A low-spoon Instagram carousel builder. It encodes 8 reusable format anatomies — pick a format, set your frames, type copy, place photos, and download print-clean 1080×1350 PNGs, individually or as a ZIP.
Built for one person's real workflow; designed to be reusable by anyone.
- Q&A Quickfire — rapid questions, rapid answers
- PSA — say the thing clearly
- Day in the Life — process over polish
- Show and Tell — look at this, here's why it matters
- ATTENTION! — stop the scroll
- Teardown — take it apart, show the insides
- Field Note — capped at 3 frames by design; the low-spoon cadence-saver
- Hot Take — one sharp opinion, defended
- Pick a format
- Set frame count (3–10, within each format's rules)
- Type copy, place photos, tune layout / color / crop per frame
- Download PNGs or a ZIP
- Essayist identity: Noto Serif Display / Noto Sans / Liberation Mono
- WCAG 2.2 AA contrast throughout
- Exports at 1080×1350 (4:5)
Everything runs locally in your browser. No accounts, no uploads, no tracking, no server. Your photos never leave your device.
v1.5. See Issues for the fix history — autosave (#4) is the one open item.
- v2: auto-video (designed 1080×1920 elements to stitch in an editor)
- Not planned: AI imagery, direct-to-Instagram publishing
Live demo: https://chanelle.github.io/carousel-studio/ — or open index.html
in any modern browser.
MIT — Copyright 2026 Chanelle Henry. See LICENSE.