Add speech, thought, shout, whisper and caption bubbles to a picture, or make them on a transparent background, then download a PNG. Free, no sign-up, and your image never leaves your device.
Drag a bubble to move it. Drag the square handle to resize it and the round handle to aim the tail. Arrow keys nudge the selected bubble; Delete removes it.
With no background image, the PNG has a transparent background.
Choose speech, thought, shout, whisper, caption or a manga-style vertical bubble. Add as many as the panel needs.
Write the dialogue in the text box. It wraps inside the bubble and shrinks to fit if the bubble is too small.
Drag the bubble into position, resize it from the square handle, and drag the round handle so the tail points at the speaker.
Add your own picture as a background, or leave it empty for a transparent PNG you can drop into any comic, slide or meme.
In comics, the shape of a balloon tells the reader how a line is said before they read a word.
The plain oval with a pointed tail is ordinary talk. The tail points at the speaker's mouth and stops just short of it.
A cloud with a trail of small circles is a thought nobody else in the scene can hear. The circles lead to the thinker's head.
A spiky burst is a shout, an alarm or a sudden shock. Use it once in a scene; if every line shouts, nothing does.
A dashed outline is a whisper or a line spoken under the breath. The broken border reads as a quieter voice.
A box with no tail is a caption: narration, a time jump ("Later…") or a place name. It has no speaker, so it has no tail.
Manga letters Japanese text in tall, narrow balloons that read top to bottom, with columns running right to left. This option lays your text out that way.
The free printable speech bubble template has twelve empty balloon shapes, a practice strip and a one-page lettering cheat sheet as a PDF.
ComicInk's AI comic maker writes the script and draws each page with the dialogue already lettered in speech bubbles and the narration in caption boxes, in 22 languages. It needs a free account; new accounts get 100 credits with no card.
Yes. It is free, needs no sign-up and adds no watermark. It runs entirely in your browser, so there is nothing to install.
No. A background image is opened by your browser on your own device, and the PNG is drawn there too. Nothing is sent to ComicInk or anyone else.
Yes. Leave the background empty and the downloaded PNG is transparent everywhere outside the bubbles, ready to place over a comic panel, a photo or a slide.
Yes. The Manga vertical bubble writes the text top to bottom in columns that run right to left, the way Japanese manga is lettered. It works best for Japanese, Chinese or Korean text.
Yes. You can drag bubbles, the resize handle and the tail with a finger. On a computer you can also select a bubble with Tab and nudge it with the arrow keys.
You can letter in Bangers, a comic capitals face, or Inter, a clean sans-serif. The text wraps inside the bubble and shrinks to fit if the bubble is too small.
Yes. ComicInk's AI comic maker draws each page with the dialogue lettered in speech bubbles and the narration in caption boxes, in any of 22 languages. That part needs a free account, and new accounts start with 100 credits.