Cards

Cards Pro

For creators who use Cards every week

The free editor stays useful: make cards, preview them, and export real images. The free trial is for testing the whole workflow around that: video export, article import from a URL, more projects, and reusable assets.

Try the free editor

Selected: $5 / month

Free

$0

For trying ideas, making cards, and exporting without friction.

  • Create up to 8 cards without an account
  • Create up to 18 cards per free project
  • Saved styles and advanced text styling
  • Per-card editing
  • Export images and ZIP for one format
  • Save up to 5 cloud projects

Pro

$5/mo

For repeatable workflows and reusable visual systems.

  • Render your carousel as a video for Reels and TikTok
  • Premium shaped collage layouts: diagonal, diamond, chevron, wave, arch
  • Up to 200 cards per carousel
  • Import an article from a URL
  • 100 new project slots every month
  • Stored background images and assets
  • Publish to Buffer
  • Schedule posts up to 30 days ahead
  • Export all formats in one ZIP
7-day free trial

Standard pricing is $5 / month or $36 / year.

What Pro adds

Two of these you can see working right here: the finished carousel rendered as a video, and several cards arranged into one shaped collage. Longer carousels, article import, stored assets, and Buffer publishing come with the same plan, and the table below lists them against what free already does.

Carousel to video

Motion between slides, rendered as an MP4 for Reels and TikTok and every other size Cards exports. This player runs the same composition the renderer does, so it matches the file frame for frame.

0.0s / 5.5s

How the render works, in turn a carousel into a video.

Premium collage layouts

Diagonal, diamond, wave, and arch templates arrange several cards into one shaped composition. Grid collages stay free.

Square collage of two photographs split along a diagonal, a mountain scene above and water lilies below.Square collage with four corner photographs around a center diamond panel reading 2025.Square collage split by a wave, a warm gradient headline above and a park photograph below.Square collage with a large forest photo on the left behind an arched divider and two labelled panels on the right.

More layouts in the gallery.

Design it for free

These are real gallery renders: styled headings, readable text on photos, and per-card polish. The design tools are free. Pro turns the finished carousel into video.

Square card with a large styled Markdown heading and smaller body text.

Styled Markdown headings

Square launch announcement card with white text shadow over a vivid green and blue gradient.

Launch card with text shadow

Square carousel card with a large highlighted number and compact explanation text.

Per-card highlight

Square card with large white text over an aerial mountain photograph.

Photo background with shadow

Square card with right aligned white text in a translucent panel over a mirrored park tree photograph.

Right aligned photo card

Free stays useful. Pro saves the workflow.

Feature
Free
Pro
Video export
Preview the motion, no file
Render the carousel as an MP4 for Reels and TikTok
Create and preview cards
Included
Included
Styling and per-card editing
Included
Included
Collage layouts
Grid collages
Grid plus shaped premium templates
Import from a URL
Paste the text yourself
Paste a link and Cards builds the slides
Carousel length
8 cards signed out, 18 with a free account
Up to 200 cards
Image and ZIP export
One format at a time
All formats in one ZIP
No-account workflow
Up to 8 cards
Included
Cloud projects
5 saved projects
100 projects every month
Saved background images
Session only
Stored in your asset library
Buffer publishing
Export and post manually
Create Buffer posts from Cards with personal API key or OAuth beta

Included in Pro today

These features are implemented now. Pro is meant to feel like a small content studio for repeat workflows, not a paywall around the core editor.

Video export

Twelve motion presets, played live in the editor before you pay for anything. Rendering runs on our servers, so you can keep editing while it works, and the finished MP4 stays available for 31 days. Up to 30 seconds per video.

Premium collage layouts

Arrange several cards into one shaped composition with diagonal, diamond, chevron, wave, and arch templates. Grid collages stay free.

Import from a URL

Paste an article link. Cards pulls the readable text off the page and Smart split turns its headings, quotes, and lists into typed slides. Nothing is rewritten.

More saved projects

Save drafts, duplicate carousels, and reopen work from another device with 100 new project slots every month.

Asset library

Store background images and reusable visual assets instead of uploading them every session.

Buffer publishing

Send rendered cards to Buffer channels, publish now, or schedule posts up to 30 days ahead.

Export all formats

Re-split and export one carousel to every social canvas size in a single ZIP.

Starting from a published article? Read how URL import works.