Rescroll

Free speech bubble animation maker

Type what you want to say, pick a speech, thought or shout bubble and point the tail at your speaker. Download it popping in as a 1080p MP4, on green screen or any color. Free, no sign-up, no watermark.

How it works

How to make a speech bubble animation.

Four steps, about a minute, and nothing to install.

  1. 1

    Type your words

    Write what the bubble says, up to 140 characters. Add line breaks if you like; the bubble grows to fit. Leave it empty for three typing dots.

  2. 2

    Pick a shape and point the tail

    Choose Speech, Oval, Thought or Shout, then point the tail at one of the four corners, or none. Set the size, and slide the bubble left to right and top to bottom.

  3. 3

    Set the colors and the motion

    Pick the bubble color, the text color and an outline. Choose how the words appear (word by word, typed or all at once), how long the bubble stays and whether it pops out at the end.

  4. 4

    Download the MP4

    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

Start from the one you came for.

Each one opens its own maker with the settings filled in. Change anything, then download.

Thought bubble

A cloud that rises from three small bubbles, with a thought typed inside it in a handwritten font. White on black.

When a speech bubble isn’t enough

The free speech bubble is the starting point.

Here you get one bubble on a background, lined up by you. In Rescroll you describe the graphic you want in plain English, like “a thought bubble over my head saying ‘is this even legal?’ as I pause”, and it's designed from scratch on your own video, placed around you and timed to the exact word you say. Not right yet? Ask for the change in the chat.

Free speech bubble

Rescroll

One bubble, in your colors

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 with the speaker in your editor

Timed to the exact word you say

Change it with the settings here

Change anything by asking in the chat

Make it yours in RescrollSee AI motion graphics

Part of the Pro, Ultimate and Scale plans.

Posts and chat. Two posts slide in, then the chat answers.
Before you post. Each setting changes as she names it.

Both built in Rescroll from a description.

The basics

What is a speech bubble animation?

A speech bubble animation is a short clip of a comic-style balloon popping onto the screen with words inside it, so a person, a pet or an object in your video seems to say them. Editors use it for reactions, inner voices, jokes and skits, laid over the footage with the tail pointing at whoever is talking.

This maker draws four shapes: a rounded speech bubble, a classic oval, a thought cloud with a trail of small bubbles, and a spiky shout. The bubble sizes itself to your words and springs out of its tail, then the words come in word by word, letter by letter or all at once.

For an overlay, choose the green background, move the bubble so its tail sits near your speaker, and remove the green in your editor. Download it in the same shape as your video, 9:16 or 16:9, and the bubble lands exactly where you placed it.

What you download

Price
Free. No sign-up, no email, no watermark.
Format
MP4 (H.264), no audio
Resolution
1080p: 1080×1920, 1920×1080, 1080×1080 or 1080×1350
Frame rate
30 or 60 fps
Shapes
Speech, oval, thought cloud or shout, with the tail on any corner or none
Text
Up to 140 characters, wrapped into balanced lines and sized to fit
Text animation
Word by word, typed at 6 to 40 letters a second, or all at once
Timing
Stays 0.5 to 10 seconds after the last word, with an optional pop out
Colors
Six looks, plus any bubble, text and background color
Overlay
Green background for chroma key, drawn with no shadow or glow on the green
Where it runs
In your browser. Nothing is uploaded.

In your editor

Put the speech bubble on your video.

An MP4 has no transparent background, so the speech bubble comes ready to key. Set the background to green and remove it with chroma key.

How to add a speech bubble in CapCut

Download the speech bubble 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.

How to add a speech bubble in Premiere Pro

Put the speech bubble 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.

How to add a speech bubble in DaVinci Resolve

Place the speech bubble 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.

How to add a speech bubble in Final Cut Pro

Connect the speech bubble above your footage in the timeline. From the Effects browser, drag the Keyer effect onto it; it finds and removes the green by itself.

Questions

Speech bubble animation: your questions, answered.

How do I make a speech bubble animation?

Type your words in the maker at the top of this page, choose a shape, point the tail and press Download. You get a 1080p MP4 of the bubble popping in with your words, made in your browser with no sign-up and no watermark.

How do I get a speech bubble animation on a green screen?

Choose the Green screen look, or press Green screen under “Removing the background later?”. On green the bubble is drawn with no shadow or glow, so the green keys out cleanly and leaves only the bubble and its words.

How do I add a speech bubble to my video?

Make the bubble on a green background in the same shape as your video, 9:16 or 16:9, and download it. In your editor, put it on the track above your footage and remove the green with chroma key. The bubble then sits over your video where you placed it.

Can I point the tail at someone in my video?

Yes. Tail points sets the corner the tail aims at: down left, down right, up left or up right. Then use the Left to right and Top to bottom sliders to move the bubble until the tail sits next to your speaker.

Can the text type itself out inside the bubble?

Yes. Set Text appears to Typed and the words come in letter by letter, at 6 to 40 letters a second, with a short pause after commas and periods. Word by word brings in one word at a time instead, and All at once shows the whole line.

What speech bubble shapes can I make?

Four: Speech, a rounded bubble with a curved tail; Oval, the classic comic balloon; Thought, a cloud with a trail of small bubbles; and Shout, a spiky burst for yelling.

Can I change the color of the speech bubble?

Yes. Bubble color sets the fill and Text color the words; leave Text color alone and it picks a dark or a light shade that reads on your bubble. Outline adds a thin or bold line in the text color, for a comic book look.

How much text fits in a speech bubble?

Up to 140 characters. The words wrap into balanced lines and the bubble grows around them; if they would run out of the frame, the type gets smaller so everything stays inside.

Can the speech bubble disappear at the end?

Yes. Turn on “Pop out at the end” and the bubble shrinks away after it has stayed on screen. Stay on screen sets how long that is, from 0.5 to 10 seconds after the last word.

Can I make a chat bubble with three typing dots?

Yes. Clear the Text field and the bubble shows three dots that rise and fall in turn, like someone typing. Stay on screen sets how long they go on for.

Is the speech bubble maker free?

Yes. It's free to use and free to download, with no account, no email address and no watermark on the video. There's no limit on how many you make.

What format and resolution is the video?

An MP4 with H.264 video, at 1080p in the shape you choose: 1080×1920 (9:16) for TikTok, Reels and Shorts, 1920×1080 (16:9) for YouTube, 1080×1080 (1:1), or 1080×1350 (4:5) for the Instagram feed. You can export at 30 or 60 frames per second.

Can I get the speech bubble with a transparent background?

MP4 can't store transparency, so the speech bubble comes ready to key instead. Set the background to green and remove it with chroma key in your editor. Only the speech bubble is left over your footage.

Is my video uploaded anywhere?

No. The speech bubble is drawn and encoded on your own device, using your browser's built-in video encoder. Nothing is sent to a server and there's no render queue.

Which browsers does it work in?

It needs a browser that can encode video with the WebCodecs API: current versions of Chrome, Edge and Safari, and Firefox on a computer. If your browser can't, the page tells you before you start.

Can I use the speech bubble in client work, ads or monetized videos?

Yes. The video you download is yours to use in personal and commercial projects, with no attribution needed.

Can I match my brand, add my logo or change the design?

Not in the free maker, which is deliberately simple. That's what Rescroll's AI motion graphics are for: describe the graphic you want in plain English, attach your logo, fonts or a screenshot of your style, and it's designed from scratch on your own video, placed around you and timed to the word you say. Ask for any change in the chat. It's part of the Pro, Ultimate and Scale plans.

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Neon text

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Glitch text

Your words in bursts of color split, sideways slices and flicker, with calm between them and a clean hold at the end.

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Rescroll vs CapCut

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Your next video,
edited like the top 1%.

Drop it in. Say what should appear. Read the plan, press Build, and export the finished video — no After Effects, no editor, no template.

Make your first graphic

Part of Pro, Ultimate and Scale · Export is free · Failed builds are refunded