg.