Carousify Reviews

I recently bought this to try out the carousel generation process, and I can say it pretty much works like Canva with similar drag-and-drop and other features. Before trying their tool, I tried several other but tbh none has better templates for carousels and later I have to rely on Canva + ChatGPT. That was working pretty well for me but it takes endless time for me to properly write content and properly position them in Canva.

After trying all the other tools out there, I thought Carousify would be the same - just a generic tool. But I was wrong, it was way better than other carousel maker tools. You won't believe this unless you try it yourself, but for me it speeds up the whole process of copywriting, proper placement, better designs, and more! I won't say it completely automates the whole procedure, but it has somewhat made my workflow 3-4x faster than previously it was. They have better templates than others. When I was stuck, their support answered quickly, which was helpful for a growing company.

It was totally worth it.

Came in mostly for the carousel builder but the post generator is what I keep coming back to. I ghostwrite for two companies, so my whole day is turning rough material into something postable, and this just gets me there faster. Dropped in a voice memo and had a clean draft I only needed to trim, not rewrite from zero — that's the part that usually eats my morning. The blank-page problem is basically solved for me now, and for a price I pay once I'm not complaining.

After trying almost ALL the carousel generators out there (and getting frustrated with all of them for different reasons), I was genuinely excited to try Carousify.

Unfortunately though, Carousify falled short of my expectations too...

Here are the issues I'm having:

1) The copywriting on the carousels is below average at best – and down right terrible at worst. It's like the AI wasn't trained on creating scroll-stopping hooks, compelling narratives, or even the most basic copywriting & social media content writing frameworks. Every single carousel I've tried to create turned out boring, with an unclear message and a confusing narrative. And some of them didn't even make sense at all (and no, this wasn't due to giving bad inputs: I gave the same inputs into 2pr – another AppSumo tool – and the copywriting on the carousels turned out great, even though 2pr's carousels fall short in design). Yes, I know I can manually tweak every word in Carousify. But first of all, that would take a lot of time. And secondly, the copy is so bad that it's simply not even worth tweaking. And before you brush this off as a minor inconvenience: not only are the carousels painfully uninteresting; half the time, I didn't even know what I was reading about (even though I fed the AI the topic and the description). So not only does the AI not understand basic marketing, copywriting, and storytelling / content creating principles – it's like the AI doesn't even do a good job of understanding the topic, and translating it into a logically structured, clear message.

2) Adding to my previous point, the AI tends to copy A LOT from the description you feed it. So, say you feed it the post's captions – well, be prepared to see the exact same wording in the carousel. Or say you give it a section from a white paper – get ready for the same corporate jargon, with minimal changes. This might be fine if you're creating content for the sake of it. But if you have ANY tangible goal with your content – such as engagement, performance, reach, leads, sales, etc. – you're in for a disappointment.

3) Automatic carousel generation doesn't work (for the most part). Although I didn't spend more than 2-3 hours playing around with the tool (which is already a pretty big time investment tbh), I couldn't find a straightforward way to create on-brand carousels with AI from scratch. To be fair though, Carousify does allow you to use its pre-built templates – and then you can create (off-brand) carousels automatically with just a topic + description. And yes, it also has the "Smart Carousel" function that will finish a carousel after you've created the first 3 slides manually. But in my experience, there's no way for Carousify to a) understand your visual brand, b) understand your topic + description, and finally c) create an on-brand carousel about your topic with a click of a button. Maybe its just me, but based on my brief research into this tool before purchasing, I was under the impression that this was exactly what Carousify excells at – well, I was wrong.

4) Carousel design makes frequent mistakes. Blocks of texts stretching halfway off a slide? Or blocks of texts placed directly on top of each other? – I've come across design issues like these in almost every single carousel that I've created in Carousify. Yes, I know I can tweak this manually too – but at that point, I'm probably better off just using Canva.

Honestly, I genuinely don't get all the 5-taco reviews... I'd give this tool 1 taco IF it weren't for the concept: every other carousel tool I've tried sucks in some way too, but creating carousels for social media is a real JTBD. All this to say: there's definitely a market opportunity for the right tool in this field, and I was really hoping that Carousify could be that tool.

But in its current form, it's not ready – not by a long shot. Even so, I'm giving +1 taco for the concept, hoping that it will improve over time.

Finally, to make my review fair, I'd like to highlight that while I did play around with Carousify for 2-3 hours, I never reached out to their support to discuss my issues. Doing so may have helped me resolve at least a few of the problems I was experiencing, I don't know. But in my defense: the goal of this tool is simple. So, if I need to ask for support to get its basic functionality to work, I'd argue that's already a problem.

I was surprised by the features this tool has to offer. AppSumo perhaps misunderstood the tool, as they seem to be focusing on carousels only. The tool is more than that–it's a complete growth tool for LinkedIn.

I talked with the team, and they told me they are also working to add Instagram and Threads this week, making it more than just LinkedIn and more like a social media growth platform.

I’m glad I picked this up. I will wait for all the exciting features that are yet to be added to it.

Bought this mainly because I wanted to take my brand on LinkedIn more seriously and stop putting it off. Connected my profile through the official LinkedIn flow — no password handover, which is the bit that made me trust it over a couple of cheaper tools I'd looked at, and I'm glad I found one with an LTD here. And so far it's good.