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Participant
November 19, 2025
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P: Ability to add text directly to a photo

  • November 19, 2025
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The mobile app is powerful for color grading, but the absence of a text feature even in the premium plan limits workflow for many creators. Please consider adding a built-in text tool. It would be a huge upgrade! 📌

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Community Manager
November 19, 2025

These details are great, very helpful!

Participant
November 19, 2025
Participant
November 19, 2025

Thank you for the reply. I am referring only to Lightroom Mobile. The feature I am asking for is a simple and flexible text tool that allows users to add text directly on photos inside the app.

My workflow is very basic. I edit my photo in Lightroom, but I have to export it to another app just to add text like a title, date, caption, watermark or a small note. A built in text tool will help creators finish everything inside Lightroom Mobile without switching apps.

Some clear requests for this feature:
-Add text on photos
-Choose font style and size
-Adjust color, opacity, alignment and position
-Simple background or outline options
-Ability to save text presets
-A stylus writing option to write our own text if some languages are not supported

About watermarking: the watermark feature already exists, but it is mainly for watermarks only and feels very limited. A proper text tool will solve this.

There is already object detection available in the premium plan, so using that to allow placing text behind a subject or object would make the feature even more powerful.

Community Manager
November 19, 2025

Please be specific -- what should this feature do.  For both desktop and mobile apps?  I'm asking if you can provide specific details on your desired workflow?

 

Edit: specific requests from the user community work best. My employee intrepretation of your meaning carries less weight than your true intention.