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CarouselDraft
AI carousel maker that turns an article URL, pasted text or a text-based PDF into editable LinkedIn PDF or Instagram PNG slides.
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Spec sheet
All-in India price
₹1,861/mo
For a registered business, $19/mo sticker
- Free plan
- Not available
- Free trial
- Available
- Status
- Source checked 10 Nov 2026
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Shortlist it if you or your team regularly turn blog posts, newsletters or PDF reports into LinkedIn document posts and want a draft you can trace back to the source rather than a blank Canva canvas. The 14-day trial needs no card, so run two or three of your own articles through it before paying, and check how it handles your PDFs, since tables and multi-column reports can come out in the wrong reading order.
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Billing is a single monthly plan charged in US dollars through Stripe, with no annual option, no INR pricing and no statement about GST invoices, so a GST-registered business should not count on claiming input tax credit unless the Stripe checkout shows a proper tax invoice. The product is about a week old and the operator is unnamed, which matters if you plan to rely on it for client work, and the privacy policy says source text goes to an AI reseller (KIE) with no promised no-retention or no-training arrangement, so keep confidential reports out of it. Against a general design tool like Canva the trade-off is narrower design freedom in return for a source-linked AI draft, and CarouselDraft only drafts and exports, so you still upload each carousel yourself.
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In short
CarouselDraft is listed under Design & Creative, reviewed for Indian buyers. All-in it runs about ₹1,861/mo for a GST-registered business ($19/mo sticker plus about 3.5% card forex). FindThatSoftware rates it best for founders and consultants repurposing their own blog posts or newsletters into LinkedIn document carousels; a poor fit for teams that need scheduling or direct publishing to LinkedIn or Instagram, which the vendor says it does not do.
What CarouselDraft costs in India
The rupee price a business actually pays, after the card forex markup, with GST shown both ways.
True India price
Registered business, per month
₹1,861
CarouselDraft advertises $19/mo. A GST-registered business in India pays about ₹1,861 a month (₹22,328/yr) once the roughly 3.5% card forex markup is added, with GST reclaimed as input credit. If you cannot reclaim GST, it is about ₹2,196 a month.
- Sticker price
- $19/mo
- Card forex markup
- about 3.5% over mid-market
- GST
- 18%, reclaimable if registered
- Registered per month
- ₹1,861
- Registered per year
- ₹22,328
- If you can't reclaim GST
- ₹2,196
- Try first
- Free trial before you commit budget.
- Watch for
- There is one paid plan, charged monthly in US dollars through Stripe checkout; no annual billing or INR price is offered, and the terms say applicable taxes, if any, are shown before payment.
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Allowances reset on each billing date and do not roll over, and cancellation takes effect at the end of the paid period. Only the first monthly payment can be fully refunded, within 7 days; renewals are normally non-refundable.
Indicative, not a bill. The exchange rate is a single mid-market reference, not a live feed, and GST-registered businesses may reclaim input credit. Confirm current pricing on the vendor site.
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Audit your spendWho CarouselDraft fits
What it is, what you gain, what you give up, and who should look elsewhere.
What is CarouselDraft?
CarouselDraft is a web app that went live in late October 2026, judging by its domain registration and policy dates, and its terms do not name the company or person behind it. You give it a public article URL, pasted text or a text-based PDF of up to 30 pages, and the vendor says an AI model drafts a slide outline that you accept or reject before editing. Each slide keeps a link to the paragraph or PDF page it came from, so you can check names and numbers against the source, and you can ask for Shorten or Rephrase suggestions per slide. There are six layouts in square or portrait format, a saved brand preset (logo, colours, font), and up to 12 slides per project, exported as one PDF for LinkedIn or a ZIP of PNG images for Instagram. It does not connect to social accounts or post anything, cannot read scanned or password-protected PDFs, and the privacy policy says text is sent to a third-party processor (KIE) running a Claude model.
What you gain, and what you give up.
The case for
- Each slide links back to its source paragraph or PDF page, which makes checking AI output against the original practical
- Pricing and usage rules are published in detail, including what counts as an export, that failed tasks return their allowance and that repeat downloads are free
- Free 14-day trial with no card required, plus a full refund window on the first Pro payment
The catch
- No legal entity, address or jurisdiction is named anywhere in the terms or privacy policy, and the domain was registered on 21 October 2026
- Billed in US dollars only through Stripe, monthly only, with no INR price and no mention of GST invoices; most Indian cards add a forex markup on such charges
- Hard caps per project and per month: 12 slides per carousel, and every new PDF or PNG ZIP counts as a separate export, so making both formats of one carousel uses two; export files expire after 7 days, though the vendor says they can be recreated without using another export
- Export only: no team seats, no scheduling and no social account connection
Best for
- Founders and consultants repurposing their own blog posts or newsletters into LinkedIn document carousels
- Analysts and marketers turning PDF report findings into slides with page references kept for fact checking
- Creators who want a fixed set of clean templates and a saved brand kit rather than a full design tool
Who should avoid it
- Teams that need scheduling or direct publishing to LinkedIn or Instagram, which the vendor says it does not do
- Businesses that need an Indian GST invoice, INR billing or a named contracting entity
- Anyone working from scanned PDFs, paywalled pages or video, which are not supported
India readiness
How well CarouselDraft fits an Indian business operationally, from the verified pricing and company facts we hold.
- –GST invoice
Not verified yet.
- ✗Bills in INR
Priced in a foreign currency, so your card or bank adds forex conversion on top.
- ✗India HQ
Headquartered outside India, so check support hours and India-specific features.
Compare CarouselDraft
How it stacks up on what we verified, the tools buyers weigh it against, and where it appears in our guides.
How CarouselDraft compares
Against the 9 other graphic design tools we list, from what we verified on each vendor’s own pages.
Less common among the other graphic design tools
Recorded for CarouselDraft and for at most a third of the 9 others we list.
- AI content generation
- AI writing assistant
- Content repurposing
- Data export
- Google SSO
- Templates
- Brand kit
- Export to pdf
This compares only the capabilities enough rival tools share for a comparison to mean anything, roughly a quarter of what we verified. The full list is under “What we verified” below, and anything absent from both is something we did not record rather than something the product lacks.
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What we verified about CarouselDraft
Read from CarouselDraft’s own pages. Each line is a finding and what it was based on, so you can check any of it yourself.
What CarouselDraft does
Features we confirmed15
- Templates
- Templates page: six editable layouts
- Template library
- Templates: Minimal, Modern, Clean, Editorial, Bold, Creative
- Google SSO
- Privacy: optional Google sign-in
- Export to pdf
- Help export: one PDF for LinkedIn
- Data export
- Terms: export account data from Account
- Content repurposing
- Use cases: article, text and PDF to carousel
- Brand kit
- Help: save brand name, colours, font, logo as a reusable preset
- AI writing assistant
- Homepage FAQ: Shorten and Rephrase suggestions
- AI content generation
- Homepage: AI drafts an outline from your source
- Instagram carousel maker
- Use cases: Instagram carousel maker (new phrase)
- Linkedin carousel maker
- Use cases: LinkedIn carousel maker (new phrase)
- Pdf text import
- Help input: text-based PDFs up to 30 pages and 15 MB (new phrase)
- Png zip export
- Help export: ZIP of 1080 px PNGs per slide (new phrase)
- Source citations per slide
- Homepage: each slide links to its original passage or PDF page (new phrase)
- Url import
- Help input: public article URL import (new phrase)
What people use it for2
- Write marketing copy
- Homepage: AI drafts slide outline and Shorten/Rephrase rewrites
- Design marketing creatives
- Homepage: turn articles into LinkedIn and Instagram carousels
Terms, compliance and how you buy11
- Solo founder friendly
- Single-user plan, no team seats mentioned
- Self serve signup
- Sign-in page with email code or Google
- No india payment gateway
- Refunds and help: billing through Stripe in USD
- No india entity
- Terms and privacy name no entity at all; no Indian presence stated
- No card required
- Pricing: trial needs no credit card
- Credits do not roll over
- Pricing: unused amounts do not roll over
- Creator oriented
- Use cases target LinkedIn and Instagram content creators
- Cloud hosted
- Privacy: hosted on Hostinger behind Cloudflare
- Cancellation effective at cycle end
- Pricing and terms: cancellation takes effect at end of paid period
- Cancel anytime
- Pricing: cancel anytime in billing
- Beginner friendly
- Help center: guided three-step source to slides flow
Source trail
Pricing and free-plan claims can change. FindThatSoftware keeps source URLs visible so users can verify before buying.
- Help: trial, Pro plans and usage allowanceshttps://carouseldraft.com/docs/usage-and-billing
- Pricing pagehttps://carouseldraft.com/pricing
- Terms of service: trial and subscriptionhttps://carouseldraft.com/terms
- Help: editing and brandhttps://carouseldraft.com/docs/editing-and-brand
- Help: export and downloadshttps://carouseldraft.com/docs/export-and-downloads
- Help: input requirementshttps://carouseldraft.com/docs/input-requirements
- Homepage and FAQhttps://carouseldraft.com/
- Use caseshttps://carouseldraft.com/use-cases
- Data retention policyhttps://carouseldraft.com/retention
- Privacy policy and processorshttps://carouseldraft.com/privacy
- Refund policyhttps://carouseldraft.com/refunds
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CarouselDraft questions
Does CarouselDraft give a GST invoice in India?
- Whether CarouselDraft issues an India GST invoice is not verified yet. Foreign-billed tools usually don't, in which case a registered business reclaims GST via reverse charge; confirm the vendor's billing before you buy.
Is CarouselDraft good for Indian small businesses?
- It suits founders and consultants repurposing their own blog posts or newsletters into LinkedIn document carousels. It bills in a foreign currency, so expect the card forex markup on every charge. It is not the right pick for teams that need scheduling or direct publishing to LinkedIn or Instagram, which the vendor says it does not do.
Does CarouselDraft have a free plan?
- CarouselDraft does not list a permanent free plan in FindThatSoftware data. Check the official pricing page for trial terms and current offers.
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