Slideshow hook generator

How it works

The tool holds 72 hook patterns in eight types: curiosity, number, contrarian, pain point, question, POV, mistake, and before and after. Each pattern is a sentence with gaps for your topic, your audience, the format and a small number. Every pattern was written for this tool, and none was copied from another site.

For each type it picks two patterns. The pick is not random in the usual sense: your topic, audience, format and the shuffle count are combined into a number that seeds a small generator. The same input therefore always produces the same hooks, which makes results easy to come back to. “Shuffle hooks” raises the count by one and gives a different set. If you leave the audience empty, patterns that need one are skipped.

The patterns expect a short noun phrase as the topic, such as “meal prep” or “sourdough baking”. A full sentence will read awkwardly, and a plural topic can sometimes clash with a verb, so edit the line afterwards. The numbers in number hooks are filler between 3 and 10. Change them to match the slides you actually have.

The one-line reason under each type is craft reasoning: why writers reach for that style. It is not a measured result, and nothing here predicts how a post will perform. What you type stays in your browser, and no AI model is involved.

How to use the result

Pick the one hook your slides can fully deliver, then edit it into your own voice. A hook is a promise: if it says five mistakes, the post needs five, and if it asks a question, a later slide has to answer it. The slideshow hooks guide covers how to write hooks your slides can keep.

Read the line out loud. If you run out of breath, cut words. Put it on the first slide, big, with nothing else competing, and let slide two follow up on it right away. In our view, a hook that is clever but gets no payoff on slide two tends to feel like a trick.

Try more than one. Different types suit different content: a number hook suits a list, a POV hook suits a story, a mistake hook suits advice. If you want to compare, post two versions on different days and look at your own numbers rather than trusting any rule of thumb, including ours.

Keep a short list of the hooks you have already used, so the same line does not appear in consecutive posts. In our view, variety in the first slide keeps an account from feeling templated, and it gives you more to compare when you look back at your own numbers.

When you have a hook, plan the rest of the post with the slideshow planner, then check word counts with the slide text checker.