TikTok Safe Zone Checker
Red areas are covered by TikTok's buttons, caption and bars. Keep faces and text inside the dashed box.
Your file stays on your device. Nothing is uploaded.
How to use it
- Pick TikTok, Instagram Reels or YouTube Shorts.
- Choose a 9:16 video or image. It opens on your device and is never uploaded.
- Play or scrub through it and check that no face, caption or text sits under the red areas.
- Download the overlay as a transparent PNG to use as a guide layer in your editor.
Why the safe zone matters
Short-form apps draw their interface right on top of your video. On TikTok the buttons cover the right edge, and the caption and sound name cover the bottom third. A hook, subtitle or product shot placed there gets cut off, and viewers scroll past before they see it.
This checker lays each app's interface over your own video, so you can see what's hidden before you post. The red areas are covered. The dashed box is the area every viewer sees.
One video, three apps
TikTok, Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts all use a 1080×1920 frame, but each covers it differently. If you post the same video to all three, keep your text inside the area that's clear on every app, then check each one here.
Where the numbers come from
The overlays follow each app's published safe zone guides for vertical video. The apps change their interface now and then, so we recheck the overlays against the live apps every few months.
FAQ
- What is the TikTok safe zone?
- It's the part of a 9:16 video that TikTok's interface doesn't cover. The tabs sit on top, the like, comment and share buttons run down the right, and the username, caption and sound sit along the bottom. Anything you put there is hidden or hard to read.
- What are the TikTok safe zone dimensions?
- On a 1080×1920 video, TikTok's template keeps about 240 px clear at the top, 660 px at the bottom and 120 px on each side, plus the button column on the right. That leaves a safe area of about 780×1020 px in the middle.
- Is the template really free?
- Yes. There's no sign-up, no watermark and no paywall. Download the PNG as often as you like.
- Do you upload my video?
- No. Your file opens in your browser and never leaves your device.
- How do I use the PNG in my editor?
- Put it on the top layer of a 1080×1920 project, line up your text and faces outside the red areas, then hide or delete the layer before you export.
- Are Reels and Shorts different from TikTok?
- Yes. Reels covers more of the top and bottom, and Shorts covers a wider strip on the right for its buttons. Switch between them to check one video for all three apps.