Ten templates pulled from 1,332 TikTok photo slideshows with millions of views each. Not fonts and frames: the hook, the slide count and the job of every slide, with the views and saves each template earned.
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A TikTok slideshow template is the repeatable structure of a post: a hook on slide one, a set number of slides, one job for each slide and a text style. Design templates from Canva, CapCut or PowerPoint sites give you the look. The structure decides whether people swipe to the end and save it.
A guide with 8.0M views and a 6.4% save rate. Same light, same text position, one plant per slide.
The median length of slide one across the library. This one uses six, and leads with a number.
Slides in the posts that get saved most: a 3.9% median save rate, against 1.5% for one to three slides.
of the viral slideshows put text on the last slide too. Every slide has a job, including the final one.
Median words per slide in photo dumps versus tips lists. The template sets how much people read.
Each template is a format type in the ClonBot library. The skeleton is what those posts have in common. The numbers are medians across every post of that type, so sort by what you want the post to do.
Things to ask, do, pack or buy. The most saved template in the library.
Reference information people come back to. The most common viral template of all.
Food, fitness and plans. The highest median views of any template here.
Same skeleton: workout plans and routines (45 posts, 3.9% saved), one day per slide.
Tips people can try tonight. The wordiest template: 17 words a slide.
Opinions people will argue with in the comments.
Visual ideas: gifts, haircuts, outfits, places. Almost no reading.
Teaching a difference: wrong and right, mine and his, myth and fact.
Variant: myth vs fact posts (12 in the library, 6.2M median views) split each pair into "I thought" and "I realized".
Transformations and reframes. The photos carry it: 3 words a slide.
Reach and comments. The longest template, at 10 slides.
Shares and comments. The shortest template and the most commented.
Saves and views pull in opposite directions. The four most saved templates (checklist, cheat sheet, week of meals, tips) are useful, so people keep them. Stories, relatable posts and before-and-afters get more views and comments but are saved a third as often. Pick the template for the job: saves for a steady account, stories for reach. Want more than ten? The slideshow ideas library has all 1,332 posts by niche, and the hooks guide covers slide one in depth.
Copying is reposting someone's photos and words. Remaking is keeping their template and replacing everything that belongs to them. Here is the plants guide from above, remade for a plant care app.
Example made by ClonBot to show what it does. We're not affiliated with Planta.
This is the same process whether you do it by hand or let a tool do it. The skeleton comes from the original. Everything a viewer could recognise as someone else's comes from you.
For app makers, a template is only useful if the app can sit inside the story. When we analysed the library, we marked where an app could go in every post. Some templates almost always have room.
Share of viral posts of each type where our slide-by-slide analysis found a natural place for an app, without breaking the post.
This is the part ClonBot does for you. It starts from a post in the library, keeps the template, and writes a new story where your app shows up on the slide that fits. The photos are new, with one consistent creator on your account, and the phone in her hand shows your app's real screens.
Autopilot builds posts every night. You approve them, fix any slide by typing what should change, and they post to TikTok at your times. Plans start at $99 a month for 60 posts; see pricing or how it works for TikTok slideshows for apps.
Design templates are on Canva, CapCut, Pinterest and PowerPoint template sites, and TikTok's own camera has offered photo templates too. Those set the layout and timing. For the structure of what to post, use the ten templates on this page, or browse all 1,332 viral posts in the slideshow ideas library.
Yes. Every skeleton on this page is free to use by hand. ClonBot is for when you want them filled with new photos and your app, and posted every day. Plans start at $99 a month, and trying it with the field at the top is free without signing up.
Formats move between accounts all the time on TikTok; that is how trends spread. Use the structure, and never repost someone's photos or copy their words. If the people, the photos and the story are yours, it is your post.
In our library, week-of-meals posts had the highest median views (7.2M), then stories with a reveal (5.8M) and before-and-afters (5.5M). The median across all 1,332 posts was 3.6M. The most saved templates were checklists (5.1%) and cheat sheets (5.0%).
TikTok photo mode takes up to 35 photos, but the viral posts in our library had a median of 8. Posts with 4 to 9 slides had the highest save rates. Pick the count your template needs: about 5 for a relatable post, 10 for a story.
Write the slide text for each slide from the skeleton first. Then tap +, pick your photos in order, add text to each slide and choose a sound. Our step-by-step guide on making a slideshow on TikTok covers each screen.
Setting up your app and creator is free. Plans from $99 a month for 60 posts.