Step by step carousel generator

A step by step carousel puts your process on a numbered rail that fills in as the reader moves along it. Every slide answers the two questions a how to has to answer: which step is this, and how many are left.

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 steps

checklist

Run these 3 checks before you publish

The ones I skip are always the ones that flop.

Open with something specific

start here

One idea per slide

Read it back at thumbnail size

@yourhandle

Label

Headline

Supporting line

Slide 1

Your brand1 / 3

check 1

Open with something specific

A vague first line loses the swipe.

One idea per slide

Read it back at thumbnail size

@yourhandle

Label

Headline

Supporting line

Slide 2

Your brand2 / 3

✓

Open with something specific

check 2

One idea per slide

If it needs two sentences, split it in two.

Read it back at thumbnail size

@yourhandle

Label

Headline

Supporting line

Slide 3

Your brand3 / 3

✓

Open with something specific

✓

One idea per slide

check 3

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.
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Visible position is what stops people leaving

Readers abandon tutorials when they cannot tell how long the tutorial is. A filled rail answers that on every frame, so the decision to continue gets made once rather than at each slide.

Numbers also make the deck usable later. Somebody who screenshots step four knows what it is out of context, which is why this format gets saved more than it gets liked.

Writing steps people can follow

Start each step with a verb and keep it to one action. Two actions in one step is where instructions break, because the reader completes the first and loses the second.

Between five and eight steps is the range that works. Fewer looks like it skipped something, and beyond eight the reader stops treating it as instructions and starts treating it as reading.

Before you export

Begin every step with a verb, and put exactly one action in it.
Keep the deck between five and eight steps.
Say what the finished result looks like on the last slide.
Make each step readable alone, since saved slides get revisited out of order.

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A carousel where each slide is one numbered step on a rail that fills in as the reader advances, so position and progress are visible throughout.

Five to eight. That is long enough to be useful and short enough that people finish it in one pass.

A checklist is a set of items to tick off in any order. A stepper is a sequence where step three only makes sense after step two, and the rail communicates that order.

It works for the instructions themselves. When each step needs an image, use the photo template and keep the numbering in the headline.

Yes. Unlimited exports at full resolution, no watermark, no account, all rendered locally.

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I left my Software Engineer role at Amazon to build tools that solve real problems — the kind big companies ignore because they read spreadsheets instead of using their own products.

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