There is no better way to send a message than writing it on a photo or image, to reinforce the concept and make it indelible in memory. The photos with personalized writings, in addition to being perfect for sending messages or greeting cards, also have an extraordinary success when shared on Facebook, even if in that case we speak of "memes", that is, images with effect slogans.
If in another article we had discovered several sites to write on images, we see here some of the best free apps, very easy to use, to write and draw on photos so you can send them in chat, on Whatsapp, on Facebook, Instagram or where you want.
1) The Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Instagram and Whatsapp applications (all Facebook apps), in their camera function, allow you to write on photos, draw on them and also add various types of stickers . On the Facebook application, you have to create a new post or status update with photos, shoot, accept, then enter edit mode to write text over it or add other effects and then publish. On the Facebook Messenger app, however, just press the central button at the bottom to enter photo shooting mode and then add the writing with the button at the top, then send the photo to the desired contacts.
The Instagram app allows you to write on photos before sharing them. On Whatsapp you can open a chat, take a photo or upload one from the gallery and then, before sending it, use the T key to write on the photo or use the other buttons to draw and add various effects.
All 4 of these applications, then, now have the function of stories (Stories on Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram and Status on Whatsapp), where it is possible to create a photo with writings that remain visible to others for 24 hours.
2) Phonto is an app for iPhone and Android, free, which allows you to place an inscription on the photos saved in the phone, in the photos taken with the application or in a series of black and white images. When adding text to photos, you can select the font, size, angle, position and color. Among the basic fonts, there are also typewriter fonts, handwriting, and creative writing. Phonto also allows you to add your own fonts by installing them from your computer, connecting your iPhone to your computer and, using iTunes, by dragging the .ttf or .otf font files. Unfortunately, there is a lot of difference between the iPhone and Android apps and while Phonto on the iPhone is full of features, the Android version is more simplified and limited.
2) Apps to add text to photos for iPhone and Android are free and simple, perfect for sharing slogans and phrases by choosing quickly from a predefined library of templates.
4) Aillis, ex Line Camera, the popular app for taking funny photos for iOS and Android has many functions for editing and improving photos, including those for drawing and writing on photos. Aillis is a fairly important app that is not worth downloading just for the writing function, but appreciated for all that it contains and the powerful and fun functions.
5) PicLab - Photo Editor is also another app, for iPhone and Android with many photo editing tools, including the function of adding writings to photos on multiple levels, with different fonts as you create an advertising billboard and also for write on it freehand, with a drawing tool. The fonts available have been designed by professional graphic designers and it is possible to add writings of various sizes, opaque or semi-transparent, colored and rotated as you wish, even with text shadows.
6) PhotoFy is an app for iPhone and Android specialized in collages and photo retouching, which also includes a hundred fonts to create personalized writings to be added on top of the photos. There are plenty of writing modes to use to personalize messages or create effect images, with a wide choice of special effects, masks and stickers.
7) Adobe Spark, for now only for iPhone, is an app of incredible quality for writing on photos in different ways, with simple to use tools that allow you to create images similar to those of billboards.
8) Canva, for iPhone / iPad, is one of the most professional apps in the store, with the functions of editing images, graphic composition and also worthy and writing on photos.
Canva is perhaps the best free app for drawing custom images and graphic models.
9) Docusign and Adobe Acrobat, among the apps for signing scanned documents on iPhone and Android, must certainly be included in this list of applications for writing on images.
10) Fotor, for Android and iPhone, is a magnificent photo editing app that includes functions for freehand drawing over images and writing on them adding text and writing.
11) You Doodle is a very nice app for Android and iPhone to draw on photos and add text by choosing the type of writing among the many fonts available.
12) InkBoard, free on Android and iPhone is an app for drawing on photos in different ways, using chalk, marker, highlighter and brush, also for freehand writing.
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