Meme Generator

The top-and-bottom format is what most people mean by a meme, and it is what this page makes. Other caption styles have their own tools, so you can stay with the one that matches the joke.

Any picture works: a photo from your camera roll, a screenshot, a frame grabbed from a video, a drawing. Drop it in, type the setup in Top text and the punchline in Bottom text, and press Create. The text is centred, kept a small margin from the edges, and set in capitals unless you switch ALL CAPS off.

If a caption is too long for one line, it wraps onto up to three lines and the letters shrink until it fits the width, so nothing runs off the side. Short captions are still funnier: if the text needs three lines, it is usually worth cutting.

Classic memes use Impact, a heavy, condensed typeface designed in 1965 and bundled with Windows, and it became the standard on early meme sites. Impact is not installed on most phones, so this meme creator ships Anton, a free, openly licensed font with the same tall, narrow, heavy shape. It renders identically on every device, and if it ever fails to load, Impact is used where available.

The outline stroke is 14% of the font size, with rounded corners, which keeps white letters readable even over a white sky or a bright wall.

Each box takes up to 120 characters. The caption first wraps onto a second and third line, and only if three lines are still too wide do the letters get smaller, step by step, until the text fits inside the margins. That keeps short captions big and bold and stops long ones from spilling off the picture. As a rule of thumb, a top line under about six words and a bottom line under about eight read at a glance on a phone.

Open this page in Safari or Chrome, tap the drop zone and pick the photo or screenshot from your gallery. Type the captions with the phone keyboard, press Create, and the meme is saved to your Downloads, ready to post or send. There is no app to install and no account to create, and it works the same on a computer.

This one. Some free meme apps add their logo in a corner unless you pay; here the only text on the result is yours. The meme is made by your browser, so there is no server-side export step where a watermark could be added, and no sign-up wall in front of the download.

• JPG or PNG. JPG is smaller for photos; PNG keeps flat screenshots and drawings crisp.
• Any colour. White is classic, but yellow or black text works when the picture calls for it.
• Private. Screenshots of chats or photos of friends stay on your device while you caption them.

This page captions still images: a GIF dropped here is saved as a still picture. To keep the animation, use add text to GIF, which writes your caption on every frame. To turn a video clip into a GIF first, the video to GIF converter cuts and converts it, and you can caption the result afterwards.

The famous template images are photos, film stills and artwork that belong to someone else, so ProMedia does not ship a gallery of them. Bring your own picture instead: a photo you took, a screenshot or an image you have the right to use. A blank template you already have on your phone works exactly like any other picture.