Use free planning tools
Use SlideDrift's free tools to shape a topic, hook, outline, or source angle before creating a carousel.
SlideDrift includes free planning tools for the step before carousel generation.
Use them when you are not ready to write a full prompt yet. Each tool creates a practical carousel brief that you can copy or send into the Create flow.
Basic planning is free and available without an account. Some tools can also use AI-assisted suggestions to refine topics, angles, audiences, hooks, and briefs.
Available tools
- LinkedIn Carousel Idea Generator: Start from your profession or area of expertise and choose a topic, angle, and audience.
- Carousel Outline Builder: Turn a rough idea into a slide-by-slide structure.
- LinkedIn Hook Generator: Draft stronger first-slide hooks for a topic and audience.
- Blog-to-Carousel Angle Finder: Find carousel angles from an article, blog post, URL, or notes.
Use a tool result in Create
- Open the tool that matches what you already have.
- Answer the guided questions.
- Review the generated brief, hook, or outline.
- Choose Use in SlideDrift when you want to turn it into a designed carousel.
- Review the imported brief in Create before generating.
The imported brief stays editable. You can change the copy, choose a template, adjust generation preferences, and then generate the carousel.
AI-assisted suggestions
The tools show basic suggestions first so you can get a usable direction quickly.
Anonymous visitors get one AI-assisted generation. Free accounts can use credits for more AI suggestions, and paid SlideDrift plans include monthly AI tool allowances before credits are charged.
If an AI suggestion cannot read a URL, paste the article text or notes into the tool instead.
When to use each tool
Use the idea generator when you are starting from a blank page.
Use the outline builder when you already know the topic but need the slide sequence.
Use the hook generator when the idea is useful but the first slide feels weak.
Use the angle finder when you have source material but need to decide what the carousel should focus on.
The tools plan the carousel. SlideDrift still handles designed slide generation, editing, exporting, and sharing.