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Vertical Safe Zone Guide
Overlay the safe zones for captions, profile icons, and UI elements on a 9:16 frame so your key content stays visible on Reels, Shorts, and TikTok.
🔒 This tool runs entirely in your browser. Your files are never uploaded to a server.
How Vertical Safe Zone Guide works
- Pick a platform — Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, or TikTok — each with its own top, bottom, and right-edge margins where that app overlays its own UI.
- The overlay renders on a 1080×1920 canvas (the standard vertical-video export size), so the proportions match a real export exactly.
- Shaded red bands mark where captions, usernames, sound titles, and the action-button rail typically sit; the dashed green box marks what's left as genuinely safe for your key visual content and text.
- Optionally upload a still frame or thumbnail from your own edit to preview it directly underneath the overlay before exporting.
These bands are approximate, based on each platform's published UI layout guidance — they're a planning aid for keeping faces, text, and calls-to-action clear of the interface, not a pixel-exact spec each app guarantees never to change.
FAQ
Why do the safe zones differ between platforms?
Each app places its own caption text, username, sound title, and action buttons (like, comment, share) in slightly different positions and at different sizes, so the exact area they cover over your video differs — TikTok's bottom caption area, for example, tends to run a bit taller than Reels'.
Can I check my own video frame against the safe zones?
Yes — use "Upload a frame to preview under the guide" to load a still frame or thumbnail from your edit underneath the overlay, so you can see exactly which parts of your composition would be covered by that platform's UI before you export.
Why is the canvas 1080×1920?
That is the standard export resolution for 9:16 vertical video across Reels, Shorts, and TikTok — using the same canvas size as your actual export means the safe-zone proportions shown here map directly onto your real video, not an approximation at a different aspect ratio.
How we compare
| Feature | Online Tool Store | Doing it manually | A generic online tool |
|---|---|---|---|
| No file upload — runs in your browser | ✓ | N/A | ✗ |
| No sign-up required | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Free, no watermark | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
Editing software usually ships one generic 9:16 safe-zone template, if it ships one at all. This guide gives platform-specific bands for Reels, Shorts, and TikTok individually, plus the option to preview your own frame underneath — all without opening a heavier editor.