Make a meme in your browser, with the text where it belongs

To Be Memed is a free meme editor. Pick one of more than 300 classic formats, one of 1,900+ public-domain photographs, or a picture of your own; type your lines; download a PNG. There is nothing to install, no account to make, and pictures you add never leave your device.

How to make a meme here

1. Choose a picture. The Meme formats shelf opens first — search it by name: “drake”, “buttons”, “brain”. Inspiration holds free photographs sorted into animals, faces and reactions, life and moments, and work and study. My photos takes pictures from your own computer or phone.
2. Type a line for each caption. Every text box in the panel is one caption. On the classic formats the boxes already sit where that format puts its words, so the two choices in Two Buttons land on the two buttons rather than across the middle of the picture.
3. Pick a layout and a font. Keep the template’s own boxes, put the words in a white band above the picture, use the classic Impact lettering over it, or caption each panel of a grid. The size slider makes the lettering larger or smaller.
4. Say where it is going. Standard saves the meme exactly as you see it. Facebook adds a soft border to a tall picture, so a comment preview cannot cut off the bottom caption.
5. Download the PNG. The image is drawn by your browser and saved straight to your device.

Why the words land in the right place

Most meme makers only know how many captions a format takes, so they split the picture evenly and hope. That works for Drake, which really is two halves, and fails for most of the rest: the labels in Distracted Boyfriend belong on three people, not in three stripes. Here every classic format carries its own caption boxes — measured by hand for the most used formats, found automatically for the others. The format guides print those measurements alongside what each format actually says.

Guides to the formats people use most

• Drake Hotline Bling — when you prefer one version of something to another
• Distracted Boyfriend — when something new keeps pulling your attention from what you already have
• Two Buttons — for agonising over a choice that should be easy
• Expanding Brain — for an idea that gets grander and sillier at every step
• Woman Yelling at Cat — for an argument where one side could not care less
• Change My Mind — for a hot take delivered as a dare
• Gru’s Plan — for a plan whose flaw only shows up at the end
• Buff Doge vs. Cheems — for how things used to be, compared with now
• Left Exit 12 Off Ramp — for choosing the bad option on purpose
• Trade Offer — for a wildly lopsided deal
• Bell Curve — when beginners and experts agree and everyone in between overthinks it
• UNO Draw 25 Cards — for someone who would rather suffer than do one small thing
• Batman Slapping Robin — for cutting off a bad take mid-sentence
• This Is Fine — for insisting all is well while everything is clearly on fire

Two shelves, and which one to use

The classic formats are film stills, TV frames and press photographs that became the shared vocabulary of the internet. Nobody can license those pictures, and this site does not claim to. If you are making something commercial, use the Inspiration shelf instead: every photograph on it is public domain or CC0, so the result is yours to use anywhere, with no credit owed. Where the pictures come from explains both halves in full.

Free, and what Pro adds

Everything described above is free, and free downloads carry a small watermark. Pro — $3 a month, $8 a quarter or $24 a year — removes the watermark and the ads, opens the whole photo library, and adds three tools: erasing text that is already on a picture, finding a template’s caption boxes automatically, and dragging or rotating the boxes yourself. There is still no account: paying emails you a licence key, and the key is the login.

Questions

Do I need to sign up?

No. The editor works the moment the page loads. Only Pro involves a purchase, and even then there is no password — just a key.

Are my photos uploaded anywhere?

No. Pictures you add are kept by your own browser, on the device you are using. They do not follow you to another computer, and clearing this site’s data in your browser deletes them.

Can I caption a meme I already have?

Yes: add it under My photos and give it a white caption band above the picture. Removing the words already burned into it is one of the Pro tools.

I lost my Pro key.

Have it sent again to the address you paid with. The same page opens Stripe’s billing portal to change your card or cancel.

One of these pictures is mine. Can you remove it?

Yes. Email hello@tobememed.com with the template name or a link. Removal is permanent; the terms give the detail.