Carousel Story Maker: Carousai
★ 4.6What it actually doesCarousai is an app for quickly creating visual carousels for social media with AI assistance for text structuring, built-in photo/video library, and flexible editor. Requires a subscription to save content.
Actually does
- ✓Background remover
- ✓Short video95% of reviews
- ✓AI assistant40% of reviews
- ✓Photo editor35% of reviews
- ✓Photo cloud15% of reviews
- ✓Subscription85% of reviews
- ✓Free trial(bonus)10% of reviews
- ✓Data export10% of reviews
- ✓Форматы для разных соцсетей (9:16, 4:5, 3:4, 1:1)15% of reviews
Claimed, but not confirmed by reviews
- ⚠Video editor
- ⚠Speech-to-text
- ⚠Шаблоны для разных задач и daily inspiration
- ⚠Сохранение и переиспользование стилей и пресетов
Common complaints
- ✗Aggressive paywall: can't create content for free, saving requires subscription35% of mentions
«Doesn't let you do anything for free. You click the generate button and immediately get a popup offering to buy a subscription»
- ✗Payment only through Apple ID/App Store, unavailable in Russia, no alternatives25% of mentions
«This is inconvenient for Russian users, we need foreign cards. Dear developers, your product is in Russian, so please create an alternative to App Store payment»
- ✗Data loss: text gets deleted, background changes spontaneously, individual settings are not saved15% of mentions
«Doesn't save individual layout settings, background changes as it pleases, when saving a project it may lose some information»
- ✗Expensive monthly subscription, inconvenient for users needing only a few carousels per month15% of mentions
«For me, I only need 4-8 carousels a month, so why do I need a monthly subscription?»
- ✗App crashes, errors during operation, instability20% of mentions
«Crashes today during use. Incredibly glitchy app»
What people praise
- ★Fast and convenient carousel creation, app performance speed
«Everything is clear, convenient, fast. Great loading of any changes down to text and template changes in real time within seconds»
- ★Flexible design: fonts, effects, formats, design customization
«Convenient to change fonts, apply different effects, can add your own images, lots of different customizations»
- ★Great hooks, automatic text selection and carousel structure from AI
«Great hooks, conveniently picks photos for the background. If only you could format individual words in the text»
- ★Responsive technical support, developers listen to user requests
«I wrote to tech support and they fixed everything right away. That's speed!! Being able to contact the developer and leave your suggestions directly»
- ★Built-in photo and video library simplifies visual selection
«Convenient for selecting photos in the background»