What do I get without paying?+
One real batch, minus the download. Five cover photos, ten body photos, five hooks and five finished posts — no card, nothing to cancel. You get the hooks written for your product, the slide copy written per post, and every slide on screen exactly as it will go out. What the subscription buys is the export: full-resolution images and the caption files, which is the part you'd actually upload. It works this way round because you shouldn't have to take our word for whether the slides look right — you can just look at them. You get one build of that batch, which is enough to see whether the output is good and not enough to run an account on — that is the honest description of a free tier.
Isn't this format already saturated?+
Far less than video. Most accounts still default to filming because that's what they think content means, which is exactly why the production cost of slideshows is still an edge. And saturation isn't really the constraint anyway — reach is decided post by post, so what matters is whether your hook is better than the next one in the feed, not how many people are technically using the format.
Do I need to be on camera?+
No. Slideshows are the whole point of the format — a hook over a photo, a few images, a call to action. Nobody films anything, and the accounts that do this best never show a face.
Does it post to TikTok for me?+
No, and that's deliberate. There's no reliable auto-poster for slideshows with trending sounds, and the tools that claim otherwise put your account at risk. You get post-ready folders — uploading one takes about a minute, and it's the part where you pick the sound.
Where do the images come from?+
You bring them. Curating a pool once and drawing from it forever is what makes this fast; auto-scraping images at scale is how accounts get flagged. Most people build a pool of thirty or forty photos and reuse it for months.
How do I know which hooks are working?+
Right now, from your own TikTok analytics — SlideScale doesn't rank them for you yet. What it does is make the sample size affordable. Four posts tells you nothing; 100 tells you plenty, and the reason most accounts never find out which hooks work is that they could never afford to run 100. Judge a hook on its median run rather than its best one, and paste the winners back into your list. Ranking this automatically, synced from TikTok, is what's next.
Won't every post look the same?+
Each post pulls different images from your pool, so two posts sharing a hook still look different. The thing that varies most is the hook itself, which is also the thing that decides whether anyone stops scrolling.
Who writes the words on the slides?+
You bring the hook, or have it written; the slides underneath get written for you. Each post's body has to actually pay off what its hook promised — a hook that says “3 ways” lands three things, one per slide — so the copy is written per post, and the whole batch is written in one pass so twenty posts don't repeat the same tip in shuffled words. You can edit any line before rendering.
What if I don't have hooks yet?+
Describe what you're promoting and who it's for, and you'll get a list written against what actually works in short form — a promise of information, short enough to read in a second, no emoji that won't render. You edit the list, then it's yours to reuse.
Will the text sit somewhere stupid?+
No. Slides come out at 1080×1350 with margins that clear TikTok's buttons, the caption strip and the username, and copy that runs long shrinks to fit instead of getting cut off. You should never have to re-crop a batch.
