LinkedIn Post Preview
Paste your post and see it as a LinkedIn card on a phone or a desktop, light or dark, before you publish.
- Free, no sign-up
- Your text and images stay in your browser
Preview
Preview every draft before it goes out
Scripe's post editor shows your draft as a LinkedIn card in one click, counts the characters and lets you schedule the post when it's ready.
How to preview a LinkedIn post
This LinkedIn post preview shows your draft close to how LinkedIn lays it out in the feed, in your browser and before anything is published.
- Paste the post you are about to publish into the field above, or press “Insert an example”.
- Add your name, headline and photo if you want the card to look like yours, and one image if the post has one. All of these are optional.
- Switch between mobile and desktop and between light and dark, open the post with “… more”, then press “Copy text” and paste it into LinkedIn.
The style buttons above the field make words bold, italic, bold italic, underlined, struck through or monospace, the same styles as the LinkedIn text formatter. Styled letters are different characters, so screen readers may skip them or read them out letter by letter: keep styling to a few words.
Hashtags and links stay as you typed them and appear in a link color. If you don't have a draft yet, the LinkedIn post generator writes one from an idea.
What shows before “… more”
On LinkedIn's desktop feed and mobile website, a post shows its first three lines before “… more” (on a desktop, blank lines at the bottom of those three are dropped). We measured this on about 200 desktop and 110 mobile-web posts in October 2026, and this preview cuts the same way; LinkedIn's phone apps could not be measured from a browser. The preview cuts with your device's fonts; on another device LinkedIn can cut a word earlier or later.
A blank line inside your first three lines uses up one of them, so a short first line followed by a blank line leaves one line for the rest of your opening.
The first lines are all a reader sees before opening the post, so open with what matters. In Scripe's LinkedIn Trend Report 2026 (free by email), posts that opened with “I” or “my” earned 1.12× their author's usual engagement, and posts that opened with a question 0.90×. Those figures compare 3.26 million public posts by about 385,000 English- and German-writing authors from 2024 to 2026 with each author's own usual post. These are associations, not guarantees.
How long should a LinkedIn post be
If you have a story to tell, write 300 words or more: in Scripe's LinkedIn Trend Report 2026, posts of 300 words or more earned 1.15× their author's usual engagement, and posts under 80 words 0.76×. It is the text feature with the clearest difference in the report. The pattern holds for stories, not lectures: posts of 300 words or more written in an educational tone earned less than their author's usual post. The report reads tone only as a direction, so this shows which way the effect goes, not how large it is.
| Length | Engagement against the author's usual post |
|---|---|
| 300 words or more | 1.15× |
| Under 80 words | 0.76× |
Posts can contain up to 3,000 characters, according to LinkedIn's help page on posting and sharing updates. The counter under the field shows characters and words, and it turns red when a post goes over the limit.
Bold or italic letters count as at least two characters each, which the LinkedIn text formatter explains. We haven't measured yet how LinkedIn's own counter treats them, so leave some room when a post with styled letters is close to the limit.
Images in the preview
The preview shows one image under your text, roughly the way a single-image post appears in the feed. The image stays in your browser and is never uploaded. Carousels, videos, polls and link previews are not part of this tool, so check those on LinkedIn before you publish.
Post preview vs LinkedIn's Post Inspector
LinkedIn's Post Inspector previews a shared link, not your post. It shows the card LinkedIn builds for a web page and refreshes the data LinkedIn holds about that page, as LinkedIn's help page on Post Inspector explains. Use it when a link in your post shows an old or wrong image or title, and use this preview to check the text of the post itself.
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