Free tool
Free safe zone checker for video ads
See exactly where TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts and the YouTube 16:9 player cover your creative, check your own frame against the zones, and download transparent overlay PNGs for every format. No account, nothing uploaded.
Format
Platform
Caption, music ticker and CTA stack in the bottom 560px. The action rail runs down the right edge. Red is platform UI, background only. The green outline is your usable area on the 1080 x 1920 canvas.
Everything runs on this page — your image never leaves your browser.
How it works
Pick a platform, check your frame, download the overlay. The whole tool runs in your browser.
Pick your format and platform
Choose 9:16 for TikTok, Reels and Shorts, 16:9 for YouTube in-stream, or 1:1 and 4:5 for feed placements. The red zones are where platform UI covers your creative; the green outline is the area you can actually use.
Check your own frame
Upload a screenshot or an exported frame of your ad and it renders under the overlay instantly. Everything happens on this page — your image never leaves your browser, and there is no account to create.
Download the overlay
Grab any preset as a transparent PNG at full resolution — 1080x1920, 1920x1080, 1080x1080 or 1080x1350. Drop it on the top layer of your editor, lay out your text inside the green area, delete the overlay before export.
Safe zone specs, in exact pixels
The reserved margins per platform, measured from each edge inward. Everything inside them is background only — captions, product and CTA live in the usable area.
| Platform | Canvas | Top | Bottom | Left | Right | Usable area |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TikTok | 1080 x 1920 (9:16) | 250 px | 560 px | 80 px | 200 px | ~800 x 1110 px |
| Instagram Reels | 1080 x 1920 (9:16) | 250 px | 700 px | 80 px | 200 px | ~800 x 970 px |
| YouTube Shorts | 1080 x 1920 (9:16) | 250 px | 560 px | 80 px | 240 px | ~760 x 1110 px |
| Universal 9:16 | 1080 x 1920 (9:16) | 250 px | 700 px | 80 px | 240 px | ~760 x 970 px |
| YouTube in-stream | 1920 x 1080 (16:9) | 54 px (5%) | 140 px | 96 px (5%) | 96 px (5%) | ~1728 x 886 px |
| Feed 1:1 | 1080 x 1080 (1:1) | 120 px | 180 px | 60 px | 60 px | ~960 x 780 px |
| Feed 4:5 | 1080 x 1350 (4:5) | 120 px | 180 px | 60 px | 60 px | ~960 x 1050 px |
On YouTube in-stream, also keep a ~420 x 140 px block clear in the bottom-right corner, directly above the control bar — that is where the skip-ad button renders. The 9:16 numbers are the worst-case reading of each platform UI stack; the full reasoning is in our 9:16 video ad production guide.
Design to the worst case
The three vertical surfaces share the 1080 x 1920 canvas but reclaim different amounts of it. Reels forces the deepest bottom margin, Shorts the widest right margin. Author every layout to the union and one master survives all three — no re-export, no re-layout per placement.
Top
250 px
Status bar and account header
Bottom
700 px
Reels caption + CTA, the deepest of the three
Left
80 px
Edge clipping on some devices
Right
240 px
The Shorts engagement rail, the widest of the three
Checking one frame is easy. Applying the safe zone to twenty variants is the real work — Aitachyon exports videos sized for every feed with the text already positioned inside the safe band.
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