Add Speech Bubble to Photo

Speech bubbles turn a photo into a comic panel, a meme or a playful message. This tool draws a classic oval speech bubble, a rounded box, a thought cloud or a spiky shout burst on your photo, wraps your text inside it, and points the tail at whoever is speaking. Pick a corner or an exact position, set the colours and the font, and save the result — in your browser, without uploading the photo.

How to use this tool

1. Choose one or more photos and type the text; press Enter for a new line.
2. Pick the bubble style and where it goes: a preset position or exact x and y.
3. Set where the tail points (the speaker's mouth), the bubble width and the text size.
4. Adjust the colours and font if you like, and download the picture.

Formula

bubble width = width % × photo width; text size = size % × bubble width; oval height from the text block: b = (text height ÷ 2) ÷ √(1 − (text width ÷ bubble width)²) + padding

Text wraps to about 70% of the oval's width (86% for the box), so every line stays inside the curve. The tail starts at the bubble edge in the direction of the target point and ends exactly on it; a thought bubble uses three shrinking circles instead. All shapes are outlined together, so the tail joins the bubble without a line across it. Positions keep a margin of 4% of the shorter side, and the bubble is kept inside the photo.

Example

On a 1200 × 800 photo with the default 40% width and 10% text, the bubble is 480 px wide and the text 48 px tall. "Hello!" fits on one line, so the oval gets its minimum height of 0.38 × 480 = 182 px and sits 32 px from the top-right corner, with the tail pointing at (540, 440).