TikTok Slideshow Maker That Designs, Schedules and Posts Your Slides

How to Post a Slideshow on TikTok From a PC

This is the question most people searching for a TikTok slideshow maker are really asking, and the honest answer depends on your account and on what you call a slideshow.

TikTok documents photo posts for its phone app. TikTok's help article on making a post walks you through tapping the plus button, choosing photos and posting up to 35 of them from the app. Its steps for a web browser are written around selecting a video file. TikTok's own scheduler on the web is described the same way: TikTok's announcement of the video scheduler says you can schedule videos from 15 minutes to 10 days ahead on the web upload page, and that desktop scheduling needs a Business Account. Some creators report a photo option showing up on the web upload page for their accounts. TikTok's help does not describe it as of today, so open tiktok.com, start an upload and see what your account offers before you plan around it.

If your account has no photo option on the web, you have four ways to get a slideshow from your computer to TikTok.

First, send the slides to your phone and post them in the app. AirDrop, a shared folder or an email to yourself all work. It is free and you get every feature of the app, including the sound picker. The cost is that you are back on your phone every time you post, which is exactly what most people searching for a PC answer are trying to avoid.

Second, turn the slides into a video on your computer and upload that. CapCut's slideshow maker builds a video from pictures and music and exports it, and a video can be uploaded and scheduled on tiktok.com. You lose the swipe: viewers watch your slides go past at your pace, and the post counts as a video, not a photo post.

Third, use a tool connected to TikTok's Content Posting API. That is TikTok's official route for apps to publish to your profile, and the photo post reference shows it takes up to 35 pictures as one photo post. The tool runs in your browser, so the computer you use does not matter. Spreadcast works this way, and so do schedulers such as Buffer and slideshow tools such as ReelFarm. One detail to check before you pick one: TikTok's getting started guide says content posted by apps that have not passed TikTok's audit is restricted to private viewing, so an unaudited tool will put your slideshow on your profile where only you can see it.

Fourth, if your account does show a photo upload on the TikTok website, use it. Make the slides wherever you like, at the sizes in the table below, and upload them by hand.

So, can you make TikTok slideshows on a PC? Yes. Making them was never the hard part; any design tool on a computer makes the pictures. Posting them as a swipeable photo post from a computer is the part that needs either a photo option on your web account or a tool that posts through TikTok's API. Spreadcast does both halves in one place, and the same post can go to Instagram as a carousel at the same time, which is covered on our Instagram carousel maker page.

Why TikTok Slideshows Work for App Marketing

For an app maker, a slideshow has one plain advantage over video: you already own the material. Your app's screens, your release notes and your reviews are slides waiting to be made. No filming, no voiceover, no editing timeline. That is why TikTok slideshow app marketing has become a known tactic among indie developers, and why a handful of tools now sell it.

TikTok's own description of its feed explains why a swipe format can do well. TikTok's post on how the For You feed recommends videos lists likes, shares, comments and the accounts you follow among the signals, alongside details such as captions, sounds and hashtags. A slideshow asks for an action on every slide, and a good one makes people go back to a slide or save it for later. Those are the interactions the feed counts.

What should go on the slides is the harder question. Joseph Choi, who runs Viral App Founders, told RevenueCat's Sub Club podcast that apps do best on TikTok with short, visually impactful stories rather than feature lists, and that good content can reach people from zero followers. A slideshow is a good fit for a story: slide one is the problem, the middle slides are your app solving it on real screens, the last slide says where to get it. It is a poor fit for ten features in a row. We go further into why a list of screens reads like a brochure in why your app feed looks like a slideshow, and into what makes people stop on a post in what makes a social creative convert.

About money. People search "TikTok slideshows money" because of screenshots of app revenue posted next to slideshow accounts. Two things are worth knowing. TikTok does not pay for slideshows directly in the way most people imagine: TikTok's Creator Rewards terms count videos of at least one minute and exclude Business Accounts. So a slideshow makes money for an app maker through what it sells, the installs and subscriptions that follow, not through a payout. And nobody, including us, can promise those installs. We do not quote view counts or download numbers on this page because they vary too much from one app and one week to the next to mean anything for yours.

What you can control is the cost of trying. If a slideshow takes you an hour to design, you will make a few and stop. If it takes two minutes to approve, you can post several a week for a month and see what your audience responds to. That is the whole reason slideshow automation exists.

TikTok Photo Carousel Not Working: What to Check

If you cannot find Photo Mode in the app, update TikTok first. TikTok's help describes the flow as tapping the plus button, choosing Photo, then Upload, and picking your pictures from the camera roll. Photo posts are made in the app or sent by a connected tool; a slideshow exported as a video file is a video post, with no swipe.

If a tool says your slideshow was sent but it does not appear, check three things. The pictures must meet TikTok's limits for apps: JPEG or WebP, up to 1080p and 20 MB each, per TikTok's media transfer guide. The account may have hit TikTok's daily cap for posts sent by apps. And an unaudited tool posts privately, so the slideshow may be there and visible only to you.

If the post went up but has no sound, that is expected from any tool that posts through TikTok's API without asking TikTok to add a track. Spreadcast posts slideshows without music. When a sound matters for a particular slideshow, post that one from the TikTok app, where you can pick it.

If you posted from a computer and the slides look cut off, the pictures were probably a different shape from the screen. Use 1080 x 1920 for full screen, or 1080 x 1350 if you post the same slides on Instagram, and keep words away from the bottom and the right edge.

In Spreadcast, a refused post never fails quietly. The calendar marks the post, names the network and gives TikTok's reason in plain words, with Try Again once you have fixed it. Caption length is checked against each network's limit before anything is scheduled; our social media character limits page lists those limits for every network.

What Spreadcast Does Not Do on TikTok

It does not add music. Slideshows go to TikTok as silent photo posts. If a slideshow needs a sound, post that one from the TikTok app.

It does not edit video or generate video. You can upload a finished video from your computer and schedule it, but the slideshows Spreadcast designs are still pictures.

It does not post more than 10 pictures in one post, although TikTok accepts 35. The slideshows it designs have 3 to 8 slides, which is the range that holds attention on a phone anyway.

It does not read your TikTok numbers. Spreadcast asks TikTok only for basic account details and permission to post, so views and likes for TikTok are in TikTok Studio. Its analytics cover the networks that share them, starting with interactions and followers gained.

It works best with an iPhone app on the App Store, because that is where the screens, colors and release notes come from. Without one, you can still upload your own slides and use Spreadcast to post and schedule them, but the design half is yours.