Create a carousel

Build a carousel slide by slide, then use Smart Carousel to rewrite copy with AI.

The Carousel Maker is where you put the deck together — slide layouts, text, images, brand styling. You can build slide by slide on a blank canvas, or start from a template and edit. Once a base design exists, Smart Carousel can rewrite or expand the copy across all slides for you using AI.

Want a finished design to start from instead? See Templates — the gallery has 40+ ready-to-edit decks.

Open the editor

In the left sidebar, click Carousels › Create New. Carousify opens a fresh deck with one blank slide.

The top bar has the three things you’ll touch most:

Control	What it does
Sizes (Portrait / Square)	Switch between 4:5 and 1:1. The whole deck reflows to the new ratio.
Smart Carousel	Open the AI generator — covered below.
Save Draft / Download / Publish	Save progress, export the deck, or hand it to the post composer.

Generate with Smart Carousel

Smart Carousel is a copywriting tool, not a design tool. It only writes, rewrites, or expands the text on your slides — it does not generate slide layouts, choose colors, or place graphics. You bring the design (a template, your saved layouts, or slides you’ve laid out yourself) and Smart Carousel fills in the words.

Smart Carousel needs a base design first — at least 2–3 slides with headings or text content already on them. On a blank deck (one empty slide) you’ll get an “At least 3 slides are needed” error. Start from a template or rough out a few slides yourself, then open Smart Carousel.

Once you have a base, click Smart Carousel to open the generator. It has four modes — pick the one that matches your source material.

A.I. Generator

Describe the topic. AI writes the copy for each slide based on your description.

From Website URL

Paste a blog post or article URL. AI summarizes it into slide-by-slide copy.

From YouTube Video

Paste a YouTube link. AI pulls the transcript and turns it into slide copy.

From PDF File

Upload a PDF — research paper, ebook, report — and get a slide-by-slide rewrite.

1. Pick a mode

   Switch tabs to A.I. Generator, From Website URL, From YouTube Video, or From PDF File.

2. Provide the source

   • A.I. Generator — type a topic (e.g. 10 tips to improve your LinkedIn presence) and a short description. The more specific the description, the closer the result lands to what you want.
   • From Website URL — paste the article URL.
   • From YouTube Video — paste the video URL.
   • From PDF File — upload a PDF.
3. Choose slide count

   Use the − / + controls under Number of slides to set how many slides the AI should produce. Default is 9.

4. Generate

   Click Generate. AI rewrites the text on your existing slides — same layout, same design, new copy. The slide count picker controls how many slides the rewrite spans (matching, expanding, or condensing your base design).

   Smart Carousel is a starting point, not a final draft. Always read through each slide and tighten the copy before publishing — AI tends to over-explain.

Build from a blank canvas

If you’d rather design slide by slide, ignore Smart Carousel and work directly in the Content tab.

Add text

Three text styles are pre-set — heading, subheading, and body — so they pick up your Brand Kit’s typography automatically.

Button	Adds
Add Heading	Slide title (largest text, Brand Kit heading style).
Add Subheading	Secondary line (Brand Kit subheading style).
Add Text Content	Body paragraph (Brand Kit body style).

Click any text element to edit it inline. Highlight a section to change its color or weight without affecting the rest of the slide.

Add an image

The upload zone in the Content tab accepts:

• Drag and drop files from Finder/Explorer.
• Paste images directly from the clipboard (⌘ V).
• Browse — click the zone to pick from your computer.

PNG, JPG, and GIF up to 10 MB per file.

Don’t have an image to upload? The same picker has an AI tab — describe what you want and generate one. See AI Image Generator.

Add shapes, icons, and elements

Click Add Elements to open the elements library — shapes, icons, decorative graphics, and accent pieces. Drop one onto the canvas and resize/recolor it like any other layer.

Edit a selected element

Click any element on a slide — text, image, or shape — and the Content panel switches to its settings. This is where you fine-tune everything about that one layer.

The panel groups the controls into a few sections:

Section	Controls
Position	Height, Width, X-Axis, Y-Axis, Rotate. Type exact pixel values or drag the layer on the canvas.
Text formatting	Bold, italic, underline, strikethrough, highlight, lists, alignment — same shortcuts you’d expect in a doc editor.
Typography	Font family, weight (Thin → Extra Bold), font size, letter spacing, line height, text color, fill color.
Layout	Align (left/center/right/top/middle/bottom), move, flip, bring to front, send to back, opacity, padding, border radius.
Border	Width, type (solid/dashed/dotted/double), color.
Filters	Outline, Hollow, Reflection, Glow, Glitch, Shadow, Split — applied as visual effects on the element.

Use Esc to deselect and return to the default Content tab.

Highlight just a portion of text inside a heading or paragraph and the formatting controls apply only to that selection. Useful for accent words in a different color or weight.

Manage slides

The slide tray below the canvas shows every slide in the deck.

• Reorder — drag and drop to change slide order.
• Add a new slide — duplicate an existing one (⌘ C / ⌘ V on a slide) or scroll to the end of the tray for the + button.
• Reset Slide — undoes changes on the current slide and reverts it to its starting state.
• Slide N / M — current slide indicator with Previous / Next buttons.

6–12 slides is the sweet spot for LinkedIn carousels. Fewer than 5 and you don’t give the swipe enough payoff; more than 12 and readers drop off.

Set deck-wide styles (Global tab)

The Global tab is for changes that should apply to every slide at once — no need to update each slide individually.

What you can change here:

• Themes — pick from a grid of pre-built theme presets. One click swaps colors and typography across the whole deck.
• Show Slide Numbers — toggle slide numbers on/off across the deck.
• Use Image Backgrounds — turn image backgrounds on, then upload an image and adjust Background Opacity to set how strongly it shows behind text.
• Heading / Sub-heading / Text Color / Background — color pickers that apply to every slide at once. Use the Pre Defined Color Pallate below if you want a curated combination.

Set the deck-wide colors and theme in Global first, then jump to slide-by-slide tweaks in Content. Doing it the other way around means redoing per-slide work the moment you change a global value.

Apply your Brand Kit

Open the Brand Kit tab to apply your saved logo, name, fonts, and colors to the whole deck in one click. Toggle Override Template With Brandkit Data if you want the kit’s typography and background to replace whatever the slides started with.

Brand Kit setup

Configure your logo, fonts, and colors so every deck picks them up automatically.

Preview before you ship

Click the Preview tab to see exactly how the deck will render on LinkedIn — same aspect ratio, same swipe behavior — before you export.

When you’re done

You have four options for getting the deck out of the editor:

Option	Use when
Save Draft (⌘ S)	You want to keep working later. Drafts live under Carousels › Drafts.
Download	You want a PDF or zip of images to upload elsewhere.
Publish	You’re ready to post. Hands the deck to the post composer for caption + scheduling.
⋯ › Save as Template	You’ll want to reuse this deck as a starting point next time.

Export and download

Walk through PDF/Image exports and the publish-to-LinkedIn flow.

What’s next

Templates

Skip the blank canvas next time and start from a pre-designed deck.

Brand Kit

Save your colors, fonts, and logos for one-click brand consistency.

Export and download

Get a finished deck out of Carousify as PDF, images, or a LinkedIn post.

Schedule a post

Pick the LinkedIn account and time when the deck should go live.