Spotted October 1, 2026, the test lets creators drop a Threads post on top of an image or video, pick the overlay from their Liked, saved, or own posts, add stickers, try different layouts, and split a photo into as many as nine sections.
2026-10-02 · by Moe Ameen
Threads is testing a more visual take on the quote post. In the current format, quoting someone attaches their post as a plain embedded card. The test adds a new "Quote" option inside the editing menu when you attach an image or video, letting you lay a Threads post directly on top of that media so the quoted text and your visual read as one composed frame rather than a card stacked above a photo.
You choose which post to overlay from three places: your Liked posts, your saved posts, or your own updates. From there the tool opens up some light composition — Threads says you can add stickers, experiment with layouts, and split a photo into as many as nine parts, arranging the overlaid post against those segments. The intent Threads describes is giving a post more context and visual interest than a bare quote card allows.
The move mirrors tools creators already use on other apps: X added a feature in June 2026 to overlay a selfie video on a post as a reaction, and TikTok's green screen has long let people react to a post or article with it framed behind them. Threads positioned this as an early step, saying it is "just the foundation for a lot more creative tools we're building to help you express yourself." Treat it as a limited test — it was rolling out to a subset of creators at launch, and the exact options and availability can shift before any wide release.
This test is useful for the thing it does: hand-building one striking visual quote post, in the app, for Threads. What it is not is a way to produce on-brand visual posts at volume or to get them anywhere but Threads. You still open the editor, pick a post, drag it over an image, nudge stickers and a nine-part layout into place, and publish — one composition, by hand, for one platform. Do that for every quote worth sharing, across every platform, and the manual composer is the bottleneck. [Kompozy](/) is built for the other end of that problem: give it the line or the source and it generates finished visual posts — [Quote Graphics](/glossary/output-buckets) rendered as clean, brand-exact cards, multi-slide [Carousels](/glossary/hyperframes) that unpack a take, photo posts, and infographics — every one held to one look and voice by a written [Persona Brief](/glossary/persona-brief) instead of whatever you can arrange in a sticker menu that afternoon.
The sharper gap is distribution and consistency. Threads' tool makes a visual that stays on Threads; [Autopilot](/glossary/autopilot) takes the same idea and fans sized, captioned versions across the eight social platforms plus blog and email from one queue, each post through a per-post review gate — so a quote you want everywhere is live everywhere, not rebuilt eight times. And because the overlays Threads offers come from posts you liked or saved, the natural workflow is to treat those saved lines as inputs: feed the one worth amplifying into Kompozy and get a quote graphic, a carousel, a short, and a text post in your brand's style, ready to schedule. The in-app composer is a nice touch for a one-off; the engine is what turns a good line into a week of on-brand content across every channel. For the broader playbook, see the guide on [building a brand presence on Threads](/how-to/build-a-brand-presence-on-threads).
Spotted October 1, 2026, Threads added a "Quote" option in the editing menu for attached images and videos that lets you overlay a Threads post directly on top of your media. You choose the post from your Liked posts, saved posts, or your own updates, then add stickers, experiment with layouts, and split a photo into as many as nine parts. It is a limited test, so the exact options and availability can change.
From three sources: posts you have Liked, posts you have saved, or your own updates. That makes the posts you bookmark a kind of raw material for the visuals you build, so curating strong lines and reactions feeds directly into the feature.
It is the same instinct, a different medium. X added a June 2026 feature to overlay a selfie video on a post as a reaction, and TikTok's green screen frames a post or article behind you on camera. Threads' version overlays a post on a photo or video with stickers and layout control, and the company describes it as a foundation for more creative tools to come.
Threads' composer builds one visual by hand that lives on Threads. Feed the same line or idea into a content engine like Kompozy and it generates a brand-exact quote graphic, a carousel, a short, and a text post in your voice, then schedules and publishes them across the eight social platforms plus blog and email — so the idea works everywhere, not just inside the app.