How to Add Text to Videos on iPhone Devices With Filmora

Text can make your videos more engaging, helping you add context, enhance the style and mood, and emphasize specific scenes or concepts. It can get your message through, shape its impact through fonts and colors, and create a unique vibe that resonates with viewers.

Filmora can help you add text to iPhone videos within seconds. It’s the best video editing app with audio and image editing features. It’s available on iOS and Android and has a desktop app for Windows and macOS.

Besides text, Filmora lets you add animations, transitions, filters, effects, stickers, music, and sounds to videos. It can create royalty-free music, SFX, and videos from images and text prompts. Its AI can also generate captions and subtitles, remove unwanted objects, and transform your videos with other AI-powered capabilities.

The best part? You can use Filmora for free, although the premium version offers more text effects, templates, animations, and other features.

Therefore, download Filmora for iOS and follow the guide below as we show you how to add text to a video on an iPhone for free.

If you wish to add text to a video on Android, download Filmora for Android and follow along because the interface and steps are identical.

Add Text to an iPhone Video in Seconds

Adding text to videos with Filmora is a walk in the park, requiring only several taps on your screen. The fun begins when customizing that text because you can choose from hundreds of effects.

Here’s how to add text to a video on an iPhone with Filmora:

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Step 1: Launch the app and tap New Project.

Step 2: Select a video from your iPhone and tap Import.

Step 3: Tap Text on the bottom toolbar.

Step 4: Tap Add to enter the desired text.

Step 5: Type your text and change its color, position, alignment, font, etc. You can also use a template with a pre-built, customizable design. Hit the Checkmark to save the changes.

Step 6: Drag the text’s handles on the timeline to adjust the duration. Long-press the track to move it to another position (unless you want it to display during the entire video). You can also resize and reposition the text in the Player panel.

Improve the Text With Art and Animations

Once you add text to an iPhone video, you can make it more eye-catching with Filmora’s creative text art and animations. Here’s how:

Step 1: Select your text on the timeline and tap Art.

Step 2: Browse the categories and pick a design that works best for your video’s vibe.

Step 3: Go to the Animation tab and choose how your text will appear. It can zoom in or out, fade in or out, push from the left side, display word by word using a typewriter effect, etc. Once you pick an animation, drag the slider to set the duration.

Step 4: Go to the Out tab and choose how your text will disappear. In our example, it goes up and left like the baby shark in the video. Again, drag the slider to adjust the duration. You can apply the same animation to the text’s entrance and exit (the Combo tab). Tap the Checkmark to save the changes.

Step 5: Tap Export to save the video.

Step 6: Choose a resolution and frame rate and tap Export. You’ll find your video in your iPhone’s default gallery.

Add Text to Your Video on Desktops and Laptops

Filmora’s desktop app offers many more text effects, including customizable templates with animations. It also has more AI features and other tools for fine-tuning videos, images, and audio tracks. It’s as intuitive as the mobile app, making it perfect for beginners and semi-professionals.

Download Filmora for macOS or Filmora for Windows and follow the guide below to see how to enrich videos with text. The screenshots are from the Windows interface, but the macOS counterpart is the same.

Here’s how to add and animate text in a video on a PC or Mac using Filmora:

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Step 2: Click Import to choose a video and add it to the timeline using drag-and-drop functionality.

Step 3: Go to Titles > Title Templates and drag and drop the desired one onto the timeline (above your video). You can choose from many categories, including Lower Thirds, End Credits, Outro, Subscribe, Message, etc. Click and move the title track to any position on the timeline and drag its edges to adjust the duration.

Step 4: Change the placeholder text under Text > Basic in the Properties panel. Customize its font, size, color, and other characteristics, or choose a preset. You can also change its animation (most templates include animated text), but let’s first explore other text options.

Step 5: Go to Titles > Title Effects and drag and drop your favorite onto the timeline. You can choose from 3D Titles, Glow Text, Cinematic, Handwriting, WordArt, VFX Text, and many other categories.

Step 6: Type your text in the text layer’s box and customize its style.

Step 7: Expand More Text Options to tweak your text further. You can transform it using keyframes, change its shape, draw a unique curve or path your text will follow using the Bezier tool, or add an outline or background.

Step 8: Switch to the Animation tab and choose how your text will appear and how long the animation will play.

Step 9: Do the same for the Out animation. You can also make the text appear and disappear using the same animation (the Loop tab).

Step 10: You can also animate your text using transitions. Go to Transitions and drag and drop the desired one onto your title track. You can place it at the beginning, middle, or end and drag its edges to customize the duration.

Step 11: Experiment with other video and audio editing tools and hit Export once your video is ready.

Step 12: Choose the format, resolution, frame rate, and other output settings and hit Export. Besides saving your video locally, you can send it to another device, burn it to a DVD, or share it directly on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Vimeo, or TikTok. You can also schedule your social media posts.

Explore Other Helpful AI Features in Filmora

Filmora doesn’t have a shortage of AI features. Its state-of-the-art AI can improve your videos in many ways, from erasing unwanted objects with a few brush strokes to cloning your voice for seamless text-to-speech. Here are only some AI-powered tools available on desktop and mobile devices:

• AI Captions – Generate dynamic captions with up to 99% accuracy across dozens of languages and stylize them to suit your video’s vibe. You can choose preset templates, animate captions, change highlight words, and add matching emojis. You can also enable speaker detection and the AI Camera to track the speaker’s frame or adjust the frame zoom according to their emotions.
• AI Beats (Beat Detection on desktop) – Synchronize videos to music beats with automated beat markers, matching every scene or visual effect to the rhythm. You can sync text, animations, transitions, and other video effects to the beat, add speed ramps, and customize the beats and rhythm. You can create a show-stopping video montage or breathe more life into a fast-paced action video with multi-camera angles.
• AI Reel Maker (Smart Short Clips in the desktop app) – Turn lengthy footage into a snappy video perfect for Instagram Reels, TikTok, Facebook Reels, or YouTube Shorts. Filmora’s AI will identify and extract the highlights, compiling several results with different virality scores. It can also generate dynamic captions, background music, and visuals like transitions. You only need to choose the theme, mood, aspect ratio, and music style and let AI do its magic.

There’s much more where these AI features come from, so download Filmora to your phone and computer to discover all the possibilities of advanced video and audio editing.

Conclusion

As you can see, Filmora is an easy-to-use video editor, regardless of the device. Its intuitive interface makes everything a breeze, whether you add text to a video on an iPhone or Android, generate captions on a PC or Mac, or make other tweaks to improve videos.

If you still haven’t, download Filmora to any iOS, Android, macOS, or Windows device and start editing. You don’t have to worry about the learning curve; you’ll get the hang of everything within minutes. The app’s clean layout, seamless navigation, modern design, and time-saving AI features will streamline your editing.

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