# Free LinkedIn Hook Generator: 8 Openers That Survive the See-More Cutoff Describe your post. Get eight opening lines in four styles, each measured against the point where LinkedIn cuts you off in the feed. Free, and it never asks for your email. Every hook comes back with the fold drawn where it would fall on a phone, plus an exact character count against both cutoffs and an estimated line count against the two-line mobile cap. ## The hook is half the job Oiti is an AI clone for LinkedIn content. It reads your existing posts and whatever material you hand it, then drafts the opener and the body together, so the read pays off the click instead of being stapled to it. Start the 7-day free trial at [ghostwriting-ai.com](https://www.ghostwriting-ai.com). ## How to use the LinkedIn hook generator 1. **Paste the post, or say what it is about.** Either works. Paste the draft you have already written and you get openers for that post, or describe it in a sentence or two. Specific beats tidy. "Our onboarding was broken and it took a churned customer to notice" gives the model something to grab. "Thoughts on customer success" gives it nothing. 2. **Hit generate.** One button, no settings to pick through. Each run gives you eight hooks, two in each of four styles: personal, educational, opinion, and story. You get all four every time, because the angle that works is often not the one you would have chosen. 3. **Check the fold, then copy.** Each hook arrives inside a preview that draws the see-more break roughly where it would fall on a phone, next to its character count for each screen and the model's own score. Hit copy on the one you would publish, then paste it at the top of your post. ## What you get - Eight hooks per run, from one topic - Four styles, two hooks each: personal, educational, opinion, story - An exact character count against the desktop see-more cutoff of 210 - An exact character count against the mobile cutoff of 140 - An estimated line count against the two-line mobile cap - A preview of the hook with the see-more break drawn where it would fall on a phone - A model-judged score out of 100 on every hook, with a one-line reason - Five runs a day, free, no signup and no email ## Why the opening line is the only line that gets a vote Most hook generators hand you five punchy lines and skip the part that decides whether anyone reads them. LinkedIn truncates your post in the feed. On a desktop column the cut lands around 210 characters or three visible lines, whichever comes first. On a phone it is closer to 140 characters and two lines. Run past that boundary and you no longer have a hook. You have a paragraph with a see-more link buried in the middle of it, and the reader is already gone. So this one writes eight openers for whatever you are posting about and spreads them across four styles that work on the reader in different ways. Each one is measured against both cutoffs. Some clear the fold on a phone, some only clear it on a laptop, and some need a trim. You can tell which is which before you publish rather than after. The line estimate is approximate, since the exact wrap depends on the screen, but the character counts are not. ## A worked example Topic: "Our onboarding was broken and it took a churned customer to notice. We rewrote the welcome email and week-one drop-off moved." - **Personal.** We shipped an onboarding flow nobody finished, twice, and I defended it both times. 83 of 140 characters on mobile, 83 of 210 on desktop, an estimated 2 lines against a 2-line mobile cap. Model score 81 of 100: Admits a repeated mistake, which is rare and specific. - **Personal.** I read our welcome email out loud last week and stopped halfway through it. 75 of 140 characters on mobile, 75 of 210 on desktop, an estimated 2 lines against a 2-line mobile cap. Model score 74 of 100: Concrete action, though the payoff stays implied. - **Educational.** There is one question you can ask a new customer on day four that predicts week-one churn better than any dashboard we had. 123 of 140 characters on mobile, 123 of 210 on desktop, an estimated 3 lines against a 2-line mobile cap. Model score 79 of 100: Narrow promise, but it runs long for a phone. - **Educational.** The welcome email we rewrote had one job nobody had ever given it. 66 of 140 characters on mobile, 66 of 210 on desktop, an estimated 2 lines against a 2-line mobile cap. Model score 68 of 100: Clear setup, slightly close to a stock curiosity gap. - **Opinion.** Most onboarding is written for the customer you wish you had. 61 of 140 characters on mobile, 61 of 210 on desktop, an estimated 2 lines against a 2-line mobile cap. Model score 86 of 100: Arguable, short, and true of almost every team. - **Opinion.** Week-one churn is almost never a product problem wearing its own clothes. 73 of 140 characters on mobile, 73 of 210 on desktop, an estimated 2 lines against a 2-line mobile cap. Model score 63 of 100: The metaphor gets in front of the claim. - **Story.** The email arrived on a Tuesday. We are not renewing. Nobody had spoken to them since day four. 94 of 140 characters on mobile, 94 of 210 on desktop, an estimated 2 lines against a 2-line mobile cap. Model score 84 of 100: Drops you into the moment and leaves it open. - **Story.** Day nine, and the ticket was still sitting there unopened, which is roughly when I went back and read the welcome email we had shipped eleven months earlier. 157 of 140 characters on mobile, 157 of 210 on desktop, an estimated 4 lines against a 2-line mobile cap. Model score 59 of 100: Strong image, then the sentence keeps going too long. ## Where LinkedIn actually cuts your post off Two numbers matter. Most guides mention one. | Where the post is read | Characters before truncation | Visible lines | | --- | --- | --- | | Desktop feed | about 210 | 3 | | Mobile feed | about 140 | 2 | Whichever limit trips first is the one that gets you, and on a phone that is almost always the line count rather than the character count. Lines wrap somewhere around fifty characters in the mobile feed, so two lines are spent at roughly a hundred, well before the 140-character cutoff ever fires. A 90-character hook broken across three lines is cut on a phone at 90 characters. Almost nobody watches this happen. You draft on a laptop, the preview looks clean, and the version your audience reads on a phone stops mid sentence. This tool measures both. The character counts are exact. The line count is an estimate, because where a line wraps depends on the screen it is read on, so treat a hook sitting right on the boundary as a coin flip and trim it anyway. ## The four hook styles, and when each one works Two hooks per style, every run. Four mechanisms rather than eight versions of one idea. - **Personal.** Opens on something that happened to you and resolves it. Lives or dies on having a real detail in it, a number or a name, and readers catch an invented one faster than most writers expect. - **Educational.** Promises one thing the reader will know by the end. Keep the promise narrow enough to be believable. "Three ways to grow on LinkedIn" is not narrow. "The onboarding email that moved our first-week drop-off" is. - **Opinion.** Stakes out a position a reasonable person could argue with, which only works if you actually hold it and can hold it in the comments too. Manufactured contrarianism is its own genre now, and readers are tired of it. - **Story.** Drops you into a scene mid motion, usually mid dialogue or mid problem, and the reader keeps going because they want the resolution. The trap is a resolution that turns out to be a lesson everybody already knew. ## What the score is, and what it is not Each hook comes back with a number from 0 to 100 and a phrase saying why. That number is the model's own read on whether somebody scrolling would stop, produced by the same call that wrote the line. It is a second opinion from the writer, which is worth having and worth exactly that much. It is not a measurement, and it is not calibrated against anything published. No post has ever been tested against it. Treat it as a way of sorting eight options into a rough order, then use your own judgement on the two or three at the top. The character counts sitting next to it are a different kind of thing entirely: those are arithmetic against a published cutoff, and they are either right or they are a bug. ## Openers to stop using The prompt steers the generator away from these, because they now read as a tell that software wrote the post. - "Stop doing X." Any imperative scold aimed at a group the reader is not sure they belong to. - "Unpopular opinion:" followed by an entirely popular opinion. - "Nobody talks about this." People talk about it constantly. - "Let that sink in." A demand for a reaction the writing has not earned. - Rhetorical questions with an obvious answer. "Want more engagement on LinkedIn?" - All caps openers and emoji-led first lines. - "I was today years old when I learned..." LinkedIn bans none of this. It is just spent, and a spent pattern costs you the click about as reliably as running past the fold does. If you are shopping for something that does this every day rather than one opener at a time, [the hook generator comparison](https://www.ghostwriting-ai.com/comparisons/best-linkedin-hook-generators) is the shortlist, and it says which of them are worth paying for. ## Frequently asked questions ### Is this LinkedIn hook generator free? Yes. No signup, no email. Generate and copy as much as you want. There is a cap of five runs a day so nobody can drain the allowance in one sitting, and that is the only string attached. ### What is a LinkedIn hook? Your first line or two. It is everything a reader sees in the feed before they have to click see more, and it has exactly one job: earn the click. The rest of the post can be excellent and it will not matter, because until somebody expands it nobody can see it. ### How long should a LinkedIn hook be? Short enough to survive the fold. Desktop shows you about 210 characters or three lines before it truncates. Mobile cuts closer to 140 characters and two lines. Nearly every guide quotes the 210 figure and stops there, and that is how a hook that looked fine on a laptop ends up chopped in half on a phone. Write to the mobile number. Desktop then takes care of itself. ### What kinds of hooks does this generate? Four styles, two hooks each. Personal opens on something that happened to you. Educational promises one specific thing the reader will learn. Opinion stakes out a position somebody could argue with. Story drops you into a scene that is already moving. Different mechanisms, different readers, so you get all four rather than eight versions of one idea. ### What does the score next to each hook mean? It is the model grading its own work: a number from 0 to 100 for how likely a scrolling reader is to stop, plus a short reason, written by the same call that wrote the hook. Useful for sorting eight options into a rough order. It is not a measurement and nothing has been tested against it, so the two or three at the top are a shortlist rather than a verdict. ### Does a good hook actually change how a post performs? It changes whether the post gets read, and that part is genuinely yours to control. The feed rewards posts people stay with, and nobody stays with a post they never opened. Worth saying the obvious though: a sharp hook on empty content still loses. The reader expands it, finds nothing there, and leaves faster than if they had scrolled straight past. ### Why do AI-written hooks so often sound the same? Because most tools are pattern matching against the same small pile of templates. "Stop doing X." "Nobody talks about this." "Unpopular opinion:" All of those worked when they were rare. Now they read as a tell. This generator is instructed away from that set, though any tool working from a one-line topic can only get so specific, and specificity is the whole game. That part has to come from you. ### Can I use these hooks as they are? Read them out loud first. If one does not sound like you, change it or pick another. You are getting eight starting points, not eight finished lines, and in practice the one that needs a small edit usually beats the one that reads perfectly straight out of the box. ### What if I want the whole post, not just the opener? That is what Oiti does. It builds a working model of how you write from your existing posts and whatever material you feed it, then drafts the post end to end, hook and body together, so the read pays off the click. There is a 7-day free trial. ## More free LinkedIn tools - [Best LinkedIn hook generators](https://www.ghostwriting-ai.com/comparisons/best-linkedin-hook-generators) The paid tools that do this all week, ranked and tested. - [LinkedIn Comment Generator](https://www.ghostwriting-ai.com/tools/linkedin-comment-generator) Three drafts on three named angles for any post you just read. - [LinkedIn Connection Request Generator](https://www.ghostwriting-ai.com/tools/linkedin-connection-request-generator) Notes that fit the 200-character limit a free account actually gets. - [LinkedIn Headline Generator](https://www.ghostwriting-ai.com/tools/linkedin-headline-generator) Ten headline options for the 220 characters under your name. - [LinkedIn Post Generator](https://www.ghostwriting-ai.com/tools/linkedin-post-generator) A full draft from one paragraph about what happened. No signup. - [LinkedIn Text Post Formatter](https://www.ghostwriting-ai.com/tools/linkedin-text-post-formatter) Bold, italic, line breaks, and the see-more cutoff drawn in the editor. - [LinkedIn Carousel Generator](https://www.ghostwriting-ai.com/tools/linkedin-carousel-generator) Turn a post into slides, with slides 1 and 2 written as the pair the feed shows. ## Why we built it The hook generator is a free entry point to Oiti, an AI clone for LinkedIn content. This tool works from one line you type, so the openers it writes can only be as specific as that line. Oiti works from everything you have already published, the way you actually talk, and the material you feed its Knowledge Base. It drafts the opener and the body together. Seven days free. See [ghostwriting-ai.com](https://www.ghostwriting-ai.com).