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Carousel Generator

Design and export beautifully-styled multi-slide carousels for Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, X/Twitter and more — AI writes the copy, templates handle the design.

Updated April 23, 2026

Carousel Generator

The Carousel Generator is a full visual carousel builder. You give it a topic (or an article URL), and it writes and designs a complete carousel — hook, points, and CTA — across six professionally-styled templates. You can then edit every slide in place, tune the design, and export as PNG files ready to upload to Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, X/Twitter, or anywhere else you post slides.

Carousel Generator form

How to Use It

1. Pick a source

You can start from either:

  • A topic — describe what your carousel is about in a sentence or two
  • An article URL — paste a link and we'll extract the key ideas and turn them into slides

Specific beats broad. "5 reasons your YouTube reach drops in the first 30 days" produces a much better carousel than "YouTube tips."

2. Set the basics

  • Platform size — Instagram Square (1:1), Instagram Portrait (4:5), Instagram Story (9:16), Facebook (4:5), LinkedIn (4:5), or X/Twitter (16:9). You can switch this later in the editor without regenerating.
  • Number of slides — 3 to 10 (guests are capped at 5)
  • Target audience — who you're writing for (e.g. "small business owners")
  • Bullet points in slide bodies — three choices:
    • Let AI decide — use bullets when the content reads better as a scannable list
    • Always — force bullets for slides with 2+ distinct points
    • Never — keep everything as prose
  • Template — six presets with different color, font, and layout personalities (see below)

3. Generate

A few seconds later you're in the editor with a full carousel ready to tweak.

Templates

Each template ships with its own background, font, and accent style. Pick one to start; every styling choice is still editable per slide afterward.

  • Bold Gradient — Rich dark gradients with high-contrast type. Great for statement-style hooks.
  • Clean Minimal — Lots of whitespace, subtle accent color, numbered slides. Professional and easy to read.
  • Editorial Serif — Magazine-style centered layouts with Playfair Display serif. Feels premium.
  • Dark Neon — Deep black backgrounds with glowing accent text and a faint grid. Punchy and modern.
  • Photo Overlay — Uses your uploaded background image with a readable gradient overlay for text. Requires a free account.
  • Quote Card — Large centered italic quote with a decorative dividing line. Perfect for testimonials or standalone insights.

You can change templates at any time from the right sidebar — the switch applies the template's default styling only to slides you haven't customized, so your manual edits stick.

Carousel Generator results

The Editor

The editor has three columns:

Left — Slides list. Click a slide to edit it, drag to reorder, or hover to delete. Use the Add slide button to insert a new one (blank or AI-generated). Carousels hold 3–10 slides.

Middle — Live preview. Shows the slide you're currently editing at the selected platform size. Switch platform sizes with the dropdown above the preview — the change is reflected immediately. Below the preview you'll find:

  • Export ZIP — downloads all slides as PNGs
  • Create Draft Post — renders the slides to PNG and saves them as a draft in your workspace scheduler (requires a workspace)

Right — Controls. Every design choice lives here.

Editing Slide Content

Each slide has two editable fields — Title and Body — both backed by a rich text editor.

Supported formatting:

  • Bold, italic, underline
  • Text color (pick from a 12-color palette or clear the color)
  • Bulleted and numbered lists (body only — titles stay plaintext)

Formatting is preserved through to the exported PNG, so bullets you add here show up in the final image.

If you want the AI to write new copy for one slide without touching the others, click Regenerate this slide only above the preview. Regenerate whole carousel on the left rebuilds everything (each uses 1 generation credit).

Designing the Slides

Every styling control has an Apply to all button — set the look on one slide, then propagate it to the rest.

Slide label

The small badge that reads "HOOK · 1 / 5" at the top of each slide is configurable:

  • Show label on this slide — hide it entirely if you want a cleaner look
  • Custom label text — override the default with anything you like. Use {n} for the current slide number and {total} for the total count. For example, Slide {n}/{total}, Page {n}, or Tip {n}.

Background

Three modes:

  • Solid — one color
  • Gradient — blend two colors. You also get:
    • Gradient type: Linear, Radial, Angular (conic), or Diamond
    • Angle (for Linear and Angular) — 0° to 360°
    • Start and end color stops — move them closer together for a sharper transition or further apart for a smoother blend
  • Background image — upload a JPG/PNG/WebP up to 10 MB (requires a free account). Uploading an image auto-switches the slide back to solid-color mode since they're mutually exclusive.

Background pattern

A decorative overlay you can apply on top of any background (solid, gradient, or image). Eight predefined patterns:

  • Dots, Grid, Diagonal lines, Circles, Waves, Chevron, Plus signs, Triangles

Pick a pattern, choose its color, and adjust the opacity slider to make it subtle or bold. Useful for adding visual texture without needing custom artwork.

Text & accent

  • Text color — the main copy color
  • Accent — used for the label, the accent bar in Bold Gradient, the numbered headings in Clean Minimal, etc.

Fonts

Ten typefaces are available for both the title and the body (they can be different):

Inter, Poppins, Montserrat, Oswald, Anton, Playfair Display, Georgia, Impact, Courier New, System Sans

Per-slide Title size and Body size sliders let you scale text from 0.5× to 2× the template default. There's also a Text shadow / glow toggle — especially useful on Photo Overlay and Dark Neon.

Upload a JPG, PNG, WebP, or SVG (up to 5 MB) and it stamps onto every slide. You can:

  • Show / hide on slides — toggle the logo per-carousel
  • Position — pick any corner: Top Left, Top Right, Bottom Left, Bottom Right

Logo settings are carousel-wide, not per-slide.

Exporting

Export ZIP

Click Export ZIP to download all slides as individual PNG files rendered at full platform resolution.

Multi-platform export (Pro)

Pro users can author once and export at multiple platform sizes in a single ZIP. Click Also export for other platforms… above the preview and check the additional sizes you want. The ZIP is organized with a folder per size (e.g. instagram_square/slide-01.png, linkedin/slide-01.png) so you can grab the right version for each destination.

The primary size (the one set in the preview dropdown) is always included. Free accounts see this option locked with an upgrade prompt.

Note: multi-platform export only affects the ZIP. Create Draft Post always uses the primary size, since a draft targets one platform.

Create Draft Post

If you have a workspace, click Create Draft Post to send the slides straight into your workspace scheduler as a draft ContentPost. From there you can set a publish date and schedule it like any other post. The platform the draft targets is derived automatically from the carousel size (Instagram sizes → Instagram, and so on).

Auto-save and history

Signed-in users' carousels auto-save to their history as they edit — there's nothing to click. The "Saved just now" indicator under the preview confirms each save. Return to your history at any time to pick up where you left off.

Guests can still create and edit carousels (up to 5 slides, 3 generations per day), but carousels aren't saved to history unless they sign up. If a guest edits a carousel and then signs up, the in-progress work automatically migrates to their account.

Tips for Best Results

Lead with the most specific angle you have. "Content mistakes" is too broad. "Mistakes that kill your reach in the first 30 days" gives the AI a sharper direction and gives your audience a reason to care.

Regenerate the hook if it's flat. The rest of the carousel can be salvaged with edits, but if your hook doesn't grab attention, nobody swipes. Generate a few times until you get a hook that earns the swipe.

Keep slides short. Even if the editor lets you type more, resist it. One idea per slide, short sentences, plenty of white space. Carousels that try to say too much on each slide lose readers before the CTA.

Use bullets deliberately. "Always bullets" works great for list-format carousels ("5 tips…", "3 mistakes…"). For narrative carousels, leave it on "Let AI decide" or switch to "Never" — prose reads better for those.

Match the template to the message. Quote Card for testimonials, Bold Gradient for statements, Editorial Serif for longer-form storytelling, Dark Neon for tech/design content, Clean Minimal when clarity matters more than flair.

Pick a pattern for visual depth. A subtle dots or grid pattern at 15–20% opacity adds texture without competing with your copy. Go bolder (40%+) when the pattern is the point — e.g. chevrons or waves for a bold accent slide.

Reuse structures you like. A carousel about "5 mistakes beginners make" becomes "5 things pros do differently" with a few edits. Once you have a structure that works, reuse it on new topics.

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