Type your words and download them glitching: colors splitting, slices jumping sideways, flicker, then a clean hold. It makes a 1080p MP4 video, not copy-and-paste characters. Free, no sign-up, no watermark.
How it works
Four steps, about a minute, and nothing to install.
1
Up to 22 characters a line, on one line or two. Add a small line of up to 36 characters under them if you want one, such as a subtitle or an episode number.
2
Digital slices the letters sideways, Analog wobbles and tears them like a worn tape, and Scramble swaps letters for other characters. Set the intensity, how often it bursts and the color split.
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Glitch for 2 to 20 seconds, then rest clean for up to 5. Pick one of six looks and four typefaces, or your own text and background colors: black or green if the text is going over footage.
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Press Download. The video is rendered in your browser at 1080p and saved to your device, usually in a few seconds. No account, no watermark.
Ready-made versions
Each one opens its own maker with the settings filled in. Change anything, then download.
When a glitch text animation isn’t enough
Here you get your words glitching on a background. In Rescroll you describe the graphic you actually want, such as “glitch the series title in as I say it, then show the episode number under it in our font”, and it's designed from scratch on your own video. Attach your logo, your fonts or a screenshot and it matches them. Not right yet? Ask for the change in the chat.
Free glitch text
Rescroll
Your words, in one of three glitch styles
Any design you can describe, matched to your logo, fonts or a screenshot
A clip you overlay and key out yourself
Built on your own video, placed around you
You line it up in your editor
Hits on the exact word you say
Change it with the settings here
Change anything by asking in the chat
Part of the Pro, Ultimate and Scale plans.
Both built in Rescroll from a description.
The basics
A glitch text animation is a short video of words breaking up the way a faulty signal does: the colors split apart, slices of the letters jump sideways, the picture flickers, and then it snaps back to normal. Editors use it for titles and intros, for gaming and tech videos, for “signal lost” and error gags, and for any cut that should feel like the feed was interrupted.
This maker builds one from the words you type. It glitches in short bursts with calm between them, the way a real fault comes and goes, instead of shaking the whole time. There are three styles: Digital cuts the letters into slices and blocks, Analog wobbles and tears them like a worn tape, and Scramble swaps letters for other characters.
What you download is a video, not text you can paste. The copy-and-paste kind of glitch text, often called Zalgo text, is ordinary letters with extra Unicode marks stacked on them, and it can't move or split its colors. This is an MP4 for a video edit: make it on black or green if it's going over footage.
In your editor
An MP4 has no transparent background, so the glitch text comes ready to key. Set the background to green and remove it with chroma key, or to black and use a Screen blend.
Download the glitch text on a green background. In CapCut, drag it onto the track above your video so it sits on top as an overlay. Select it, open Video → Remove BG → Chroma key, pick the green with the color picker and raise Strength until the background is gone. Menu names move a little between CapCut versions; look for Chroma key. If you made it on black instead, set the clip's blend mode to Screen.
Put the glitch text on a video track above your footage. From the Effects panel, drag Ultra Key onto it and click the Key Color eyedropper on the green. For a version on black, skip the key: in Effect Controls, set Opacity → Blend Mode to Screen.
Place the glitch text on the track above your footage. On the Edit page, open Effects → Open FX, find 3D Keyer under Resolve FX Key and drag it onto the clip, then sample the green in the viewer with the Open FX overlay switched on. For a version on black, set Composite Mode to Screen in the Inspector instead.
Connect the glitch text above your footage in the timeline. From the Effects browser, drag the Keyer effect onto it; it finds and removes the green by itself. For a version on black, set Blend Mode to Screen in the Video inspector.
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