Ideas in. Swipeable stories out.
Montage Engine is a hosted studio for slideshow carousels. Write your slides, art-direct the photography, render the whole deck at 1080×1350 on a theme you designed once — then send the finished carousel to your TikTok inbox as a draft and watch how it performs.
One plan, $5/month · your own workspace · cancel anytime, export everything
A carousel is a card on a board
Every project is a board. Ideas move left to right — from a one-line premise, through the written script, into rendered slides, to done. You decide what advances and what gets cut.
A deck starts as a draft you didn't have to build by hand: a premise becomes a slide-by-slide script with photography proposed per beat, composed against your theme. That first pass is a starting point, not an output — every word, image, and slide is yours to rewrite before anything leaves the app.
Design it once, stay on brand forever
A theme owns your typography, colour, spacing, and how text sits over photography. Build one from a written description, from screenshots of a style you admire, or from an Instagram or TikTok post link — or just pick one from the ready-made library. Point any deck at it and the slides come out consistent every time; swapping themes re-renders the whole carousel.
Slides render server-side to crisp 1080×1350 PNGs: TikTok photo-mode native, and clean enough to post anywhere else.
Straight to your TikTok inbox
Connect your TikTok account once, from inside your workspace. After that, one click sends a finished carousel to your own inbox as a draft through TikTok's official Content Posting API — title and caption pre-filled, cover slide picked. You open TikTok, add the sound, and post it there.
We never publish for you. Drafts only, every time. Disconnect whenever you like and your tokens are revoked and your TikTok data deleted on the spot.
Know what worked
Montage Engine reads your posting history from TikTok's Display API, links each post back to the deck that produced it, and keeps snapshotting engagement so you have a curve rather than one lifetime number.
See your follower trend with every post marked on the timeline, then overlay views-over-time curves to compare posts head to head — the honest version of "which one actually landed".
How it works
- Create your workspaceSign up, subscribe, and you have a private workspace nobody else can see.
- Set the contextDescribe the account you're making for: audience, voice, topics. Every stage reads it.
- Fill the boardAdd ideas yourself or generate a batch of angles and keep the ones worth making.
- Write & art-directEdit the script slide by slide, swap the photography per beat, place your own images on top.
- Render on themeThe deck composes against your theme into 1080×1350 slides. Change anything, re-render.
- Send the draftConnect TikTok, send the carousel to your inbox, add sound and post from the TikTok app.
- Track itPosts auto-link back to their decks and metrics accrue on a timeline.
Also in the box
Your own image library
Upload your own artwork or save Pexels picks. Everything you add is copied into your workspace, so an image you used in March still renders in September.
Overlay images
Drop a library image onto any slide and drag, resize, rotate, and fade it — product shots, cut-outs, marks of your own. Up to eight per slide.
One-click background removal
Cut the background out of any library image without leaving the app. The cut-out replaces it, so every deck using that image picks it up on its next render.
Slide-level editing
Kicker, header, body, footnote, image, position — one card per slide, autosaved. Rewriting a slide redraws just that slide; add, delete, and reorder freely.
Download the deck
Every carousel exports as a zip of 1080×1350 PNGs, ready to post anywhere — Instagram, LinkedIn, wherever else you publish.
Photos provided by Pexels
Slide photography is searched from Pexels' free library, with photographer credit tracked on every image.
Honest by design
Your workspace is yours
Every account gets its own private workspace. Your projects, themes, images, and TikTok connection are visible only to you.
Your TikTok stays yours
Official API, your explicit consent, drafts only — nothing reaches your profile until you press post inside TikTok. Disconnecting deletes your TikTok data here.
You own what you post
A generated deck is a starting point, not a publish button. You review and edit every slide, and you're responsible for what goes out — including labelling AI-assisted content where TikTok asks you to.
Leave anytime
One click exports everything — every record and every rendered slide — and one click deletes it all, subscription included.
Start making carousels
One plan, $5/month. Your own workspace, cancel any time, export everything on the way out.