What is Animated Text Video?

Animated Text Video lets you create text animations and export them as MP4, WebM, or GIF files. Works well for social media intros, presentation titles, and promotional content — everything stays private on your device.

Eleven animation styles are built in — fade, slide, typewriter, bounce, glow, wave, glitch, spotlight, word-by-word, zoom in, and zoom out — and each one renders frame-by-frame on a canvas before the output is captured to MP4, WebM, or an animated GIF. Pick from system fonts or popular Google Fonts like Bebas Neue, Oswald, Montserrat, and Pacifico. Add a drop shadow or a coloured outline to keep text readable on any background, and tick transparent background to export a GIF you can overlay on a photo or video. Multi-line text wraps automatically. You pick the font, size, colours, text alignment, duration, speed, and resolution from five options: 720p (1280x720), 1080p (1920x1080), 480p (854x480), Square 1080x1080, and Vertical 1080x1920.

How to use

1. Type your text and choose an animation style — fade, slide, typewriter, bounce, glow, wave, glitch, spotlight, word-by-word, zoom in, or zoom out
2. Customize font, size, colors, timing, background, and animation speed
3. Preview the animation, then export as MP4, WebM, or GIF at your chosen resolution

When to use

• Cutting a quick channel-name intro for a YouTube vlog without firing up After Effects.
• Building lower-thirds or pull-quote stings to drop into a podcast clip.
• Making a teaser title for an Instagram Reel or TikTok before the b-roll cuts in.

Result

Creating a YouTube intro — type your channel name, select the 'glow' animation with a dark background, set duration to 3 seconds at 1080p, and export as MP4 to drop into your editing timeline.

FAQ

What's the difference between exporting as MP4 versus WebM?

WebM uses VP9, which compresses better and is the format this tool records in natively, so the file's usually smaller and the recording itself is faster. MP4 (H.264) is what most video editors and social platforms prefer for drop-in compatibility, so pick that if you're cutting into a longer timeline.

Why does my exported video look slightly different from the live preview?

Live preview runs at your monitor's refresh rate, which can vary, while the export records at a fixed frame rate. Tiny timing differences in fades or bounces are normal, but the final frame layout, fonts, and colours match exactly.

Can I get a transparent background instead of a solid colour?

Yes — tick "transparent background" before exporting a GIF and the solid colour is dropped, leaving just the animated text to overlay on any photo, video, or page. MP4 has no transparency at all, and WebM's alpha channel gets stripped by most editors, so the transparent GIF is the reliable route. For full-resolution video over a transparent layer, set a chroma-key colour like bright green and key it out in your editor instead.

How long can a single video be?

There's no hard cap, but longer durations at 4K eat your device's memory fast. Most devices handle up to 30 seconds at 1080p without trouble. Past that, drop to 720p or split the title sequence into smaller clips and stitch them together.

Why these five resolutions — 720p, 1080p, 480p, Square, and Vertical?

They cover the formats people actually ship. 720p (1280x720) and 1080p (1920x1080) are the YouTube and TV defaults, 480p (854x480) keeps file sizes tiny for chat embeds or older devices, Square (1080x1080) fits Instagram feed and LinkedIn, and Vertical (1080x1920) is the native size for Reels, TikTok, and YouTube Shorts.

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