Text card and carousel maker
Paste a quote, thread, essay, or article link. Cards turns it into polished slides with smart splitting and social presets, then exports them as images or renders the whole deck as a video.
Core editor, image export, and the motion preview are free. No AI rewriting. The export matches the preview.
Three simple steps to turn long text into a complete social carousel.
Add a quote, thread, mini-essay, or slide outline. Cards keeps your writing editable while you shape the carousel.
Pick Instagram, LinkedIn, X, or Stories, then choose a visual template and adjust typography, colors, and spacing.
Use automatic or manual slide breaks, preview every card, then download the image set or render the deck as a video.
A focused editor that turns your text into a set of cards. Here it is, working.
Your text
Your slides
Turn long text into a readable carousel while keeping paragraphs and line breaks tidy.
Twelve motion presets turn the same slides into an MP4 for Reels and TikTok. The preview plays in the editor for free; Pro renders the file.
See video exportMerge a run of cards into one composition. Six grid layouts are free; diagonal, diamond, chevron, wave, and arch come with Pro.
See collage examplesCards fetches the article, keeps its headings, quotes, and lists, and hands you a carousel draft to trim. Included in Pro. Smart split runs on Markdown you paste yourself, for free.
How URL import worksDownload JPEG or PNG images that match the editor, including spacing, colors, and typography.
Create text cards for Instagram, Stories, LinkedIn, X, and other visual posts.
Export without an account, or sign in when you want to keep projects and return to them later.
Video gets your post in front of new people. Carousels earn more saves from the audience you have. Cards makes both from one draft.
more people reached than a single-image post on Instagram
Buffer, 2024
more saves than a single-image post on Instagram
Socialinsider, 2025–26
Pick one of twelve motion presets and the carousel becomes a video for Reels and TikTok, up to 30 seconds. The render runs on our servers and comes back as an MP4, so no video editor is involved.
What plays here is the preview built into the editor, running the same composition the renderer uses. Watching it costs nothing. Rendering the file is part of Pro.
Turn quotes, threads, notes, and long-form ideas into clean images for the places your audience already reads.
Pick the canvas first, then choose a template. Cards keeps your layout consistent across formats so a post, story, or carousel can ship from the same draft. Video renders at the canvas you picked, which makes Stories the one that goes straight to Reels and TikTok.
Design once, then adapt the same idea for the format your post needs.
Cards began with a personal need. I write fantasy, and posting short stories to Instagram meant turning long text into clean slides. Doing that by hand in a design tool was slow, so I wrote a script that split the text and drew the cards on its own. Enough people asked for the same thing that I turned it into Cards, a small tool from Tiny Gods.