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Shorts, Reels & TikTok safe zone checker

Upload an image or a video, overlay where each app's buttons, captions and top bar sit, and check your key text stays clear of them.

Platforms
Your key content

Tap the preview to move the dashed box over your text, face or logo, then size it to fit.

Clear — your content box sits outside every selected platform's UI.

Zones are approximate, drawn on a 1080×1920 frame; the apps shift them with caption length and device. Non-9:16 uploads are cropped to fill, as the apps do.

About the shorts, reels and tiktok safe zone checker

Check whether TikTok, YouTube Shorts or Instagram Reels will cover the important parts of your vertical video. Upload an image or a video, pick a frame, and the tool overlays where each app puts its top bar, caption and account area, and button column. Mark your key text or face with the box and it tells you exactly which platform zones it runs into, then download the overlaid preview to share with an editor.

How to use it

  1. Upload an image, or a video and tap "Use this frame" at the moment you want to check.
  2. Tick the platforms you post to — TikTok, YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels.
  3. Tap the preview to move the dashed box over your text, face or logo, and size it with the sliders.
  4. Read the result: a green box is clear, an amber box lists every zone it overlaps.
  5. Download the preview PNG if you want to keep or share it.

Questions

What is the TikTok safe zone?
On a 1080×1920 video, keep key content out of roughly the top 130 px, the bottom 484 px (caption, username and sound) and the right 140 px where the like, comment and share buttons sit. Longer captions push the bottom area higher.
What is the safe zone for Instagram Reels?
Meta's guidance for Reels is to keep text and logos out of the top 14% and bottom 35% of the frame and about 6% in from each side — roughly 269 px top and 672 px bottom on a 1080×1920 video.
What is the YouTube Shorts safe area?
Commonly used templates keep about 380 px clear at the top and bottom of a 1080×1920 Short, 120 px on the right for the buttons and 60 px on the left. YouTube does not publish one official pixel template for organic Shorts.
Are these zones exact?
No. They are consensus figures for a 1080×1920 frame; the real overlay shifts with phone size, app version and how long your caption is. Treat them as a margin to stay well inside, not a line to design right up to.
What happens if my upload isn't 9:16?
It is scaled to fill the 9:16 frame and cropped at the edges, the same way the apps fill the screen, so you see what viewers would actually see.