Free typing text video maker
Write a line, a quote or a short letter and download it typing itself onto the screen as a 1080p MP4. It opens as a letter in a serif face on paper; change anything. Free, no sign-up, no watermark.
The basics
What is a typing text video?
A typing text video is a video in which the text is the whole picture: a sentence, a quote or a short message typed out one character at a time. Creators post it as a text-only Reel, TikTok or Short, or cut it in between clips as a title card.
This page opens on a three-line letter set in a serif typeface on a paper background, centered, typed at 12 characters a second behind a red cursor. Replace the words with your own, up to 200 characters, and press Enter where you want a line to end.
Keep the lines short. Three or four lines of a few words each stay large in a 9:16 frame, while a long paragraph is shrunk to fit and wraps on its own. Choose the Hand typeface for a note that looks handwritten, or Mono for a typewritten page.
To put it on your video, see how to add a typing animation in CapCut, Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve and Final Cut Pro.
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.
How it works
How to make a typing text video.
Four steps, about a minute, and nothing to install.
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
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
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
Download the MP4
Press Download. The video is rendered in your browser at 1080p and saved to your device. No account, no watermark.
More versions
Make a different one.
Each one opens its own maker with the settings filled in. Change anything, then download.
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
Part of the Pro, Ultimate and Scale plans.
Both built in Rescroll from a description.
Questions
Typing text video: your questions, answered.
How do I make a typing text video?
How do I make the typing slower or faster?
Can I make a typing text video for TikTok or Instagram Reels?
Can I type more than one line?
Does the typing text video have keyboard sound?
Is the typewriter text maker free?
What format and resolution is the video?
Can I get the typing animation with a transparent background?
Is my video uploaded anywhere?
Can I use the typing animation in client work, ads or monetized videos?
Can I match my brand, add my logo or change the design?
More free tools
Other graphics you can make here.
All free, all made in your browser, all without a watermark. See every free tool.
Keep reading
Where to go next.
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 graphicPart of Pro, Ultimate and Scale · Export is free · Failed builds are refunded