Safe zone checker for TikTok, Reels and Shorts

Every vertical-video app draws its own interface on top of your video: a top bar, a column of buttons on the right, and the caption, username and sound at the bottom. Anything you put there (on-screen text, a face, a logo, a call to action) is partly hidden. This tool shows those areas over your own frame.

The positions are for a 1080 × 1920 (9:16) frame and were last checked in November 2026:

• TikTok: 240 px at the top, 660 px at the bottom, 120 px on each side, and a 300 px button column from 840 px down. Measured from TikTok's safe-zone template.
• Instagram Reels: Meta's guidance is to keep 14% of the top (269 px), 35% of the bottom (672 px) and 6% of each side (65 px) free, plus the button column on the right.
• YouTube Shorts: YouTube does not publish one figure. This uses the common ground of current guides: 240 px at the top, 400 px at the bottom (Google Ads asks for nothing in the bottom 400 px), 60 px sides and a 200 px button column.

"All three" overlays every app at once and shows the area that is clear on all of them, which is the one to design for if you post the same video everywhere.

Fill crops your media to cover the whole 9:16 frame, the way the apps show a vertical video. Fit shows all of it with bars, which is what happens to a landscape video. If your file is not 9:16 you get a note with its size.

The detail check splits each covered area into small patches and looks for patches full of sharp edges. Text, faces and logos are full of edges; a plain sky is not. It cannot tell text from a busy background, so treat "busy" as "look here", not as proof.

Your image or video is opened with a local link inside the tab. Nothing is uploaded, and nothing from the file is stored. The template download is drawn in the browser too.

Before you export or schedule a vertical video, and when you set up a template for a series.

• Placing on-screen text, captions and stickers so the caption and buttons do not cover them.
• Framing a talking head so the face stays clear of the button column.
• Checking a call to action or a logo in an ad before it runs.
• Posting the same edit to TikTok, Reels and Shorts: use "All three".
• Dropping the transparent template into CapCut, Premiere, DaVinci Resolve or Canva as a guide layer. Hide it before you export.

Apps change their layouts from time to time and differ slightly between phones, so keep important things a little inside the green area rather than right on its edge.