LinkedIn post preview
Paste your draft and see where the "…see more" fold amputates it — on desktop and on mobile — before your audience does. Everything below the fold is invisible until a reader clicks; this shows you what's left.
● free · no login · runs in your browser
Fold values are approximate and unofficial — LinkedIn doesn't document them and they shift with UI changes. Treat ~210 (desktop) and ~140 (mobile) as a target zone, not a hard line.
How to use it
- Paste your draft (or write directly in the editor). Nothing you type leaves your browser.
- Switch between the Desktop and Mobile tabs. Everything after …see more is invisible until a reader clicks — click it yourself to expand, like in the feed.
- Edit until the strongest sentence sits fully above the mobile fold, then copy the post out.
The fold decides reach
Every LinkedIn post gets judged twice. Once by the readers who see only the pre-fold fragment and decide, in about a second, whether to click …see more. And once by the feed, which amplifies posts people stopped for. A brilliant post with a weak first 140 characters performs like a weak post, because for most of the audience the fragment was the post.
That's the whole reason this preview exists: writers judge their drafts in full, but readers meet them amputated. The single most useful pre-publish habit is reading your post the way the feed serves it — cut mid-sentence, with everything you were building toward hidden behind a click.
Read your hook amputated
Look at the preview above and ignore everything you know about the rest of your post. Does the visible fragment contain one complete reason to click — a tension, a specific number, a claim that cuts against common advice? Or does it spend its ~210 characters on warm-up ("I've been thinking a lot lately about…")? The fold is the most expensive real estate you have; throat-clearing there costs more than anywhere else. If the fragment doesn't earn the click, fix the opening before touching anything else — our hook generator exists for exactly that edit, and the character counter tracks the fold as a live stat while you rewrite.
Line breaks count toward the fold
The fold is really a line count, not a pure character count. Every line break spends a line — so a hook written as three short punchy lines can get truncated earlier than the same words as one long line. This preview counts each line break as a character, which approximates that cost, but the exact behavior varies with device, font size and LinkedIn's current UI, so treat every number here as approximate. If your draft leans on line breaks for rhythm, check the mobile tab especially: that's where break-heavy hooks get cut first. The line break fixer helps when the breaks themselves are the problem.
Drafting LinkedIn posts with Claude Code or another agent? Install the skill version — it applies the same fold rules (~210 desktop, ~140 mobile, line breaks counted) so your agent can show you the pre-fold fragment of any draft without leaving the terminal:
npx skills add liftli-ai/skills --skill linkedin-post-previewPart of the liftli-ai/skills collection — browse all 28 skills, one per tool on this site. For the full pipeline (voice extraction, strategy memory, publishing), connect the Liftli MCP.