Typegrow vs SlideDrift: Which LinkedIn Carousel Tool Should You Use?
Typegrow vs SlideDrift for LinkedIn carousels: what each starts from, editing, branding, price and posting to LinkedIn. Checked on both sites in October 2026.
Choose Typegrow if you want a LinkedIn growth tool, free for now, with carousels as one feature: its generator turns a topic into slides you edit and download as a PDF, next to an AI writer, a post scheduler and a viral-post library. Choose SlideDrift if carousels are the main job: it turns your own notes or links into designed, editable carousels and schedules them to LinkedIn on paid plans.
- Both draft a LinkedIn carousel with AI, let you edit the slides and give you a PDF to post. Both can also schedule posts to LinkedIn.
- Typegrow starts its free carousel generator from a topic. Its pricing page says the app is free for now, with a paid plan in the works.
- SlideDrift starts from your own material and adds Remix designs, Brand Kits and a full slide editor. It works inside Claude and ChatGPT, it's free to start with 200 credits, and paid plans start at $29 a month.
We make SlideDrift, so weigh that. Every fact below was checked on both sites on October 7, 2026.
Typegrow's carousel generator, in brief
Typegrow calls itself an all-in-one LinkedIn growth tool. Its homepage lists an AI assistant for writing posts, a scheduler for posts and carousels, a library of more than a million viral LinkedIn posts, and free tools such as a hook generator and a post preview. Its help page says you can schedule posts up to 50 days ahead and post from Company Pages you sync in Settings.
The free carousel generator works in five steps: enter a topic (or start from scratch), generate the slides, edit the text and pick a theme with your name, handle and photo, add a call to action on the last slide, then download a PDF. Slides are 1080 × 1350 pixels by default.
Typegrow's pricing page says it's completely free for now, with no credit card needed, and that a paid plan is in the works. Check that page again before you build a routine around it.
Quick comparison
| Typegrow | SlideDrift | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Growing on LinkedIn: an AI writer, a scheduler, a viral-post library and free tools | Making LinkedIn carousels and posting them |
| Carousels start from | A topic, or a blank start, in the free generator | A link, text or notes; a PDF on paid plans |
| Designs and editing | Themes; edit the text and add a call to action on the last slide | Remix designs and standard templates, with a full slide editor |
| Your brand | Your name, handle and photo on the slides | Brand Kits with your logo, colors and fonts: 1 on Free and Starter, more on Pro and Agency |
| Slide sizes | 1080 × 1350 by default | Square (1:1), portrait (4:5) or stories (9:16) |
| Export | PDF, PNG images, a share link or an embed | |
| Price | Free for now, its pricing page says, with a paid plan in the works | 200 free credits; paid plans from $29 a month, with a 7-day trial |
| Posting to LinkedIn | A scheduler for posts and carousels, including Company Pages | Scheduling on paid plans; Company Pages on Pro and Agency |
Where Typegrow is stronger
Typegrow covers more of a LinkedIn routine than the carousel: an AI assistant for text posts, a viral-post library for studying what performs, a scheduler with a daily posting queue, and free tools for hooks, headlines and hashtags. Its pricing page says Typegrow is free for now. If carousels are an occasional format next to your text posts and you don't want to pay for a tool yet, that scope and price are the point.
Where SlideDrift is stronger
SlideDrift goes deeper on the carousel itself. You start from your own material, such as notes, a link or (on paid plans) a PDF, choose a Remix design or a template, and get a draft you can edit slide by slide: rewrite text, swap images, reorder slides and apply a Brand Kit. Then you export a PDF or PNGs, or schedule it to LinkedIn on a paid plan, alongside image, video, poll and text posts. It also works inside Claude and ChatGPT through an AI connection on every plan. If most of your LinkedIn time goes into carousels and how they look, that depth is the reason to choose it.
Run the same test in both
Compare the path to a publishable carousel, not two unrelated first drafts. Give both tools the same source.
Workflow test
Test: six agency notes into eight slides
A fictional agency debrief with six notes:
- The client kept asking for more content.
- The real bottleneck was slow review by subject-matter experts.
- Drafts waited in three different documents.
- No one owned the final approval.
- A weekly 20-minute review cleared the backlog.
- The lesson: fix the approval path before increasing output.
A focused carousel turns those notes into eight slides:
- Hook: "You don't have a content-volume problem."
- Context: the client keeps asking for more drafts.
- Problem: useful drafts are already waiting for review.
- Evidence: the work is split across three documents.
- Root cause: nobody owns final approval.
- Change: one owner and one weekly 20-minute review.
- Lesson: repair the approval path before increasing output.
- Close: ask which approval step slows the reader's team.
In Typegrow: give the generator the lesson as a topic, generate, then add the six facts as you edit the slides.
In SlideDrift: paste the six notes, set 8 slides under Preferences, then press Generate.
Then count how many of the six facts survive, how many slides need rewriting, and how many steps are left before the PDF is ready or the post is scheduled.
Make one in SlideDrift
Run the test with a brief like this. Set the slide count to 8 under Preferences first (the default is 7), then press Generate.
SlideDrift brief
Turn the notes below into a LinkedIn carousel for agency owners.
Make slide one a specific promise for the reader.
One point per slide. End with the lesson and one question.
[Paste your notes here]Make a carousel from your notes
Paste the same notes you'd give any tool. SlideDrift drafts the slides; you edit them, then export a PDF or schedule the post on a paid plan.
Before you post
If you post the PDF yourself, upload it as a document post. LinkedIn's help page on document uploads accepts PDF, PPT, PPTX, DOC or DOCX files of up to 100 MB and 300 pages, and recommends PDF for the best quality. You can edit the post's description after posting, but not the document, so open the PDF and check every slide first, then run it through the LinkedIn carousel checklist.
To compare more tools, read the best AI LinkedIn carousel generators or the Taplio comparison. If your source is a published article, see how to create a LinkedIn carousel from a URL.
FAQ
Is Typegrow or SlideDrift better for LinkedIn carousels?
It depends on the job. Choose SlideDrift if carousels are your main format and you start from your own notes or links. Choose Typegrow if you want a LinkedIn growth tool, free for now, with carousels as one feature.
Is Typegrow free?
Its pricing page says Typegrow is completely free for now and needs no credit card, and that a paid plan is in the works. The carousel generator page also says the tool is free.
Does Typegrow export LinkedIn carousels as PDF?
Yes. The generator's last step downloads your carousel as a PDF to upload to LinkedIn. Typegrow's homepage also says its scheduler handles carousels as well as posts.
How much does SlideDrift cost?
The Free plan includes 200 credits, and free exports carry a SlideDrift banner. Paid plans start at $29 a month, with a 7-day trial.
Can SlideDrift schedule carousels to LinkedIn?
Yes, on paid plans. It schedules carousels and image, video, poll and text posts to LinkedIn profiles, and to Company Pages on the Pro and Agency plans.
