Animated social media posts, moved from your own design.

1. 1. Start from your website, or a few words

   Paste your website and Creobee reads what you do, your offers, your brand color, logo and photos, and you check every answer. No website? Tap your kind of business and pick what your posts are about. That brief is what every post is written from.

2. 2. Pick the look, then switch on animation

   Choose one of 5 styles (Poster, Block, Studio, Playful and Editorial), your brand color and logo, and turn on Animated posts. Animation is off until you switch it on, and sound effects come on with it. You can turn them off with one switch.

3. 3. Watch, then download or schedule

   Up to 30 designed posts with captions in one batch. Each animated post plays when you open it. Download the video or the image, one post at a time or several in a ZIP, or on Autopilot schedule them in order. Nothing goes out without your OK.

Most ways to get animated graphics for social media start from a template. You pick a moving design someone else made, type your words into it, swap the colors and export. It works, but you still decide what to post, write it, and keep a dozen clips looking like one business. Hiring a motion designer solves the look and costs far more than a small business usually spends on a month of posts.

Creobee starts from your business instead. It plans the month, writes each post and designs it in your style. Then a library of 19 motion templates animates the post you already have, chosen by what kind of post it is:

• Statements and tips: the headline lands word by word, or the panel opens around it.
• Checklists and how-tos: each row arrives in order, or the list counts down to its last point.
• Myth vs fact: the myth gets crossed out, then the fact lands. Before and after: a divider slides from one side to the other.
• Questions: the question arrives like a message, or the view dives through the question mark into it.
• Offers and availability: the lights go down on the offer, or tapes carrying your call to action roll across the post.
• Numbers: your figure rolls in like a scoreboard and stops on the number you wrote.
• Original lines: revealed as a quote, word by word.

How to make animated Instagram posts

Each animated post is a 1080 by 1350 MP4 in the tall 4:5 shape, 6 to 12 seconds long. On Autopilot and Pro, schedule it and it goes to Instagram as a Reel shared to your grid, so it sits in your profile beside your other posts, and as a video post to your Facebook Page, LinkedIn, Threads, Pinterest, Bluesky and TikTok, all from the same design (X gets its picture). You choose per post whether it goes out as the video or as its image.

On every plan, Solo included, download the MP4 and post it wherever you like, by hand or with the scheduler you already use. If your Instagram grid matters most to you, the animated Instagram posts page goes into how the pattern holds when videos join it.

With Carousels switched on, about one in three posts becomes a still carousel of 4 to 8 slides instead. Carousels never move: Instagram gets the carousel, and every other network gets a single-image version of the same post.

Cross-posting one graphic to three platforms

Every animated post opens on the exact designed post, pixel for pixel, and ends on it after a short hold. The motion happens in between. That matters more than it sounds, because many networks show the first frame of a video before anyone presses play, and some ignore a custom cover altogether.

So wherever the video lands, the thumbnail people see is the post you approved, not a blurred frame from the middle of a move. When Creobee schedules a video, the still goes with it as the cover. And because the last frame matches the first, a video that loops plays on without a jump.

Instagram Reel covers for brands

Motion is where a brand usually slips: a stock animation pack brings its own fonts, its own colors and a bounce that does not fit a law firm. Here the motion is built from the post, so nothing new comes in. Your brand color stays exact, the type is the same as on the still, and your logo stays on screen from the first frame to the last.

The rules that keep a still post readable hold while it moves. Words stay clear of the edges that phone screens and profile grids crop off, reading text never bounces, and only one loud move happens at a time. Your own photo never zooms or pans: only the words, panels, light and shapes around it move.

Sound follows the same idea. Each style has its own small set of recorded sounds, such as clicks, taps and a chime, timed to the moves on screen. They are short and quiet, and you can turn them off for every video, or for one post when you schedule it.

Brand consistency for small businesses

An animated post costs the same as its still: one post. Animation is on every plan at no extra cost, and scheduling one as a video counts as one scheduled post, like an image. Solo is $19 a month for 40 designed posts, Autopilot is $39 for 100 posts and posts them for you on Instagram, Facebook Page, LinkedIn, Threads, Pinterest, Bluesky, TikTok and X, and Pro is $79 for 300 posts and up to 15 connected accounts.

Not happy with how one post moves? Open it and pick another template that fits that post, or choose no animation for it. Nothing else in the post changes.

If you want to animate every element yourself, add your own music, edit filmed clips or make a one-off promo for an event, a template editor gives you more control. Many businesses keep one open for those jobs. If you are weighing one up, see how Creobee compares with PosterMyWall and with Adobe Express.

Creobee is for the steady part of the week: tips, answers, offers and stories, designed as one set and moving in your colors. Creobee makes designed 4:5 posts, 9:16 stories, still carousels and short animated versions of single posts with sound effects you can turn off: no filmed or AI video, no voice or music, no replies to comments or DMs and no analytics.

Six post ideas for an imaginary neighborhood bike repair shop, one for each kind of post. The motion follows what the post says: a checklist builds row by row, a myth is crossed out before the fact lands, a number counts up, a question gets a beat of its own, an offer arrives with a flourish and a line of copy is revealed as a quote. Which template a post gets depends on its layout and style, so yours may move differently.

• Educate / Checklist

  Before your first spring ride

  Pump the tires to the pressure printed on the side. Squeeze both brakes hard and check the bike stops before the levers touch the bars. Spin each wheel and watch for a wobble. Run a rag along the chain and add a drop of oil to every link. Five minutes in the hallway saves a long walk home.

• Educate / Myth vs fact

  A noisy chain just needs more oil

  More oil usually means more noise a week later, because it picks up grit and turns into paste. Wipe the chain clean first, oil each link once, then wipe off what sits on the outside. If it still clicks after that, the chain may be stretched, and that is a quick check at the counter.

• Educate / Number

  2 minutes a week keeps your chain quiet

  A quick wipe and a drop of oil every week does more for your drivetrain than a big clean twice a year. Keep a rag and a small bottle by the door, and do it when you bring the bike in after a wet ride.

• Engage / Question

  What noise is your bike making?

  A tick on every pedal stroke, a squeal when you brake, a rattle over bumps. Each one points somewhere different, and most are small fixes. Tell us in the comments and we will reply with what it probably is.

• Promote / Offer

  Spring tune-ups, booked in 48 hours

  Gears, brakes, wheels and a safety check, back to you within two working days. Book a slot from the link in our bio, or drop the bike off any morning before ten and we will call you when it is ready.

• Inspire / Original line

  The best bike is the one you ride

  We fix carbon race bikes and thirty-year-old town bikes on the same stand, and we are happy to see both. If yours has been in the shed since last summer, bring it in. Most of them need less than you think.