Generate it here, import it as an overlay, let it loop
CapCut doesn't have a built-in typing search bar, but it imports animated GIFs as overlays — which is all you need. Generate the bar here, save it to your device, and bring it into CapCut as a layer above your clip. Because the GIF is transparent and loops on its own, the typing effect plays over your video with no keyframing. This works the same on the CapCut mobile app and the desktop version.
Create your CapCut-ready typing bar and export a transparent GIF — no watermark.
Open the Animated Search Bar →On the CapCut mobile app, overlays live under the Overlay tool and behave like a second video clip you can pinch to resize and drag to position. On CapCut desktop, you import the GIF into the media pool and drag it onto a track above your main video. Either way, the transparency is respected automatically, so there's no white box to remove and no chroma keying needed.
Export from the generator at 2× or 3× so the bar stays crisp when CapCut scales it to a full vertical frame. The generated GIF carries no watermark — if you see a CapCut logo on your final video, that comes from CapCut's export settings, which you can switch off before saving. For an even sharper solid-background bar, you can use the WebM export and import that instead.
Match the bar theme to your footage — a dark bar over bright clips, a light bar over dark ones. Keep the typed text short so it stays readable on a phone. And if your source video isn't vertical yet, crop it to 9:16 first with the video converter so the bar lines up with the final frame.
In CapCut tap Overlay, then Add overlay, and select the GIF from your gallery or files. It appears as a layer above your video that you can move, scale and extend.
Yes. CapCut reads the GIF's transparency, so only the bar and text show over your clip with no white box around them.
Not from the generator. The exported GIF is watermark-free. Any CapCut watermark comes from CapCut's own export settings, which you can disable.