Art Text - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

Design eye-catching text based graphics, logos, postcards and greetings with Art Text - a graphic design app that powers up typography and lettering in your desktop publishing, social media, and video projects.

Get started with any of 700+ templates (paid and free), or craft your own text effects using versatile 2D and 3D design tools.

Harness the power of Artificial Intelligence to enhance text effects and create extremely realistic typography. 

Enjoy over 170 AI templates (paid and free), each thoughtfully tailored for seamless integration with the AI Wizard. These templates include an Art Text design, optimized text prompts, and fine-tuned AI settings to deliver exceptional graphical results.

Bring your text to life with the built-in animation tool. Create dynamic motion titles and animated text effects for video intros, YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, Keynote presentations, and more.

CREATING 3D TEXT

• Unique 3D Engine.

Type a text in Art Text, and watch it instantly create a 3D model from a user-chosen typeface.

• Bump Map Technology.

Add and fine-tune bumps and wrinkles on a 3D text surface to simulate the natural roughness of brick, ice, rust metal, etc.

• Reflection Mask Tool.

Maximize surface roughness authenticity with Reflection Mask, which defines reflective and non-reflective areas. It is especially useful for rusty, decayed or scratched surfaces.

• Environment Textures.

Environment texture is a great way to simulate reflections from external sources.

• Light Options.

Control the way 3D text is lit by moving spotlights and changing light colors.

• 200+ Material Presets.

Creating high-quality 3D typography is simplified with material presets. Each preset is an exclusive combination of texture, bump map, environment and light options.

• Soft Shadow.

Activating the shadow option will drop the natural shadow of a 3D text object.

• Glow Effect.

The 3D glow effect makes bright surface areas literally radiate.

• Parallel Projection.

See how 3D object view transitions from Perspective to Parallel projection instantly.

• Facebook 3D Photo

Export 3D text in the format suitable for Facebook 3D Photo.

2D TEXT EFFECTS

• Spray Fill.

Populate text with over 440 photo objects to simulate the effect of words being laid out with such objects as coffee beans, color balls, autumn leaves and clouds.

• Distortion Effects.

Edit fonts beyond common typeface options to wear out text sides, create random holes in the body, partially dim text and much more.

• Shading Materials.

Create convex and embossed text effects or replicate a gleam of light on text.

• Twist and Bend.

Transform text shapes with any of the 24 transformation patterns.

• Text Outline Effects.

A common set of effects includes: Shadow, Glow, Inner Shadow and Stroke.

• Brand-new rendering based on Apple Metal.

GENERAL

• 700+ text design templates (paid and free).

• 750+ supplied smart shapes, vector icons, symbols, signs and hand-drawn shapes.

• 150 masks.

• Enhance the design with the use of Artificial Intelligence.

• Extend workspace to an iPad display thanks to Apple Sidecar support.

Export the entire graphics to PNG, PDF, JPEG, GIF format, alpha channel (transparent background) supported. Export text animations to QuickTime, MP4, M4V, and GIF formats.