Redacted carousel generator

A redacted carousel starts as a blacked out page and declassifies one line per slide. Hidden text is the oldest curiosity trick in publishing, and it is unusually well suited to a format where the reader controls the reveal.

Template

Size

Progress

Brand name

Handle

Accent

Logo

Slides5/35

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Bluesky4
X (Twitter)4
Instagram10
Facebook20
LinkedIn20
Threads20
TikTok35

5 slides is over the limit on Bluesky (4) and X (Twitter) (4). Those posts get rejected rather than trimmed, so hide or remove some, or split the carousel across more than one post.

Cover

Your brand3 sealed

subject — checklist

Run these 3 checks before you publish

The ones I skip are always the ones that flop.

@yourhandle

Label

Headline

Supporting line

Slide 1

Your branddeclassified

Open with something specific

A vague first line loses the swipe.

@yourhandle

Label

Headline

Supporting line

Slide 2

Your branddeclassified

Open with something specific

One idea per slide

If it needs two sentences, split it in two.

@yourhandle

Label

Headline

Supporting line

Slide 3

Your branddeclassified

Open with something specific

One idea per slide

Read it back at thumbnail size

Unreadable when small means invisible in a feed.

@yourhandle

Label

Headline

Supporting line

Call to action

Your brand

your turn

Save this before your next post

Then start at the first slide and work down.

save this★

@yourhandle

Label

Headline

Supporting line

Save cue

This carousel lives in this browser. An account keeps it.

Everything you have typed here is stored on this device only, so it is gone the moment you clear your browser or switch to your phone. With a PublishQ account it belongs to you instead:

Your carousels are saved, so you can come back and edit them.
The images you upload stay in your media library.
Your logo is stored once and reused on every carousel.
Brand name, handle, and colours stop being retyped.
Publish straight to every social account you connect — no downloading, no second tab.

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Hidden lines make swiping the reward

Most carousels ask for a swipe and give information. This one gives the swipe itself a payoff, because a black bar disappearing feels like being let in on something.

The tension survives long decks. A reader on slide seven can still see how much is blacked out below, so there is always a visible reason to continue.

What to declassify

Things people expect to be hidden: real numbers, rates, what a client actually paid, why a project died, the internal rule nobody publishes. The format promises candour, so the content has to deliver some.

Do not redact anything you would not publish anyway. Blacked out text is not encryption and the exported image contains only what you typed, but a deck built on fake secrets reads as a bait and switch by slide three.

Before you export

Reveal something a reader could not have guessed, or the format oversells.
Keep revealed lines short so the contrast with the black bars stays sharp.
Order reveals from mild to significant.
Never black out text you would not be willing to publish.

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A carousel styled as a classified document. Every line starts blacked out and one more is revealed on each slide, with the last slide fully declassified.

Information people expect to be hidden: real rates, real numbers, the reason behind a decision. The style sets an expectation of candour that the content has to meet.

The export is a flat image containing exactly what you typed, so only write what you are happy to publish. Redaction here is a visual style, not security.

Enough that the page reads as a document, usually six to ten. Too few and there is nothing to reveal, too many and the first slide looks like a solid block.

No. It is free, exports at full resolution and needs no sign up.

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