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AI Slideshow Maker

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Plan a photo / image slideshow — slide-by-slide image suggestions, text overlays, durations, transitions, music cues, and Ken Burns recommendations. The output is a production document you assemble in CapCut, iMovie, Premiere, or any NLE. Fast, structured, and tuned to your purpose (wedding montage, quarterly review, travel memories, real-estate tour, memorial tribute, baby's-first-year).
Specific names + specific moments produce a tighter plan. Mention any photos that absolutely must be included.
~200 tokens · Qwen 2.5 7B · 10 slides
Describe the slideshow to continue.
Your slideshow plan

Build the rest

Generate the soundtrack Generate any missing photos Open browser editor

Slideshow planning, not assembly — and that is the feature

Most AI slideshow tools force you to upload your photos first, then auto-shuffle them into a generic Animoto-style template. That is the easy half. The hard half — deciding the slide order, how long each one breathes, which transition fits the mood, where the music swells, where to reveal the title card — is what professional wedding editors charge $300-800 to do. Free.ai writes that creative-direction document in seconds. Bring it to CapCut or iMovie and the assembly takes 20 minutes instead of 2 hours.

Wedding photo montages

Childhood + dating + ceremony photos arranged into the classic 60-90 second wedding-reception slideshow. The plan respects pacing (slow build, peak at the kiss, gentle close).

Memorial tributes

Quiet pacing, longer slide durations, calm music recommendations. Designed for celebration-of-life services and family gatherings.

Quarterly review decks

Data-forward slide order with chart-type recommendations and brand-consistent transitions. Pair with /business/pitch-deck/ for the actual deck.

Travel + adventure recaps

Geographic / chronological hybrid order, music that scales to landscape grandeur, drone-shot recommendations to feature first.

Real estate listing tours

Curb-appeal first, then exterior, foyer, kitchen, primary suite, bath, outdoor, view shots — the proven NAR-recommended order. Ken Burns slow-zoom on hero details.

Baby + family milestones

Month-by-month or milestone-by-milestone arc. Soft music, cross-dissolves, room for handwritten captions if the family wants to add them in post.

Free.ai slideshow plan vs templated slideshow tools

Free.ai Slideshow Plan Animoto Canva Video CapCut
PriceFree (daily pool)$16-79/mo$15/mo ProFree + Pro $7.99
Custom production planYesTemplates onlyTemplates onlyNo
Per-photo Ken Burns notesYesAuto-appliedManualManual
Music vibe match per purposeYesLibrary pickerLibrary pickerLibrary picker
Renders the final MP4NoYesYesYes
Pricing as of 2026. Templated tools win when speed-to-MP4 is the goal; planning tools win when production quality is. Use both — plan here, render there.

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Download, copy, or share your result. Free for personal and commercial use.

Use this tool via API

Automate this tool from your own code. OpenAI-compatible REST endpoint, Bearer-token auth, no extra SDK required. Token costs match the web interface.

API Documentation Get API Key 
curl -X POST https://api.free.ai/v1/video/generate/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk-free-..." \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"prompt": "A cat playing piano", "duration": 4}'

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AI Slideshow Maker — FAQ

Free.ai AI Slideshow Maker generates a full production plan for a photo / image slideshow - per-slide image suggestions, text overlays, durations, transitions, music cues, Ken Burns zoom recommendations, and opening / closing titles. It is a planning tool: feed it your purpose, get a shot list back, then assemble in CapCut / iMovie / Premiere. Think "AI creative director" not "AI renderer".

Not at AI Slideshow Maker - the output is a structured written plan you paste into your editor of choice. For AI-rendered video clips, use /video/ or /video/text-to-video/. The slideshow tool works where stock photos + human-shot photos already exist and you just need the assembly logic.

Yes - this is a /v1/chat/ call using our free Qwen 2.5 model. A full 10-slide plan costs ~800 tokens. Free accounts get 10K on signup = 12+ full plans. Premium models (Claude Sonnet, GPT-5) produce tighter copy but cost per use.

Animoto ($16-79/mo) and Magisto ($10-35/mo) are template-based slideshow renderers. Canva Video (free-$15/mo) is an editor. Kapwing Slideshow ($16+/mo) is semi-automated. All of those are render tools - they need your actual photos uploaded. Free.ai AI Slideshow Maker sits upstream: it plans the production so the assembly in any of those tools takes 20 minutes instead of 2 hours.

Wedding photo montages, graduation videos, company quarterly reviews, funeral tribute slideshows, travel memories, real-estate listing tours, product showcases, baby-first-year videos, retirement tributes, school yearbook recaps. Anywhere a stack of still images needs a narrative thread.

10 is the default and a sweet spot for 60-90 second videos. 5 slides suits Instagram-feed length (15-30 s). 15-20 slides suits longer weddings / memorials (3-4 minutes). Beyond 20, viewers drop off fast - consider splitting into chapters.

Weddings: romantic / emotional piano or acoustic. Quarterly reviews: upbeat corporate. Travel: adventurous / uplifting. Memorials: calm / reflective. Product showcase: punchy upbeat. Kids events: playful. Our tool recommends genre per slideshow; generate the track at /music/generate/ or /music/lofi/.

Yes - the output notes which photos benefit from a slow zoom-in (faces, details) vs a zoom-out reveal (wide shots). Classic wedding slideshows use 60% zoom-in / 40% zoom-out mixed with cross-dissolves. iMovie, CapCut, and Premiere all support the Ken Burns automation.

Not a rendered MP4 - the output is the PLAN. To render: (1) paste the plan into CapCut / iMovie timeline, (2) drop your photos per the slide order, (3) set per-slide duration per the plan, (4) apply the suggested transitions. Professional wedding editors charge $300-800 for this assembly work - the plan saves you the creative-direction step.

Yes - in your purpose description, mention "mix of photos and short video clips". The plan will distribute video clips between stills and recommend durations accordingly (videos run their natural length, stills get 3-5 s each).

Yes - describe the purpose as "product launch", "quarterly metrics review", or "sales deck visuals" and the plan shifts to data-forward slide structure with recommended chart types and brand-consistent transitions. For actual presentation decks (PowerPoint / Keynote), see /business/pitch-deck/.

Yes - /v1/chat/ with a slideshow-production system prompt composed from your inputs. Bearer auth. The plan itself is markdown so easy to feed into downstream tools. See /api/ for snippets.

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