How to Turn a Blog Post or Article Into a Carousel (and the Tools That Do It)

To turn a blog post into a carousel, pull out its 5 to 8 main points, rewrite the title as a hook, give each point one slide, end with a CTA back to the post, and export in your brand style. You can do that by hand in about an hour, or paste the article link into an AI carousel tool such as Supaslides and edit the draft it writes in a few minutes. Below is the manual process, then the tools that automate it.

Updated September 2026: added the tools that turn a link into a carousel and a comparison table.

You already did the hard thinking when you wrote the blog post. Repurposing it into a carousel is one of the highest-return things you can do on social: new audience, fraction of the effort. Here’s the process.

Step 1: Find the spine

Most posts have a hidden list inside them, the main points, the steps, the takeaways. Pull out 5 to 8 of those. That’s your slide sequence. If the post doesn’t have a clear spine, the carousel will wander, so tighten it first.

Step 2: Write a sharper hook

A blog title optimized for search rarely works as a cover. Rewrite it as a scroll-stopper, a number, an outcome, or a contrarian take (see carousel hooks).

Step 3: One idea per slide

Compress each point to a headline and a sentence. If you’re quoting a paragraph, you haven’t compressed enough. Save the nuance for the blog; the carousel is the trailer.

Step 4: Add a CTA back to the source

Close by sending people to the full post, “Full guide in bio”, or to a save. Pick one (see CTA ideas).

Step 5: Make it on-brand and export

This is the slow part by hand: matching your colours and fonts on every slide, then exporting at the right size for each network (1080x1350 for Instagram, a PDF for LinkedIn, 1080x1920 for TikTok). It is also the part a tool does best.

Tools that turn a blog post into a carousel

Several carousel generators accept a link or pasted text as the starting point. They differ in what they do with your brand, and in what comes out the other end.

In Supaslides, you paste the article link into the carousel composer (or paste the text if the page can’t be read). It pulls the article, and Claude writes the hook, one slide per point and the CTA, laid out in the brand theme it built from your website, so the deck looks like your brand without a template. You then edit any line and export for every major feed. If you want to see the brand side first, the URL to carousel guide explains how the theme is built, and you can try the whole flow without an account on the free generator.

Whichever tool you use, read the draft against the original post. AI is good at finding the spine and compressing it; you are still the one who knows which point is the real insight.