TextTiles

Carousel Maker

Free

A visual carousel builder for creating minimalist, high-impact slide decks.

TextTiles is an offline-capable Progressive Web App (PWA) designed to force a constraint-based presentation format. Rather than providing endless text boxes and bullet points, TextTiles limits slides to a tight set of intentional layers (Kicker, Main Phrase, Sub Text, Media).

This restriction forces you to choose the most impactful phrases, creating punchy carousels that are highly engaging when embedded in blogs or exported as image galleries for social media platforms like LinkedIn and Instagram.

🎨 Key Features

  • The Single Source of Truth: TextTiles cleanly separates the Application Shell (the UI) from the Slide Widget. The entire DOM structure of the carousel is strictly standardized. The way it looks is controlled entirely by modular CSS files (styles/), ensuring that the editor preview is perfectly identical to the final output.

  • Visual Effect Engines:

    • Neon Glow: A hardware-accelerated, layered lighting system that adds depth (ambient floor light, physical rings, and animated blooms) to the presentation.

    • Sparkles: A lightweight, interactive physics engine that floats particles across the slide canvas.

  • Offline First: The application uses IndexedDB (via Dexie.js) to store all of your carousels locally in your browser. After the first load, the app works entirely offline.

  • Extremely Fast, Dependency-Free Embeds: HTML exports are self-contained, inline all fonts, bundle their CSS, and require no external libraries or frameworks to run on a target website.

📦 Export Formats

TextTiles is designed to get your content out of the editor and into the world:

  1. HTML Embed: Generates a self-contained HTML snippet that can be dropped into any website.

  2. PNG Batches (.zip): An isolated iframe pipeline perfectly snapshots your slides into high-resolution PNGs without any editor UI interference, ready for social media.

  3. Markdown (.md): Extracts your text into a clean markdown document for use in articles or blog posts.

  4. JSON Backups (.json): Dumps the complete state of the carousel for backups or programmatic editing.

Available for testing on : https://texttiles.artsartefacts.com/