Use free LinkedIn tools

SlideDrift includes free LinkedIn tools for the step before carousel generation or posting.

Use them when you are not ready to write a full prompt yet, when a LinkedIn post needs cleaner formatting before you publish it, or when you want to check whether an idea should stay as text or become a carousel. The planning tools answer in one step. The hook and idea tools show the answer you pick as a text post, an image and a carousel, so you can post it the way that suits it.

Formatting, previewing, sizing, and counting work in the browser and do not need an account. The idea, hook, outline, brief, and angle tools, the post generator, and the AI hashtag suggestions use AI. Visitors get three free AI runs a day without an account, and signed-in accounts get 20, without using credits.

SlideDrift also provides a Google Docs and Sheets planning template pack when you want a copyable planner, blog-to-carousel brief, hook swipe sheet, or founder content calendar before generating a deck.

Available tools

• LinkedIn Text Formatter: Format LinkedIn posts with bold text, italics, bullets, numbered lists, clean line breaks, a live preview, character count, and copy-ready output.
• LinkedIn Post Preview Tool: Preview a draft with desktop and mobile-style layouts, optional author context, an approximate "see more" fold, hashtags, and copy-ready output.
• LinkedIn Carousel Size Tool: Check carousel dimensions, aspect ratio, slide count guidance, and PDF export basics before designing or uploading a document post.
• LinkedIn Post Generator: Write a LinkedIn post from a topic or your own notes, with a tone, audience, and optional ending, then edit it, copy it, or send it to the formatter, preview tool, or Create.
• LinkedIn Character Counter: Check character count, word count, line count, hashtag count, and warning thresholds before publishing or repurposing a post.
• LinkedIn Hashtag Generator: Pick and copy a focused hashtag set from a topic or industry, with optional AI suggestions.
• LinkedIn Carousel Brief Generator: Turn a rough idea into a seven-slide plan: a cover hook, five slides, and a closing line.
• LinkedIn Carousel Idea Generator: Say what you do and get ten ideas for your field, each ready as a text post, an image or a carousel.
• Carousel Outline Builder: Turn a rough idea or your notes into a cover, slide-by-slide outline, and closing line.
• LinkedIn Hook Generator: Get ten hooks for a topic, each ready as a text post, an image or a carousel.
• Blog-to-Carousel Angle Finder: Paste a link, article, newsletter, or notes and see three carousels it could become.

The Tools hub also groups tools by category, such as formatting, preview, carousel sizing, generator, and repurposing tools, so you can start from the job you need to do.

Plan a carousel in one step

The idea, hook, outline, brief, and angle tools each ask one question:

• The Idea Generator asks what you do.
• The Hook Generator, Outline Builder, and Brief Generator ask what the carousel is about. You can paste a rough idea or your notes.
• The Angle Finder asks for a link, an article, a newsletter, or your notes. It reads a public link when you run it. If a page can't be read, paste the text instead.

You can also say who the carousel is for, and what you do on the outline and brief tools. Both are optional, and the tools remember them on your device for next time.

Each tool opens with a labelled example of a real answer. When you run it, the answer usually arrives in under ten seconds. An outline or brief shows as its cover and slides, and each angle as its cover with its first slides. Use Look to try the slides in different colours. When you are signed in, the first look uses your default Brand Kit's colours.

One answer, three kinds of post

The Hook Generator and the Idea Generator list their ten answers. Pick one to see it three ways, drawn as it would look on LinkedIn:

• Text post. Choose Write the post and the AI writes a full post that opens with your hook or idea. It uses one of your free runs. Then copy it or open it in the Text Formatter. Signed in, Schedule opens a new post with the text filled in.
• Image. The line drawn as a 4:5 image in your colours, in the browser, so it costs nothing. Choose Download image, or, signed in, Schedule to open a new post with the image attached.
• Carousel. Its cover as a LinkedIn document. Make this carousel opens Create with the line as the cover and title.

The Outline Builder and the Brief Generator can also turn the plan into a text post, and each angle in the Angle Finder can become one. The Post Generator shows its post's opening line as an image and a carousel too.

Format LinkedIn text

Use the LinkedIn Text Formatter when you want to polish a standard LinkedIn post before publishing or before turning the same idea into a carousel.

The Text Formatter, Post Preview Tool, and Character Counter share one post editor. Switch between Formatter, Post preview, and Character counter at the top, and your text comes with you, also when you open one of the other two pages.

You can paste a draft, select text and make it bold, italic, underlined, or struck through (⌘B, ⌘I, and ⌘U work too), add bullets or a numbered list, add a separator line, clean up line breaks, and undo any change. Bold and italic use the sans style that matches LinkedIn's own type; bold italic, serif, and monospace styles are under Aa. The preview shows the post as LinkedIn's feed draws it on a phone or a computer, light or dark, cut at …more where the feed cuts it, and tells you about how many characters show before the cut. The editor works in the browser and does not require an account.

The formatter uses stylized Unicode characters for bold, italic, monospace, underlined, and strikethrough-looking text because standard LinkedIn posts do not include native rich-text controls. Use formatting sparingly and keep the meaning clear in the words themselves.

When the formatted post should become a carousel, choose Make a carousel from this post. Create opens with the post in its box as plain text, without the styled letters, so you can choose a template and generate a visual carousel from the same post. Signed in, Schedule opens a new post with the text filled in.

Preview and check LinkedIn posts

Use the LinkedIn Post Preview Tool when you want to see how a post scans before publishing. You can paste a draft, add an optional author name, headline, and photo, show the post with a carousel cover, images, or a link-preview placeholder, compare phone and desktop previews, check where the …more cut falls, review hashtags, and copy the final text. Photos and images stay in your browser.

Use the LinkedIn Character Counter when length is the main question. It checks characters, words, lines, and hashtags against practical warning thresholds, shows about how much of a post appears before …more, and also checks the limits for comments, headlines, About sections, and connection notes. Bold and italic letters and most emoji count as two characters there, the strict count, so text that fits there fits on LinkedIn.

Use the LinkedIn Carousel Size Tool when you are preparing a document carousel. It compares common carousel dimensions, checks custom width and height values, explains aspect ratio fit, and summarizes slide-count and PDF export basics. SlideDrift carousels are already 1080 x 1350, so Create a carousel opens Create ready for your content.

Draft posts and hashtags

Use the LinkedIn Post Generator when the output should stay as a text post first. Give it a topic or paste your notes and examples, then choose the tone, audience, and optional ending. It keeps your own points and shapes them into a post. Edit the draft in place, copy it, send it to the formatter or preview tool, or, signed in, choose Schedule. Its opening line can also become an image or a carousel.

Use the LinkedIn Hashtag Generator when you need a focused set of hashtags for a post or carousel caption. Choose from the suggestions, or choose Get AI hashtags for a set tailored to your topic. Copy the selected tags, preview them with the rest of the post, or choose Create a carousel to start a carousel on the same topic.

Use a tool result in Create

1. Open the tool that matches what you already have.
2. Run it, or start from its example.
3. Choose Make this carousel on the hook, idea, outline, brief, angle, or post you want.
4. Review what the tool put in Create's box before generating.

Create receives your material, not instructions. A hook or idea arrives as the first line, which becomes the carousel's title, followed by what it is about. An outline or brief adds its slides and closing line. A post arrives as the post. When the Angle Finder read a link, Create gets the link and reads the page itself, with the angle you chose as its direction.

Everything stays editable. You can change the text, choose a template, adjust generation preferences, and then generate the carousel. Generating it costs the same as any other carousel.

Free runs

Visitors get three free AI runs a day across the free tools, without an account. Each run answers the whole question at once. When the day's runs are used, the tool says when they come back, and a free account lets you keep going.

Signed in, the tools don't use credits. Free accounts and trials get 20 runs a day. Paid plans include a monthly allowance of runs, which resets at 00:00 UTC on the first day of each month, and then the same 20 a day. What you have left shows next to the run button.

When to use each tool

Use the idea generator when you are starting from a blank page.

Use the post generator when the output should stay as a text post first.

Use the brief generator when a rough idea should move directly toward a short slide plan.

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.

Use the preview tool when you want to check the first fold, layout, hashtags, or link-preview balance before publishing.

Use the size tool when you are checking dimensions or export basics for a LinkedIn document carousel.

Use the character counter when you need to shorten a post or check whether it is close to LinkedIn's post limit.

Use the hashtag generator when the caption needs a focused tag set.

Use the text formatter when the post already works as text and you only need cleaner LinkedIn formatting. When the post should become a visual sequence, bring the same idea into SlideDrift to generate, edit, export, and share the carousel.

Keep your work through sign-up

When a hook or post tool asks you to sign up, your current inputs and result can return to the same tool after sign-in when browser storage is available. Finish sign-in in the same browser within 30 minutes. If SlideDrift cannot keep the work, allow browser storage or copy it before leaving.