Rescroll

Free typewriter text animation maker

Type your words, pick a cursor and a speed, and download them typing themselves as a 1080p MP4. The rhythm is uneven like a person's, with a pause after punctuation. Free, no sign-up, no watermark.

How it works

How to make a typewriter text animation.

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

  1. 1

    Write the text

    Type or paste up to 200 characters and press Enter where you want a new line. Choose Plain for the words alone or Terminal for a window with a title bar and a prompt, then pick a size.

  2. 2

    Set the typing

    Choose a speed from 4 to 40 characters a second. Human makes the keys uneven and pauses after punctuation; Steady spaces them evenly. Set how long the finished text stays on screen, from half a second to 5 seconds.

  3. 3

    Pick the cursor and the look

    A bar, a block, an underscore or no cursor at all, blinking or solid, in any color. Then one of six looks and five typefaces, or your own text and background colors: green or black for an overlay.

  4. 4

    Download the MP4

    Press Download. The video is rendered in your browser at 1080p and saved to your device. 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.

Typing text video

A three-line letter typing itself in a serif face on paper, centered, behind a red cursor. For quotes, notes to self and story text.

Terminal typing animation

Three git commands typed into a terminal window in a monospaced face, with a $ prompt and a block cursor. For dev videos and launch posts.

When a typing animation isn’t enough

The free typing animation is the starting point.

Here you get clean text typing on a background. In Rescroll you describe the graphic you actually want, for example “type my hook beside me as I say it, in our font, and underline the last word”, 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 typing animation

Rescroll

Text typing on a background, 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 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.

Before you post. Each setting changes as she names it.
Your site, live. Scrolls and zooms to pricing on cue.

Both built in Rescroll from a description.

The basics

What is a typewriter text animation?

A typewriter text animation is a clip in which words appear one character at a time behind a cursor, as if someone were typing them. Editors use it for hooks, quotes, captions, chapter titles and on-screen notes, where a line should arrive at reading pace instead of all at once.

This maker types up to 200 characters. With the Human rhythm every key lands at a slightly different interval, with a longer beat after a period or a comma and one more for each new line; Steady spaces the keys evenly. The text is laid out before the first key, so each word starts on the line it will finish on and nothing jumps as the line grows.

To time the clip to a voiceover, divide the number of characters by the speed, counting spaces and line breaks: 80 characters at 16 a second type for 5 seconds. For an overlay, set the background to green and key it out in your editor.

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
Text
Up to 200 characters on up to 10 lines of your own, wrapped and sized to fit
Typing
4 to 40 characters a second, in a human or a steady rhythm
Cursor
Bar, block, underscore or none, blinking or solid, in any color
Styles
Plain text, or a terminal window with a prompt and a title
Colors
Six looks, or any text and cursor color on any background color
Overlay
Green background for chroma key, or black for a Screen blend
Where it runs
In your browser. Nothing is uploaded.

In your editor

Put the typing animation on your video.

An MP4 has no transparent background, so the typing animation comes ready to key. Set the background to green and remove it with chroma key, or to black and use a Screen blend.

How to add a typing animation in CapCut

Download the typing animation 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.

How to add a typing animation in Premiere Pro

Put the typing animation 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.

How to add a typing animation in DaVinci Resolve

Place the typing animation 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.

How to add a typing animation in Final Cut Pro

Connect the typing animation 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.

Questions

Typewriter text animation: your questions, answered.

How do I make a typewriter text animation?

Type your text into the maker at the top of this page, set the speed, choose a cursor and a look, and press Download. You get a 1080p MP4 made in your browser, with no sign-up and no watermark.

How do I add a typewriter effect to my own video?

In two steps. Make the text here on a green background and download it, then put the clip on the track above your footage in your editor and remove the green with chroma key. The words then type over your video.

How long can the text be?

Up to 200 characters, with spaces and line breaks counted. Press Enter to start a new line, up to 10 of them. Lines that are too wide wrap on their own, and the type shrinks until all of it fits the frame.

How fast does it type?

As fast as you set it: Speed runs from 4 to 40 characters a second and opens at 16. The whole text takes its length divided by the speed, so 48 characters at 16 a second type for 3 seconds, in either rhythm.

What does the Human rhythm do?

It types the way a person does: each key lands at a slightly different interval, a doubled letter comes quickly, and there's a pause after a period, a shorter one after a comma and a beat for each new line. The pattern is worked out from the text itself, so the same words type the same way every time you render them.

Can I change the cursor?

Yes. Choose a bar, a block, an underscore or no cursor, and give it a color of its own. The cursor stays solid while keys are landing and blinks when the typing rests. Turn off “Blink when it rests” to keep it solid throughout.

Does the text move around as it types?

No. The finished text is laid out first and the letters are revealed into it, so a word that ends up on the second line starts there. Nothing shifts or reflows as a line grows, centered text included.

Can I center the text or make it bigger?

Yes. In the Plain style, Align has Left and Center, and Size has Small, Medium and Large in both styles. A few words are set large to fill the frame, and long text is shrunk until it fits, so how big it gets depends on how much you type.

Which fonts can I use?

Five typefaces, under Look: Sans, Mono, Serif, Impact and Hand. Mono is monospaced, like a typewriter or a code editor, and Hand looks handwritten. You can't add a font of your own in the free maker.

Does the typewriter animation have typing sound?

No. The MP4 is video only, so there are no key clicks. Add a typing sound effect in your editor and line it up with the clip.

Can I make a terminal or code typing animation?

Yes. Set Style to Terminal and the text is typed into a window with a title bar, with a prompt such as $ in front of each line you start. There's a page that opens on exactly that, linked on this page.

How long is the video?

It's a short lead-in, the typing, and then the rest you choose, from half a second to 5 seconds. A line or two at the opening speed makes a clip of about 4 to 6 seconds. The longest, 200 characters at 4 a second, runs just under a minute.

Is the typewriter text 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 typing animation with a transparent background?

MP4 can't store transparency, so the typing animation comes ready to key instead. Set the background to green and remove it with chroma key in your editor. If the graphic is light, you can also set the background to black and use the Screen blend mode. Either way only the typing animation is left over your footage.

Is my video uploaded anywhere?

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

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