Your first carousel
The same pipeline a paying customer gets — on your topic, at full resolution, with no watermark.
Start with one topic. You can change everything later.
No account needed to generate. Takes about a minute.
No watermark
At any tier, including free
Full resolution
20 visual styles available
No card
To generate or to keep it
Most “free” carousel makers stamp your slides
It's the standard model in this category: rank for the word free, watermark the output, then charge to remove it. Which is a reasonable business — but it means the thing you generated isn't really usable, and you find that out at the end.
SlideBuddy doesn't stamp anything, on any plan. What's behind the account is the rest of the slides, not the quality of them — and what's behind the paid plans is publishing to your own accounts, which is genuinely the expensive part to run.
Questions
- Is it really free?
- Generating is free and needs no account. To get every slide at full resolution you create a free account — no card, and the free plan then gives you five carousels of your own. Publishing to your social accounts is the paid part, which is the honest division: that's where the API integrations and the daily infrastructure live.
- Will there be a watermark on my slides?
- No. Downloads are full resolution and unbranded on every tier, free included. That's worth checking against the other free carousel makers — several of the best-known ones stamp their logo on free output and charge to remove it.
- Why do I need an account for the rest of the slides?
- Because generating a carousel costs real money in AI credits, and an ungated generator with no limit is an invitation to burn through them. The compromise is that you see genuine output on your own topic before deciding whether it's worth an email address.
- How many can I generate without an account?
- 2 a day. There's also a total daily ceiling across everyone, so at busy times the generator occasionally pauses until the next day.
- Is this the same quality as the paid product?
- It's the same pipeline — same copywriting, same image generation, same layout system. What it doesn't have is your brand: colours, logo, fonts and tone of voice are set up inside an account, so a free carousel uses defaults where a real one would use yours.
- Can I use the carousel commercially?
- Yes. What you generate is yours to post wherever you like.
When one carousel isn't the problem
Making one is easy. Making one every day, on three platforms, is what the paid plans are for.
Full features for 7 days, cancel any time before it ends. Card required to start the trial so posting can begin immediately — or take five carousels free on the no-card plan, for ever.