The best TikTok slideshow ideas are formats that already worked: tip lists, photo dumps, rankings, real days and recipes, short stories, relatable quotes and before-and-afters. Here are 105 of them from our library, with the views and saves each one got.
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Every card is a real TikTok slideshow that went viral, five from each niche. Filter by what you post about, sort by views or saves, and tap a cover to swipe through all of its slides.
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Views, saves and slide counts are the originals' numbers on TikTok. ClonBot keeps a format's hook, rhythm and text style and writes a new story with new photos, so nothing here is reposted.
Four from each format type, picked from the gallery. The numbers next to each type are medians across every slideshow of that type in the library.
The most common viral slideshow in the library, and the most saved. One tip per slide under a hook that promises something useful.
Every slide is a cheat sheet worth keeping: stances, a protein table, a machine guide. The hook asks for a screenshot, so people save it, and the mix means everyone finds one they need.
Fitness · 12.1M views · 7.6% saved · 9 slidesA selfish promise, then one doable hobby per slide over dim, faceless study photos. People keep it as a to-do list. One hobby was shown on a language app screen, and nobody minded.
Study & career · 8.3M views · 7.8% saved · 7 slidesOne month per slide. Viewers jump to their holiday month, save it for planning and send it to their travel partner. Debatable picks fill the comments.
Travel · 6.8M views · 5.2% saved · 13 slidesBefore, after, then the exact slider values, six times over. Copyable numbers drove the saves, and a reveal every three slides carries people through all twenty.
Social media · 11.5M views · 7.3% saved · 20 slidesA loose run of photos under a one-line frame. They look like someone's camera roll, which is why they don't read as content.
The frame turns pretty landscapes into a wish list viewers adopt as their own. Tiny labels make people slow down, and twenty slides keeps them there.
Travel · 27.8M views · 3.9% saved · 20 slidesA specific occasion makes it a group-chat post. One nostalgic snack per slide on a clean grid begs for a screenshot, and favourites start arguments in the comments.
Party · 9.3M views · 4.4% saved · 10 slidesEvery slide is a named pose to copy on the next date, so couples save it and send it to each other. Half-hidden faces keep it relatable.
Dating · 6.9M views · 6.6% saved · 6 slidesNostalgic shelf-style backgrounds plus one slide showing the finished screen, so it's copyable on the spot. A selfie cover makes it a friend's tip, not a wallpaper page.
Phone & AI · 9.1M views · 4.0% saved · 12 slidesScores, red and green flags, don'ts and dos. A ranking gives people a reason to reach the last slide and something to disagree with.
Every don't is answered by a do with a real price on it, so the whole post is trip planning, and travel buddies get it in their DMs.
Travel · 7.7M views · 5.2% saved · 16 slidesScores climb slide by slide to an absurd top score, so you swipe to see what wins. Each rating has a short reason, which makes it worth saving and easy to argue with.
Fitness · 6.1M views · 5.1% saved · 8 slidesIt flips a tired trend. Each slide runs "I thought", then "I realized": a small lesson to relate to or debate. It was shared with partners almost as often as it was saved.
Dating · 15.7M views · 1.7% saved · 6 slidesA credential in the hook buys trust, and each book comes with what it changed for her, not a summary of it. The highest save rate of any idea on this page.
Mindset · 3.2M views · 9.8% saved · 6 slidesSomebody's real day, week or meal, step by step. Practical enough to save, personal enough to watch to the end.
A grocery-cart cover says a real week of food starts here, and every meal comes with its recipe card. It's a complete plan, so it gets saved.
Nutrition · 14M views · 6.2% saved · 11 slidesAfter every meal comes a "what was left" plate: parents swipe to see whether the toddler ate it. Half-eaten plates keep it honest, and the weekly plan at the end is the save.
Parents & pets · 7.5M views · 2.7% saved · 14 slidesOne notebook page, photographed again with one more line filled in. Small, real numbers make people compare with their own pay, and it costs nothing to make.
Money · 4.4M views · 1.0% saved · 7 slidesThe "vs..." on the cover forces the swipe, and the reveal (plain supermarket basics) makes a restaurant-looking plate feel doable.
Recipes · 43.7M views · 3.0% saved · 10 slidesA beginning, a turn and a payoff. Stories pull big views and get shared, but few people save them, so use them for reach.
It frames the change as a reward: five generous plates of what life looks like now. Only six slides, and people tag the friend who's starting on Monday.
Nutrition · 15.5M views · 5.2% saved · 6 slidesThree slides: the excuse, a dramatic question to a chatbot, a gut-punch answer. Read in seconds, replayed, and sent to every study friend.
Study & career · 22.6M views · 2.6% saved · 3 slidesThe rule in the hook is a party idea worth stealing, and the story from prep to aftermath makes people swipe to see how it went.
Party · 4.6M views · 1.7% saved · 9 slidesA promise on slide one, two honest failures, then the numbers start to climb. Every swipe is a new chapter, and screenshots of rising results are the payoff.
Money · 8.6M views · 1.2% saved · 20 slidesOne feeling, said better than the viewer could say it. These travel furthest and get sent to friends.
A numbered promise gets people through every slide, and each line is short enough to screenshot. It beat its account's usual views thousands of times over, so the format did the work.
Mental health · 19.9M views · 4.1% saved · 9 slidesAn excuse everyone has used, then a mysterious named rule, then the explanation. Three slides means people finish it, loop it and save it as a mantra.
Mindset · 28.7M views · 2.6% saved · 3 slidesOne to three words per slide over camera-roll photos. Nothing is easier to copy, so it was saved at a rate most guides never reach.
Social media · 4.5M views · 6.3% saved · 6 slidesThe same grim deathbed image with a new sarcastic regret on every slide. Each line hits a different person, so viewers tag friends.
Money · 9.4M views · 1.6% saved · 8 slidesTwo states and the swipe between them. The comparison does the persuading, so the text can stay short.
"Me before, me after" turns a dry tip into a small confession. Each card is a fix you can screenshot, and it gets sent to the roommate who leaves the bananas out.
Home · 6.7M views · 5.2% saved · 4 slidesA hand-drawn edit map between before and after makes an invisible skill visible, four reveals in a row.
Social media · 2.1M views · 6.0% saved · 13 slides"Last year" and "today" close-ups alternate, so you compare every pair. What helped appears only on the last slide, which makes it feel like an answer instead of an ad.
Beauty · 16.5M views · 1.7% saved · 7 slidesPairs of a bad photo and its fix, and you swipe to see each fix. The tool that did it is never named, so the comments fill up with people asking which one.
Girl life · 15.4M views · 6 slidesEach square counts the viral slideshows in one niche and format. The darker it is, the more often people saved them. Tap a square to see its examples in the gallery.
| Niche | Tips & guides | Photo dumps | Rankings | Days & recipes | Stories | Relatable | Before & after |
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| Girl life* | · | ||||||
| Health | · | ||||||
| Hobbies & books | · | · | |||||
| Home | |||||||
| Mental health | |||||||
| Mindset | |||||||
| Money | · | · | |||||
| Nutrition | · | ||||||
| Parents & pets | |||||||
| Party | · | ||||||
| Phone & AI | · | · | · | ||||
| Recipes | · | · | · | ||||
| Social media | · | ||||||
| Sports | |||||||
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| Style | · | ||||||
| Travel | · | · |
Median saves as a share of views; grey means fewer than five examples. *Saves weren't recorded for girl life posts, and we sorted them into formats by hand.
Tips and guides are saved at a median 4.7% of their views, stories at 1.4%. Stories and relatable posts travel further, though: a median 5.5M and 5.8M views against 2.5M for tips. A good week has both.
That's what your audience keeps. In most niches it's a tips or guide format; in beauty it's routines, and in hobbies and books it's rankings. A grey square means few posts of that kind went viral in that niche, so it's an untested bet.
If you post for an app or a product, choose a format where it can be one moment in the story. The section below shows where that moment usually is for each format.
Borrow the hook pattern, the slide count and the text style, then tell your version with your own photos. Our slideshow templates break ten structures down slide by slide, and the hooks guide covers the first slide.
Try ideas from different squares over a week, compare each with your account's usual views, and make more of whatever beats it.
| Niche | Saved most | Viewed most |
|---|---|---|
| Beauty | Days & recipes 4.9% | Photo dumps 15.1M |
| Dating | Tips & guides 3.6% | Rankings 8.3M |
| Faith & astrology | Tips & guides 4.1% | Relatable 8.5M |
| Fitness | Tips & guides 5.7% | Rankings 4.5M |
| Girl life | no save data | Stories 4.2M |
| Health | Tips & guides 5.2% | Relatable 6.7M |
| Hobbies & books | Rankings 5.8% | Rankings 4.3M |
| Home | Tips & guides 4.3% | Photo dumps 4.3M |
| Mental health | Tips & guides 5.3% | Rankings 8.3M |
| Mindset | Tips & guides 5.0% | Relatable 9M |
| Money | Tips & guides 4.2% | Stories 4.5M |
| Niche | Saved most | Viewed most |
|---|---|---|
| Nutrition | Tips & guides 5.5% | Days & recipes 5.2M |
| Parents & pets | Days & recipes 3.9% | Stories 8.2M |
| Party | Tips & guides 4.2% | Photo dumps 1.5M |
| Phone & AI | Rankings 4.8% | Tips & guides 3.2M |
| Recipes | Photo dumps 3.8% | Photo dumps 9.4M |
| Social media | Tips & guides 5.9% | Photo dumps 3.2M |
| Sports | Tips & guides 3.0% | Photo dumps 1.9M |
| Study & career | Tips & guides 6.3% | Stories 7.4M |
| Style | Tips & guides 4.3% | Photo dumps 3M |
| Travel | Tips & guides 5.3% | Photo dumps 3.2M |
Every format in our library comes with a note on where an app can sit without turning the post into an ad (1,320 of 1,332 have one). The pattern repeats: one moment in the story, never the cover.
One tip of several, around the middle, with the app open on a phone in the photo. Never the cover and never the only tip, or it reads as an ad.
One photo where the phone is in someone's hand, open on your app, the way it would be in a real camera roll.
A mid-list pick with an honest score and a reason. Not the winner, not the first slide.
The step where somebody logs, plans or checks something: the meal scanned, the week planned, the savings goal topped up.
The turn of the story, when the app is what changes things. If it can't be the turn, it goes in the caption.
Usually the caption or a pinned comment. A quote post with an app in it stops being relatable.
The slide that shows what made the difference, after the two states. Here the last slide works, because it reads as the answer.
Keep the app's name out of the overlay text. Let the screen show it and let the comments ask what it is; that question is what you want.
For each format, the library also lists the kinds of apps that would fit it naturally. Added up by app type, it shows where to start. More detail by category is in TikTok slideshows for apps.
| App type | Formats that fit | Fits best in | Top niches |
|---|---|---|---|
| Habit tracker | 476 | Tips and guides (50%), then relatable posts and quotes | Mindset, Fitness |
| Workout tracker | 239 | Tips and guides (42%), then relatable posts and quotes | Fitness, Sports |
| Budgeting app | 210 | Tips and guides (54%), then rankings and this vs that | Money, Study & career |
| Calorie counter | 194 | Tips and guides (37%), then days, routines and recipes | Nutrition, Recipes |
| Journaling app | 193 | Tips and guides (49%), then relatable posts and quotes | Mental health, Mindset |
| Meal planner or recipes | 168 | Days, routines and recipes (39%), then tips and guides | Nutrition, Recipes |
| Language learning | 164 | Tips and guides (53%), then rankings and this vs that | Study & career, Travel |
| Meditation or mood | 128 | Tips and guides (43%), then relatable posts and quotes | Mental health, Mindset |
| Couples or dating | 115 | Tips and guides (36%), then relatable posts and quotes | Dating, Mental health |
| Study app | 67 | Tips and guides (43%), then rankings and this vs that | Study & career, Phone & AI |
| Sleep tracker | 65 | Tips and guides (50%), then relatable posts and quotes | Health, Beauty |
The original scanned popular moisturisers, showed their bad scores, then the better swaps. The remake keeps the hook and the rhythm but tells a new story: a different creator scans her own kitchen and bathroom, finds the low scores, and swaps everything.
The app is in her hand in the story's middle slides, scoring real products. The overlay text never names it.
Example made by ClonBot to show what it does. We're not affiliated with Yuka.
The formats that go viral most often are tips and guides, photo dumps, rankings, day-in-the-life and recipe posts, short stories, relatable quotes and before-and-afters. In our library of 1,332 viral slideshows, tips and guides are the most common (586) and the most saved (4.7% of views), while relatable posts and stories get the most views. Pick the format first, then a topic from your niche.
Rankings that end on a ridiculous top score, sarcastic quote posts (the same image with a new ironic line on every slide), "this vs that" comparisons and relatable posts about one situation everybody knows. They get shared more than saved, so they're best for reach.
TikTok's photo mode takes up to 35 photos. The viral slideshows in our library have a median of 8 slides, and posts with 4 to 9 slides were saved most often, at about 3.9% of views against 1.5% for posts with one to three slides.
A hook on the first slide that says what's coming in about eight words (the median in our library), one idea per slide, text short enough to read in a second, and a reason to reach the last slide: a payoff, a top pick or a reveal. Our guide on how to make a slideshow on TikTok covers the steps in the app.
Formats where the app can be one moment in the story: a tip in a tips list, a photo in a photo dump, a mid-list pick in a ranking. Keep it off the cover and out of the overlay text. Habit trackers fit the most formats in our library, then workout trackers and budgeting apps.
They can. The 1,332 slideshows in our library got a median of 3.6 million views each, often on small accounts, beating those accounts' usual views many times over.
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