Canva does carousels well when every slide gets its own design. When the slides are one piece of writing broken into parts, a narrower tool usually finishes faster. Below are seven options with what each costs, what it exports, and the catch worth knowing before you commit.
Cards is our own tool, so we listed it first and stated its limits in the same terms as everyone else's. Prices were checked in July 2026 on each product's own pages.
Free, Pro at $5 a month
Paste written text and it splits into slides and lays them out at the canvas size you pick. No AI touches the wording, and the same deck renders as an MP4 for Reels with Pro.
Free plan, Premium at $9.99 a month
The closest thing to Canva in shape: a canvas, a large template library, Adobe Stock assets, plus video and PDF tools.
Free plan, paid from $15 a month
AI writes and designs the slides from a topic, a link, or a thread, with templates for seven networks and scheduling built in.
Free credits, Starter $15, Pro $26 a month
A LinkedIn-first studio: AI carousels from a topic or a blog URL, a branding kit applied across designs, direct publishing, and API access.
Free for 10 carousels, Pro at $15 a month
A focused AI carousel maker for LinkedIn, Instagram, and TikTok, with PDF export for LinkedIn documents and extra generators on the paid plan.
Free carousel tool, plans from $39 a month
A LinkedIn growth suite with drafting, a posting queue, analytics, and a lead database. Its carousel maker is a separate free tool.
Free, or already in your Office licence
Set a square page size, design the slides, export them as images. No new account, no subscription, and full control over every element.
Three questions settle it most of the time. Do you want the copy written for you, or do you already have it? Does the post need a LinkedIn document PDF, or images for a feed? And how often do you publish, since manual layout only hurts when it repeats.
If you write your own posts, publish regularly, and export images, the narrow tools win on time. If you need the words generated or the whole growth stack around the post, the bigger suites earn their price.
Custom graphics on individual slides, a template library nothing here matches, brand kits, and a team workflow. If a carousel is one of many things you design each week, moving off Canva to save a few minutes on one format rarely pays.