Meta's carousel-building feature inside the free Edits app — lay photos, videos, and text on one canvas, with cutout stickers, layouts, and designs that run across slides. iOS first.
Last verified · 2026-10-08 · by Moe Ameen
The Edits Carousel Editor is a feature inside Meta's free Edits app (also called Instagram Edits) for building multi-slide carousel posts — the swipeable photo, video, and text format that has become one of Instagram's highest-reach layouts. Edits launched in 2025 as Meta's answer to CapCut and was primarily a short-form video editor; this feature extends it to carousels, letting you arrange assets on a single shared canvas before posting. It rolled out on iOS first in late 2026, with Android support still in development.
In a carousel project you place multiple photos and videos on a canvas, add text, apply preset layouts (with spacing and padding controls), and cut subjects out with the cutout tool to make stickers, plus filters, color grading, scaling, and rotation carried over from the rest of Edits. Slide management is complete: add blank slides, duplicate them, reorder them, and insert a new slide on either side of an existing one. The two most distinctive controls are cross-slide — a photo can bleed continuously from one slide into the next, and a headline can run across several slides — so a planned swipe reads as a single composition rather than a stack of images. Fonts, colors, text styles, adjustments, and audio you have saved elsewhere in Edits carry into carousel projects, which keeps one creator's look consistent in-app.
It is a design surface, not a content operation. The carousel editor makes one carousel at a time and is built to post straight to Instagram — you can download the result to post elsewhere, but there is no multi-platform scheduler, no brand-voice layer writing the caption, and nothing generated beyond the carousel you assemble by hand. The cutout tool and layouts are AI-assisted touches within Meta's broader creation push, but the core job is manual composition. That is the right scope to understand before deciding what it fits.
The Edits Carousel Editor is a good place to design one carousel with real craft — the cross-slide bleed and the AI cutout tool are genuinely nice. But a designed carousel is a dead end the moment you want it anywhere other than Instagram, or want ten more like it on brand. [Kompozy](/) is the engine on the other side of that gap, and it approaches carousels differently: rather than dragging photos onto slides by hand, you give it a source and it generates full [Carousel Posts](/glossary/output-buckets) rendered pixel-exact through [HyperFrames](/glossary/hyperframes), so every slide already carries your fonts, colors, and layout — no manual placement, and no drift between this week's carousel and last week's.
Where Edits stops at one Instagram post, Kompozy treats the carousel as one output among many. The same idea fans into an avatar-narrated [Persona Short](/glossary/persona-shorts) that walks through the points on camera, quote graphics, a blog article, and a newsletter — copy governed by a [Persona Brief](/glossary/persona-brief) so it reads like you, not generic AI. Then it reframes and schedules the set across the eight social platforms plus blog and email with [Autopilot](/glossary/autopilot), behind a per-post review gate, so the carousel lands on LinkedIn, Pinterest, and the rest without the download-and-reupload grind. If you are weighing the app against a full engine, the [Instagram Edits alternative](/alternatives/instagram-edits) and [review](/reviews/instagram-edits) pages lay out where each one starts and stops. Design the hero carousel in Edits; let Kompozy generate the rest and publish them everywhere.
It is a feature in Meta's Edits app for building multi-slide Instagram carousels — photos, videos, and text arranged on one canvas, with layouts, cutout stickers, filters, color grading, and slide reordering. It rolled out on iOS first, with Android still in development.
The cutout tool that turns a photo subject into a sticker is AI-assisted, and the feature is part of Meta's broader AI creation push, but the core carousel composition is manual — you place and arrange slides yourself. It is an editing surface, not a generator.
No. It posts a finished carousel straight to Instagram or lets you download it to post elsewhere by hand. There is no cross-platform scheduler. To publish the same carousel across TikTok, LinkedIn, Pinterest, X, and more from one queue, use an engine like Kompozy.
Kompozy generates brand-exact carousels at volume through HyperFrames, repurposes one carousel idea into a Persona Short, quote cards, a blog, and a newsletter, and schedules and publishes the set across the eight social platforms plus blog and email — where Edits designs one carousel and posts it to Instagram.