--- title: "Add Music to a Photo, Free, No Watermark | audiogram.video" description: "Add a song to a photo and save it as a video for Instagram, WhatsApp or family. Choose the song, add the picture, pick the best part. Free, in your browser." url: https://audiogram.video/add-music-to-photo --- Free · no watermark · in your browser # Add music to a photo One picture, one song, one video. Choose the music, add your photo, pick the part of the song you love and save an MP4 that plays anywhere. To add music to a photo, you turn the two into a short video: the photo becomes the picture and the song plays over it. Here you start with the song, because that is what the button on the card opens. Then add the photo under **Style** → **Background** → **Photo**, choose which part of the song to use, and export an MP4. Photos themselves can’t hold music, which is why Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook only play a song behind a picture when it has been made into a video, or added with their own music tools. The **Photo and song** template keeps things simple: your picture fills the frame with a soft wave along the bottom, and no words unless you add them. The photo never leaves your device, nor does the song unless you ask for captions, and there is no watermark. ## How to add music to a picture 1. ### Choose the song first **Portrait** (4:5) is selected, the shape that fills the most of an Instagram or Facebook feed. Pick **Vertical** for Stories or WhatsApp Status. Press **Choose a song** (Ctrl+O or ⌘+O) and pick an MP3, M4A, WAV or other audio file. 2. ### Add the photo The studio opens on **Style**, with **Background** set to **Photo**. Press **Choose a photo** and pick your picture. It fills the frame; **Darken** dims it if you add words on top. 3. ### Pick the part of the song A song longer than 75 seconds opens on its liveliest 30 seconds, often the chorus. Drag the window on the timeline under the preview to another part, or the handles to make it longer or shorter. **Length** in **Audio** sets 15 to 90 seconds in one press. 4. ### Export and save Press **Export**, then **Export video**. On a phone, press **Share** and save it to your photos or send it; on a computer, press **Download video**. ## Making the photo look its best * **Match the shape to the photo.** A portrait phone photo suits **Portrait** or **Vertical**; a landscape holiday shot suits **Landscape** or **Square**. You can change the shape in **Templates** after adding the photo, and the picture is re-framed to fill it. * **Use the original, not a screenshot.** A picture straight from your camera roll stays sharp at 1080p. A screenshot of a photo, or one saved from a chat app, is smaller and looks soft. * **Keep the wave small, or remove it.** The template has a gentle wave along the bottom. In **Wave**, lower **Size**, or choose **None** for the photo alone. * **Words are optional.** Add a **Title** in **Text** for a name, a date or a place. **Darken** under **Style** keeps white text readable on a bright picture. ### Adding a little movement A still photo with music is often exactly right. If you want more, choose **Vinyl** in **Templates** and add the picture as **Cover art** under **Text** to make it the label of a spinning record, or try **Halo** to put it in a circle with the sound pulsing around it. ## Choosing the music Any song file you have on your phone or computer works: MP3, M4A, WAV, FLAC, OGG and more. A video file works too, and only its sound is used, which is handy for a recording of someone singing or a voice message you want to keep with a photo. * Songs from a streaming subscription (Spotify, Apple Music and similar) are protected and can’t be opened by other apps. Use a song you bought, your own recording or royalty-free music. * For a public post, music you don’t own may be muted or blocked by the platform. Instagram and Facebook’s own music stickers are licensed for use there, so for a famous song, posting the photo with the app’s music feature can be the better route. * For a private video to family and friends, any song file you own is fine to use. ## Adding music to a picture on Android Android phones have a built-in way to do this in Google Photos, which makes a short “highlight video” from the pictures you choose: * Open **Google Photos**, tap **Create**, then **Highlight video**. * Tap **Select content**, choose your photo and tap **Create video**. * Tap **Edit** to change the music. Google’s own tracks are offered, and you can use music downloaded to the phone once Photos has permission to access music and audio. * Tap **Save** to keep the video in your library. Samsung phones also have movie and story tools in the Gallery app, though the menu names change between One UI versions and the music on offer is mostly Samsung’s own. If you want a specific song from your files, a particular shape such as 4:5, or full control over which part of the song plays, the studio on this page works in Chrome on Android with the same steps as above. On an iPhone, Photos Memories and iMovie are the built-in options. The [iPhone guide](https://audiogram.video/add-music-to-photo-iphone) goes through both. ## Adding music to a photo: FAQs ### How do I add a song to a photo for free? Open the song here, add the photo with **Choose a photo** under **Style**, pick the part of the song and export. It is free, with no watermark and no account. ### Can I add music to a photo for an Instagram post? Yes, two ways. Instagram lets you add a song from its own library when you post a photo. Or make a video here with your own music file and post that; the [Instagram audio guide](https://audiogram.video/how-to-add-your-own-audio-to-instagram) explains which to choose. ### Can I add music to several photos at once? No. This makes one video from one photo and one song. For several pictures, a slideshow app or the movie tools in Google Photos or iMovie are the better fit. ### How long can the video be? From a few seconds up to 10 minutes, so a whole song fits. Most posts work best with 15 to 60 seconds of the best part. ### Will the photo lose quality? It is drawn into the video at 1080p (1080×1350 in **Portrait**), which is the size feeds show. Video compression can soften very fine detail slightly, but a good original photo stays sharp. ### Are my photo and song uploaded? No. Both are opened and turned into a video in your browser. The photo is never sent anywhere, and the song only would be if you pressed **Make captions**, which a music video doesn’t need. ### Can I add a voice message to a photo instead of a song? Yes. Open the voice recording instead of a song. You can even add captions of what is said in the **Captions** panel; pressing **Make captions** sends that clip’s sound to our speech provider to write it out. ## More ways to turn sound into video * [ Free audiogram maker Turn a recording into a video with a moving wave, cover art and captions. ](https://audiogram.video/) * [ How to add music to a photo on iPhone iMovie and Photos memories step by step, plus a browser option with no app. ](https://audiogram.video/add-music-to-photo-iphone) * [ Add an image to an MP3 Embed cover art in the MP3, or combine the audio and picture into a video. ](https://audiogram.video/add-image-to-mp3) * [ How to add your own audio to Instagram Use your own song, podcast or voice memo in Stories and Reels. ](https://audiogram.video/how-to-add-your-own-audio-to-instagram) * [ Music visualizer maker Spectrum bars, rings and spinning records that move with a song, saved as MP4. ](https://audiogram.video/music-visualizer)