Free LinkedIn carousel templates
A blank first slide is the hardest part of any carousel. These 25 templates give you a finished structure to react to instead: a hook, a middle that earns the swipe, and a closing slide that asks for something. Each one opens in the editor as a fresh carousel, so you can rewrite the words, swap the layouts and change the colours without starting from nothing. Nothing is saved until you make your first edit.
25 templates
The gallery has 2 story templates, 4 list templates, 3 framework templates, 3 data templates, 1 hiring templates, 2 launch templates, 4 guide templates, 2 opinion templates, 2 career templates, 2 personal templates.
Picking the right template
Start from what you actually have to say, not from the look you like. The design is the easy part to change; the shape of the argument is not.
- You have a story. Founder story and Lessons learned walk through a beginning, a turning point and what you took from it.
- You have a list. The 5-point listicle and Weekly tips give each idea its own slide, which keeps people swiping.
- You have a method. The 3-step framework and How I work turn a process into numbered, repeatable steps.
- You have numbers. Data story puts the figures up front on big-number slides and saves the insight for after.
- You want to correct something. Myth vs fact sets the common belief against what really happens.
- You are announcing or hiring. Product launch and Hiring playbook cover the problem, the offer and the next step.
Making a template your own
Every template is ordinary carousel data, so nothing is locked. Rewrite the hook first, because it decides whether anyone sees slide two. Then replace the example points with your own specifics: real numbers, named tools, the exact thing you did. Generic advice is what makes a template look like a template.
Next, set your name, handle and photo in the author settings so they appear on the slides, and pick one of the 20 palettes and 12 font pairings if the template's style is not yours. If you only want a template's look for a carousel you already wrote, open the Templates menu inside the editor and choose “Apply style only”. Your slides stay as they are and only the colours, fonts and background pattern change.
Before you post, open the feed preview to check the first slide and the caption on mobile, then export the PDF and upload it to LinkedIn as a document. Exports from a free account have no watermark.
Templates or AI?
Templates suit you when you already know what you want to say and just need structure. If you only have a topic or a rough draft, let the AI carousel generator write the first version and choose the layouts for you. Either way you end up in the same editor, and the size guide explains which format to pick.