How many slides can an Instagram carousel have?

Instagram carousels can have up to 20 slides. The splitter counts your cover and call-to-action slides towards that limit and warns you if your text needs more than 20.

How many words should be on a carousel slide?

Between 20 and 40 words works for most educational carousels. Slides with more than 50 words are hard to read on a phone. A cover slide works best with a headline of 8 words or fewer.

Does the splitter cut sentences in half?

No, unless a single sentence is longer than your word limit. It splits on paragraph or sentence boundaries and only breaks inside a sentence when that sentence alone wouldn't fit on one slide.

What's the difference between splitting by sentence and by paragraph?

By sentence fills each slide as evenly as possible with whole sentences, which suits dense text like blog posts. By paragraph keeps your paragraphs together and only joins short ones, which suits text you've already written in slide-sized chunks, such as a thread.

What should the last slide of a carousel say?

Give one clear next step. Asking people to comment a keyword, such as 'Comment GUIDE and I'll send you the full checklist', works well because it boosts comments and gives you a reason to DM them. A tool like Hypello can send that DM automatically.

Does this tool design the slides?

It splits and organises the text so each slide has the right amount of copy. Paste the slides into Canva, Figma or your carousel template to add your design.

Instagram Carousel Text Splitter

Turn a blog post, newsletter or thread into carousel slides. Paste your text, choose the slide size and get evenly split slides with a cover and call to action, ready to edit and copy.

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Your text

173 words. Leave a blank line between paragraphs.

Split by

Slide size

Max words per slide

20-40 words reads well on a phone.

Cover slideCall-to-action slide

7 slides

Click any slide to edit it.

1/7 · Cover
Slide 1 text4 ways to stop losing sales in your DMs
9 words
2/7
Slide 2 textMost Instagram accounts lose sales in their DMs without noticing. Someone comments "price?" on a Reel, nobody replies for six hours, and by then they've bought from someone else. The first fix is speed.
34 words
3/7
Slide 3 textPeople who comment are most interested in the first few minutes after they see your post. A reply that arrives while they're still scrolling feels personal. A reply the next day feels like an afterthought.
35 words
4/7
Slide 4 textThe second fix is making the next step obvious. Don't make people ask twice. If they asked for the link, send the link. If they asked about price, give the price and one sentence about what's included.
37 words
5/7
Slide 5 textThe third fix is asking one question back. "What are you hoping to get out of it?" turns a one-off reply into a conversation, and conversations are where people decide to buy. Finally, write down every question you get.
39 words
6/7
Slide 6 textAfter a month you'll have a list of the exact worries your customers have. Each one is a post, a story or a carousel waiting to be made.
28 words
7/7 · Call to action
Slide 7 textWant my DM reply templates? Comment GUIDE and I'll send them to you.
13 words

Why carousels work and how to write them

Carousels keep people on your post for longer, because every swipe is another reason to stay. They also get saved and shared more than most single images, which makes them one of the best formats for teaching something.

The hard part is turning long text into slides. Too many words and nobody reads them. Too few and the slides feel empty. This tool does the first pass for you and never splits a sentence unless it has to.

A simple carousel structure

Cover: a headline of 8 words or fewer that promises a clear result.
Body: one idea per slide, 20-40 words each.
Last slide: one call to action, such as “Comment GUIDE for the full checklist”.

Get more from your call to action

A comment keyword on the last slide boosts comments and gives every interested reader a reason to talk to you. Hypello watches the comments and sends the guide, link or discount code to each person by DM, in seconds.

How it works

How to use it

Step 1
Paste your text
Add a blog post, newsletter, thread or script. Blank lines between paragraphs help the splitter find natural breaks.
Step 2
Choose how to split
Set a maximum number of words per slide or a target number of slides, and add an optional cover and call-to-action slide.
Step 3
Edit and copy
Tweak any slide right in its preview card, then copy slides one by one or all at once as numbered text.

FAQs

Frequently asked questions

Answers to common questions about the Carousel Text Splitter.

: Instagram carousels can have up to 20 slides. The splitter counts your cover and call-to-action slides towards that limit and warns you if your text needs more than 20.
: Between 20 and 40 words works for most educational carousels. Slides with more than 50 words are hard to read on a phone. A cover slide works best with a headline of 8 words or fewer.
: No, unless a single sentence is longer than your word limit. It splits on paragraph or sentence boundaries and only breaks inside a sentence when that sentence alone wouldn't fit on one slide.
: By sentence fills each slide as evenly as possible with whole sentences, which suits dense text like blog posts. By paragraph keeps your paragraphs together and only joins short ones, which suits text you've already written in slide-sized chunks, such as a thread.
: Give one clear next step. Asking people to comment a keyword, such as 'Comment GUIDE and I'll send you the full checklist', works well because it boosts comments and gives you a reason to DM them. A tool like Hypello can send that DM automatically.
: It splits and organises the text so each slide has the right amount of copy. Paste the slides into Canva, Figma or your carousel template to add your design.

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