Questions
The ones worth asking, including the awkward ones.
Getting started
What do I need to give Snappd?
A topic and who it’s for. That’s the minimum. You can also paste a link to an article, or point at a carousel you’d like remade for your brand.
How long does a carousel take?
Long enough to make real images, not long enough to leave the tab. You read and approve the copy first, then approve the cover, then the rest renders.
TODO owner — Measured render-time range — do not estimate
Do I need design skills?
No. You need an opinion. Snappd makes the design decisions and shows you the cover before it commits; your job is to say yes or ask for another.
Can I try it without paying?
Yes. Three carousels and 36 slide images, free, no card.
Output and quality
Is the text really inside the image?
Yes. Snappd asks the image model to set the headline as part of the scene — painted on the wall, printed on the tag, stamped into the card — instead of laying a text box on top. It’s why the slides look art-directed rather than captioned. There’s an overlay mode as a fallback, but baked is the default.
What if I don’t like what it makes?
You see it before it’s finished. The copy is yours to edit before anything renders, and Snappd renders the cover on its own and waits for your approval — so a look you don’t want costs one slide, not a whole deck. After that you can re-render any single slide.
What sizes and formats do I get?
4:5 for Instagram (1080 × 1350), 1:1 for LinkedIn (1080 × 1080), 9:16 for Stories and Reels (1080 × 1920). Export a PNG per slide, a ZIP of the deck with the caption in a text file, or a PDF.
How many slides?
Between three and ten. When you import an article, its structure sets the count.
Does every carousel look the same?
No — that’s the failure mode Snappd is built against. Each deck commits to its own visual world, and the brand layer is what makes them relatives rather than copies.
Sometimes an image is strange. Is that a bug?
Not always. Snappd is tuned to make slides people stop on, and a deliberately odd image is often doing that job. Genuine mess — mangled type, broken hands, garbled labels — is caught by a vision check and re-rolled. If one gets through, re-render that slide.
Brand
How does Snappd learn my brand?
Import it from your website or from a few reference images, or fill in the kit yourself: fonts, colours, headline casing, logo and chrome. Every deck inherits it.
What’s a “brand universe”?
The world your posts live in — setting, visual grammar, tone, recurring motifs, the cast that appears, and what must never appear. You approve it once, and after that every deck is built inside it instead of beside it. It’s what makes a month of posts read as one body of work.
Can I run more than one brand?
Yes. Separate brand profiles, each with its own kit, universe and saved look. Everything you do is scoped to the brand you have active.
Can I use my own photos?
You can add reference images for your brand and cast, and Snappd will work from them.
Plans and limits
What does a paid plan unlock?
Nothing — and that’s deliberate. Every tool is on every plan. A plan raises your daily limits: Pro is 20 carousels and 120 slide images a day, Studio is three times that.
What spends a credit?
Building a deck, rendering a slide image, and each AI helper call — captions, rewrites, imports, idea batches. Editing copy, moving things and exporting again on screen are free.
Does the free allowance reset?
No. It’s a lifetime taste, sized so you can make about three complete carousels end to end before deciding.
What happens when I hit a limit?
Everything you’ve already made stays yours to edit, export and post. New AI work waits for the next day’s limit, or a plan.
What do plans cost?
Not set yet. Leave your email on the plans page and you’ll get one message when they go live.
Publishing and privacy
Does Snappd post to Instagram for me?
Plan your week in Snappd, then export the files and post them.
TODO owner §10.8 — Is publishing to connected accounts live for users today?
How does the Chrome extension work, and is it safe?
It reads Instagram posts in your own browser, in your own logged-in session. Swipe through a carousel and it collects the slides as they load; one click saves them to your swipe file. No scraping vendor sits in the middle and no credentials leave your machine. It’s a manual install for now — the steps are on the extension page.
Who owns what Snappd makes?
This is answered by the terms of service rather than here.
TODO owner — Who owns generated output — answer from the terms of service
What happens to my brand information and uploads?
This is answered by the privacy policy rather than here.
TODO owner — What happens to brand information and uploads — from the privacy policy
Still wondering? Three carousels answers most of it.
Three carousels free. No card.