Add a GIF, image or video on top — no watermark, no sign-up, no upload
"Free" video tools usually come with strings: a watermark stamped across the result, a five-second length cap, a forced account, or an upload step that hands your footage to a server. This overlay tool has none of that. This page lays out exactly what you get for free, why it can be free, and how it compares to the paid editors people usually reach for.
Open the free overlay tool and add a GIF, image or video to your clip — no watermark, no account, nothing uploaded.
Open the Video Overlay tool →Free means free: no payment, no trial countdown, no email gate, and — the important one — no watermark on your exported video. The only graphic added to your footage is the overlay you chose yourself. You can use it as many times as you like, on as many videos as you like, without logging in.
The tool runs entirely in your browser using built-in web APIs — Canvas for compositing and MediaRecorder for encoding. There's no rendering server doing the heavy lifting, so there's no per-export cost to recover with subscriptions or watermarks. Your device does the work, which is also why nothing needs to be uploaded.
The free tool isn't a stripped-down demo. You can overlay an animated GIF, a transparent PNG/WebP, a JPEG image or a second video. You get nine anchor positions plus custom X/Y placement, size as a percentage of width or height, opacity from 5% to 100%, rotation, an optional fade, and looping for the whole clip or a precise timed window. You can trim the base video, scale the output, choose the bitrate and frame rate, keep the base audio and mix in overlay audio, and render faster with the 2× / 4× modes. A live preview shows the result before you commit.
A desktop NLE like Premiere or a paid online editor can do far more — multi-track timelines, keyframed motion, effects. But for the specific job of dropping a GIF, logo or clip onto a video, they're slow to set up and many online ones add a watermark unless you pay. For that one task this tool is faster, private and genuinely free. When you outgrow it — needing animated motion paths or several stacked overlays at once — a full editor is the next step.
Because the processing is local, "free" doesn't mean "we monetise your data." Your video and overlay never leave your device, so there's nothing to harvest. It works offline once the page has loaded.
No fixed cap. The render runs in real time, so longer videos simply take longer; your device's memory is the practical limit.
No. There is no paid tier and no watermark. The output contains only your footage and the overlay you added.
No. It runs in the browser — no download, no extension, no account.
Yes. There are no usage restrictions from the tool itself; just make sure you have the rights to the footage and overlay you use.