CarouselDraft
Turn articles into LinkedIn and Instagram carousels
About CarouselDraft
CarouselDraft is an AI carousel maker that turns long-form writing into slide carousels for LinkedIn and Instagram. You start from something you have already written or read, a public article URL, a block of pasted text or a text-based PDF, and CarouselDraft drafts an outline that becomes a sequence of editable slides. The problem it addresses is a common one for anyone who publishes on social platforms: a good article or report rarely reaches the people scrolling a feed, and rebuilding it slide by slide in a design tool takes longer than writing it did. CarouselDraft shortens that step without taking the content decisions away from you.
What sets it apart is how much of the workflow is built around checking the draft rather than trusting it. Each slide keeps a link to the passage it came from, so you can read the original paragraph without leaving the project and confirm names, numbers and context before you share anything. The site is direct about the limits of that feature: source links make review easier, but they do not verify a claim for you. Pricing is simple. A 14-day free trial includes 3 generations and 3 exports with no card required, and the single paid plan, Pro, costs $19 a month.
First you add your source. CarouselDraft accepts a public article URL, text you paste in, or a text-based PDF of up to 30 pages, which makes it suitable for blog posts, newsletters, reports and research summaries alike.
Next you review the AI draft. The tool proposes an outline, for example five points pulled from an article about remote work, and you choose whether to use it. Once you accept it, you compare each slide with its source passage, edit the wording and rearrange the order until the sequence says what you want it to say.
Then you design and download. You pick one of six layouts, choose a 1:1 square or 4:5 portrait format, apply your brand colors, logo and text, and check each slide. Finally you export either a single PDF, the format LinkedIn uses for document carousels, or a ZIP of PNG images for an Instagram post. CarouselDraft prepares the files; you upload them to the platform yourself.
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Three Input Sources - Start from a public article URL, pasted text or a text-based PDF of up to 30 pages. The same workflow handles a short blog post and a long report, so you can turn PDF findings into slides as easily as a web article.
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AI-Drafted Outline You Approve - The AI suggests the structure of the carousel, but nothing is used until you accept it. You stay in charge of which points make the cut and in what order they appear.
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Source Links on Every Slide - Each slide links back to the paragraph it was built from, and you can read that passage inside the project. This makes it practical to check figures, quotes and context before publishing rather than after.
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Six Editable Templates - Minimal, Modern, Clean, Editorial, Bold and Creative layouts cover different tones, from a single headline per slide to an explanation paired with an image. Titles, body text, images and slide order can all be changed, with up to 12 slides per carousel.
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AI Rewrites on Request - When a sentence is too long for a slide, you can ask the AI for a shorter version and decide whether to keep it. The trial includes 10 rewrite requests and Pro includes 300 per billing month.
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Brand Settings and Export History - Pro saves your brand settings and keeps a project and export history. Re-downloading an export you already made does not use another export from your allowance.
CarouselDraft suits marketers and content teams who already publish articles and want a second life for them on LinkedIn and Instagram without opening a design tool for every post. Consultants, analysts and researchers can turn a PDF report into a short carousel that summarizes the findings while keeping the original passage one click away for fact-checking. Founders and solo creators who write a regular newsletter will find it a quick way to repurpose each issue into a document carousel. Because the workflow puts review first, it also fits anyone who has been burned by AI summaries that drift from the source and wants to check every slide against the text it came from. The free trial covers a few real carousels before you decide whether Pro is worth $19 a month.
