AI Carousel Generator.
Carousels in your brand, without opening Canva.

The carousel maker is wired into the same content generator as the rest of Drifter. Tell it the topic, pick a deck template (cover → tip → quote → next-tip → CTA is the default), and the generator drafts the slide copy in your brand voice. The render pipeline then composes each slide as a real image with your colors and logo baked in.

Net result: ~30 seconds from “I should post a carousel about X” to “here are five slides ready to schedule.”

The Brand Kit you set up once at signup is the single source of truth for what every carousel looks like:

• Colors: primary, accent, and background pulled from your Brand Kit. Slides alternate the backgrounds so the deck has rhythm; copy contrast is checked at render time so text never lands unreadable.
• Logo: placed top-right on every slide at a consistent size. Disable per-deck if you want a cleaner cover.
• Fonts: the brand font from your Brand Kit (with safe fallbacks) is used for every line of copy. No more “why does this slide look different than the last one” situations.
• Voice: the slide copy comes from the same voice-aware prompt stack as your regular generations. Voice references, preserved terms, and forbidden terms all apply.

v1 ships a deliberately small template set (the patterns that actually convert on IG and LinkedIn):

• Cover slide: bold title + promise + brand mark. The first slide's only job is to earn slide two.
• Tip / numbered-list slide: single-idea-per-slide breakdown of the topic. Three to five slides of these in a deck.
• Quote slide: pull a single quotable line from the topic, render it large. Optional in the deck depending on topic length.
• CTA slide: the close. “Save this for later”, “Tap follow for more”, or a custom CTA you specify. Counts toward the deck's slide budget.

More templates ship in the F103.b polish tier (drag-drop reorder, stat callouts, before/after, step-by-step diagrams, per-slot regenerate). Tracked on the launch plan.

Every layout family gets rendered at every aspect ratio the product ships and checked for text clipping. That is 225 renders across 45 of our 48 families, and here is what it finds:

• Feed portrait (4:5): 45 of 45 families reflow cleanly
• Feed square (1:1): 45 of 45 families reflow cleanly
• Story and Reel (9:16): 45 of 45 families reflow cleanly
• Pin (2:3): 45 of 45 families reflow cleanly
• Landscape (16:9): 45 of 45 families reflow cleanly

Landscape is the one that costs you, and it is the one no template library advertises: these layouts are tuned for a tall frame, so a wide crop is where a headline runs out of room. Build a deck at 4:5 and want it at 16:9 later and that is the number that decides whether it survives.

We publish it because a buyer comparing template libraries has no way to find this out until after they have committed to one. The full table sits on the templates hub, including the families the audit has not reached yet.

Each carousel is a small set of PNG image files. Specifically:

• 5 PNGs at 1080 × 1080: the IG-square aspect ratio, which works for both Instagram carousels and LinkedIn document carousels.
• Drop-in to scheduled post: the carousel renders go straight into your Media Library and get attached to the next scheduled post in one click.
• Standalone download: or download the deck as a ZIP and use it wherever (the LinkedIn document upload, an external scheduler, the Twitter web client).

The render pipeline is the same satori → SVG → sharp composite path we use for OG images and analytics PNG exports: fast, server-side, zero browser-rendering footguns.

The honest comparison: Canva is great for one-off poster design. For weekly carousel posts, it's the wrong tool: every deck re-asks you for the same five decisions (which template, what colors, where the logo goes, what font, how to handle the cover) and then forces you to hand-edit each slide's copy.

Drifter bakes those five decisions into your Brand Kit and asks for the only thing that actually changes per post: the topic. Three minutes vs thirty per carousel; consistency that survives the “I'm tired and just want to ship a post” test.

Carousel maker is a Pro and Agency feature, and the two get the SAME carousel capability: `imageStudioCarousels` is a yes or no in our plan definitions, not a quota of its own. What differs is volume. A deck draws on your monthly image allowance, so Agency runs more carousels because it has a larger allowance, not because carousels are uncapped there.

Carousels are a paid feature and are not on Free. Rather than restate a tier boundary here, check your plan on the pricing page, which reads the same plan definitions the app enforces at generation time. A marketing page repeating a limit by hand is how the limit and the product drift apart, and this one had drifted.