Free text post image generator

Text travels well on X and Threads and badly on Instagram, because Instagram will not accept a post without an image. The fix the whole internet settled on is the text card: the post rendered as a picture, avatar and handle at the top, the words set large underneath, posted as a normal square image.

This tool builds that card. Type the text, add your display name and handle, optionally drop in a profile picture, pick a theme and a size, and download a full-resolution PNG. The text is wrapped and auto-sized so it fills the card without spilling off it, and links, @mentions and #hashtags are tinted the way a feed would tint them.

Everything renders on a canvas inside your own browser. The text is never sent to a server and the profile picture is never uploaded anywhere — close the tab and nothing of it remains.

How to use it

1. Paste or type the post text. Line breaks are kept, so you can shape it the way you want it read.
2. Add the display name and handle that should appear on the card. Use your own account — a card carrying someone else’s name and face is a fake screenshot, not a quote.
3. Add a profile picture if you have one to hand. Without one you get a clean monogram circle instead, which looks deliberate rather than empty.
4. Pick a theme (light, dim or dark), a background and a size: 1080×1080 for the Instagram feed, 1080×1350 for the taller portrait slot, 1080×1920 for a story, or card-only if you want to place it in your own layout.
5. Download the PNG and post it. The caption still does the work in the feed — the image just carries the words.

Tips that actually change results

• Short text reads bigger. The card auto-sizes to fit, so every sentence you cut makes the remaining ones larger and more legible on a phone.
• Portrait (1080×1350) takes up more vertical space in the Instagram feed than a square, which means more time on screen for the same post.
• Keep the first line strong enough to work as the whole post. Many people read the card and never open the caption.
• Dark and dim cards stand out in a feed of bright photos, but light cards are easier to read at thumbnail size. Test both against your own grid.
• Repeat the text in the caption as well. Text inside an image is invisible to search, to screen readers and to anyone who turns images off.
• Do not build cards that attribute words to accounts that did not post them. It is the easiest kind of misinformation to make and the easiest to get caught making.