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PostDecks

What's new in PostDecks, newest first.

Updates

What we've shipped, and why. Newest first.

Previews now default to a phone, because that is where posts get read

Every preview, and every client PDF, has been drawing the desktop version of a post. Almost nobody reads a feed on a desktop, so that was the less useful of the two views. Phone is now the default, desktop is one click away, and the choice sticks.

New: phone and desktop

  • Every format previews as a phone by default, at the width a phone actually renders it.
  • Switch to desktop whenever you need it, and it is still set that way next time you come back.
  • Captions cut in different places on the two. LinkedIn shows about 148 characters on a phone against 210 on a desktop, and the preview now cuts where your reader's device does.
  • Exports carry the device in the title, so a client is never guessing which view they were sent.

Two layouts we were drawing wrong

  • X and Threads both lay several photos out as a strip: side by side at one height, each keeping its own shape, with the next already visible at the edge. X was drawing a cropped grid of four and Threads was showing one image at a time, and neither is what those apps do.
  • Drag the strip to move along it, or use the arrows, and whichever photo you land on is the one that gets exported.

Settings moved to the bottom

  • Device, formats, appearance and the export buttons now sit in a bar along the bottom of the screen, so the settings column is about half as long as it was and Export is always in reach instead of at the end of a long scroll.

Plan an Instagram feed, then send the grid for sign-off

A post is only half of what a client is judging. The other half is what the profile looks like once that post lands in it, and a single preview cannot show you that. The new grid planner does: drop your images in, drag them into the order you will post, and read the profile as a whole before anything goes out.

New: the Instagram grid planner

  • Upload your images and drag them into place on the three-wide profile grid, newest top left, the way Instagram actually fills a profile.
  • Drag works with a thumb: hold a tile for a moment on a phone and it lifts, so swiping still scrolls the page.
  • Leave empty slots for posts you have not made yet, so you can plan around a gap instead of imagining it.
  • Your plan is still there tomorrow. It is kept in your own browser and never uploaded, with no account and no signup.
  • Download the finished grid as a PNG.

New in Pro

  • Save as many grids as you have clients, one per account, each with its own profile picture, bio and follower counts.
  • Grids live on your account rather than in one browser, so a new laptop opens the same work, and on Agency so does the rest of your team.
  • Turn any grid into a client link. They open it, approve it or leave a comment, and never make an account.
  • The link follows the grid: save a change and the client sees the current plan, not the version you sent on Tuesday.
  • Your logo and colour carry across, the same as your other client links.

Also new

  • TikTok joined the preview formats: one image reads as a video frame, several become a photo carousel with the counter and dots.
  • A reference page for caption limits and image sizes, generated from the same specs that drive the previews, so it cannot quietly go out of date.

Where it stops

  • The planner does not connect to your Instagram account, schedule anything, or publish anything. It plans and it previews, and you post the way you post today.

One workspace for the whole team

Until now an account was one person's: your clients, your links, your saved presets. Agency makes it a shared workspace, so a team looking after a roster of clients works from one place instead of a login they pass around.

New in Agency

  • Invite your team into one workspace on one bill: up to five seats, each with their own login, all covered by the plan.
  • Share the client roster and presets, so nobody retypes a name and handle a teammate already saved.
  • Every share link and campaign deck belongs to the workspace, so anyone on the team can see and manage them, not just whoever made them.
  • Connect your own subdomain, so the approval link you send a client reads as your agency, not PostDecks.

New in Pro too

  • Branded client links: your logo, your colour, and the PostDecks wordmark off the pages your clients open, not only your PDF exports.
  • A pricing page that lays out Free, Pro and Agency side by side, so it's clear what each one adds.

Why the workspace is the tier

  • What an agency needs isn't a logo on a link, it's a place the whole team runs client work from. So the shared workspace is what you pay for, and the branding and the subdomain ride on top of it rather than being the pitch.

Send a client a whole campaign, approved post by post

Until now a share link held one post, so a week of posts meant a handful of links and a handful of conversations. Campaign decks put them behind one link your client works through in order.

New

  • Tick two or more of your share links and group them into a campaign deck: one link, every post, approved one at a time.
  • Your client approves or comments on each post separately, so a change to post two never holds up the other four.
  • A progress bar at the top tells them, and you, how far through the deck they are.
  • You get an email per response saying which post it was and where the deck now stands, instead of five that read the same.

Still true

  • Your client has nothing to sign in to, same as a single shared post.
  • Every post in a deck keeps its own link, so anything you already sent still works.
  • Ungrouping a deck retires the deck link and leaves the posts alone.

Why it builds on links you already made

  • You build a deck from posts you have already shared, rather than a separate composer mode. It is the smaller change, it keeps one way of making a post, and it means a deck is a grouping of real links rather than a copy of them.
  • The trade-off is that you make the posts first and group them after. If that turns out to be the wrong order in practice, building a deck as you compose is the next thing to do.

Four more places to check before you post

The formats people kept asking for. Each one gets the same treatment as the rest: real chrome, real character limits, and the truncation point drawn where the platform actually cuts your caption.

New formats

  • Threads and Bluesky, for anyone who has moved part of their posting there.
  • Facebook Story, sat next to Facebook rather than buried at the end of the list.
  • Pinterest Pin, which is the odd one out: a tall 2:3 image where the caption barely matters.

Improved

  • Every format has its own page now, so you can link a client straight to the one you are talking about.

Send a link instead of a file, and let clients approve it

The first paid features. The free tool always ended with a download, which meant your client got an attachment and you got a reply in a different thread. Pro replaces that with a link.

New in Pro

  • Share a preview as a link. Your client opens it, sees the post in every format you picked, and approves or comments right there.
  • You get an email the moment they respond, so you are not refreshing anything.
  • Put your own logo on PDF exports, and the PostDecks wordmark comes off whether or not you add one.
  • Save the clients you post for and switch between them, instead of retyping a name and handle every time. Free keeps one, Pro keeps as many as you like.

Still free

  • Everything the tool did on day one: previews, exports, no account.

Why there is no free account

  • There is no signup, only checkout. An account you cannot use is just a password to forget, so the only thing an account does here is carry what you paid for.

PostDecks is here

A free tool for the message every social manager has had: can you show us how it will look? Paste a caption, drop in an image, and see the post as it will actually appear.

What it does

  • Previews one post across X, LinkedIn, LinkedIn Carousel, Instagram, Instagram Story and Facebook at once.
  • Counts characters against each platform's real limit, and shows where each one truncates your caption, which is rarely where you would guess.
  • Exports a PDF proof sheet for sign-off, or a PNG per platform.
  • Light and dark, aspect ratios per platform, and multi-image galleries laid out the way each platform lays them out.

What it does not do

  • No account, no upload, no dashboard for your client to log in to. Your images never leave your browser: the previews and the exports are all made on your machine.
  • It does not post anything. There are plenty of schedulers, and this is not one.