Put a Caption on a GIF, Right in Your Browser

Drop the GIF in, type the words and press the button. The caption is drawn on every frame, at the top or the bottom, so it stays on screen for the whole loop rather than flashing on one frame.

Yes, free with no account, and nothing is uploaded. The frames are read, drawn on and written again on your own device, so the GIF never leaves it.

It has to be written again to hold the caption, so its palette is built afresh from the captioned frames and the file size changes. Which way it goes depends on the GIF you started with: one already packed tightly usually gets a little bigger, while one that was not packed at all can come out several times smaller, because it is packed on the way out. Every frame, its timing and the loop setting are kept, so the animation plays as before. If you only want a smaller file and no text, the GIF optimizer leaves the pixels alone.

Long lines wrap on whole words, never mid-word, and you can press Enter for a line of your own. A caption may not take more than half the frame: anything past that is left off and the page tells you how many lines did not fit, so shorten the text or set a smaller size.

Reading every frame of an animated GIF needs the browser's ImageDecoder, which Chrome, Edge and other Chromium browsers have and some browsers do not. Without it you get the first frame captioned as a still GIF, and the page says so rather than quietly dropping the animation. Open the page in a Chromium browser for the full animation.

Yes. The same caption and style go on every GIF you add, and they come back together as a ZIP. For different words on each one, do them in separate runs.

There's no fixed limit. Batches of several hundred are common and run in parallel across your CPU cores, so even large batches finish in seconds. It's completely free with no signup.